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Article: Hey kids! It's showtime! Rounding up Stephens College talent, the scruffy Missouri Theatre hopes to earn a bushel of sawbucks with `Babes in Arms' musical.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- October 15, 2006
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Missouri Theatre staff, Stephens College and Broadway veterans are
taking on the real-life role of the scrappy street kids in "Babes in
Arms" and joining forces to preserve the Missouri Theatre.
The parallels between "Babes in Arms," a 1930s Depression-era
musical set on Broadway in New York City, and attempts to renovate
the 1920s-era Missouri Theatre gave Ken LaZebnik, artistic director
and distinguished professor of film at Stephens College, the idea to
put on the show at Columbia's vaudeville house, he said.
In "Babes in Arms," a group of street kids and orphans band
together to put on a show to save their home, an old vaudeville
theater slated for demolition.
LaZebnik, who recently ...