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a striking rhinestone pin that may also be worn on the chain bears the message: "Broadway Lifetime Membership Club" ($100). The shop also stocks the vocal scores of most Broadway musicals, ranging from $5.95 to $12.95. 

A companion shop - Actors, Too at 210 W. 45th St. - specializes in theatrical items and carries a vast collection of theatrical masks that may be hung on your walls or displayed on shelves and coffee tables. They vary in price from $21.95 to $28.95 ... An attractive brass pin depicting dancers from A Chorus Line with their hats raised in the air goes for $12.95 ... A beautiful theatre box of beveled glass with a mirrored bottom and the comedy/tragedy masks on top sells for $32.95. For males, there are very striking gold-edged tragedy/comedy masks made as cuff links ($32.95).

MANHATTAN ARTS AND ANTIQUE CENTER
Located at 1050 Second Ave. (56th St.), the Center contains 104 individual galleries, many of which offer impressive theatrical items for that very special person on your list. At Gallery 47 you'll find Teplitz-Amphora porcelain vases picturing Sarah Bernhardt in La Princess Lontaine. Dating from the turn of the century, a six-inch-high vase costs $1,150 and a seven-inch vase, $1,600. The Gloria Boscardin Gallery 70 has two 1920's PLAYBILL Magazines for the Liberty Theatre and Knickerbocker Theatre in gilt frames ($50 each). At Barbara Joyce Kaye's Gallery 27 there are Early American pattern glasses in an "Actress" series. They date from the 1800's and feature Lotta Crabtree and other famed stars of that era (from $20 to $300 each, depending on their scarcity). Also you'll find a kerosene lamp created for the 1876 centennial celebration made of glass, pewter, and white metal and decorated with a likeness of the famed singer of that time, Jenny Lind ($250). 

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[[caption]] Sing your way to stardom in the shower [[/caption]]

SINGING IN THE RAIN
Who doesn't like to sing show tunes in the shower? But remembering lyrics is another thing. To remedy this situation, the Steam Press Book company has published Shower Show Tunes, an appropriately waterproof book that contains the lyrics of 11 show tunes by such masters as Rodgers and Hammerstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and Jerry Herman. Included, of course, are the lyrics to "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" ($4.95).

CATS MANIA
Gant Gaither, a former Broadway producer/director who staged some excellent revivals in the 1940's and 1950's, is now a recognized artist. He's had one-man shows at the Hammer Galleries in Manhattan as well as in European galleries. In the early 1970's he began painting his "Zoophisticates Collection" - a gentle satire on animal antics. 

After seeing the musical Cats, the artist became enamored of the creatures and started painting some striking felines that 

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