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Along with television, automobiles and electricity, when the millennial threshold was crossed seven years ago, many culture experts listed the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous as one of the 20th Century's greatest inventions. Since its humble inception in Akron, Ohio in 1935—an informal, though life-changing, encounter between a failed stockbroker named Bill Wilson and a local clergy named Dr. Bob Smith—tens of millions of lives have been changed forever (and countless, literally saved) with the two men's formation of the very first 12 Step program: A. A.. On January 23, the cast and creators of a new play inspired by that historical meeting, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, met the press at New York's Chelsea Rehearsal Studios on West 26th Street in preparation for their production, which begins performances at the New World Stages on February 13. Check out the off-Broadway beginnings of one of the 20th Ce