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Oldfangled models hit timeless note.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| June 29, 2004 | Curtis, Mary C. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mary C. Curtis

In art and life _ or even better in that place where both meet _ old-fashioned can be relevant and true. Last week was another reminder of a lesson that's easy to forget.

Does it dry up?

At last Saturday's matinee of "Raisin in the Sun," leading man Sean Combs was replaced mid-play by his understudy, Billy Eugene Jones, because of illness. The audience didn't ask for a refund.

The stage of the Royale Theatre in New York had become a room in the tiny Chicago apartment of the Younger family. With all due respect to the man also known as P. Diddy _ whose presence is a big reason the 1959 drama is a sold-out hit _ …

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