Dancers file across a stage, then loop around a transparent curtain.

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With a push of a button, a curtain pulls back to reveal a stage filled with life-size dancers and musicians performing a jig.

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But it's a failing of the book that the show ends so abruptly, you almost think the descending curtain is a mistake by the stage manager.

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Its regal interior contains nearly thirty-eight hundred seats, a square gold proscenium, and a highly mechanized stage, as well as the largest tab curtain in the world, made of gold damask.

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He created a stage-wide frieze in front of the house curtain for 11 of his puppeteers to animate the program's second work, Stravinsky's 1920 "Pulcinella" (here in its later suite form).

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On NYLA's wide and shallow stage, outfitted for the occasion with a front curtain to give the appearance of a proscenium, and set austerely as if against a low horizon (by Akiko Iwasaki, who also designed the costumes), "Bell" unfolds more as a patchwork than as an authoritatively layered or structured presentation.

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But for now, Roberts seems happy just being part of this Broadway ensemble - reportedly applying her own stage make-up, eating tuna sandwiches from the local deli and taking curtain calls side-by-side with her co-stars.

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