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Talk Line: Spencer Aurand shares updates from The Dixon: Historic Theatre · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Sock Valley. It's eight thirty five on your
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. You're here with the Waking crew, and that
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  Speaker 1: means it's time for your second dose of talk line.
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  Speaker 1: I promised you. We are joined this morning by our
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  Speaker 1: good friends from the Dixon Historic Theater once again, Spencer Rand,
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  Speaker 1: Executive director, Sir, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. It's been nice in air conditioning here
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  Speaker 1: all morning, and I get here before the summer.
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  Speaker 2: It is lovely. We just hide in here so I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the weather outside. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good music, good conversation, Yeah beautiful. Yeah, We've got a
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  Speaker 1: coffee machine in back, so we're I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Going to hang out here the rest. Good morning. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go back. My office is getting a
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  Speaker 2: little hot.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of hot, the season over at the Dixon, it
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  Speaker 1: just continues to go along, and so you kind of
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  Speaker 1: want to lead off today talking about guys and dolls. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we have guys and Dolls coming up. It is
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  Speaker 1: our community show partnership with Dixon Stage left. We've now
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  Speaker 1: this is our second community production and where it's been
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  Speaker 1: going really well and we're really excited to continue partnering
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  Speaker 1: with Dixon Stage Left to put on community productions in
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  Speaker 1: the future. For anyone not familiar, Guys and Dolls is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a classic Broadway musical about two couples. So
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  Speaker 1: there is a bookie that is trying to put together
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  Speaker 1: an illegal craps game while also avoiding his fiance. And
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  Speaker 1: then there is a gambler who has, like the two
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  Speaker 1: of them, have made a bet that he won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to get another woman to fall in love with him.
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  Speaker 1: And there's just all kinds of musical shenannikins that go
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  Speaker 1: along day. It is a classic classic show. Fantastic. It's
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  Speaker 1: a super fun show. Great show to bring the whole
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  Speaker 1: family to love that story with such a cool premise,
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  Speaker 1: What a great idea it's got to make for just
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  Speaker 1: an awesome show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. And mccrus and a fantastic job getting
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  Speaker 2: the set put up this week. The cast has been there,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be there every day this week practicing getting ready
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  Speaker 2: for their opening show this weekend. So the show is
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  Speaker 2: going to be on the Is it the tenth, eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: and twelfth? I want to keep wanting to say the eleventh, twelve,
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  Speaker 2: and thirteenth, that's wrong. So it's on the tenth, the eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: and the twelfth, and you can check the Dixon website
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  Speaker 2: dixontheater dot com for ticket prices and showtimes because it's
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  Speaker 2: different on those days.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so there's still time to get tickets there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, definitely awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And that kind of ticket kind of segues us in
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  Speaker 1: to wanting to make sure that Yeah, yeah, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this before we got started, and so we were
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  Speaker 1: already kind we.
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  Speaker 2: Both sound so uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah, there's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ticket scams happening around the Dickson Theaters, which is
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  Speaker 2: both a good and a bad thing. It's good because
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  Speaker 2: it means that we're doing really well and you got
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  Speaker 2: to get some attention scamm We have drawn the ire
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  Speaker 2: of the ticket scammers. It's gotten a lot easier also
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  Speaker 2: to set stuff like that up with the advent of AI.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of this stuff is just like fully AI automated,
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  Speaker 2: so it is literally just scraping data off the Internet
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  Speaker 2: and then kind of creating these these scam sites. The
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  Speaker 2: more important thing I'd say to watch out for though,
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  Speaker 2: is isn't necessarily like fraudulent fake ticket sites as much
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  Speaker 2: as it is websites that resell tickets, so your Ticketmaster,
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  Speaker 2: any other like third party ticketing site you might regularly
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  Speaker 2: use to buy legitimate tickets. A lot of those sites
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  Speaker 2: are essentially taking our tickets and our seating charts, and
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  Speaker 2: they are they're just marking up the ticketts buy. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen as much as like four thousand percents. Guys and
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  Speaker 2: Dolls is a really good example that you and I
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  Speaker 2: were talking about. Those tickets are between thirty five and
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  Speaker 2: fifty five dollars on our website, they are over eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars on Ticketmaster. Don't buy those ones, No, They're
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  Speaker 2: a little expensive.
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  Speaker 1: No, And if if eight hundred dollars didn't make you blink,
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  Speaker 1: go buy the real ticket and maybe make a donation
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  Speaker 1: to the theater for future production. I will feel so
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  Speaker 1: much better and save something.
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  Speaker 2: I will gladly accept nine hundred dollars, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to charge someone that for a ticket. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely keep an eye out for that. A thing to
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  Speaker 2: remember for anyone buying tickets is, obviously you can just
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  Speaker 2: go to our website Dicks intheater dot com. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to take you directly to our ticket seller, which is
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  Speaker 2: ticks dot Com. That's where we sell all of our
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  Speaker 2: tickets through. I think the only exception to that this
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  Speaker 2: year is the sidewalk profits. They are actually doing their
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  Speaker 2: own ticket sales. We're not doing those tickets for them.
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  Speaker 2: Their tour is handling all of that, so that will
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  Speaker 2: be completely different. The tables very much so have turned
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  Speaker 2: I get ticket reports rather than sending them ticket reports.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the big thing to remember is just kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, if the if it feels like it's
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  Speaker 2: too expensive, you're probably in the wrong place. Most of
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  Speaker 2: our tickets are right around forty dollars, unless it's a
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  Speaker 2: really big show that you warrants us having a higher
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  Speaker 2: ticket price. If you're adding things to the cart and
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  Speaker 2: you go to check out and you see that it's
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  Speaker 2: added ticket fees to it. We don't have any ticket
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  Speaker 2: fees at the Dixon Theater or while we do, but
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  Speaker 2: they are all built into our ticket price. So if
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  Speaker 2: we say it's thirty dollars, because it has that ticket
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  Speaker 2: fee already built into it, So if it's adding extra
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  Speaker 2: ticket fees on top of it, you're probably in the
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  Speaker 2: wrong place. You can also use our social media pretty reliably.
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  Speaker 2: So as long as you know on the following us
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram or on Facebook, we post about our shows
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  Speaker 2: all the time. There any post we make about a show,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a ticket link in it that you can
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  Speaker 2: click and follow to buy those tickets as well.
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  Speaker 1: There you go the best way if if nothing else,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just go to the Dixon Historics website. They
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  Speaker 1: will take care of you from there. Ticks dot Com
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  Speaker 1: is the actual site where they've got theirs coming from.
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  Speaker 1: But again go to the Dixon Historic Site. That'll take
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  Speaker 1: care of it. And even for the bigger shows, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen these guys charging eight hundred dollars for a
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  Speaker 1: single ticket and also keep them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But I even if there was a super big act,
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  Speaker 1: I think eight hundred bucks would maybe get you a
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  Speaker 1: meet and greet with Taylor Swift's accountant because it would
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  Speaker 1: probably be three times as much for her for like
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  Speaker 1: two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the most expensive show we've ever had,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, was our Tony Danzel show that we had
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  Speaker 2: a few months ago, and those box seats were one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty dollars. I think for the box seats. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those tickets start at fifty five dollars, So like that
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  Speaker 2: should give the audience kind of a good frame of reference.
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  Speaker 2: If you're looking at back row seats and they're like
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars, probably something's wrong. Yeah, yeah, And you
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  Speaker 2: can also you can always stop in our box office
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  Speaker 2: during our box office hours Thursday through Friday. We're open
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  Speaker 2: noon to five o'clock. You can stop it in person
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  Speaker 2: to buy tickets. You can just call our box office.
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  Speaker 2: Box office phone number is eight one five five zero
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  Speaker 2: eight six three two four, and that's also on our website.
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  Speaker 2: So if you'd rather call in talk to somebody about
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  Speaker 2: ordering tickets, you can do that as well.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, whether it's online or talking to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: that Dixon has you covered. You also wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit today about six.
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  Speaker 2: Then I did want I did want to mention six
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  Speaker 2: that is coming up here at the end of July.
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  Speaker 2: It is another community production, but it is entirely put
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  Speaker 2: together by some of the teens that have been working
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  Speaker 2: in our children's theater program.
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  Speaker 1: I had been seeing a little of this in the
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  Speaker 1: headlines online. I thought it was super cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have done a fantastic job. I have gleefully
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  Speaker 2: gotten to do basically nothing for it because they fully
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  Speaker 2: took it over and did everything. They did all the fundraising,
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  Speaker 2: they raised all the money they needed for the actual production,
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  Speaker 2: for the licensing, they put together the entire production team,
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  Speaker 2: They cast the show themselves. They have been doing a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic job. And it is it's sixteen edition, but it
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  Speaker 2: is the same kind of modern six musical that is
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  Speaker 2: currently running in Chicago that you would see about The
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  Speaker 2: Six Wives of Henry the Eighth. So if you've wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see that show but haven't been, you know, haven't
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  Speaker 2: had the time or the money to go into Chicago
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  Speaker 2: to see it, these girls have done a fantastic job
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  Speaker 2: putting production together and you should definitely come out and
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  Speaker 2: support them.
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  Speaker 1: I love hearing this. Congratulations to them for doing this
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  Speaker 1: hard work paying off. Y'all are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You rock.
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  Speaker 1: But that's super cool. Yeah, I was like, how did
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  Speaker 1: this become a thing with these kids?
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  Speaker 2: You know again, it was all self motivated by them.
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  Speaker 2: They were all kind of together helping us paint the
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  Speaker 2: set for Footloose.
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  Speaker 1: Like so was part of some other project. This was
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  Speaker 1: their idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were just like they they were asking about
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  Speaker 2: doing sex, and I was just like, you can't, we
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  Speaker 2: can't do sex because they're not they're not licensing that show.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like no, and they went and looked
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  Speaker 2: into it themselves and they were like, they released a
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  Speaker 2: teen edition of the show last year. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: if you get the money for it, I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: the space on the stage, thinking they wouldn't do it,
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  Speaker 2: and then they did. So I have learned not to
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  Speaker 2: underestimate these girls because they will. They will take up
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  Speaker 2: my stage time.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome though it was, well good on you for
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  Speaker 1: honoring that and good on them for getting it done.
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  Speaker 1: Super cool, So I love hearing about that. Anything else
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  Speaker 1: you want to share this morning, Spencer, Nope, that's everything.
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  Speaker 1: Just a reminder that Guysendal's is this weekend on the tenth, eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: and twelfth, and if you are interested in coming in
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  Speaker 1: and supporting those girls to see six, that show is
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  Speaker 1: on July twenty fourth and twenty fifth. There you go,
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  Speaker 1: mark your calendars, get on down there this weekend, go
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  Speaker 1: on the website, get your tickets. Spencer, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for coming sharing all the information and for all
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  Speaker 1: the hard work you guys do over the Dixon Historic Theater.
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  Speaker 1: Just some great shows in a great season, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: be back in to tell us more, but you'll you'll
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  Speaker 1: have to wait for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you and thank you for having us