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Mar 2022
21m 15s

'Poor Rich' | Ep. 162

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Broadway stars Michael Cerveris (The Gilded Age, Fun Home) and Patrick Page (The Gilded Age, Hadestown) star in a Ukrainian folktale that shows there's more to wisdom than meets the eye. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here.
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