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`Edgar Allan Poe - Once Upon a Midnight'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970806
Author:Andrew Patner

`Edgar Allan Poe - Once Upon a Midnight' Mercury Theater, through Aug. 31 3745 N. Southport Tickets, $35.50, $39.50 (312) 902-1500 Not recommended

Even in his lifetime, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe was the subject of macabre caricature. The television character actor John Astin made his name in such parody, chiefly as Gomez Addams, the eccentric patriarch of a creepy clan in the eternally rerun "The Addams Family."

So what about the real Astin as the real Poe? Sadly, the newly minted one-man show "Edgar Allan Poe - Once Upon a Midnight" at the Mercury Theater is not a ...

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