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Not the one they told you about in history class, but the one built by a 13-year-old genius for a school science fair in small-town Iowa in 1937. The young scientist is beset on all sides by an overbearing father, a murderous government agent, the sudden onset of puberty, and some Nazi spies. But he sings his way through and saves the day in a truly American way, by detonating a big-ass bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a8634a8dc3d5d06f9509078/2aebc89f-a60b-457a-bf6e-e443be19e612/IMG_9163.JPG A Blog of Sorts - The Time I Put on a Musical Play - The experience of producing the play can be summed up by the concept of the bliss of ignorance. Nick and I had no idea what we were doing, right or wrong. But that al so meant we played by no one’s rules but our own. 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