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    MGM OPENING GALA y PAGE TWO %# .SCENE THREE: FILM CREDITS -- "FROM THIS MOMENT ON" SCENE FOUR: RUSSIAN TABLEAU ?╟÷ CATHERINE THE GREAT LOOK ?╟÷ This tableau will feature: ICE SKATERS COSSACK DANCERS COSSACK HOREBACK RIDERS MUSIC: Good Russian music ?╟÷ ethnic or symphonic SCENE FIVE: JUDY GARLAND TRIBUTE Starting "DEAR MR. GABLE, YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU" film clip this dissolves into "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, LOUIE" - Easter theme - MUSIC: "THE TROLLEY SONG" "THE BOY NEXT DOOR" "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" "FOR ME AND MY GAL" "OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL" "WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP" "EASTER PARADE" ,'- This is to be an Easter Card type presentation with a red trolley the set to open up onto the Exposition Park and ??? what do I see? This tableau closes as the set dissolves with the lone figure of Judy Garland on stage with a recording of her voice singing "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW" NOTE: "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" ?╟÷ fi A rt f' & t r\ M SCENE SIX: KISMET - BAGDAD PARADISE - HAREM BOUDOIR Utilizing magic carpets, aerial platforms, piece of front runway. Very feminine, sensual ?╟÷ jeweled nudes, women with veils etc. MUSIC: "BABBLES, BANGLES AND BEADS" "THIS IS MY BELOVED" "STRANGER IN PARADISE" SCENE SEVEN: MACOCO - BLACK PIRATE BALLET - AQUARIUM A hot Caribbean Market Place ?╟÷ Comedia del Arte form - a languid evening but cool this develops into Macoco's pirate ship ?╟÷ masts & rigging tricks ?╟÷ bombardment of ship during a storm ?╟÷ dragging of slave girls from ship's hold in chains ?╟÷ a Mac the Black Pirate Ballet. Bombardment of the ship causes ship to sink and takes'.1? us to an underwater sea. An aquarium rises containing nude girls, dolphins, porpoise etc. swimming. SCENE EIGHT: SALUTE TO "GONE WIW THE WIND" Start in Plantation Gardens of Tara and dissolves into the War between the North and South with disaster effect of the burning of Atlanta. , Cont'd.