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Tulsa Repertory Musicals Offers "Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business"

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we are joined by Dan Call and David Blakely, two Tulsa-area theatre veterans who are involved with a new musical, "Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business," which is being presented by Tulsa Repertory Musicals as part of the SummerStage series at the Tulsa PAC. It's a family-friendly show that's been adapted from one the titles in the popular (and long-running) "Hank the Cowdog" series of children's books by John Erickson; it will play in the PAC's Doenges Theater from today (the 21st) through Sunday (the 24th). (For complete show-time information, including details on buying tickets, please see this link.) A diversely-experienced member of our community's local theatre scene --- and a mentor to many Tulsans when it comes to drama/theatre education --- Dan Call co-created Tulsa Repertory Musicals in 2003; he's serving as the director for "Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business." David Blakely, a theatre professor at RSU, wrote the play, which is an adaption of the book by the same title. Blakely also wrote a few new songs for this play, as we learn on today's program. Also on this installment of ST, our commentator Barry Friedman is reflecting --- with equal parts humor, candor, bewilderment, and insight --- on when he was recently stopped by the TSA at Tulsa International for carrying a "package" in his trousers. (Whoa.)

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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