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Stand in the lobby of the Dillingham Center for Performing Arts on the Ithaca College campus and you will see a display of more than ninety posters for Broadway shows. These are not just decorative reminders of the theatrical richness of that great city downstate; they are also an inspiration to the Ithaca College students who work on campus productions. The inspiration comes from the fact that there are or were IC alumni in every one of the plays and musicals depicted in the posters. Those alumni work on costumes, set design, lighting, marketing, and every other facet of mounting a Broadway production -- in addition, of course, to treading the boards as professional thespians. Ithaca's Broadway tradition is alive and well, continued most recently when Matt Cavenaugh '01 was cast as Tony in the revival of West Side Story, set to open on Broadway in March.
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