Article: BRITTANY LEAPS TO STARDOM; BALLERINA'S PERFORMANCE REINFORCES HER AMBITION.(Local)(Column)

Byline: PAM GREENE STAFF WRITER

The orange paint covered Brittany Testone's face. The harness under her leotard was hardly noticeable. The ribbon on her tattered pointe shoes hugged her ankles.

With a reindeer hat and its light-up nose strapped to her head, Brittany took a deep breath and stood just behind the curtain at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. Six hundred schoolchildren waited on the other side.

Brittany was about to star in her first leading role. She was Rudolph in the ballet "The Adventures of Rudolph," presented Dec. 8 at the Civic Center. It was performed by a rotating youth cast from the Center of Ballet & Dance Arts in ...

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