Using levels in AS3

Hey, I'm trying to do a very simple thing in AS3 and it's not working
I have 2 movieclips, A and B. A have some animation and B have a single frame with a code. I want to use this code to play the animation in movieclip A.
When using AS2, i just write in the first frame of B, _root.A,play() or _level0.A.play()
What should I do in AS3 to achieve this. I attached the file, can anyone do the code for me and I can understand it by myself. Thanks

In this case do you really need to cast root as a MovieClip? I'm sure you would if you tried this: MovieClip(root).play(); But in this case you are trying to access the play method of A not root.
The reason for the casting thing (which I regard as a ghastly and completely bollocksed-up) is that in may cases parent or root could reference any number of items that are all decendants of DisplayObject so the property returns the item as a DisplayObject, which doesn't have the timeline control methods of the MovieClip class. DisplayObject is the ancestor from which all the things we can see spring.
As a design decision it might have been worse that parent or root returned a Sprite some times other times a Stage others a MovieClip and so on. Not saying that there isn't a better solution, but this is the solution we have...

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