Article: Upstart Director's Duck Soup Makes Rufus T. Firefly a Girl.(TheFrontPage)

Byline: Rebecca Traister

It was a gala day in the spare rehearsal room on West 43rd Street, just a block from a muted Times Square. Four slightly dissolute actors in their 20's stood in a row: three men in faded jeans and ratty T-shirts, one woman in chunky glasses with a green highlighterhanging from her mouth.

"Marxes!" shouted their dark, fuzzy-headed director, Will Frears, and the actors sprang to life, singing:

They got guns!

We got guns!

All God's children

got guns!

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