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A year ago, Eric de Lora was sitting in the audience of the Western Wyoming Community College theater, watching the performance of "Once Upon a Mattress" that he directed, but he was already thinking ahead to future shows. De Lora's thoughts also kept returning to Stephen Sondheim, the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist who had died just a few months before at 91 years old.

"I just thought, we should do something because everybody's doing something as kind of a tribute to Sondheim," de Lora, the theater director at Western, explained.

Western's theater department is no stranger to S...