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1) Curtain call
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"Babymouse tries out for the middle school play, but instead of landing the lead role, she gets stuck with playing a clown with one line of dialogue."--
3) Tune it out
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Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...
9) Short
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When Julia gets cast as a munchkin in a local production of "The Wizard of Oz," she has even more reason to hate her short stature. But as she gets to know the show's enthusiastic director and eccentric cast, Julia's summer might become worthwhile after all.
10) Far to go
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Margaret Thursday, the unforgettable heroine of Thursday’s Child stars in this classic children’s adventure from Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes. When Margaret Thursday lands a role as a child actress at a well-known London theatre, becoming famous almost overnight, news of her success reaches her bitter enemy, the matron of her old orphanage. Margaret knows that Matron is set on revenge, but she keeps her head held high,...
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The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components—imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control—serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change.
12) Drama
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
13) All about Ellie
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When she wins the lead role in a school play, second-grader Ellie neglects her friends in the Critter Club and their new animal shelter.
15) Zap
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A juxtaposition of seven different plays performed simultaneously.
16) Dixie
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Dixie the puppy plays with Emma every day after school until Emma starts memorizing her lines for the school play.