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Apparently, American producers of the stateside visit of Leningrad’s Maly Theater have exhorted the troupe to think small, because Tuesday the company said it could not raise the $600,000 needed to put on its epic production of “Brother and Sisters” for the New York International Festival of the Arts and would put on a simpler play instead. Rather than miss out on the glasnost angle, producer Ken Marsolais, Maly director Lev Dodin and festival chairman Martin Segal said they decided instead to put on “Stars in the Morning Sky,” which will cost Marsolais and Co. only $300,000. Marsolais said that he encountered heavy reluctance from investors in backing the original Soviet production. “The stock market crash had a lot to do with it. Also, that it was a Soviet production,” he said.