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When Rock strode onto the stage dressed in all white against a glinty silver backdrop, it felt as if the celebration had already started.

It’s Super Bowl week, which has meant very little the past three years in this NFL-abandoned Midwestern city, except this time the great, excessive American event features their old Rams — all Los Angeles and glinty now — against the team that ruined their potential dynasty 17 years ago.

For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background.

The musical is based on a book that reimagines “The Wizard of Oz” and its backstory through the glinty eyes of its witches — one of whom eventually goes green and mean.

He'd been cold and his eyes had been glinty and distracted all weekend, and when he'd dropped her at school Candice had felt all sad and lost although she didn't usually, usually it was fine.