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The Giving Trees

During the Muny’s first century of delivering summer musicals to sold-out theater audiences, the two swamp oaks flanking the stage served as unbilled actors in thousands of performances. Now the trees are making their swan song as raw material for the theater’s new boardroom table, designed by Goebel & Co. Furniture.

Muny executives had planned to preserve the stage-left tree that remained standing,

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