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...have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year. "A lot of the older shows just don't have enough parts in them." Letzter of West Aurora High says she's long wanted to do Into the Woods - Sondheim's dark twist on old fairy tales - but doesn't feel the cast is big enough. "No matter how you cut it you're only going to get 18 kids in there unless you have a chorus of wolves and pigs," she says. "And then it becomes ridiculous...
...Doing so showed his complete abdication of patriotic duty. The major warned that he would be reporting my driver's serious violation back to military headquarters. The clampdown was even more chilling near the riverside town of Laputta, where soldiers told villagers that any foreigners seen wandering around after dark would be shot, according to an aid agency operating locally...
...hatchery at the hamlet of Arno Bay, 120 km north of Port Lincoln, South Australia. In a breakthrough announced in March, Clean Seas claimed a world first by collecting fertilized eggs from breeding stock - about 20 tuna weighing 160 kg apiece and kept in a giant indoor tank. Sleek, dark shapes with a line of tiny bright-yellow fins down their back, they circle endlessly, apparently convinced they have traveled far to the north, to their spawning grounds. It may be fall outside, with a sea temperature of 17?C, but inside it's summer, with 14 hours of daylight...
...make one movie franchise a hit and another a flop? That was the question hovering over the first film adaptations of two best-selling fantasy series for children, C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Lewis' series of seven books, published in the 1950s, was widely seen as a Christian allegory, presided over by the God-lion Aslan, who dies and rises again. Pullman's trilogy, written in the 1990s, described a battle between a dictatorial deity and the rebel angels determined to defeat him. As the author told the Sydney Morning Herald...
...troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto Gil (one of the country's best known musicians) and for Marina Silva, the tiny, dark-skinned, former rubber-tapper from the western Amazon...