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The show is (gravity + grace), [FRANK FERRARO] and collaborator Steve Pellegrino's evocation of Ferraro's experience with youngonset Parkinson's disease. [Brian Czarniecki] is portraying a version of Ferraro, the halting stilt-walk mirroring Ferraro's offbalance gait.
In the scene, Czarniecki trails dancer Renee Smith, who's strutting like a majorette with a crutch for a baton, even as he is trailed by Jamie Erin Murphy, tap-dancing. Circus-like, all three circle Pellegrino, who plays accordion and sings a jaunty tune called "Road To Babylon," whose refrain in part goes, "please don't put pennies on my eyes.""A lot of people with Parkinson's don't want to come out," says Ferraro. "I'm saying what they don't want to admit."See the full content of this document
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Grace Under Gravity
FRANK FERRARO watches Brian Czarniecki walk, for the first time, on stilts. They're 18 inches tall, springcushioned, and the actor totters as he towers, squeaking deliberately across the rehears...
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