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‘Sarafina!’ Set: “Let nobody think that people won’t come downtown for live theater,” declared Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, joining in the official announcement on Thursday that a touring production of the South African musical “Sarafina!” will play the Orpheum, a 2,200-seat vintage (1926) downtown movie palace, for at least three weeks beginning Jan. 30. The show will be the first extended run at the Orpheum since “No Strings” in 1963. It will be co-produced and partially subsidized by the International Exchange Foundation and Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation.