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For less formal occasions a lighter version, without arches (and sometimes called the Diadem), is used.

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Only one goes to F: James Ellor's seemingly endless "Diadem," which probably needs a Mormon Tabernacle-sized choir to really work anyway.

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Only one goes to F: James Ellor's seemingly endless "Diadem," which probably needs a Mormon Tabernacle-sized choir to really work anyway.

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His singing voice is incredible, in his spare time he strolls out past the wire-mesh fighter runways looking for bigger planes-for he loves to practice the bass part to "Diadem" as the Flying Fortresses take off at full power, and even so you can hear him, bone-vibrating and pure above the bombers, all the way to Stoke Poges, you see.

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Next after him came the sixty-four, the "Diadem," while

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"Diadem" is its new companion piece, commissioned by the company where Chan is now playwright-in-residence and has more plays in development.

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But the sole characters in Eugenie Chan's one-acts "Diadem" and "Bone to Pick" are the same woman - and not because they're both played by Paige Rogers in the Cutting Ball Theater production that opened Thursday at Exit on Taylor.

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It's also because Rogers plays one person in "Diadem," and you can see the actor depicting youth.

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"Diadem" is a delightful retelling of the ancient myths, as the newly abandoned teen princess-priestess, surrounded by fertility statuettes, relates family history, deludes herself about Theseus' love and relives her mother's roll in the hay with that bull.

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Melrose stages "Diadem" with a light touch, using the subtle dissonances in Cliff Caruthers' score to accent Ariadne's misgivings.

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