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The best musicals, whether on stage or screen, use their fantastical trappings to address contemporary events and issues — think of the morality play over race and class that is “Wicked” or the French Revolution as experienced through “Les Misérables.”

Seven minutes from time, and again from close range, Doris ensured it would be a full five-point haul and moved his side 11 points clear at the top of the table before the chasing pack in the URC play over the remainder of the weekend.

In that case, where did the first-year coach think the Chargers had to improve, especially when considering the caliber of teams they will play over the next five weeks?

In Sunday’s finale of “The Penguin,” Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb, the gangster who gets called the title moniker, finally wins his power play over Sofia.

The production’s simplicity ditched the cliches that have accumulated around the play over decades.