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The Broadway archives for 2003 will record that at the end of the year, with the revival of Wonderful Town, Kathleen Marshall got a promotion. For the very first time, the last line of the Playbill read, "Directed and Choreographed by Kathleen Marshall." But sitting in the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ten days before the opening and three days after a querulous article in The New York Times about the show's skimpy advance, the newly minted director-choreographer appeared utterly unfazed by the momentousness of it all.

For one thing, it still seemed a little unreal. "I barely think of myself as a director," she said, "and here I am--I can't believe I'm actually in charge." For another, it all seemed so familiar. "The process of putting a show together is the same whether you happen to be here on 45th Sheet or in college or at one of the regional theaters all across the country."

But just when you begin to worry that she may be a...

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