They have opened Skechers stores in London, Paris and Oberhausen, Germany and may add 20 more cities in a few years.

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She started with a two-year stint in Stuttgart in southern Germany, before jumping to the western German city of Oberhausen for a year, then made a triumphant homecoming in the Dutch city of The Hague, where she played Elphaba for four years.

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