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Apollo Theater marks 75th year of 'Amateur Night'
NEW YORK -- Harlem's Apollo Theater is celebrating the 75thanniversary of its "Amateur Night" -- a starting stage for starslike Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and the late James Brown.
The first 750 tickets to Wednesday night's show are going for$7.50, with rapper Ron Browz, a Harlem native, as the featuredperformer.
The theater, built in 1914 in the heart of Harlem, wasoriginally...
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