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This week MLive Kalamazoo has taken a look at living in downtown Kalamazoo. Their series has examined the growth in people living downtown and some of the things that have lured them.

“It really isn’t just people jumping on a stage and trying to make you laugh. It really isn’t," says Dann Sytsma of Crawlspace Theater Productions. "It’s people on stage working together to create a story that’s never been told, that will never be told again. And they want you to experience that with them.”

If the old saying that nothing succeeds like excess were true, director Baz Luhrmann’s movies would have out-grossed Avatar, Titanic and everything in the Star Wars catalog. Over the past 20 years, the Australian filmmaker has built a reputation as a filmmaker who always buys in bulk when it comes to sets, costumes, music and emotions.