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Monte Vista High School’s most demanding production of the year opens tonight: a musical of version of “Beauty and the Beast,” which runs Feb. 27-29. The play is student produced – directed, choreographed, designed and musically performed – and its success completely rests on the group of 75 teenagers.

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