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The Countess [Brenda Barry-Weaver] reclines in sorrow as she sings to the god of love to let her die. |
| Cherubino [Andrew Kreeger] sings the song he wrote, "Ladies, confide in me," as Susanna [Rachel Gordon] and the Countess look on in amusement. |  |
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"We'll plan your femininity," Susanna sings as they move forward with their plan to disguise Cherubino as a girl. |
| "Absolutely ravishing!" proclaims Susanna. |  |
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"Think carefully!" the Count [Dale Lyles] warns the Countess as Susanna looks on, concerned that he's going to hit her. The topic under discussion: who's hiding in the closet? |
| "Let me go!" Cherubino demands as Susanna tries to dissuade him from jumping from the window. But he does, in a tremendous headfirst leap. |  |
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Both the Count and Countess are stunned to find that it actually is Susanna in the closet, rather than the pageboy as the Countess confessed. |
| "What's this drooping sword, sir?" Susanna taunts the Count as she emerges from the closet. |  |
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The gardener Antonio [Lamar Payne] drunkenly explains that while he's used to people throwing all their trash out the windows, this time they've gone too far: "Someone threw a whole man into view!" |
| Figaro [Scott Beckom] confesses that it was he who was hiding in the closet and jumped through the window, and "pulled all the... things... in my... knee!" |  |
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When challenged to explain why the page's commission was found in the garden, after Figaro supposedly jumped, Figaro triumphantly sings that "it's the custom for you, sir, to sign it!" |
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