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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS APPROVE NEW CONTRACT

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway stagehands on Sunday approved a new contract with producers, nearly two weeks after the end of a strike that shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows.

'It was an overwhelming ratification," said Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. He declined to give an exact tally of the vote.

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