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" It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through. "

Twyla Tharp

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" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

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