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Improvising in the Rubaiyat for Ann Arbor's first dinner theatre are four young professional actors (left to right): Judith Niklas, Jane Burton, Martin Anderson and Christopher McGowan.

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Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1974

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Rubaiyat Continental Dining

Christophen McGowan

Martin Anderson

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