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Talk-Line: Morgan McConnell · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Wednesday, It's
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  Speaker 1: October eighth, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of Talkline here at WIXN Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is time to touch
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  Speaker 1: base with our friends from the Performing Arts Guild of
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. They are planning performances for this upcoming weekend
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  Speaker 1: here in our Sock Valley area, and the director of
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  Speaker 1: these performances is live with us by telephone to give
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  Speaker 1: us the preview and the lowdown on exactly what is
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  Speaker 1: going to be happening this weekend. We've chatted with this
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  Speaker 1: gentleman before. He's live with us again today. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Morgan McConnell and he is with Performing Arts Guild
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  Speaker 1: and with us today on w i X end.
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  Speaker 2: Morgan, good morning, Good morning Steve, and thanks for having
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  Speaker 2: me back again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, sir, thank you very much for joining us once again.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've touched base with the
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  Speaker 1: Performing Arts Guild. But obviously, you know, ins between performances
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  Speaker 1: and ins between preparations for activities with the Performing Arts
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  Speaker 1: Guilt that obviously gives time to arrange for another set
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  Speaker 1: of performances and entertainment on our stages here in Northern Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: and Morgan is again directing the performances as I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: coming up this weekend Morgan Performing Arts Guild of North
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  Speaker 1: Do I call it? I like to call it Performing
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  Speaker 1: Arts Guild of Northern Illinois. I know you're based right
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  Speaker 1: out of Mount Morris, Is that correct? Still you're based
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  Speaker 1: out of Mount Morris, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yep? And they go bout Performing Arts Guild or PAG.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know, and I like to kind
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  Speaker 1: of tag it with you know, because it is Northern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Performing Arts Guild.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you really gather together.
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  Speaker 1: Entertainers from across our entire Sock Valley in Northern Illinois
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  Speaker 1: area to participate in these events here in our local area.
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  Speaker 1: And Morgan, we're excited because performance time is right around
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  Speaker 1: the bend.
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  Speaker 3: Dress rehearsal week this week, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? We've been doing dress rehearsal for the past several weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Is already completed. So we're actually on stage this week
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  Speaker 2: during practices running the whole thing, right. We actually start
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  Speaker 2: with our makeup and everything, but life and sound and
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  Speaker 2: everything is going just fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Great, nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is in the go mode for again, a series
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  Speaker 1: of performances and the Performing Arts Guild is set to
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  Speaker 1: go on stage.
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  Speaker 3: We're not gonna give I don't you know when I
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  Speaker 3: talked to Morgan last night. I'm gonna reiterate this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to give too much away because we
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  Speaker 1: want you friends to come to the performances and find
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  Speaker 1: out what they're all about through the Performing Arts Skilled.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to give you a taste. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you a taste of what is happening this coming weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a series of performances take us through kind
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  Speaker 1: of the nuts and bolts of what is happening this
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  Speaker 1: weekend through the Performing Arts Gill Now, Morgan.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, what I've done, Steve is I've taken from the
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  Speaker 2: old comics like the Cryptkeeper and things of that nature,
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  Speaker 2: and created stories and characters around for Allen Poe's famous
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  Speaker 2: stories and poems The Raven, the Black Cat, the Cask
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  Speaker 2: of a Monteato, and the Tail Tale Heart. And the
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  Speaker 2: fun thing about this is this year we have Trudy Whalon,
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  Speaker 2: we have Larry Evan Maxwell, George is joining us again.
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  Speaker 2: We have new two new actors this year round. Joe
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  Speaker 2: Helfrich and Sherry Styles is joining us this year, so
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  Speaker 2: we have not only new actors, but a whole new
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  Speaker 2: realm of Macabb that the PAD is putting on this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it tis the season.
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  Speaker 1: Tis the season because October obviously is the time that
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  Speaker 1: you see performances like this again across our Northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 1: The Performing Arts Gale don't want to be left out
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  Speaker 1: because it's it now. It's called the Tapestry of Shadows, right, Morgan, yep.
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  Speaker 2: I came up with the name for it. I just
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  Speaker 2: thought it really fit. So during the play we'll also
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  Speaker 2: give tidbits about Edgar Allan Poe and to the story
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  Speaker 2: about his life and times.
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  Speaker 1: Great you know, so we'll learn more about the famous
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  Speaker 1: author during these performances coming up courtesy of.
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  Speaker 3: The Performing Arts go it is. It's an exciting time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for the Performing Arts cause I always love
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  Speaker 1: taking the wraps off of new performances that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see on stage. And where are we going to
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  Speaker 1: see these now, Morgan? Where are the performance is going
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  Speaker 1: to be held.
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  Speaker 2: Now at the Lure of Pinecrest and Mount Morse, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: You can find the information on a LUIS website. You
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  Speaker 2: can also go to the Performing Arts Guild Facebook page
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  Speaker 2: or the website. You can find ticket information and everything
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  Speaker 2: right there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right again it is called the Tapestry of Shadows.
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  Speaker 1: These are do we do? We like to call them vignettes?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what we like to call them?
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  Speaker 3: Then, Morgan, you know you mentioned you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could call him that, Okay, I said. We've
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  Speaker 2: put together the four acts, Okay, okay, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, four acts, four acts of the macabre, as Morgan mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: Based on the works of Edgar Allen.
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  Speaker 1: Pohe and they're going to be presented on stage live
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  Speaker 1: in Mount Morris at Pine Crest this coming weekend. Performances
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  Speaker 1: Now times and performances. Dates and performances Morgan, please.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we have Friday and Saturday, October tenth and eleventh
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  Speaker 2: at seven pm show start, and then on Sunday, October
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  Speaker 2: twelfth at two pm. Okay, there will be intermission and
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  Speaker 2: drinks and treats served as well.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, all right, So again those are the performance dates.
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  Speaker 1: It is October tenth through the twelfth. It's a three
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  Speaker 1: day run again this weekend in Mount Moores And what
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  Speaker 1: are the costs of tickets now, Morgan, to see the performances.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're twelve dollars of each ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so twelve dollars general admission. You can't
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  Speaker 1: beat that, you know, for live performances, friends, anywhere at all,
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  Speaker 1: as far as you know, see the live performance for
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  Speaker 1: twelve dollars, that's a great price.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of leave that up to them to figure
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  Speaker 2: out ticket prices.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's great, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you can't beat that for entertainment here at our Northern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois live entertainment on stage here in our Northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 1: The director of Tapestry of Shadows, Morgan McConnell, is live
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning here at FM ninety five one
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  Speaker 1: and a fourteen sixty. He is directing the plays and,
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  Speaker 1: as he calls him acts. These are kind of, as
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned, vignettes that will be presented on stage, kind
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  Speaker 1: of a is it going to be kind of a
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  Speaker 1: back to back to back to back?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Is that how it's going to be run? Morgan? Now,
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  Speaker 3: how is this going to be presented?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What we what we've done is I've designed an
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  Speaker 2: opening so you kind of get the feeling that everything
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  Speaker 2: is taking place in a big mansion sort of a thing.
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  Speaker 2: So the way everything runs us, there'll be just a
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  Speaker 2: short pause and beat we each act or vignette just
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  Speaker 2: to set up the stage for the next one and everything.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, then there'll be the intermission and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: follow up. So but if they run pretty close to
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  Speaker 2: each other, just a little gap to set that mood.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, But but again it will be kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, continual performance. As Morgan mentioned, though, there
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  Speaker 1: will be a interlude again within the performance, there'll be
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  Speaker 1: a break that you'll be able to again, uh relax
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy refreshments during the performances themselves when they're presented
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  Speaker 1: at Pine Crest this weekend in Mount Morris. Morgan, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: since last we talked to you, and this has been
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  Speaker 1: some months ago. During your last directing achievement with Performing Arts,
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  Speaker 1: gilled preparation time for you know, performance schedule like this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when do you guys start you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: things together, When do you start you know bringing people
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  Speaker 1: in and you know casting things like that.
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  Speaker 3: How how how long back have you prepared for this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this one I started actually putting the play itself
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  Speaker 2: together before the last one that I did in January.
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  Speaker 2: The one in January I completely wrote, put together everything,
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  Speaker 2: so that took quite a while. But this one here
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  Speaker 2: I started before that, brought it together, presented it to
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  Speaker 2: the pag put the sounds, the effects, everything together with
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  Speaker 2: an amazing cast and support and everything. It's taken a
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  Speaker 2: few months to get everything.
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  Speaker 1: Together, Okay, all right, And so you know, within the
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  Speaker 1: month's preparation and practice, you know that goes in to
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  Speaker 1: performing on stage. Morgan has got any He's already mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the cast and it is it sounds to me like
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  Speaker 1: it's a good cast from all points of our Sock Valley,
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 3: Morgan, you know, this is.
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  Speaker 2: How we have again some returning actors and actresses, but
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  Speaker 2: we also are excited to have two new people on
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  Speaker 2: stage this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's great and and and what's neat about the Performing
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  Speaker 1: Arts Guild is that you're not just you know, basing
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  Speaker 1: in one area. You kind of reach out right to
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  Speaker 1: all of northern you know, you put the word out
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  Speaker 1: and people you know, uh, you know, come in and
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  Speaker 1: try out for these areas, uh you know, cast members,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but from all over our area.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, we have like Joe Helfridge comes from Dixon, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: George Maxwell is from Oregon, Sherry Stouth is from and
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  Speaker 2: Larry Uben and they're right here in Mount Moore.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: So yep. We reach out and people come in an
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  Speaker 2: audition from all over them.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great that and this is the unique
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  Speaker 1: blend of what you see. And this is what makes
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  Speaker 1: the Performing Arts Guild success is bringing in the talent
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  Speaker 1: from all over our northern Illinois area, combining their efforts
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  Speaker 1: to bring you these performances on stage at Pine Crest
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  Speaker 1: this weekend again and Morgan is with us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: counting down the hours now, this is the The performances
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  Speaker 1: will start on Friday, and that's two days away. So
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  Speaker 1: your final preparations right are being made. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you with pine Crest too. And this has been a
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  Speaker 1: great venue for the Performing Arts guill to use. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's a bad seat in the house, is there,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan in that area?
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  Speaker 2: No, there really isn't. In January, we sold out for
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  Speaker 2: the entire play. This one. We've got a nice rounded
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  Speaker 2: out seating area and everything. It's first come, first serve,
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  Speaker 2: so you get your tickets, come in and set down.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like you said, it's very large, it's well lit.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a really good place to put these plays.
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  Speaker 3: Off, really is.
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  Speaker 1: And again there won't be a bad seat in the
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  Speaker 1: house for so for your twelve dollars admission price. And
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  Speaker 1: as Morgan mentioned, you can buy these in advance. You
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  Speaker 1: can get your tickets in advance. And you mentioned first come,
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  Speaker 1: first serve, so you get your tickets in advance, you
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  Speaker 1: get the good seats. And like I said, really no
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  Speaker 1: bad seats at Pine Crest. So whatever seat that you
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  Speaker 1: get through the Performing Arts Guild is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a good one to observe. These performances this weekend on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and the matinee on Sunday. Once again, it's called
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  Speaker 1: Tapestry of Shadows. It is an Edgar Allen Poe festival
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to present on stage. And Morgan
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  Speaker 1: McConnell has kind of put this all together, kind of
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  Speaker 1: arranged all of these again acts to be put on stage.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're geared up for Halloween, and you're geared
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  Speaker 1: up for the holidays coming up, then gear yourself up
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  Speaker 1: by going to the Performing Arts Skilled performances in Mount
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  Speaker 1: Morris's Pine Crest area again Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You get
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  Speaker 1: your choice of three days. Hey, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: attend more than one performance, that's great too. Twelve dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, twelve dollars is the admission price. So again,
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  Speaker 1: get your tickets. The website address again, Morgan.
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  Speaker 2: It's Performing Arts Guild and it's the website, and then
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  Speaker 2: it's also on Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you can go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you could purchase tickets right from those
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  Speaker 1: areas that the website and the Facebook page you can
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  Speaker 1: actually purchase.
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  Speaker 2: They'll send you to. There's a phone number you'll call
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  Speaker 2: a lower per okay, and order tickets through there. Or
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  Speaker 2: you can show up the day or night of the
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  Speaker 2: show and purchase tickets there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the box office at Pinecrest in Mount Morris.
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  Speaker 3: As simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the performances this weekend again Tapestry of Shadows through
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  Speaker 1: the Performing Arts Guild and Morgan McConnell will be directing
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  Speaker 1: those performances this weekend. Morgan, we wish you the best
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  Speaker 1: of luck. Break a leg as always, that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Seven. If you don't mind to, i'd like to really
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  Speaker 2: do a big shout out. You know, this takes each
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  Speaker 2: play takes a lot to put on, so I'd really
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  Speaker 2: like to thank everyone from tech to Priscilla Osbalne who
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  Speaker 2: does an amazing job with the playbuild and the getting
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  Speaker 2: the show shirts, to the producers Pam and Jim. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it takes a lot of people behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 2: you don't see, so I'd really like to of them
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  Speaker 2: a big shout out to thank.
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  Speaker 1: You, absolutely right, because without those individuals and assistance from
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  Speaker 1: those behind the scenes area, you wouldn't have these performances
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  Speaker 1: on stage. So great that we do that. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of our broadcast today, Morgan, we thank you so
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  Speaker 1: very much for joining us today. Good luck with their performances.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be looking forward to them on stage in Mount
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  Speaker 1: Morris this weekend, and we thank you sir for joining
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  Speaker 1: us today here at Wyxent.
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  Speaker 3: Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Morgan McConnell is the director performances this weekend through
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  Speaker 1: the Performing Arts Guild of Mount Morris. He's been with
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  Speaker 1: us on the Wednesday morning talk line here at Wyxent.
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