Composer Alan Menken became the 16th person to achieve EGOT status last night, winning a Daytime Emmy Award for best original song in a children's, young adult or animated program.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:54PMA Fun interactive YouTube Channel for actors of all levels launches on YouTube. Part Sesame Street, part Saturday Night Live - lessons, tips and advice for actors of all levels with theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49PM“I think that’s an exciting direction for public art to take, for people to feel a sense of authority and ownership over their shared space and what it should look like. We have a city f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMAccording to the Canadian Independent Venue Coalition, which has launched an online campaign to support Canadian venues, without government support, more than 90 per cent of independent venu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMGolden Thread Productions is seeking a new Executive Artistic Director to follow in the footsteps of Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Could Lisa Kudrow Come to Broadway as Her Comeback Character?
Will Emmy winner Lisa Kudrow could reprise one of her kookies…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMHere comes the general! In addition to watching Christopher Jackson as George Washington in Hamilton on Disney+ or in Hulu's We Are Freestyle Love Supreme documentary, fans of the smooth-v…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMSix-time Tony winner Audra McDonald—along with 21 other Black theatermakers—recently announced Black Theatre United (BTU), a new advocacy coalition. BTU is less than two months into its…
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Doug Shipman said he informed the Woodruff in February of his intentions to leave after three years of leading the organization. The Woodruff Arts Center is Atlanta’s foundational arts or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMThe bus from the airport to my resort gave me plenty of time to contemplate my life decisions. An air-conditioned trip through a hot zone of the worst disease outbreak in a century will conc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMMost writers have novels that never see the light of day. But 13? That’s serious dedication. The books were written over a decade while Sanderson was working as a night clerk at a hotel �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMHis work will appear next summer in his first published collection. Nadim does not write down his poems though. He dictates them. And that’s because Nadim doesn’t really read and write y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMMany New Orleans artists make at least 50 percent, and some as many as 75 to 100 percent, of their income during festival seasons. “New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Essence Music …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMNow is the time to seize the EGOT! Congratulations are in order to newly awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winner Alan Menken! We're looking at 6 songs that contributed to his award…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:50PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares stories from his Rizzo reunion with O’Donnell, Maureen McCormick, and more!
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMThe Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival will host the online event July 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMIn this solo episode, Brian reflects on the podcast's origins, frets about the future, and finds hope in an elder's advice.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:37PMAn Evening with Alan Menken will celebrate the Beauty and the Beast composer's recent EGOT achievement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMDisinfect your seats, Old School is in Session! But first a reminder that this Thurs. July 30 at 7:30pm (Eastern) we have Trav S.D.’s History of Drag in Vaudeville in Dixon Place‘s H…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:32PMThe award given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation will be presented in a virtual ceremony this fall.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:27PMTheatre companies are using their creativity to engage kids stuck at home, from s'mores to dress-up days.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:21PMFor the very funny headliner Kellye Howard and other comics, COVID-19 was understandably the topic of the night.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PM(Michael Schulman’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/26; Illustration by Nhung Lê.) Audra McDonald came out of Juilliard in 1993, a twenty-two-year-old with a lyric soprano as pristi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PMStiles will collaborate with Holly Gewandter on the new album.
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Nils Haarmann – dramaturg at the Schaubühne – respond to Grzegorz Jarzyna. The discussion focuses how Schaubühne responded the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it had on its immediate …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:52PMSeth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced today that Dell Howlett will direct a reading of Lydia R. Diamond's 'Stick Fly' on Saturday, August 1st at 2 PM ET as part of 'Stars In The House's' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMKorea! As BroadwayWorld reported in April, the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera resumed performances in Seoul on April 23- just weeks after the show was suspended because of illness wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMZoom past the COVID doldrums with these August workshops.
Shadow and light. Wood and paper.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:45PMFreeform's highly anticipated limited series Love in the Time of Corona will premiere as a special two-night limited event, beginning Saturday, August 22, at 8 p.m. EST/PST and continuing Su…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMCrystal Monee Hall has composed new original music for the Lydia R. Diamond play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMDanie Jackson knows that taking a walk is safer for some bodies than for others—but there are still ways to stay open to the good in the world.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:29PMCarleigh was gracious enough to answer some of my burning questions about her experience with Hamilton and her personal theatre journey.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMIt is with heavy heart that I report the permanent closure of Chumley’s bar, an NYC institution, just months shy of its centennial anniversary. Chumleys’s is just the latest in a series …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24PMRoyana Black, an actress who made her Broadway debut at age 10 in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and, five years later, took the title role in the 1988 sitcom Raising Miranda, died Ju…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMA.A. Brenner
Hometown: New York City
Current Town: New York City
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm currently in rehearsals for a Zoom reading of EMILY DRIVER'S GREAT RACE THR…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 03:18PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, we're featuring high school and college students that are giving back to their communities through the arts as part of #MeaningfulMonday!
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While this influential new-play conference developed plenty of new work, it also developed racist and sexist practices, say many artists and staff, necessitating a change of leadership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:59PMThe real-life couple play a couple navigating life during the pandemic in the two-night event, airing in August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMThe two-time Tony nominee has collaborated with songwriter Holly Gewandter for You Can Ukulele With Me.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMAn epic Scandal reunion and more is planned for this week's episodes of Stars in the House, a daily online series from SiriusXM On Broadway personality Seth Rudetsky and his husband, produce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMWatch the hour-long stage musical here.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMThe 2 playwrights talk about what's been lost to the pandemic and look to a future in which Black stories are the default, not the exception.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:28PMArtsLab explores the phenomenon of ‘light’ in its first module through theatre, art, music, and dance. Light reflects and refracts; it creates drama and gives birth to shadows. Textbook …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27PMIn angry letter, Greenhouse co-owner William Spatz cites the online condemnation by the Chicago theater community over reopening the theater to stage of "Judy & Liza."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMReview: Tiny Dancers, National Youth Theatre4.0StarsMissing each other and their audience, the National Youth Theatre’s Playing Up project was able to continue the training and performing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PMI have had some three dozen occasions to mention character actor Keenan Wynn (1916-1986) on this blog, and I’ve even delivered a talk about him, but I’ve not given him his own post on T…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:18PMThe Girl From the North Country director and book writer will chat live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio July 29.
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(Tim Gray’s article appeared in Variety, 7/26; photo: Associated Press; via Pam Green.) Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, two-time Acade…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:40PMThe Connecticut theatre's Black Trans Women At the Center will include works by Dezi Bing, CeCe Suazo, and Douglas Lyons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMReturn on investment (ROI) logic has become a dominant motif of much of philanthropy today. Many contemporary philanthropists perceive themselves as social entrepreneurs, doing well by doing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMOver the weekend, a singular sensation of a gold top hat wearing musical celebrated its 45th Broadway anniversary. In 1990, members of the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line reunited o…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:35PM“Spirit Seekers” is a quick romp with a couple of chills and some really funny moments brought to life on Zoom through the efforts of the Dark Horse Theatre Company. It was an engaging, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMIt has been announced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge, writer and performer of Fleabag, has been appointed in the role of Vice President for arts charity Acting For Others.
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 01:30PMThe Harry Potter and the Cursed Child star joined Built for the Stage's Joe Rosko for the weekly exercise series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMBy . Spectrum Theatre Ensemble presents their Neurodiversity New Play Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 31 J…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:24PM“Wannabe” is an intriguingly deep dive into the lives of five Black kids that follows them from the early 1980s to young adulthood in Front Royal, VA. There are also three white characte…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:22PMBy . Groundwater Arts presents Green New Theater Part 3: Y'all, we gotta fix all of it livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thurs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:10PMRenée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and more join forces to raise money for various social justice charities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMThe music video, featuring the likes of James T. Lane, Ako Mitchell, Cedric Neal, Clarke Peters, and Layton Williams, raises money for the StopWatch campaign.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM“Peanuts,” the classic comic strip featuring “good ol’ Charlie Brown,” spawned a 1967 musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” with book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:05PMBy Lauren Gunderson. Playwright Lauren Gunderson presents Arts + Activism: Jeannette and Making Political Musical Theatre livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound …
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Before a virus turned the world upside down, Anndee Hochman was a familiar figure to her neighbors, walking Germantown Avenue. What has changed? What is perennial, even in a pandemic?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41PMThe Metropolitan Opera's daily series enters its 20th week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMRosenfeld, “through the simple act of creating a line on a street in Chile, mounted an important artistic and political intervention against an oppressive government.” – ARTNews
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMIf you’re Los Angeles artist Michael Gittes, you paint 1800 small pieces of work, one for each worker, and deliver them to Brooklyn. The artist: “I decided to paint flowers because even …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWhoops, not an eight-episode season; a seven-episode season. That standalone can come later, if at all. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMEspecially, it seems, the bookshelves of celebrities. Take Regina King: “Tupac Shakur Legacy, by Jamal Joseph: Curated by a family friend, this “interactive biography” of the rapper i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe Broadway star – the only performer to win six Tonys, in all four available categories – says it’s her job to create more space for other African American actors, and call for insti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe new season will include in-person Masterworks concerts at the Carpenter Theatre at the Dominion Energy Center in September, October and November. The capacity of the Carpenter Theatre wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe actor, who died yesterday, went up against an entrenched system, and won. Her successful 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros. “destroyed the indentured servitude that was the studio syste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMOver the last half-century, Warhol has been merchandised into the trite, plastic banality he supposedly critiqued, but as Blake Gopnik reminds us, the artist is much harsher, and more cynica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWe hope you can tune in to YouTube tonight as the Washington theatre community comes together in loving tribute to Victor Shargai, long-time leader of theatreWashington, and generous friend …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMAlan Menken has 11 Grammy Awards, eight Academy Awards and a Tony under his belt. On July 26, he officially joined the ranks of EGOT winners (people who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMWhile a survey done by Shugoll Research shows that Washingtonians are chary about returning to theater while the coronavirus rages, one company is prepared to put live actors on the stage wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWhile the rest of the world spends quarantine in sweatpants, Broadway stars Jelani Alladin and Christiani Pitts got glam for a performance on July 26. The duo, along with dancer Richard Riaz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMA slew of Broadway faves have joined forces for the world premiere virtual musical series A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical, which will premiere on August 5. The nine-episode musical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMTuesday’s guests will be Arjana Andris, Ivan Danylets, Aaron Lee Battle, Gabrielle Elisabeth, Jennifer Pace, Lydia Sabosto, Warren Schein, Mystery Guests and MORE!
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:31PMIn this episode, Ben and Daniel talk about the 1996 hit movie 'The First Wives Club.' In addition to their in-depth analysis of the comedic talents of Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Ke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMVoice actor and comedian Ricky Downes III has recorded all of Act 2 of Hamilton... in the voices of all The Muppets!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe Hamilton Tony nominee and In The Heights alum will take the Off-Broadway stage August 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMThe Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. “Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15PMThe five-time Oscar nominee died at 104 this weekend.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMThe X Factor and musical theatre favorite was joined by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra.
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Tune in tonight to watch the second episode of The Muny 2020 Summer Variety Hour Live! (9:15pm EDT). Performers will include: Taylor Louderman, Rob McClure, Maggie Lakis, Chloe O. Davis and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMThe Fairy Princess was not planning to write for a while, it is hot, while New York is recovering well, the rest of the non-mask wearing Red States are insuring our ultimate demise, she has …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 11:51AMHere's what to catch online July 27–31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMThe virtual event kicks off July 27 with a 50th anniversary tribute to New Federal Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMRaver-Lampman will take over the role of Molly Tillerman from Kristen BEll.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AM by Adam Cohen In the vast theatrical pause of 2020, online get togethers have thrived. One gets a perspective of theatrical performers, creators, and producer’s creative proces…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:05AMCenterstage With Healthcare Heroes marks a partnership between Playbill and Weill Cornell Medicine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMAlex Newell, Krystina Alabado, Carolee Carmello, and Jeremy Jordan will also appear in the nine-episode A Killer Party.
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The competition is heating up, but it’s not too late to enter the race!
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM by Melissa Griegel Alisa Hurwitz, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist with her own practice in Massachusetts. In addition, she is a psychologist for the Broadway theater community. As …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:50AM Alan Menken Achieves EGOT Status With Daytime Emmy Win – Composer Alan Menken became the 16th person ever to achieve EGOT status. He joins the small group of entertainers who have wo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:14AMLloyd will join the leadership team, alongside artistic director Meghan Finn and managing director Danielle King, beginning on July 28.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:10AMThe U.K. charity supports theatre workers in times of need.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMThis week we explore some Theatre Superstitions that every Theatre person is suppose to follow. We cover both the well-known and obscure and while some might be silly, some are not meant to …
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Welcome to episode 16 of the AYT in Isolation series and someone we’re sure you’ll have heard of. We give you Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: playwright, screenwriter, Twitter warrior and all roun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:54AMHow costumers can develop trust with actors
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:50AMThe daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMAlan Partridge’s Sidekick Simon takes it out on his own hapless wingman – but Enya’s repeated interruptions slow the flow
I’ve missed live comedy very much since the closure of theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMy friend and former teacher Mary Miller, who has died aged 90, was an actor in theatre and on television, and a founder member of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre company at the Old Vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThe stage and screen composer won Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult, or Animated Program.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMThe Miseducation forum follows the Coalition's three-day Broadway For Black Lives Matter...Again forum held earlier this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMVictor Sen Yung started in Hollywood as a “Chinese peasant boy” in The Good Earth, and his last role was 43 years later, in The Man With Bogart’s Face. He was credited as Sen Yung, Sen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe mystery and TV writer says maybe we’ll be better at responding to dangerous events in the future – or at least some of us will be. – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMMartha Gonzalez sings with the band Quetzal and has a new memoir out as well. When the band was nominated for (and won) a Grammy, “Quetzal never showed up to the pre-Grammy gala. Instead, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMWith fresh spikes in the virus in the U.S., studios delay releases again, and “hopes for a speedy substantial resurgence at the global box office were dashed.” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMBroadwayWorld Book Club is officially off and running! Or should we say, reading! The first BroadwayWorld Book Club selection is Jennifer Ashley Tepper's The Untold Stories of Broadway Volum…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMThe Take Me Out and Kiss Me, Kate director will chat live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio at 1 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMThe Take Me Out and Kiss Me, Kate director will chat live on The Broadway Q&A from Playbill and The Growing Studio at 1 PM ET.
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Join Quarantine Cabaret for Cocktails and legendary triple threat Chita Rivera on Thurs. July 30 at 7 pm. It’s hosted by Lee Lessack (LML Music founder) and Robert Bannon who will also wel…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:14AMThe volunteer’s lawyer: “He bitterly regrets his actions … My client is consumed with remorse,” after admitting he set three small fires that destroyed the organ and stained glass da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMHands convey meaning, and they have for eons, but they’re not our primary means of communicating to each other. “People gesture, but their gesture is clearly a secondary supplement. Peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThe argument to Congress: “We are over 675,000 small businesses and organizations in every town, city, and state, employing 5.1 million hard-working Americans who are now desperately strug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMJust as some of the Boomers and Gen-Xers first encountered opera on Tom and Jerry, and just as some Millennials first found memorized U.S. presidents or learned the nations of the world from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMA look into the archives of Little Shop through its years of Playbills, casting choices, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
(No. 11 in the series)
July 27, 2020: Again, few midsummer days in the three decades comprised by this column offered more than a handful of openings. For late J…
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First-Person Recap of Socially Distanced Show, Raver-Lampman Replaces Bell,’A Chorus Line’ Reunion “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMWe are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and d…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:48AMMenken and writing partner Glenn Slater won for their song from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:32AMWhat does she think of how the British government is doing? What’s she doing during the pandemic? How will the arts recover? And so much more (including the fact that yes, of course she co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AM“Glenn Gould: On the Record,” a 1959 CBC documentary in which Glenn Gould is seen recording Bach’s Italian Concerto at Columbia Records’ New York studio:
(This is the latest in a se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“Reading the writings of a friend one often says, ‘I can almost hear him talk.’ But no one, looking at a picture, can possibly say, ‘I can almost see him paint.’ The art of the pai…
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Who is Shaun Namarnyilk? I am an artist and I paint at Injalak Arts. I’m also a musician, singing all the good songs that old people used to sing about rock country. I work as a ranger too…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:54AMAn all-new Covid-safe window shopping extravaganza, The Art Hunter, has taken over the front window of Melbourne Style in South Melbourne in an exhibition that features ten artists over ten …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:54AMActing For Others has announced this morning that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed Vice President of the theatrical charity.
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