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This is how the story goes: Well-known composer Vernon Gersch meets aspiring offbeat female lyricist, Sonia Walsk.

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I believe it to be my civic duty as an avid theater buff, theater practitioner, and stage advocate to officially declare August as “Musical Theater Month,” not for anything other than the fact that there are five amazing musicals playing on our local soil this time of the merry year — all with a voice, heart and soul that is uniquely their own.

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 There’s something persistently traditional yet topical about Bob Fosse’s work.

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