Facts behind your favorite fiction
What happens when we turn out the lights and tell ghost stories? That’s exactly what we did for this episode, where Kay and Juliana each tell stories of historic hauntings. An unexplained arrival in a North Carolinian coastal village. A murder in a red barn. Stay to the end to hear more history behind the stories.
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In this bonus episode, Juliana Valente and Kay Koch interview friends of the show Gina Sarno and Nick Pascarella, the actors in this summer’s upcoming off-Broadway run of David Harrower’s BLACKBIRD. How do actors handle these complex experiences of sexual abuse that are seen from multiple points of view? Through the darkness of this conversation, we are forced into uneasy emotions.
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Interview with Kay Koch and Juliana Valente about some of the best-loved jukebox musicals (Jersey Boys, Beautiful, Mama Mia), revues (Ain’t Misbehavin, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story), rock operas (The Who’s Tommy, Green Day’s American Idiot and Jesus Christ Superstar). We even get into The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!
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Focusing on E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” and the Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins”.
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