But it was the off-stage drama that prompted more than double the average State of the Union audience to tune in.

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Twenty-two years later, fresh out of drama school, Arianda strode onto the New York stage in January of 2010 and took theater-going Manhattan by storm.

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That set the stage for more late-game drama by his teammates.

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You have mastered every medium -- stage, film, television and concert hall -- and every theatrical genre: comedy, drama and musical.

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Between the forest and the building is a pond on which sits a massive 19th-century Noh stage, the setting for outdoor presentations of classical drama and music several times a year.

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Later, he would document the Faust story in a powerful stage drama with chorus and soloists, and build a complex, five-hour operatic spectacle on the ruins of Troy.

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