While the Landers Theatre is dark through the summer months, local theater-lovers can watch live stage performances at MSU Tent Theatre, and in the intimate "so close you might get some on you" venue of Center Stage at Wilhoit Plaza, home of Springfield Contemporary Theatre. Opening tonight (July 8) and running through July 24 is Paul Osborn's charming 1939 slice of middle-Americana, Morning's at Seven. Director Robert Bradley notes the title, with its apostrophe (as in "morning is at seven") derives from Robert Browning's 1841 verse drama Pippa Passes, which includes the famous passage "Morning's at seven, the lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn, God's in his heaven--all's right with the world." The play concerns four ageing sisters in late-1930s small-town America, who have not only lived in close physical proximity for virtually their entire lives, but they are very close emotionally: Esther (or "Esty"), the oldest of the four; second-oldest Cora; Aaronetta, nicknamed
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