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On Broadway: for Megan Sikora, Curtains is a leg up.

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Anyone who's ever been in a show knows that tech rehearsal can be a long, tiresome slog for performers. Back when she was in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Megan Sikora amused herself and everyone else stuck in tech by "fooling around"--doing handstands and somersaults and other acrobatic tricks she'd learned in her dance competition days.

As it turns out, it was time well spent--and not just because the lights eventually were focused and the sound levels balanced. A few years later, when Sikora was cast as Bambi Bernet, the producer's whiny daughter in the new backstage musical Curtains, choreographer Rob Ashford remembered all those tricks he'd seen at the Millie rehearsals. And he put them into "Kansasland," the funny, brassy, wildly acrobatic number in which Bambi reveals that she's not just a spoiled brat but a knockout dancer.

It's a triumphant turn for Sikora, who just turned 30 and who has spent pretty much...

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