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Talk Line 11-03-2026: Connie Augsburger on the Mt. Morris PAG's production of Harvey · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: All right, Waking Crew, 9.15 on your Tuesday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: as promised, it's your third dose of TalkLine. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: am so, so generous. You'd think it was Thanksgiving for TalkLine.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us this morning is the assistant director of
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  Speaker 1: a Pulitzer Prize-winning play called Harvey, Connie Augsburger, joining us
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Ma'am, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm very good, thank you. And wow, that's quite an
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  Speaker 2: introduction because you made it sound like I was in
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  Speaker 2: part responsible for the Pulitzer Prize. So, golly, thanks a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure as a creative, your soul and your
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  Speaker 1: energy was out there somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was way before I was born, but sure,
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  Speaker 2: why not?
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  Speaker 1: Energy is always in a bound. That's the way I
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  Speaker 1: like to put it.
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  Speaker 2: It is neither created nor destroyed. It's always out there.
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  Speaker 2: You are so correct.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. You know, thanking you so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us this morning because this play is going
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  Speaker 1: to be coming to Mount Morris at the Performing Arts
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  Speaker 1: Guild this weekend, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Friday at 7, Saturday at 7, and Sunday at
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  Speaker 2: 2 at the Allure Pinecrest Grove Theater on the southwest
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  Speaker 2: corner of Mount Morris down McKendree Avenue. So, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: It's our fall production. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Love hearing this. And so you As you said, this
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  Speaker 1: show has a rich history that reaches pretty far back.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, Mary Chase was a rather well-known author and playwright,
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  Speaker 2: and she did write, I would say, a handful of plays,
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  Speaker 2: a handful of novels, articles. She was a lecturer and
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  Speaker 2: a teacher, and this play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944.
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  Speaker 2: It was presented on Broadway. And Josephine, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: her last name is escaping me, won the Tony that
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  Speaker 2: 1945 for Best Supporting Actress. And then when the play
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  Speaker 2: came to the cinema, I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: will remember that Jimmy Stewart was the big star. He
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  Speaker 2: was Elwood P. Dowd. He was not Harvey. He was
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  Speaker 2: Harvey's friend. Harvey was his best friend. And Josephine brought
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  Speaker 2: her talents from Broadway to the film, and she won
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  Speaker 2: the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say it was 1950. I forgot my notes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not at home, and I forgot my notes. So
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  Speaker 2: the exact dates, people can look up on Wikipedia and
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  Speaker 2: catch me out if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I love Putin. That's awesome. You know, and that's got
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  Speaker 1: quite a history to go back, so you actually did
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  Speaker 1: really well not having notes in front of you. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's even more important is the way that
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  Speaker 1: this cast is going to be bringing the story to life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. We have a really, really nice cast, and
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting that you bring that up because there have
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  Speaker 2: been attempts to remake the movie, for example. The play's
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  Speaker 2: been presented many times. I think there have been a
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  Speaker 2: few revivals, maybe off-Broadway, and then it's been a staple
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  Speaker 2: of community theater far and wide, but it has never
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  Speaker 2: been brought back to the screen, and it's been because
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  Speaker 2: the leading actors of the various eras have all declined
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  Speaker 2: to play Elwood P. Dowd because Jimmy Stewart was the
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  Speaker 2: definitive Elwood P. Dowd, and his performance was so spot-on,
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  Speaker 2: and he was such a beloved person that Nobody wanted
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  Speaker 2: to try to replace him. Just a few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: Steven Spielberg was trying to put together the financing for
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  Speaker 2: a remake. And I think in the mix to beat
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  Speaker 2: Elwood was Tom Hanks. And Tom Hanks declined. And Tom
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  Speaker 2: Hanks is arguably the Jimmy Stewart of our generation. But
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  Speaker 2: he's a humble person. I think Jimmy Stewart might be
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  Speaker 2: said to have been a humble person. But the most
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  Speaker 2: humble is Elwood P. Dowd himself, the character in the show.
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  Speaker 2: He's a humble, likable, affable person who wants to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: life as it is and the people around him as
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  Speaker 2: they really are. Not as how he hopes they will be.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to change anyone. People want to change him,
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  Speaker 2: but he doesn't want to change anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I love that message. I think if so many more
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  Speaker 1: folks try to enjoy things as they are and not
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  Speaker 1: as we want them to be, they'd be a lot happier.
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  Speaker 1: You hear that in a lot of different philosophies. Oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: that's the source of one's unhappiness is just not being
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  Speaker 1: able to accept things as they are and find the
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment in that. So I love that message.
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  Speaker 2: Meeting people where they are. meeting people as they are,
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  Speaker 2: and then being interested in them, asking them questions about themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Elwood is just a tireless collector of trivia about his
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  Speaker 2: friends and neighbors. He finds the most minute details about
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  Speaker 2: them interesting and fascinating and is interested in passing it along.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not gossip. He's not passing along gossip. He's
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  Speaker 2: just passing along interesting tidbits about his family, his friends,
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  Speaker 2: his neighbors, and often people he doesn't even know. And
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  Speaker 2: Mark Tremble, who a lot of people are familiar with Mark,
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  Speaker 2: he's been on our stage many times, and he's retired
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  Speaker 2: from Farrell Hollingale Funeral Home in Oregon. And he's enjoying
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  Speaker 2: this part, and this part is enjoying him. I think
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  Speaker 2: I need to say it both ways.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, usually that is absolutely how it goes. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of lose yourself in it, and when it works, it works.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. No, I love that. And Mary Cheatwood, who's the
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  Speaker 2: director of Mount Morris Public Library, is his ABLE co-star.
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  Speaker 2: She is supporting him as Vita Louise Simmons, Elwood's exasperated sister, and...
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  Speaker 2: Mary just brings... Well, she's a very charming, warm person
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  Speaker 2: to begin with, and she fortunately, in real life, has
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful sense of humor, which you kind of need
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  Speaker 2: to have if you're going to play Vita Louise, because
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  Speaker 2: Vita is a bit of a social climber. She's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a socially ambitious individual. She's not there yet,
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  Speaker 2: and she knows it, but she also brings a special
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  Speaker 2: kind of... hilarious madness, maybe I should say. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel that Mary is really capturing the Vita Louise character
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  Speaker 2: to a T. But Mary's not the only one who
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  Speaker 2: brings a special kind of madness to the stage. Every
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  Speaker 2: single person in our cast needs to portray a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of crazy in this show because this show is
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  Speaker 2: really about... accepting people who aren't necessarily quote-unquote normal, I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing air quotes here, and just accepting them as they
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  Speaker 2: are and not dealing with stigma. This play is, it
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  Speaker 2: touches on significantly mental illness. Two of the main supporting
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  Speaker 2: characters are Dr. William Chumley and Dr. Lyman Sanderson, who
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  Speaker 2: are to varying degrees stuffy and arrogant psychiatrists, at Chumlee's Rest,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, a sanitarium just outside of town, and they're
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  Speaker 2: a little bit full of themselves, and they think they
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  Speaker 2: know more than they know. And if we'd been around
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  Speaker 2: in 1944, we would have especially appreciated Mary Chase's skewering
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  Speaker 2: of the psychiatric profession, but I think it holds up.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to say things have definitely improved in
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  Speaker 1: the areas of mental health since those times, and important
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  Speaker 1: not to forget kind of where we came from with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it really is. Some people go, well, that's not funny. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 2: if you'd been living in those times, you might actually
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  Speaker 2: find it perhaps horrifying, some of the portrayals of psychiatrists
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  Speaker 2: and the treatment of mental illness In the 30s, 40s,
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  Speaker 2: and 50s. Well, even today, we all of us back
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  Speaker 2: away when we think somebody has a mental illness. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's not contagious. Or, I don't know, maybe it is.
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  Speaker 2: You need to come to the play and find out.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love that. Speaking of coming to the play,
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  Speaker 1: how do folks get tickets?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they can call Allure at Pinecrest. general number, and
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  Speaker 2: I know it begins with a 734 and it ends
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  Speaker 2: with a 22, and I am so sorry. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: I came away without my notes. They can call the
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  Speaker 2: Allure Pinecrest Grove Community Center building. They can go online
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  Speaker 2: at performingartsguild.com, or they could call the Mount Morris Public Library,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the staff there will be able to
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  Speaker 2: direct them. Librarians don't know everything, but they know most everything. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking as the widow of a librarian. My husband,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Bizaard, was an amazing repository of facts, trivial and otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: and you could ask him something. He wouldn't know it necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: but he could find it out in the snap of
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  Speaker 2: a finger, and I think our staff at Mount Morris
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  Speaker 2: Public Library could do that. If you go online and
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  Speaker 2: Google Performing Arts Guild, make sure that you include Mount Morris,
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  Speaker 2: Illinois in your search query. because even though we like
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  Speaker 2: to think of ourselves as unique, there are other organizations
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  Speaker 2: in the U.S. called Performing Arts Guild, and there are
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  Speaker 2: other Mount Morrises. There's a Mount Morris in Michigan, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a Mount Morris in New York. So you need
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  Speaker 2: to include the IL. You might find yourself getting tickets
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  Speaker 2: that are in another time zone if you're not careful.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to do that unless you've got the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm joking, of course. And a lot of folks have
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  Speaker 2: come to our shows at the Grove. We call it
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  Speaker 2: The Grove. It's the community center that's south of the
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  Speaker 2: main Pinecrest community, if you're continuing down McKendree Avenue, and
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  Speaker 2: it'll be on the west or the right-hand side of
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  Speaker 2: the road. There's good parking. At the intermission, there'll be
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  Speaker 2: about a 15-minute intermission, and some local community service organizations
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  Speaker 2: have graciously agreed that to provide homemade baked goodies for
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  Speaker 2: our intermission treats. And those will be available for a
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  Speaker 2: freewill donation. And the individual organizations will have literature about
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  Speaker 2: their organizations and what causes they support. Their members provide
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  Speaker 2: the baked goods out of the goodness of their heart
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  Speaker 2: and the goodness of their kitchens. And then you just
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  Speaker 2: put some money in the basket and enjoy the cookie,
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  Speaker 2: the brownie, the fudge. the Rice Krispie Treat with thick
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  Speaker 2: frosting on top, you name it.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. That sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely. And the seating, by the way, is not reserved.
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  Speaker 2: We don't number our seats. You come as you are.
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  Speaker 2: The doors always open a half hour before the performances.
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  Speaker 2: So on Friday and Saturday, that will be 630, and
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, that will be at 130. and there isn't
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  Speaker 2: a bad seat in the place. The auditorium is a
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  Speaker 2: generous room, but it's not enormous or cavernous, and the
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  Speaker 2: sound system is excellent, so it's not hard to find
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  Speaker 2: a good seat that you will be able to see
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  Speaker 2: the whole set, which I can't wait for people to
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  Speaker 2: come see our set. It's charming and beautiful. Last night,
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  Speaker 2: When we were there and we had full lights, full sound,
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  Speaker 2: full costume, everything, I was charmed. Our entire production team,
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  Speaker 2: we were beside ourselves at how great it looked and
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  Speaker 2: how wonderful it sounded.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I want people to come and enjoy and laugh a little,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I'm not surprised hearing this from you. I
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  Speaker 1: know the Performing Arts Guild, nearly 50 years of productions
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  Speaker 1: in Mount Morris, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the organization known as PAG has been around since 1981,
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  Speaker 2: but it was predated by the Black Hawk Players, and
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  Speaker 2: there was another organization both dating back into the 70s.
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  Speaker 2: I myself have lived in Mount Morris since 1992, and
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  Speaker 2: I was in a Performing Arts Guild production for my
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  Speaker 2: first time in 1999. So I've been in or worked
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  Speaker 2: on about 34 productions, but there are folks here in
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  Speaker 2: town who've been in way more than that. And some
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  Speaker 2: of our most venerable members have, well, they've passed on.
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  Speaker 2: They live in our memory. And some of our other
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  Speaker 2: most wonderful folks have retired to warmer climes. But we
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  Speaker 2: always have a new generation of wanting to come get
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  Speaker 2: up on the stage and show us off their acting chops,
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  Speaker 2: and some dramatic, some hilarious, some singing. We do mount musicals.
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  Speaker 2: We try to have a musical in the lineup. Getting
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  Speaker 2: the musical directors is sometimes a bit of a job,
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  Speaker 2: but we did do Paint Your Wagon in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: And Beth Chase, Beth Nelson Chase, was the director and
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  Speaker 2: musical director of that, and she's outstanding. And John Chase,
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  Speaker 2: her husband, was Ben Rumson in that show, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a standout. But this year, this fall, I'm the assistant,
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  Speaker 2: and Dave Shealy is our captain. He's our director. Jennifer
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  Speaker 2: Baikner is our fabulous producer.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: She's pretty low-key, and she shrugs and always offers accolades
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  Speaker 2: to the people around her. But I'm telling you, she
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  Speaker 2: really runs a tight ship and gets things done. And
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  Speaker 2: she's ably assisted by Pam Ballard and Mary Mead Cantwell
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  Speaker 2: and Robin Ault, who are the rest of our production team.
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  Speaker 2: And up in the light booth, we've got Harold Harrison
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  Speaker 2: on sound, along with Pat, oh, goodness gracious, Pat Marshall.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I almost couldn't remember his last name. Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Bold really designed our lighting and our sound. And John
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  Speaker 2: and Di Murray execute our sound. So that's our production team,
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  Speaker 2: our costumers, or Trudy Whalen and Priscilla Osborne. And then
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  Speaker 2: a lot of us pitch in to help out gathering
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  Speaker 2: up the props. from thrift stores, from PAG's amazing vault
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  Speaker 2: of belongings, from our own homes, and so on. And
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  Speaker 2: then a number of us help out. Carrie Downing is
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  Speaker 2: our lead hairdresser. She owns the main event here in town,
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  Speaker 2: and she's a whiz with hair. And the rest of
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  Speaker 2: us help out where we can. So it's truly, truly,
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  Speaker 2: truly a team effort.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, you have to have all hands on
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  Speaker 1: deck for something like that and to make these productions
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  Speaker 1: as amazing as they are. And it's just so awesome
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  Speaker 1: hearing the kind of teamwork come together. So anything else
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to share, Connie, while we had a minute?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just so appreciate community service. The Performing Arts Guild,
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  Speaker 2: our job is to put on shows for the entertainment industry.
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  Speaker 2: of the people who live in town. But the rest
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  Speaker 2: of our job really is to provide opportunities for people
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  Speaker 2: who want to participate in the theater arts. And there's
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  Speaker 2: no barriers to entry. To work on a Performing Arts
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  Speaker 2: Guild production, all you have to do is let somebody know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to learn what goes on behind stage. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: I've always wanted to be in the light booth. Or
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  Speaker 2: how do you design sound? Can I help out with costumes?
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  Speaker 1: Or.
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  Speaker 2: I'd really like to be on stage sometime. How do
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  Speaker 2: I do that? There's no barriers to entry. There's no
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  Speaker 2: pre-existing educational requirements. We're all amateurs. None of us do
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  Speaker 2: this professionally. We've all had other lives, or we're all
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  Speaker 2: engaged in other lives. A number of our cast members
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  Speaker 2: are employed elsewhere, and they are fitting in our production, rehearsals,
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  Speaker 2: and meetings around their working life driving from elsewhere uh...
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  Speaker 2: so we really appreciate uh... max and montana and hayden
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  Speaker 2: and we have two young men named dylan they're all
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  Speaker 2: driving from you know oregon uh... monroe center by renner
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  Speaker 2: stillman wherever they happen to live we don't have any
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  Speaker 2: cast members from the dixon area this time around but
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  Speaker 2: we often have It doesn't matter if you work, and
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you're young or you're old or
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  Speaker 2: you've never once stepped foot on stage. Performing Arts Guild
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  Speaker 2: is there. There are other community theater organizations and Pecatonica Polo,
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  Speaker 2: and I myself have some history with Stagecoach and DeKalb,
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  Speaker 2: and every single one of these organizations provide regular people
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to be something other, step out of their
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  Speaker 2: everyday lives and put on a show. sort of a
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  Speaker 2: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland thing. Hey, kids, let's put on
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  Speaker 2: a show. It's kind of terrifying at first, I will admit,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also just so much fun. And when it
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  Speaker 2: all comes together, it's very rewarding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I've gotten to
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  Speaker 1: try my hand at some smaller things and definitely looking
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  Speaker 1: to um, to be able to, to do a bigger
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  Speaker 1: one when I, when I have a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time to commit. But I, I absolutely, uh, agree with
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  Speaker 1: you scary at first, but it is just, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the first few seconds of, of getting your first
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  Speaker 1: line or just the, you know, the, the curtains opening,
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  Speaker 1: usually that goes away and the adrenaline rush and the excitement, uh,
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  Speaker 1: is what fills you.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely, it absolutely does. You And so a lot
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  Speaker 2: of my life is speaking in front of people who
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  Speaker 2: make me nervous, like judges, for example. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: have prepared lines. You know, you never go to court
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  Speaker 2: without your notes, but you don't have a script necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: At least with a play, you have a script, and
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  Speaker 2: you can practice it endlessly. But that still doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: there aren't jitters. you know, the butterflies in the stomach.
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  Speaker 2: And the first time those lights come on and they
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  Speaker 2: hit you right in the face, boy, you talk about
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  Speaker 2: an adrenaline rush. That is so, so true. And the
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  Speaker 2: interesting thing for us is our set here at Pinecrest Grove,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have curtains. We don't really have a proscenium arch,
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  Speaker 2: such as a lot of theaters do. So we do
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  Speaker 2: all of our magic simply with lighting effects. And when
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  Speaker 2: you come in, the set is right there, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not lit. It will be lit when it's time for
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  Speaker 2: the show to begin. And that means that when the
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  Speaker 2: actors come out, they've got to be ready right now.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as their foot steps on that stage floor,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to be in character. And I'm happy to
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  Speaker 2: say that... Our casts always deliver, and the cast of
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  Speaker 2: Harvey really is not an exception to that rule at
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  Speaker 2: all for PAG.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt you there, and it's just going
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  Speaker 1: to be such a fantastic time. Unfortunately, we are out
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  Speaker 1: of time, but Connie, I want to thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for coming on the show, sharing all this great information.
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  Speaker 1: And once again, if folks want to get tickets or
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: any more information about this show or anything with the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Performing Arts Guild, what's the best way to do it?
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  Speaker 2: To call the Allure of Pinecrest Grove Community Center. It's
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  Speaker 2: a local Mount Morris number, and I'm apologizing. I should
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: have it right in front of me, but I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can call Mount Morris Community Library, and the
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  Speaker 2: librarians there will be able to direct you. Or a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: really quick way is to go on and look up PerformingArtSkill.com
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  Speaker 2: online in Mount Morris, Illinois. And I do wish to
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: make sure that your audiences know PAG is making a
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: pair of tickets available free to some of your listeners.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: That will be up to you to devise the contest
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: or whatever. so that the folks can get those tickets.
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  Speaker 2: They are $ 14 apiece, Friday at 7, Saturday at 7,
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  Speaker 2: and Sunday at 2. And whoever your winners are will
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: get in touch with us, and we will provide a
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  Speaker 2: pair of tickets for the performance of their choice.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'll let you know how you can win
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: those tickets after our conversation. Connie, thank you again so
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: much for joining us, and as they say in showbiz,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: break a leg. just not really.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you. I hope we break several, Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a real privilege to chat with you today. Bye-bye.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Bye, Connie.