Hundreds of people worked behind the scenes to restore the Civic Theatre and Little Women to 'performance readiness'. They worked diligently around-the-clock to try and meet the original Aug. 30 opening, but ran out of time. It was important to the producers of the show, and to us, that our patrons see this beautifully realized national tour production, rather than a compromised version.

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Thank goodness the system worked like it was supposed to. The sprinklers came on and contained it to a very limited area. It could have been a lot worse.

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