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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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The Nightmare in Ocalcutta

The cast of Ocalcutta had to borrow clothes from the audience because they couldn't rope their way back to their dressing rooms. There was a packed house at the radio city and they didn't really know what to do so they just stayed there. They actually opened up the side door and wheeled in an Italian ice cart and people in the audience just started eating ice. See me if it wouldn't be so completely terrifying it might be kind of fun. Well unless you were at the hospital. The lights went out and babies were born generators didn't kick in right away - nurses and doctors who were pumping respirators by hand.

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