When Sandro was small, he had a set of paper dolls of the Arditi.

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To prepare her for it, Lesia made paper dolls of all the main characters, and together they acted out the story and listened to the music.

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"At times there needs to be a slightly amateur feel to what the Paper Dolls do but of course we also want audiences to enjoy themselves, " says Schneider.

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