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 * ... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago since 1929?
 * ...that in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
 * ...that Acorn Antiques: The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?

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