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[Before the curtain goes up on the premiere]
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne: You're a magician, Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.
Boris Lermontov: My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
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Boris Lermontov: Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.
Denis Carey
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