Sound advice from Quasimodo, Beethoven
"The Hunchback Variations" - starring none other than Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's immortal bell-ringer of Notre Dame - makes its Houston premiere Friday. The play's author is Mickle Maher, a force in Chicago's thriving alternative theater scene. Quasimodo and Ludwig van Beethoven team to chair a panel on theatrical sound design, struggling to meet the challenge of a mysterious sound effect required twice in Anton Chek…