As BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, Tony Award winning actor Brent Carver has passed away at age 68. This evening, Carver's Broadway colleagues took to social media to celebrate his lif…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36PMThe problem is that urban nightlife — no matter how risky — isn’t something that just allows itself to be canceled. The need to socialize, relax, mingle, hear music and dance is a powe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12PMFans come to see themselves not just as the audience for, or patrons of, a given “intellectual property” but (to paraphrase the old WestJet slogan) as owners too. This feeling of ownersh…
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Antipodes Theatre Company (ATC) is pleased to announce casting for Don Winsor’s Bumpwell Manor. Part of ATC’s Ricochet Reading Series,
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:53PMI am not a jazz singer. However, I've always been intrigued, love and learned from great artists of the world of jazz. This original song is probably the closest I've come to writing in that…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:39PMLive Performance Australia has commended the WA Government for its innovative approach to helping the live performance industry manage risk associated with re-opening during COVID-19. As par…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:39PMA piece of big ideas that feels more about positions than people. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Live Performance Australia has commended the WA Government for its innovative approach to helping the live performance industry manage risk
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:56PMMr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:45PMBrent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway’s The Kiss of the Spider Woman, died Tuesday at his home in Cranbrook, British Columbia, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:43PMI only ever saw Brent Carver play two roles, both of them men unjustly imprisoned. His Molina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was flamboyant, relentless, emotions splaying like a pinwheel.…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:40PMThe late Eric Bentley shares his thoughts on the value of theory in the real world of the theater. The prominent critic and scholar also talks about Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams and …
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The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University is researching safety protocols that could help Atlanta theatres eventually reopen.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:54PMLaurie Metcalf seemed to be having trouble with the camera, and, frankly, with her life, in this fifth and final edition of Homebound Project, as she made a special appearance to read some l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMThe newest episode of the monthly series Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal is here! Hosted by PIX11's Emmy-winning anchor Tamsen Fadal, and powered by Broadway.com, the August episode is…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMThese performers will be rehearsing from home! As previously reported, the 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival season will be presented on Audible, the world’s largest producer and provider…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMActors' Equity Association President Kate Shindle participated in a press call with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other labor union leaders on August 6 to discuss the importance of p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMPerhaps this is why Bobby Cannavale will no longer be able to yell "Stella" as part of Williamstown Theatre Festival's season. According to Variety, the two-time Tony nominee has joined th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMThe performer is remembered for starring roles in Broadway’s Kiss of the Spider Woman and Parade.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PM“The reluctance to produce shows with casts that are all or largely non-white disproportionately affects shows written by Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) playwrights and compose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31PMLabor leaders from five unions including Actors’ Equity Association today joined together to demand Senate action on the HEROES Act, calling the additional $600 in weekly pandemic unemploy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PMAFL-CIO AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka led labor leaders in a telephone press conference to discuss the importance of passing the HEROES Act to save the lives and livelihoods of Americaa??…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMJon Rua has shared a virtual dance piece, inspired by Sunday in the Park with George.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM92Y is presenting American Songbook Icons, Cabaret History and The Art of Broadway Orchestration in its upcoming programming.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMLauren Patten might not be bringing audiences to their feet in Jagged Little Pill these days, but she's still giving us chills singing Alanis Morissette. Watch below as she covers 'Your Hou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMBroadwayWorld has learned that Tony Award winning actor Brent Carver has passed away at age 68. Born in 1951, the Canadian actor Brent Carver was a star of both stage and screen.
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Plus, watch Tony nominee Norm Lewis deliver a soaring version of "You'll Never Walk Alone."
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMCasting is now complete for four of the summer theatre's 2020 Audible presentations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMBeing unable to see real works of art in person for months has made me realize just how much I have come to depend on seeing works online—and how I get more from that experience than I’d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMThe artwork appearing on the toonie honouring his legacy is known as Xhuwaji, Haida Grizzly Bear. Reid painted it in 1988 on a ceremonial drum belonging to the Sam family of Ahousat, B.C. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMThe theater world mourns the loss of legendary critic and playwright Eric Bentley, who died at his Manhattan home on August 5 at the age of 103.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:36PM“The need for accessible streets and sidewalks has utterly reshaped the contemporary cityscape, and the most profound change is also the most modest: the curb cuts that you’ll find now a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMWriter says production of Dickens classic will debut at Nottingham Playhouse in October 2021 due to uncertainty over reopening of UK theatres
Mark Gatiss’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMVikki Stone and Natasha Barnes’s new show celebrates comic songs for actresses – here are their favourites from musicals
From Sweeney Todd by Stephen SondheimMrs Lovett is the sort of ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMToday, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Audible announced casting for three productions: Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler, directed by Susan Stroman; Animals by Stacy Osei-Kuffour, directed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMToday (August 5) in live streaming:Forbidden Broadway alumni unite on Stars in the House, Liz Callaway visits Backstage Live, and so much more!
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Two new albums will preserve the scores of the late composer-lyricist's (I Am) Nobody's Lunch and Paris Commune.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMEarlier this week, we continued our Best of the Decade series with the first twelve Up and Comers of Broadway who came to our attention over the past ten seasons. Today, we give you the ot…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 03:42PMThe Lyon Académie de Musique officially went bust on New Year’s Day 1693, but it was back in business two years later. “How did Académie musicians transform hardship into productive cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMA white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMFor the past six months, Broadway workers have been creating new ways to experience theater due to the novel COVID-19 virus shutting down theaters for the rest of the year. A Killer Party: …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMHartford Stage – whose executive director stated in March that coronavirus cancellations would result in “a financial hardship that is going to be extensive” – has sued a production …
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Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of Nine Perfect Strangers at Hulu!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMNetflix is set to produce a feature film adaptation of the hit podcast musical 36 Questions, which featured Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMWe're flashing back to some our favorite Frozen performances! The video features a fun twist courtesy of Frozen music director Brian Usifer on toy piano/melodica.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMA slate of starry special guests has been added to Tony Award winner BD Wong and videographer Richert Schnorr's imaginative, video-driven interpretation of the theatrical song cycle Songs fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMWith broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMEric Bentley, revered drama critic, translator, playwright, poet, educator and stage director, passed away yesterday at age 103. Bentley's criticism is noteworthy for covering practical, aes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMBarrington Stage Company began preview performances last night of its one man show, Harry Clarke, starring Mark H. Dold. Barrington Stage is one of two theaters in the country to have been g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMAladdin actor Josh Drake discusses missing Broadway, remaining creative during COVID-19, why the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance is vital to the theatre community, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMThe stream will benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMJackie Burns chats about A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMWillkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Club Cumming is heading online. Tony winner and former Broadway.com vlogger Alan Cumming's backstage-staple-turned-East-Village nightclub is closed to the pu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMBroadway Records will release an original cast recording for the new musical series A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical, which premiered on August 5. The nine-episode musical, which was…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PM“From her house in Amsterdam, she has taken to creating dance films, all three to five minutes in length, with performers around the world. Dancers from Tulsa Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dutch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIf white-collar workers are told the downtown office is forever optional, some will take their superstar-city jobs out of superstar cities. That much is obvious. But these shifts, even if th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“To find out, we chose one reality dating show that debuted every year from 2000 through 2020 — shows that were particularly popular, controversial, influential or taught us something un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe truth of Fleisher is in his own questions, his dogged pursuit of answers (from spiritual healers to experimental treatments) is more interesting than the answer itself. You can’t help …
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Martha's Vineyard Playhouse and Rosalind Productions Inc. will be presenting a live online benefit play reading of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMZach Braff is remembering his friend, the late Nick Cordero, in a special way. Tattoo artist Doctor Woo shared a photo of his depiction of Nick in Bullets Over Broadway (the show in which th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMLeslie Odom, Jr. was a guest on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, where he shared that he almost didn't appear in the filmed version of Hamilton because of what he was offered f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMRenée Fleming recently appeared on WQXR's Artist-Check in series. She and host Elliott Forrest spend time talking about her latest live-stream concert for the Met Opera, the science of musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMBroadway Records announced today the release of the original cast recording of A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical will be available digitally on Friday, August 21st. With music by Jaso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMKara Lindsay (Newsies, Wicked), Larry Owens (A Strange Loop), and Jenny DiNoia (Wicked) are the latest stars to chat with Connor & Dylan MacDowell on their podcast DRAMA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMMTI Presents Disney's Broadway Junior® Summer Showcase with Michael James Scott.
Hosted by Michael James Scott (Disney's Aladdin on Broadway). Head over to www.mtishows.com/disneysummersho…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:48PMIn honor of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote, the Latino Victory Fund today announced a virtual fu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMThe AIDS Walk may have made a change by going virtual this year, but they continued the wonderful tradition of using a?oeYoua??ll Never Walk Alonea?? from Rodgers & Hammersteina??s Carou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMThe Off-Broadway company continues its slate of digital programming this August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThe UCLA Theater Class of 2020 production of Hair was canceled because of COVID. This video of "Let The Sunshine In," by the cleanest-cut cast of Hair ever, is part of the Ballots over Bro…
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“Hundreds of New Yorkers submitted proposals earlier this year to design eight-by-five-foot flags. This past Saturday, the 192 winning designs were unfurled on the [flagpoles] surrounding …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“With their ability to elevate a dancer both literally and metaphorically to a superhuman realm, [they] are the ultimate symbol of a ballerina’s ethereality and hard work. … The shoes …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMLooking at non-representational art tends to induce what’s called “psychological distance.” As one of the lead researchers put it, “This means that art has an effect on our general c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“[His] carefully cultivated image — a vigorous martial artist, his commitment to bushido, the code of the samurai and his fixation with masculinity, beauty and glory — has remained mor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMWhile the pandemic has revealed the power of our shared public spaces, it has also magnified enormous disparities in quality and access to them. Demand has outstripped supply, in some cases …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMThe trio will appear with Lin-Manuel Miranda during a fundraiser hosted by the Latino Victory Fund.
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Most theatres recognize that all-white seasons and casts are wrong. So why are administration, management, and staff still so homogeneous?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:47AMOther events include a behind-the-scenes look at NBPAC member company George Street Playhouse and an interview with managing director Kelly Ryman; a yoga session with Carla Haynes of Garden …
SOURCE: The Asbury Park Press at 11:44AMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews Megan Vaughan’s new book and anthology tracing the development of theatre blogging.
This post REVIEW: Theatre Blogging – Emergence of a Critical Cultur…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:40AMLewis, most recently on Broadway as Tina Turner's mother, sits down to discuss her career on stage and screen, and new CBS All Access animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMYour fitness doesn't have to hit PAUSE while sheltering in place, so we're teaming up with Mark Fisher Fitness and Harold Gibbons to offer you a bodyweight workout to get your fitness fix. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMWe're looking back at these past performances by Liz Callaway before her Seth Concert this weekend!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMThese recent and upcoming books offer something for any lover of the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe cast of Brooklynite, the superhero musical with a high-flying score that played off-Broadway in 2015, reunited for a special virtual performance. Nicolette Robinson, Matt Doyle, Alex …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMKarl Saint Lucy's queer song cycle, "Different Stars: A Reckoning with Time, Trauma, and Circumstance," premieres on August 15.
The post Don’t Miss: ‘Different Stars,’ a Queer Song Cy…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:06AMLast week, on a Zoom speaking event (because what else is there!), a recent college grad asked me a question. “During this down time, what skills should I develop if I want to be a succ…
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Theatres might not yet be able to re-open, but there are still plenty of ways to enjoy the West End, especially with all this sunshine we've got coming up!
The post Five ways to enjoy the We…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:52AMFor episode 19 of AYT in Isolation we’re bringing you something just a little bit special as we reimagine a previous episode and completely turn it on its head… The magnificent Chris Son…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMPhenomenal Faith Prince is a Tony and Drama Desk Award winner for her sparkling performance as love-struck Adelaide in the dazzling 1992 revival of Guys & Dolls. Over the recent decades,…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:24AMThe reading will reunite the cast of the 2016 Martha's Vineyard Playhouse production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMThree musicals will be selected to receive financial support and development opportunities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM“Radish, which has offices in Seoul and New York, says it has seen significant revenue growth since its 2016 launch, and that it has produced more than 6,500 episodes across 30 original se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMTheatre comes to life, albeit gently, and some familiar names crop up online
After a weeklong hiatus due to an absence of noteworthy material, this column is back heralding the return, as w…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:06AMThat’s what Actors’ Equity president Kate Shindle said (via video call) to the cast of the Berkshire Theater Group’s Godspell, the first live-with-audience musical Equity has approved …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMOver the last few months I have moved so much of my life and work online, often using Zoom, as so many of us have. Yesterday someone decided I should now call myself a Zj…which sounds fun.
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The August 6 stream benefits The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMBy Chelsea Whitaker. While global protests have amplified calls for defunding the police, Chelsea Whitaker shares thoughts on how theatre needs to end its own policing of Blackness as well.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:53AMTaylor Hatala is out of this world in this dance video set to Wengie's viral single "Talk Talk".
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SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:45AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Platform Plays: Bright. Young. Things and Heavy Weather published by Nick Hern Books. Buy a copy now!
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:44AMProducers Jason Howland and Kevin Duda are excited to release the World Premiere digital musical, A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical. “With so many people who work in theater unemplo…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:41AMFollow Alice on her adventures down the Rabbit Hole at the Aeronaut Outdoor Theatre and all the strange creatures she meets along the way.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:39AMThe stage favorites appear on the latest episode of BPN Town Hall: My Broadway Memory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AMThe original piece hails from Judith Jamison in collaboration with Rennie Harris and Robert Battle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMPlaybill Social Selects teams up with Seize the Show for an interactive theatre experience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMBit of a day for Leslie Odom, Jr each August 6th! Not only is it the anniversary of the day that Hamilton took its opening night bow, it also happens to be Leslie's birthday!
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The podcaster talks about his new series ‘Fiasco: The Battle for Boston’ and the problem with ‘white people who self-identify as non-racist’
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:58AM“Dozens of pantomimes across the land have been cancelled or postponed due to uncertainty about easing lockdown restrictions for theatres. … Though it is only August, pantos take months …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“[He] was among that select breed of scholar who moves easily between academic and public spheres. His criticism found its way into classroom syllabuses and general-interest magazines. And…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMVia Artsjournal.com, on Arts & Culture Texas site, Tarra Gaines gives name to the difference between live and streamed performance. (my emphasis) Amid this deluge of performance art offe…
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A Look Inside The Berkshires’ “Godspell,” “Three Kings” At The Old Vic Reschedules Its Performances “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMA new documentary looks at the prodigious talent of Howard Ashman, one half of the musical team behind “The Little Mermaid” and others, before he died of AIDS at 40.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMArguably the most important pop artist to emerge outside the USA and UK is given a major show at a Swiss art laboratory
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:05AM“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason
Continue reading Almanac: George Santayana on music at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMSinger-songwriter and musical stars David Hunter and Caroline Kay created a new musical whilst in lockdown and having never met in person. They released the musical, The Space Between, onlin…
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Photo: Karen Pittman & Namir Smallwood in “Pipeline” at Lincoln Center Play List – Mostly FREE – On Line NOW For Updates: See Theatrius.com To Read REVIEWS, Click on Photos To…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:32AMWho is Dylan Van Den Berg? I am Palawa writer, dramaturg and actor with family connections to the northeast of Lutrawita/Tasmania. I live on Ngunnawal land with my family and our two sausage…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:00AMNow if you think that The House That Slipped is simply a well-meaning, worthy play, you would be wrong. The script, direction and the way Zoom is an essential part of the story, make it witt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunken Garden Poetry Festival isn’t letting the coronavirus stand in its way. Unlike many cultural events shelved as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 28th annual event, at Hill-Stead…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLaura Altshul, a retired Connecticut teacher, explores themes of kindness, loss, family, heritage, racism, friendship, and betrayal in her poetry.
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A special one-show only live streamed concert from New Zealand-Australian actor and entertainer Jay Laga’aia, Riverside Theatres Digital will present Come Dance and Sing with Jay Laga’ai…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:38AMWith the reopening of indoor venues delayed, it’s open season for outdoor performances with companies heading out into the sunshine
If you want to watch live theatre in the UK, you current…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMPeter Handke’s “Zdenek Adamec” imagines the psychological motivations of a young man who hoped to change the world by setting himself on fire, but whose name is now hardly known.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMProducers Katy Lipson and Mathilde Moulin are collaborating with French theatre-makers Musidrama to present the UK premiere of C-o-n-t-a-c-t, a socially distanced, immersive outdoor experie…
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