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A Compton school was transformed last week into a scene from 1920s gangland New York for its latest theatre production. Dandy Dan’s hoodlums terrorise the district. He and his rival, ‘Fat Sam’, who runs the Grand Slam speakeasy bar, both vie for the top job. Enter Bugsy Malone, a smooth city slicker, who arrives to help Fat Sam. But then he meets Blousey Brown. For three nights – and three nights only – pupils across all year groups at The Downs School & Sixth Form put on the show, which was watched by Hermitage Primary School and Compton Primary School. “We were delighted to see such confiden…

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