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. The one-act musical concerns an older female stroke victim who was an

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and wing-walker.{{Cite news, date=1993-03-30, title=Music Defeats Emotion in Staging of `Wings', work=Christian Science Monitor, url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0330/30111.html, access-date=2021-01-17, issn=0882-7729 The original production premiered at Chicago's

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in October 1992 and opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Joseph Papp Public Theater in February 1993. ''Wings'' received the 1994 Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical.

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