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By SARA AGNEW Long before there was a Summer Repertory Theatre program at the University of Missouri, audiences gathered on the education building's roof to watch student-directed shows. Imagine 75 wooden folding chairs set up in a square around an invisible stage, and you begin to get a picture of what was known as the Starlight Theatre. Among the many actors who performed on the makeshift stage in the mid-1950s was an up-and-coming star named George C. Scott. It was also where a...