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# Enjoying the Show
**by Todd Sukany**

The way to Carnegie is left,
left, left, right.  The path to the Gillioz 
Theatre is slightly less known.  More like 

Google Satellite peers into downtown 
Springfield (MO, of course) and there, 
one can watch The Great Russian Ballet, 

or probably more accurately, 
a Russian troupe, headed by someone 
whose lamb chops are dusted in 

Thanksgiving flour.  But the highlight 
of the evening is granddaughter 
in the aisle, lockstepping with a stage

full--the Doves of Peace, the Waltz 
of the Flowers.  She raises both hands 
into a blossom above her head 

and I feel her left hand circle
my right to complete the move, 
never blinking, never dropping concentration.
