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The Crucible
The Crucible (1953) is the second-best-known play by Arthur Miller (after Death of a Salesman), and arguably his most important. Telling a tale from some 350 years earlier (now over four centuries ago), it dramatizes the infamous witch trials of … Continue reading
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“Exactly Like You”
“Exactly Like You” is a song from the Broadway musical Lew Leslie’s International Revue with lyrics by Dorothy Fields and music by Jimmy McHugh. It was a popular hit in 1930 along with “On the Sunny Side of the Street”, … Continue reading
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
T.S. Eliot’s collection of poems entitled Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is best known today as the basis for the mega-hit musical Cats. The poems were originally written for his godchildren, whimsically inventing a society and psychology for the … Continue reading
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