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The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation
(11/29/2005) The World of Theatre is the first introduction to theatre book to truly focus on diversity and globalism, integrating coverage of multicultural, international and experimental theatre throughout. Theatre is presented as a global and multicultural form that reflects both traditional and evolving world views. While the American commercial theatre and European forms are central to the text, alternative theatres are placed side by side for comparison and contrast in each chapter, thus avoiding the s... |
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Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South
(3/2/2005) Presents rare information on traveling circus, minstrel, opera, and Toby shows. This collection of essays explores an understudied but pervasive aspect of American theatre: theatre on the road, from minstrel shows and Toby shows to contemporary African American theatre, 19th-century circus rail travel, and small-town opera houses. The challenges in gathering and compiling data on these ephemeral productions, from such far-flung sources as railroad schedules and weather reports, minutes f... |
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New York Then/New York Now
(2/21/2005) New York Then/New York Now—a collection of essays, memoirs, interviews, commentary, and plays—contemplates New York City’s history and future as a center for groundbreaking theatrical forms and ideas. Featuring the work of theater artists, producers, and critics, this special issue of Theater is concerned with the ideas and practicalities of making theater in and for New York within specific historical, political, and economic contexts. The first section, “New York Then,” reflects on ... |
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The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
(1/10/2005) Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of American popular music. Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing his songs and quickly found fame with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote one popular hit... |
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
(1/1/2005) Lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan will be in heaven with the publication of these two books, which nicely complement each other. Stedman (English, Roosevelt Univ., Chicago) offers an outstanding study of this playwright and his often overlooked works, with much of its value deriving from its study of Gilbert without Sullivan. The author is a recognized expert on Gilbert as well as the Victorian time period, and she shows him to be a complex and interesting man who often found himself at odds with ... |
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The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet
(1/1/2004) This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. Readers will find the general and accessible descriptions and analyses provide the perfect introduction to Mamet's work. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, including now classic plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, and his more recent work, Boston Marriage, among others, as well as his films, such as The Ver... |
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Golda's Balcony: A Play
(11/21/2003) The sold out off-Broadway smash has moved to Broadway! The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker. Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award."Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who ... |
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The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama
(6/25/2003) Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. |
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The Lyrics of Noel Coward
(1/1/2002) Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington and over 250 more lyrics from Coward's musical masterpieces. Noel Coward is one of the greatest lyricists of the twentieth century. Songs such as A Room with a View, The Stately Homes of England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Mrs Worthington are known, sung and loved the world over. This edition gathers together over 250 of Coward's lyrics, arranged in chronological order and grouped by show. In addition, these masterp... |
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Theatre World 1994-1995, Vol. 51
(1/1/2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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Theatre World 1993-1994, Vol. 50
(1/1/2000) Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, has become a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacement producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and much, much more. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual Shakespeare festivals and major drama a... |
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The Social Significance of Modern Drama
(1/1/2000) Out of print virtually since its completion in 1914, Emma Goldman's pioneer work Social Significance in Modern Drama bridges modern drama and political philosophy, pointing out the road that remains to be travelled toward a theatre of social empowerment. Activist, feminist, philosopher and anarchist, Emma Goldman was a passionate thinker about all things modern when the 20th century was still raw and new. The emergence of her treatise on the theatre after years of obscurity is certain to arouse ... |
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Polaroid Stories
(1/1/1999) Naomi Iizuka’s 1997 play, Polaroid Stories, consciously uses stories, characters and themes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to tell the stories of street kids living on the edge in a desolate, urban landscape. Because these characters are named after Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus, or based on stories of Dionysus, and Ariadne and Theseus, and because scenes are entitled “The Story of Semele” or “Theseus in the Labyrinth,” Iizuka creates a world that has two dimensions: the g... |
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The Story of Starlight Theatre
(3/1/1992) Starlight Theatre is a magic place where an evening of musical theatre under the stars in Kansas City's Swope Park speaks so strongly of emotion that the audience is transformed by the presence of the creative experience. This book is filled with historical photos and provides a "behind the scenes" look at the real workings of the second largest outdoor theatre in the United States. A must for theatre goers everywhere. Unlike many other art forms, live outdoor theatre is a participatory expe... |
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The Desert Song - Vocal Selections
(1985) The Sigmund Romberg musical from 1926 ran 471 performances! Sentimental melodies include: One Alone * Little Song * Let's Have a Love Affair * Romance and others. |
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Dear World (Vocal Selections)
(1982) Includes: The spring of next year -- Tomorrow morning -- I don't want to know -- I've never said I love you -- Garbage -- Dear world -- Kiss her now -- The tea party. Memories ; Pearls ; Dickie ; Voices ; Thoughts -- And I was beautiful -- One person. |
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Damn Yankees: Complete Vocal Score
(1999) Enjoy all the music that made this musical a popular Broadway hit. Titles: Back Home * Court Room * Devil Music * The Game * Goodbye, Old Girl * Heart * A Little Brains, A Little Talent * Lola's Entrance * A Man Doesn't Know * Near To You * Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO * Six Months Out of Every Year * Those Were the Good Old Days * Two Lost Souls * Whatever Lola Wants * Who's Got the Pain? * and more. |
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Crazy for You: Complete Vocal Selections
(1997) Includes: K-R-A-Z-Y for You * I Can't Be Bothered Now * Bidin' My Time * Things Are Looking Up * Could You Use Me? * Shall We Dance? * Someone to Watch Over Me * Slap That Bass * Embraceable You * Tonight's the Night * I Got Rhythm * Stiff Upper Lip * They Can't Take That Away from Me * But Not for Me * Nice Work If You Can Get It. |
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A Class Act: A Musical About Tony-Award Winning Songwriter Edward Kleban
(2002) Edward Kleban is best known for writing the lyrics for A Chorus Line. A collection of his most-loved songs was posthumously framed in a story of his life in this Broadway musical, which was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Score. The music and lyrics are charming, touching, traditional musical theatre. This songbook features 13 songs in all: Better * Broadway Boogie Woogie * Charm Song * Don't Do It Again * Follow Your Star * Light on My Feet * Mona * The Next Best... |
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The Civil War - Vocal Selections
(2000) This collection features 15 vocal selections from the musical by Jack Murphy and Frank Wildhorn, composer of Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel. This innovative and experimental musical has just begun a national tour. The eclectic score includes songs in styles from traditional theatre to Gospel-tinged to vintage Americana folk music. Includes several photos from the production, biographies of Wildhorn, Murphy and co-writer Gregory Boyd, and a note from Wildhorn and Boyd. |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Musical Selections
(1999) Eleven titles from this delightful movie include: Toot Sweets * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * Lovely, Lonely Man * The Roses of Success * You Two * Truly Scrumptious * Doll on a Music Box * Me Ol' Bam-Boo. |
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Chicago - Vocal Selections
(1981) Our Broadway Vocal Selections book features a dozen fantastic songs from this Kander and Ebb blockbuster: All I Care About * And All That Jazz * Class * Funny Honey * A Little Bit of Good * Me and My Baby * Mister Cellophane * My Own Best Friend * Nowadays * Razzle Dazzle * Roxie * When You're Good to Mama. |
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Chess - Selections From The Musical
(1986) 15 selections from the Broadway musical featuring songs written by Tim Rice and the two "B"s from Scandinavian supergroup ABBA: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Includes: Anthem * Chess * Heaven Help My Heart * Merano * One Night in Bangkok * Someone Else's Story * more. |
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Carmen Jones (Vocal Selections)
(1992) Songs include: Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum, Dat's Love (Habanera), Dere's A Cafe On De Corner, Dis Flower, My Joe, Stan' Up An' Fight, You Talk Just Like My Maw. |
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Candide - Vocal Selections
(2002) This songbook features seven piano/vocal selections from Leonard Bernstein's 1956 Broadway musical based on Voltaire's novelette. Includes: The Best of All Possible Worlds * Bon Voyage * I Am Easily Assimilated * It Must Be So * Make Our Garden Grow * My Love * O, Happy We. |
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Can Can (Vocal Selections)
(1981) 8 vocal selections from the 1953 Porter musical, including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away * C'est Magnifique * Can Can * Come Along with Me * I Love Paris * It's All Right with Me * Live and Let Live * Montmartre. |
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Camelot (Vocal Score)
(1981) The complete vocal score to the Lerner and Loewe musical featuring 15 tracks: Before I Gaze at You Again * C'est Moi * Camelot * Follow Me * Guenevere * Guenevere's Welcome * How to Handle a Woman * I Loved You Once in Silence * I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight * If Ever I Would Leave You * The Lusty Month of May * March * Seven Deadly Virtues,The * The Simple Joys of Maidenhood * What Do Simple Folks Do. |
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Call Me Madam: Vocal Selections
(1990) 9 vocal selections from the musical, including: The Best Thing for You * The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball * It's a Lovely Day Today * Marrying for Love * The Ocarina * Once upon a Time Today * Something to Dance About * Washington Square Dance * (I Wonder Why?) You're Just in Love. |
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Bye Bye Birdie (Vocal Selections)
(1996) Bye Bye Birdie * The Telephone Hour * How Lovely to Be a Woman * Put On a Happy Face * A Healthy, Normal American Boy (We Love You, Conrad) * One Boy * Let's Settle Down * Honestly Sincere * Hymn for a Sunday Evening * One Last Kiss * A Lot of Livin' to Do * Kids * A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore * A Giant Step * Rosie. |
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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (PVG)
(2002) Featuring selections from this hit West End musical now in its ninth year, this superb songbook contains 15 Buddy Holly classics in full piano/vocal arrangements with guitar chord boxes. Includes: Chantilly Lace * Everyday * I'm Lookin' for Someone to Love * It's So Easy * Listen to Me * Maybe Baby * Not Fade Away * Oh Boy! * Peggy Sue * Peggy Sue Got Married * Rave On * That'll Be the Day * True Love Ways * Well All Right * Words of Love. |
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Brooklyn the Musical (PVG)
(2006) From the heart of Brooklyn comes a band of soulful street-corner singers and storytellers. With a mix of pop and soul, they set their stage and tell a wondrous sidewalk fairy tale about a young girl searching for fame and the father she never knew. With just one clue to lead her, she lands in the city that bears her name. Our songbook features 13 songs from the musical now touring the US, including: Christmas Makes Me Cry * Heart Behind These Hands * I Never Knew His Name * Love Fell like Rain *... |
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The Boys from Syracuse
(1981) The complete vocal score to Rodgers and Hart's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors Includes 16 songs, including: Boys from Syracruse * Come with Me * Falling in Love with Love * He and She * Ladies of the Evening * The Shortest Day of the Year * This Can't Be Love * You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea * and more. |
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The Boy from Oz: Piano/Vocal Selections
(2004) We proudly present Piano/Vocal selections for this blockbuster Broadway musical starring Hugh Jackman. Subtitled "From Down Under to Over the Top," The Boy from Oz tells the true story of acclaimed entertainer and Oscar-winning songwriter Peter Allen, from his humble beginnings in the Australian Outback, through his discovery by Judy Garland and his marriage to her daughter Liza Minnelli, to his rise to international celebrity. Our deluxe songbook features stunning full-page, full-color photos f... |
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Blood Brothers: Vocal Selections
(1992) 16 terrific musical numbers from this award winning show by Willy Russell, author of Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita. The songs have been specially arranged for voice, piano and guitar with the complete lyrics for each and includes the hit song "Tell Me It's Not True" recorded by Barbara Dickson. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists. |
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Big River
(1986) 16 vocal selections from Roger Miller's classic Broadway score, including: Arkansas How Blest We Are * The Boys * Crossing, The * Do Ya Wanna Go to Heaven * Free at Last * Gov'ment * Hand for the Hog * I, Huckleberry, Me * Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go * Muddy Water * River in the Rain * The Royal Nonesuch * Waitin' for the Light to Shine * When Sun Goes down in the South * Worlds Apart * You Aughta Be Here with Me. |
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Big The Musical
(1999) This straight-to-Broadway musical was developed from the hit film starring Tom Hanks. Titles are: Coffee, Black! * Cross the Line * Dancing All the Time * Fun * I Want to Go Home * I Want to Know * One Special Man * Stars, Stars, Stars * Stop, Time. |
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Vocal Selections)
(2002) This 1978 Broadway musical hit based on a true story has been revamped for the new century. Our folio includes four pages of interior, full-color artwork and the new title to the show, ""A Friend to Me""! Titles are: 20 Fans * A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place * Girl, You're a Woman * Texas Has a Whorehouse in It * Twenty-Four Hours of Lovin' * Doatsy Mae * The Aggie Song * The Bus from Amarillo * The Sidestep * No Lies * Good Old Girl * Hard Candy Christmas * A Frie... |
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Richard Rodgers
(1998) Richard Rodgers is known to most people as just Rodgers as in Rodgers and Hammerstein and Rodgers and Hart. Inspired by the words of his legendary lyricist partners, Rodgers scored the music for many of Broadway's biggest musical hits--Carousel, The Sound of Music, The Boys from Syracuse, Oklahoma!--to name just a few. What this biography makes clear is that it was a far from simple man who composed the simple, infectious melodies that have kept generations of musical theatergoers humming long a... |
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All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse
(2003) Winner of an Oscar for Cabaret, a Tony for Pippin’, and an Emmy for Liza with a ‘Z’—all in one year, 1972—Bob Fosse (1927–1987) was one of America’s greatest choreographers and directors. Born in Chicago, young Fosse began his career tap-dancing as part of the Riff Brothers in sleazy strip joints, where he encountered the erotic style that later became his signature. Best known for his Broadway hits (The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, and Chicago), he was also a success... |
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M-G-M's Greatest Musicals
(1996) M-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894–1973), producer of the most outstanding series of musicals in motion picture history, but a turbulent, behind-the-scenes, film-by-film account of the making of his movies (which, to the exclusion of all else, were his life). From 1940 to 1970, under the auspices of M-G-M's celebrated Freed Unit, Hollywood's master actors, writers, directors, cho... |
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From Berlin To Broadway
(1984) A fabulous collection of this composer's songs, both from his German period and his later years in America. Features: Mack the Knife * September Song * My Ship * Speak Low * Lost in the Stars * many more. |
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Bells Are Ringing (Vocal Selections)
(1988) Eight vocal selections, including: Bells Are Ringing Better Than a Dream I Met a Nice Girl Just in Time The Party's Over and more. Bells Are Ringing Better Than A Dream (J.Styne) Do It Yourself (J.Styne) Drop That Name I Met A Girl Just In Time Mu Cha Cha The Party's Over |
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The Beautiful Game: Vocal Selections
(2002) Our P/V/G vocal selections book features 9 songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed West End musical about teenagers, soccer and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, including the stand-out song "Our Kind of Love" and: All the Love I Have * The Beautiful Game * Don't Like You * The First Time * God's Own Country * If This Is What We're Fighting For * Let Us Love in Peace * To Have and to Hold. Also includes a full-color section featuring photos from the London production. |
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The Baker's Wife: Vocal Selections
(2006) 6 selections from Stephen Schwartz's quietly acclaimed musical about a small town and their baker, or lack thereof. Includes: Chanson * Gifts of Love * If I Have to Live Alone * Meadowlark * Proud Lady * Where Is the Warmth. |
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BAKER STREET: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1966) A Musical adapted from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Conan Doyle |
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Broadway Babies Say Goodnight : Musicals Then and Now
(2000) This sharp-eyed view of the whole span of Broadway musical history spans seven decades of brilliant achievements--the best of which are among the finest works American artists have made. |
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Babes in Toyland
(1988) Play script. By Victor Herbert, updated and adapted by Ken Holamon. All of the glorious music and fabulous fantasy characters of the classic Victor Herbert creation, in a bright contemporary version. Two acts. 1 Village Square and 5 outdoor locales. 12 men, 13 women with multiple casting opportunities; 2 baby lambs, a mongrel dog, a stuffed parrot. Victor Herbert's unforgettable tunes accompany Contrary Mary, Tom-Tom, and their friends, as they journey from Mother Goose Village to Toyland, seek... |
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Babes in Arms (Vocal Selections)
(1981) Six vocal selections from one of the biggest hit-producers from Rodgers and Hart. Includes: Babes in Arms * I Wish I Were in Love Again * Johnny One Note * The Lady Is a Tramp * My Funny Valentine * Where or When. |
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Aspects of Love Piano/Vocal Selections
(1989) 11 songs from this Broadway hit, complete with lyrics and photos from the stage production. Song highlights include: Love Changes Everything -- Parlez-Vous Francais? -- The First Man You Remember -- Anything But Lonely -- and more. |
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The Apple Tree - Piano/Vocal Selections
(2006) Now enjoying a Broadway revival starring Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth, The Apple Tree is "a unique evening of three one-act musicals about men, women, and a little thing called temptation." Our songbook features ten tunes in standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part: The Apple Tree (Forbidden Fruit) * Beautiful, Beautiful World * Feelings * Gorgeous * I'm Lost * I've Got What You Want * Oh, to Be a Movie Star * Wealth * What Makes Me Love Him? * You Are Not Real. |
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