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Kansas City Ballet's "Tom Sawyer" Moves Into Kauffman Center [VIDEO]

KCUR | By Laura Spencer
Published July 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM CDT
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The Kansas City Ballet's first season in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opens in October with "Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in 3 Acts" (choreography: William Whitener, music: Maury Yeston).

Kansas City, Mo. – The sets for "Tom Sawyer," built by the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, were recently loaded into the Kauffman Center's Muriel Kauffman Theatre. KCUR's Laura Spencer stopped by to take a look.


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Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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