Dinner theater draws big crowds, stays true to roots

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The lights are dim, feet are pounding on the floor and a faint smell of horses is in theair, as a crowd of hundreds seated in an arena waits to see five knights meet their death on the sands of a jousting pit.

The scene is ripped from 11th-century Europe ? except the crowd is school-age children with paper crowns on their heads, and they?re guzzling Pepsi.

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