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In the Broadway musical The Prom, a quartet of sad-sack Broadway performers in search of adoration choose a Cinderella to rescue — a girl from a small Midwestern town who wants to take another girl to her high school prom.

Down-on-their luck Broadway stars swoop down on an Indiana town to take up the cause of a high-school student who can't take her girlfriend to the prom. A promising premise, and this first national tour of the award-winning musical delivers all the laughs and spectacle with a knowing wink, while never losing sight of the poignant human story.

Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman — two characters at the center of the well-intentioned, if frustratingly uneven, Broadway musical “The Prom,” at Proctors through Sunday, March 6 — loom

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A $200 million, 2.9 million-square-foot distribution center can move forward after the Lawrence Town Board approved the development Monday night.

If only it were so easy: Put together a prom and open people’s hearts.The most beautiful thing about Broadway musical “The Prom” — and there are a lot of beautiful things about “The Prom” — is that for a shining moment of theatrical magic, this uplifting, heart-filled show makes you believe that it’s possible: With some balloons, crepe-paper streamers, a punch bowl and a DJ, you can change the world.

"The Prom" is currently at Playhouse Square's Connor Palace through November 21.