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Entertainment 'Macbeth' gets dysfunctional

KENDALL NEIL ASST. A&E EDITOR

Picture this: You're sitting at home in your warm and cozy recliner and switch on the television. You're in luck! "The Simpsons," your favorite show, is on. As dysfunctional as this "make-believe" family is, it still manages to bring a smile to your face. Seeing that it is probably been a long day and you need a break from the chaos of your life, you decide to watch. As the show opens, you realize there's something different. Homer has suddenly become Macbeth and Marge is Lady Macbeth. Confused? It's only just begun.

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Comedian and voice actor Rick Miller stars in this one-man vocal display in which he is able to reproduce 50 voices from Matt Groening's "The Simpsons."

"MacHomer" is a show that is described as "85 percent true Shakespeare from American televisions" wackiest, dysfunctional family, "The Simpsons." Miller is able to take this twisted and dark story and tell it through the eyes of these animated characters that have had so much of an influence on American culture using puns and word play in the most /. subtle way and inter- • twine it into an "enthralling and engaging theatrical event."

Miller has taken the show around the country and around the world with great success causing

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