41.   Phiri turns to Samson, asks him to describe his school play, performed two days earlier.

42.   Previously he had never acted, not even in a school play.

43.   Ralph goes to parent-teacher meetings, school plays and after-school dances, even bopping onto the dance floor.

44.   Sadie spent her teen years feeding the homeless, acting in school plays, and studying hard enough to rank at the top of her class.

45.   She acted in school plays, attended the University of New Mexico and eventually graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Texas.

46.   She sang and danced in school plays and theaters with other children before the silent-film era began.

47.   She was in the school play this fall, and worked at a Mattapan day care center for children with AIDS last summer.

48.   She also took acting class, directed school plays and finally begged her mother for permission to go to New York to study film.

49.   She was just so exicted to tell him about Santa Claus and that she knew it was the real Santa Claus because he knew about her school play.

50.   Sometime in April, after Easter, before the end-of-school blitz of piano recitals, dance performances, school plays and class picnics.