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Venus in Fur by Sandra Mardenfeld

A story I once heard kept haunting me during Manhattan Theatre Club's presentation of David Ives' Venus in Fur: when Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel's The Last Judgment, the Pope's Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, continually complained about the nudity in it. So Michelangelo added his visage to the painting, casting him as a character in the underworld, for all to see. Ives' character, Thomas (Hug…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:29PM on November 8, 2011

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