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Despite

a

dri,zzle,

last

night's private

red-carpet

premiere

of the

much-antici-

pated

Broadway

musical

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the

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the

star-studded

crowd

feeling

sunny.

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Matt

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Lee,

Steve

Martin,

Robert

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Niro,

Bill

Clinton,

Ben

Vereen,

Gina

Gershon,

Andrew

Lloyd

Webber,

Amy Irving,

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McEnroe,

Lesley

Stahl

and

singers

Glen

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and Deborah

Cox.

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in

Times

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it

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show

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bring

the

whole family

to,"

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su-

permodel,

who

was

doing

just

that

with

her

business-

man

husband,

Five

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native

and

Hewlett

High

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graduate

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and,

presumably,

their

two

kids.

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ousted

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fa-

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thrilled

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answer

to a

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tersweet.

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opening."