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Tickets backstage theater. Polly Hudgins directs. Metairie, LA 70002 $9.95 to $29.95. 7:30pm Monday-Thurs- Tickets $12, $5 ages 18-under. 8pm Fri- 504.836.0000 Third-Party Payers day, 3pm & 8pm Saturday, 3pm & 7pm day-Saturday, 2pm Sunday. Through March • Billing Assistance Sunday. Through June 24. 25. David Wagner, M.Ed., LPC, NCC • Competitive Pricing • Confidential, Personal, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. McAlister THE PAJAMA GAME. Baton Rouge Little Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd., Baton Professional Service Rouge, 225.924.6496 — Classic Broad- TENN TIMES 3. The Marigny Theatre, obituary way musical about unions, both the amo- 1030 Marigny, 218.8559/948.9608 — 504.279.6312 rous and labor kinds. Brad Blanchard Three one-act plays by Tennessee Will- directs Albert Nolan, Kristy Coast, Chelsea 24 Hour Beeper: Charlene Schneider's iams, The Fat Man’s Wife, Adam and Eve Gidden and others. 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