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Chicago Lyric Opera Actor Injured

WTTW News | February 5, 2013, 12:12 pm

A special effect goes horribly wrong at a Lyric Opera of Chicago rehearsal, seriously burning an actor. We have the latest on his condition and what the company has to say.

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