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‘Footlight Parade’ A celebration of the legendary sibling theater producers Fanchon and Marco includes a screening of this 1933 Busby Berkeley musical starring James Cagney.

“There’s a little nod,” he tells me, of encountering a fellow former Footlight on the circuit, “and you just know.”

This “Aliens” is a reprise by ReAct, which won a 2016 Footlight Award for the production, described in The Seattle Times as “an affecting study of a teenager learning life lessons from two loitering misfits.”

The Footlight Awards, begun some 20 years ago by former Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson, have served as a quick-hit, annual almanac of ups, downs and zigzags in Seattle performance over the previous year.

Once, he slipped onstage, and his foot went through a footlight bulb.