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Androcles and the Lion
Gladiators! Lions! Laughs!
Shaw reminds us how ridiculous we all are when faced with our own mortality, and how frivolous our most fanatical beliefs can be.

Host — Brendan Lemon
Narrator — Roma Torre
Lion — Bruce Vilanch
Megaera — Raven Snook
Androcles — Seth Rudetsky
Centurion — Jeremy Mccarter
Lavinia — Alexis Soloski
Captain — Charles Isherwood
Lentulus — Michael Musto
Metellus — Adam Feldman
Spintho — Michael Riedel
Ferrovius — Howard Kissel
The Royal Ox Driver — David Finkle
Retiarius- Gladiator — Eric Grode
Secutor- Gladiator — Frank Scheck
The Call-boy — Patrick Pacheco
The Editor — David Cote
The Menagerie Keeper — Michael Schulman
Caesar — Rex Reed
Synopsis
Christians are being led to the Coliseum for torture. There's an eager
crowd waiting, along with Caesar and his cohorts. Androcles, a Greek tailor
who happens to be one of the Christians, has always felt kindly toward
animals. He'd even helped out a passing lion on the road to Rome. His
wife has rejected him, the Romans make fun of him, and even the other
Christians aren't quite sure what to make of him. But the eager crowd,
the Gladiators and the hungry lions aren't interested in his domestic
difficulties.
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