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Article: Meet Mary Collins - the power behind `Tappin' '.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 17, 1997
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"Tappin' in the Twin Cities '97," a tap festival featuring Savion Glover, the hottest, most influential tap dancer in several generations, takes place next Sunday at O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul, presented by Collins Productions.
Good news to tap fans, but nothing really unusual . . . nothing, that is, until you meet Collins Productions.
Mary Collins is Collins Productions, the whole kit and kaboodle, and there's little usual about this fortysomething St. Paul woman, former prison counselor and mother to seven, going on eight, adopted children, all born addicted to cocaine. Though she knows almost zilch about producing, this will be her third ...