James DeVita, James Ridge embrace humane values of 'Cyrano' in American Players Theatre's production

By Mike Fischer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

May 19, 2017

James DeVita, 56, fell in love with Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” almost a half-century ago, when reading the “Classics Illustrated” comic-book version as an 8-year-old boy growing up in New York. 

“I never forgot it,” DeVita said during a conversation on the second day of rehearsal for the American Players Theatre production of “Cyrano” opening next month, with a cast of nearly 30.  Adapted and directed by DeVita, this “Cyrano” will be the first staging of Rostand’s wildly popular 1897 play since a 1997 production starring Lee Ernst and Deborah Staples. 

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