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"Amadeus" director Hulce reflects on time in Ann Arbor

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Tom Hulce, of "Amadeus" and "Animal House" fame, grew up in Plymouth and came of acting age in Ann Arbor. Here he reflects on how strong the theater community was in the 1960s.

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The late-19th-Century teens in "Spring Awakening" wrestle with guilt and shame imposed by a repressive culture.

Their anxious and unhappy existence is a far cry from the boisterous mid-20th-Century youth that Tom Hulce, one of the show's producers, enjoyed in the Detroit area.

Hulce, 56, was raised in Plymouth (his mother still lives there) but had gravitated to the Ann Arbor theater community by the time he reached his teens in the mid-1960s.

"It was a strange, wonderful time in this country, especially in Ann Arbor," he says. "Just walking down the street would be an adventure. The coolest thing to do was the most rebellious and unacceptable, the least mainstream kind of thing."

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