"They couldn't wait until the next year so they could be together again, " Trupo said, recalling the backstage scene before their production of "Legally Blonde" at Lyndonville High School last spring.

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Still, the final scene of the Dexter production, with the nuns facing their end like human beings rather than as Mr. Carsen's abstract, gesticulating saints, remains the more harrowing of the two.

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The production team helped Black and Jolie imagine what each scene would eventually look like.

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One time, we were at a summer stock production of Hamlet, and just at the grave scene, where Hamlet jumps up with that skull in his hand, a train came blowing through the night outside.

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If the yet-to-be-named car is a success when it goes on sale next year, it would herald the emergence of Tata Motors on the global auto scene, mark the advent of India as a global center for small-car production and represent a victory for those who advocate making cheap goods for potential customers at the "bottom of the pyramid" in emerging markets.

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While the clownish antics of circus theater isn't really Mr. Morse's bag, a poignant scene between Pippin and his grandmother Berthe (Andrea Martin) connected his heart to the production.

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