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Score one for the author in Paris, where playwright Samuel Beckett has won a battle against a French director who wanted to stage his play “Endgame” with pink walls and music--something completely at odds with Beckett’s stage directions. The 1957 play is due to open at the venerable Comedie Francaise on Saturday, but the production will feature a stage bathed in gray light and virtually empty, with only two small windows looking out on a gray sea, as Beckett’s instructions call for. One look at a dress rehearsal was enough for Beckett, who protested and had management replace the director’s original staging.