The production also kept the parallels clear: For the final scenes, the walls disappeared, revealing the lake and a small fire pit in the foreground.

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The results will cause any pork lover to swoon, but the prospect of procuring and boning a whole pig and then wrangling it over a fire pit in my small and densely wooded yard seemed beyond impossible in this lifetime.

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But at a nearby school, we are shown what Calacharo says is the norm, a small cluster of putrid open-pit latrines made of mud bricks worn to mere shells by rain and lack of repair.

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Michelson has three adopted dogs, including a pit bull the size of a small couch.

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The line snaked almost completely around the small strip mall and was an incredibly diverse mosh-pit of ethnicities, ages and genders.

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Brenda Didier's choreography and Bill Morey's costumes have the right period look, as does the five-piece pit band, and the 150-seat theater is small enough to make you feel as though you're sipping fake Champagne in one of the joints frequented by Joey and Vera.

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The children apparently were trying to retrieve a small "child-like pickaxe" at the bottom of the sloped pit when the dirt wall collapsed on them before 6 p.m.

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Stephen Sondheim may be a Broadway baby, but most of the best revivals of his musicals have been mounted in small-to-medium-size theaters and accompanied by chamber ensembles, not budget-busting pit orchestras.

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