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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

The biggest stage hit in South Africa this year, playing to full houses at one of Cape Town’s top theaters, is a musical commemorating a mixed-race neighborhood demolished to make room for whites. Four songs from “District Six--The Musical” are banned from the airwaves of the government-controlled South African Broadcasting Corp. But the show has won nightly standing ovations from multiracial audiences at the 650-seat Baxter Theater.

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