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Let \({\mathfrak g}\) be a complex semisimple Lie algebra, \({\mathcal O}\) a nilpotent orbit in \({\mathfrak g}\), and \({\mathfrak n}\) the nilradical of some Borel subalgebra of \({\mathfrak g}\). The irreducible components of the intersection \({\mathcal O} \cap{\mathfrak n}\) are called orbital varieties and arise quite often in the theory of simple highest weight modules and primitive ideals. By an old result of Spaltenstein, they all have the same dimension, equal to half that of \({\mathcal O}\) itself; it is also known that the number of orbital varieties lying in a fixed orbit equals the dimension of the Springer representation attached to that orbit. Here the author specializes to the case \({\mathfrak g}= {\mathfrak {sl}}_ n(\mathbb{C})\) and addresses the following question: can the ring of regular functions on the closure of an orbital variety be ``quantized''; i.e., realized as the associated graded module of a simple highest weight module? For \(n\leq 6\), the author has shown that the answer is affirmative except for two varieties; for both of these, the answer becomes affirmative if the word ``simple'' is dropped. In general, the answer is affirmative for any variety lying in an orbit whose Jordan-form partition has at most two parts. No proofs appear in this paper; they appear in the author's doctoral thesis from Haifa University and in a forthcoming paper in Bull. Sci. Math.