Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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The Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q puts an R-rated twist on the familiar Sesame Street formula, telling the story of a wide-eyed college student's dreams of making it big in the "Big Apple." Joining host Dee Perry are two of the stars of Avenue Q, Robert McClure and Kelli Sawyer.

This week, the Great Lakes Theater Festival takes its first steps across Euclid Avenue with the groundbreaking for its new home in the historic Hanna Theater. Tune in next week as we share more on Great Lakes getting ready to stage its classical productions in their new home. But besides staging great theater, Great Lakes is also about education, offering a variety of workshops and programs from school residencies, to the All-City Musical, to the annual Bardstock FM songwriting contest, in collaboration with 90.3 WCPN ideastream®. Join us now, as we brush up on our Shakespeare with these lovers of the Bard of Avon.

When you think about the 50s, the first thing you might think about are black-and-white movies, or perhaps the red scare, or maybe the launch of Sputnik. But no matter where your memories lead you, the soundtrack of the era was unmistakable: the sounds of Doo Wop filled the air. One of the first to play those platters was Cleveland's Alan Freed, who turned the music business on its ears and influenced other disc jockeys around the country including New York legend Bruce Morrow, a.k.a. Cousin Brucie. Not long ago, the 'cuz was in town to talk about his new book Doo Wop - The Music, The Times, The Era, and our own Jim Goldurs sat down with Brucie and started off by asking him about how Bruce Morrow became Cousin Brucie.

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