Air Date: November 28, 2022 on 91.3FM WVKR-
Discover the inspiring mission of Poughkeepsie Rising and how they're revolutionizing the local art scene. Join us as we chat with Sue the Producer behind "Ella's Jukebox Cafe," and the talented Talent Davis. You'll learn the importance of paying artists fairly and the significance of spotlighting overlooked legends like Ella Fitzgerald. Su opens up about her commitment to transparency, tackling past unpaid work issues, and the joys of properly compensating hometown talent.
Get ready to laugh and be amazed by the dynamic performances in Poughkeepsie Rising's musical revue, where artists portray larger-than-life versions of themselves in a family-friendly revue. With Juson Williams of America's Got Talent fame directing and choreographing, this production promises not just entertainment but also community impact. The episode wraps up with heartfelt stories of the arts' transformative power, from reducing crime to enhancing student lives, and an unforgettable anecdote about Ella Fitzgerald's Grammy-winning performance of "Mack the Knife," proving that even mistakes can lead to greatness.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
you.
Hi everyone, erin boogie herebringing you a throwback
interview with Sue, the producerof Poughkeepsie Rising
alongside Talent Davis.
I wanted to air this interviewbecause Sue is hard at work on
another Poughkeepsie Risingproduction entitled A Lady in
Zuav, a musical based on thelife of Cathay Williams.
Who is Cathay Williams, you ask?
She was the only woman to servein the US Army as a Buffalo
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soldier and enlisted at just 17years old by disguising herself
as a man under the name William.
Cathay William served under theservice of General Philip
Sheridan and witnessed the RedRiver Campaign and the Battle of
Pea Ridge during the AmericanCivil War.
According to the National Parkswebsite, over 400 women served
in the Civil War by posing asmale soldiers, but Williams was
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the first Black woman to enlistand the only documented woman to
serve in the US Army.
She is also the only knownBuffalo soldier.
I thought that was a reallyinteresting subject matter and I
hope to sit down with Sue againto be able to discuss this
before opening night of the newmusical.
So, sue, if you're listening,please come on our show.
In the meantime, I'm reallyexcited to revisit her interview
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with Talent about herproduction of Ella's Jukebox
Cafe.
I know that musical was a laborof love for all involved, and I
can't believe we didn't getthis interview out to our
listeners sooner, so I reallyhope you enjoy it.
Welcome back to In the FieldRadio.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm here with Miss Lady D.
What's going on?
And we have Sue, the producerand Talent from Ella's Jukebox
Cafe.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Hey, peace, love and light everybody.
We're super excited to be herewith you guys.
Super excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Really appreciate it.
So real quick.
For our listeners who might notbe familiar with you guys, why
don't you guys just take asecond to introduce who you are
and tell them a little bit aboutwhat you got going on?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So my name is Talon Davis.
I'm a Poughkeepsie native, aproduction team member and a
cast member of PoughkeepsieRising's first ever production
of Ella's Jukebox Cafe.
Poughkeepsie rising's missionis to bring paid professional
opportunities in the performingarts to up-and-coming artists of
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all ages from poughkeepsie andthe greater hudson valley area,
and we are mounting our veryfirst production at the james
and betty hall theater atduchess community college that's
awesome she was.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
we have the interview with LS Jukebox and I was like,
well, what's LS Jukebox?
Because we've just been callingit like the play, the play, the
play, the play.
And I was like, well, what thehell is that?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, ok, well, let's correct one thing it is not a
play, it is a musical.
It's a musical.
It's a musical and, to be evenmore specific, it is a musical
review.
And for some of our listenerswho may not know what a musical
review is.
A musical review just meansit's almost like a mini musical,
so it's not a full scalemusical.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Like Rent or anything like that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like a Rent or the like that Right.
Like a rent or the like, right.
It's more so like a minimusical that has a storyline, a
through line, but primarilyinvolves singing, right?
So it's dancing and you knowacting, of course, and you're
back, so do you want tointroduce yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, darling.
Hello, my name is Sue theproducer.
I represent the Living HistoryTheater, which is producing this
musical review.
Living History Theater is abrand new production company
bringing history that isnormally left out of the
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conversation or overlooked orforgotten, like Ella Fitzgerald
being living in Hudson, new York.
When I found that out, I said,oh my God, we got to let people
know that Ella Fitzgerald is ahistorical icon from the Hudson.
And, at the end of the day, um,I knew that my first uh debut
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as a production company neededto um pay everybody that was
involved.
So, um, I put together a team,um, and we got it freaking put
up and in a couple of weeks acouple days actually, oh my god,
a couple days we'll we'll haveour debut and people will have
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gotten paid and people will haveseen an amazing show, amazing
can I ask this question, or I'mgonna ask this question early,
but I want to see a faceresponse.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I think that I think that personally, I have an
elephant in the room.
I don't know if anybody wantsto, else wants to admit to this
elephant, but both of youmentioned that your organization
brings paid opportunities topeople, which I think is really
important and really cool forthis area, because I just see a
lot of people do like free stuffand they're kind of like you
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know, they get just it'sdiscouraging, you know, and
exposure does not pay the billswith this?
uh, someone involved with thisproduction does not have a
history of making sure peopleget paid, I'm sorry.
And so how did, how did youguys end up looking with this
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person?
How is it, how, how is itworking with this person?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
yeah, um, oh, go ahead, sue, go ahead um, I'm not
sure what that is or whoeverthis individual is, but, darling
, when anybody joins myproduction, people are going to
get paid.
I don't deal in whateverhappened in the past or whatever
someone is, whatever, I don'tdeal with that.
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All I do is make sure that whenyou guys join the team, it is
expected and understood thatpeople can get paid.
So it was, uh, as we saidearlier, pre-production and uh,
we are going into the hall atthis point, so I'm not sure, but
that has nothing to do withthis, you dig yeah and yeah,
absolutely, sue and lady d, youknow.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The other thing that I want people to know is that
you know, as I said earlier, I'ma Poughkeepsie native and I've
been singing and performing here, you know, since I was a very
small child and so, um, one ofthe reasons why I'm so grateful
to be a part of this particularproduction and this particular
team is that they have placedpaying artists for their work at
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the center.
That is not a practice, as yousaid.
You know that we see very oftenin the city of poughkeepsie, um
, particularly, um, and ingeneral, people have this notion
that artists are supposed tojust give of themselves and
their souls for free, and as ifartists or artistry is not an
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expertise that we have todevelop and cultivate and learn
and grow in, just like any otherprofession that you would pay
to or pay to, uh, get right.
So, so, yeah, that was superimportant for for Poughkeepsie
Rising, and let me also say thisPoughkeepsie Rising is a brand
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new non-profit only spanking new, spanking new spanking new.
Only been around for about ayear um no, not even darling,
not even um.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
That would be like what?
Six months?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
right, right, right.
So.
So a full year, right, um, butwhat Poughkeepsie Rising has
been able to do in terms offundraising and and and, you
know, ensuring that it pays itscast and crew, has been nothing
short of amazing, so yeah butthat's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, because I was like, how is it?
Because there's some peoplethat were part of that old way
and I'm like, so how has people?
Been paid because they justdon't have the history of doing
that.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, soto see you guys be able to
change that is really special to.
To be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well and talk about the origin of the play, how that
came about.
I know you guys had gonethrough some changes because it
was originally supposed to be aplay, Now it's a musical review.
Talk about putting PoughkeepsieRising together and how all
this came to be.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, I'll take that, talyn.
So at the very, very, let's goback to the.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But what?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
happened was as an ovary right.
So at the beginning of the yearI just made a conscious
decision to tell history thathas been forgotten, overlooked
or just disrespected, to betruly honest.
So there's a lot of historythat when it hits the movie
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theaters or however, it kind ofgets diluted, it gets changed,
all kinds of stuff.
So I wanted to keep the historyas close to actual reality as
possible and that's where Ideveloped Living History Theater
and once Ella Fitzgerald'sstory came through a playwright,
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we decided that we were goingto mount this production as the
historical telling of EllaFitzgerald's life in Hudson, new
York.
Now, as people may or may notknow, but there's different
things that can happen in theproduction when you're when
things are happening and we werenot able to fully go through
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with the historical play I'mtelling of Ellis story.
But we realized that even for aDecember show the story was a
little heavy and we said, well,it would be in our better
interest to start some to dosomething like a musical review
which is easier to pull off.
We'll be able to showcase moretalent and it'll be a light,
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more lighthearted story, notonly being a more lighthearted
story, but a reintroduction toElla Fitzgerald in general, to
people who did know EllaFitzgerald and people who didn't
know who Ella Fitzgerald was.
So we realized, through justthe journey of trying to put on
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this historical play, that weneeded a little bit more time to
put on a full on.
I mean, we were pretty likedone ho about getting things
done, but we also want to dothings with a certain kind of
quality, a certain level ofquality.
So we did not want to rushputting up the historical talent
of Ella Fitzgerald's life inthe Hudson, but what we did
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still want to do was put upsomething that would bring
people to the understanding ofwho Ella Fitzgerald was as a
musical historical icon.
I mean, she did so many things.
Guys, please look up EllaFitzgerald.
She's hilarious.
Not only hilarious, but she'sjust amazing in general and have
some fun for December.
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So that's really where the seedfor Poughkeepsie Rising came
from, because while we weregoing, all the talent involved
was really an undertaking.
There's no artist in residencyprogram.
(11:50):
So we're literally we realizedthat we were building an
airplane as we were flying itand we realized that we needed a
not-for-profit for that.
We need to get really big moneyfor this, especially if we're
going to pay people.
We're looking at an upwards of80 something thousand dollars.
Oh my God, we were like whatare we going to do but shout out
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to the UU and Community Matterstoo for helping us out before
we got our not-for-profit status?
But yeah, that's howPoughkeepsie Rising came about.
Living History Theater took onwanting to pay tribute to Ella
Fitzgerald once I found out thatshe was a Hudson Valley native.
And then we realized, in orderto really pull it off, like
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Talyn said, with paying peoplethe rate, that is like you know,
not like just a stipend thatyou could go and get some Chuck
E Cheese.
You can actually go and dosomething with this stipend that
we give you guys.
So that's how PoughkeepsieRising and Living History
Theater was able to cometogether.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How did you come across the information that Ella
Fitzgerald had ties to theHudson Valley?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, again, the playwright that came to us at
the very beginning.
Let us know that EllaFitzgerald was a Hudson Valley
resident and that was theunderstanding that she had gone
through this turbulent lifestyle, but she was able to overcome
it and then go to Harlem andthen win the very first Apollo's
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Amateur Night.
So it's a very harrowing storyof overcoming adversity and
things like that.
So at the beginning of the year, a playwright let us know about
that, and we were able to justbe like, of course we got to pay
tribute.
Sell if it's daryl.
That's crazy.
Nobody, very few people, let's,I won't say nobody, but very
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few people knew that fact andthat blew me away yeah, that
that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's an important piece of history for our area
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
talent, you're in the show also.
This is why you're allowed tobe late, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
This is why what.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
This is why you're allowed to be late.
Listen here, All right.
Who are you in the musicalreview?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, so it's kind of funny to say, because I'm
actually playing myself in termsof, like, the title of my
character.
My character's name is Talent,all of the characters in this,
in this fantastical world thatyou're going to see.
We're all playing ourselves interms of our names, but our
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characters are characters, so so, You'll be like oh really, this
is how you get down.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh, okay, right, right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So it's like it's like a larger than life type of
extension of who we are asindividuals and in that way the
show is very pedestrian, in thatway, right.
So like we're not necessarily,you know, coming up with
characters or movement oranything like that that feels
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choreographed or or that feelslike it's outside of us, but
rather rather um, channeling, uh, who we are on the inner and
blowing that out of proportionfor a character that people will
be entertained by.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So like shrooms.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Oh, my God Now we got to edit.
Right Right, totally Yo.
Now we gotta edit, is thatright right, totally yo.
I like it.
Pg-13, baby, pg-13.
And the show is a family andthe show is a family friendly
show, so the whole family cancome to this we recommend ages 7
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and up, but it's definitely afamily show.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's freaking hilarious, like our.
Um.
The person who conceived theshow is also our director and
choreographer, and his name isjason williams.
Um, you might know that namefrom.
I believe it was season 16 ofamerica's got talent.
Um, the aws, um, inspirationalsingers were on america's got
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talent.
Um, if you don't know who thatis or or haven't heard of it,
please do google it or youtubeit.
Um, they are absolutelyphenomenal and jason is a riot
to work with um, and we're sograteful to have him, uh, be a
part of the production and he ishilarious, so, and he is a
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character, so I feel like heinserted himself himself in the
show.
So definitely come and check itout and, uh, you're gonna,
you're gonna get that.
You're gonna get some comedy.
You're gonna get, uh, someamazing singing.
Okay, yes, you're like you geta little bit of everything, but
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I mean, when you guys see thetalent that that you know will
be on that stage, like you willbe blown away.
And I'm not saying that becauseI'm a part of the cast.
I'm saying that because thiscast is actually amazing, so I'm
very excited and they're allfrom the hudson valley.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Like 99.9 percent.
Jason is coming up from newyork city, um, you know, but
99.99 of the cast is from thehudson Valley.
Which is another thing that wewanted to be very super clear
about was the money that we doget from these sponsors.
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Shout out to City Poughkeepsie.
Shout out to the AKAs, you know, shout out to the county.
We wanted to pump that backinto Poughkeepsie and the Hudson
Valley, so that's definitelysomething to be proud about.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And we're pretty tapped in as far as who's out
here in the community talentwise, pun intended and you know.
So we know, know talent, weknow rose mariah, etc.
Etc.
And it was, um, it's reallycool to see them being a part of
such a big production, outsideof what they do on their own
time right people that careabout them, because it hurts my
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soul when I see people get justused and taken advantage of and
that happened or not, haveopportunities in this area.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That part that part, not that I was gonna say
poughkeepsie.
One thing about poughkeepsiethere's no shortage of talent
here at all.
I don't know.
You know, people have theselike weird preconceptions about
poughkeepsie.
Like when they hearpoughkeepsie they're like oh,
it's a hick town with tumbleweedand you know they think of
gunshots and robberies.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Straight up?
No, it is true though.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I do.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was like oh, I'm out of here, but part of the
beauty of Poughkeepsie, not evenpart.
I would argue that the mostbeautiful thing about
Poughkeepsie is its people.
And like I said aboutPoughkeepsie is its people.
And, like I said, like there isno shortage of talent here, but
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there is a shortage ofopportunities, and so
Poughkeepsie Rising is workingto change that and to my
knowledge it is the onlyorganization, perhaps even the
first of its kind, specificallydesigned to bring paid
professional opportunities inthe performing arts.
There's a lot of organizationsworking on the visual arts and
things of that nature.
But in my years of living I'mnot going to say how old I am I
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already know.
Okay, e don't be putting me onblast for all these people Right
.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
That's what I said all 21, I don't amen, please do
look, look, touch hair behindear.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm like that's out of college clearly.
Um no, you know, in all myyears I've not seen an
organization like the gipsyrising, so I'm so happy to be a
part of it and that that thatthey're here, you know.
So we need people to support,support, buy tickets come see us
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.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We'll talk about a little bit about some of the
songs that you guys areperforming in the musical,
because it's not just straightup like that's all I'm gonna ask
you wait a minute.
Hold on that.
No, they.
That's spoilers, right there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
okay, I have to protect the show Because it's
not just straight up like.
That's all I'm going to ask youabout.
Wait a minute, hold on.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, that's spoilers right there.
Okay, I have to protect theshow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Right, we can't tell you Did you sign an NDA?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Because if you didn't , then spoil away Yikes.
No.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We know how this works up in here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
She's a bad influence over here's like even just uh,
just describe a little bit, umthe music that people can expect
.
If you don't want to give upsong titles and that sort of
thing, that's fine, but justthat way, a little bit of an
idea okay, explain um thejukebox, um the mod post-modern
jukebox effect.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Is how we're going to be doing that that's we, we're
on the same page, sue, sue, sueis like my, sue is my big sis.
You know um.
You know we be on the same vibe, the same frequency, and it's
crazy but so um, what you canexpect is is is essentially like
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we are taking these these okay.
So, okay, let me say thisthere's something called the
postmodern jukebox on YouTube,right, and what they essentially
do is they take jazz songs,jazz covers, you know,
traditional jazz standards,things of that nature, and they
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interpret them in a modern waywhile paying homage to the jazz
style or big band style of musicof the jazz era.
We are essentially doingsomething very similar, right,
where we are taking these jazz,these, you know, Ella songs, and
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turning them into productionnumbers, right, Taking these
Ella songs and kind ofinterpreting them for the
theater or, as Sue would say,for the theater.
You know, we're taking thesesongs that a lot of people know,
love and cherish and payinghomage to Ella in a way that is
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exciting, in a way that is verytheatrical and dramatized but
also blends the past with thepresent.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I like that, that that's gonna be so exciting yeah
, it's, it's honestly listenwhen y'all see this, this
opening number oh my gosh thisopening number is wild.
It's wild like I'm would.
I tell you we was, we were inrehearsal going over the, the
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opening number, just actuallythe other day and, um, when I
tell you I was sweating, I wassweating like that number kicks
my butt like it was.
It was, it's, it's, it'shonestly amazing, it's amazing
you have to you have to see it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You gotta come see it well, tell the listeners, when
it is where it is, how they cansee it yeah, sue uh, so it's
going to be at the james andbetty hall theater at dutchess
community college.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Shout out to dcc.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Shout out to tommy my final big question is what is
next for Poughkeepsie rising?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
oh, darling a nap um.
Let's keep it real, no um heardyou, but give me strength and
lord.
Um, but no, seriously.
Um, it was a huge undertakinggetting this debut put up and
really the next thing forPoughkeepsie Rising is to do a
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understanding of what worked,what didn't work and build the
infrastructure so that thingsare simpler, going forward and
then mounting the next show,which will be, again, a tribute
to Ella Fitzgerald.
But we won't be talking aboutthe specifics of that at this
moment because we are stillgetting.
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You guys get tickets for thisshow, but for Gipsy rising is
not done, for Gipsy's rising isnot done by a long stop.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, gipsy rising is here to stay for the long haul,
which is why we need y'all tosupport, support, support,
support, support, support,support.
We need you to buy tickets.
We need you to spread the word.
Word of mouth is the mosteffective.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Tell a friend, to tell a friend.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We need everybody, and their mama and their cousin
and their brothers and theirsisters and their baby mamas and
daddies.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And that's basically all of Talon's family makes up
my whole.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I'm saying we have everybody at the show so that we
can prove right to our donors,to our sponsors to our community
, that this is something thatthe community needs and this is
also something that thecommunity wants.
Talon, can you just stop?
I'm trying to pull somethingthat community wants.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh, I'm trying to pull up on opening night.
I'm trying to be there afterthe lights, you know right with
a hot date oh lord, look at that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yeah, you can snuggle up.
You can snuggle up at our showyou don't think I'm all cultured
.
Yeah, oh my god, cut it out.
Talent.
Can you give a shout out to oursponsors in our ad the folks
that are in our program adplease?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yes, absolutely so.
We want to give a shout out toour sponsors and to folks who
have purchased ads.
So shout out to thePoughkeepsie Performing Arts
Academy.
Shout out to Fall Kill CreativeWorks.
Shout out to Minute man Press.
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Shout out to Amadeus Strings.
Shout out to Jade Seed Soaps.
Shout out to Lead forPoughkeepsie, which I am a
fellow of.
Yes, shout out to our allies.
We have a lot of them, but wewant to shout out right now, the
public arts commission for thecity of Poughkeepsie.
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We want to shout out theUnitarian Universalist
Fellowship Community, matters 2,arts, mid Hudson, the Family
Partners Center, queen CityLounge, reason and Reckoning.
And a huge shout out to ourCommon Council members.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yes, and the AKAs, whom Ella Fitzgerald was an
honorary member, of which isanother piece in history that a
lot of people did not know about.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yes, yes, shout out to the AKAs.
They set it off with thedonations from the Pan-Hellenic
Council.
Thank y'all.
So much, everybody, and please,please.
We are still acceptingsponsorship and program ads for
our playbill, so if you areinterested in that, please do
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email Sue.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yes, please.
Poughkeepsierising at gmailcom.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is there anything else that you guys want to let
the listeners know?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, yes, go ahead, talon.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You go first, sue, you go first.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
No, no, I'm going to close it out.
I'm going to talk about Mac andKnife, but you go ahead y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, we don't have our official Instagram yet, but
you can follow the journey atTalentMusicENT Again, that's at
Talent flyer.
You can do that at my instagramat talent music ent.
Um, and the last thing I wantto say is just that, like, I'm
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just so grateful, man, like I, I, this is like the like, the
inner child in me, the littleboy in me, is like screaming and
jumping for joy.
Um, because all I've everwanted to do is be an artist
that's well-known here in myhometown, but also be
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compensated for the work thatgoes into being an artist.
And so this is such a wonderfulopportunity and I'm so excited
about the arts movement thatPoughkeepsie Rising is
endeavoring to undertake,because we know that the arts is
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super impactful.
We know that the arts helps toreduce and prevent crime.
We know that it helps to reduceand prevent violence Right, and
these are things that plagueour community.
We also know from thetransformation the PCSD
transformation that the arts,and specifically the performing
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arts, is the number one careerpathway of Poughkeepsie City
students.
That is the thing that moststudents want to do.
So there is an alignment ofactivity happening here in the
city of Poughkeepsie,no-transcript.
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So I'm super, super gratefuland thank you so much for this
opportunity.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yes.
So my last thing is I want toset up what song is going to be
played um once we uh rap,because oops, one second, I'm
also driving y'all, so I justwant to make sure, okay, um, so,
um, one thing about EllaFitzgerald was darling she would
(31:02):
always give it a shot, andthat's one thing that I
definitely have learned.
Putting on this show, um,helping develop Poughkeepsie
Rising um, and just launching awhole production company from
scratch within a year, um, beingable to put up something.
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A lot of people look atmistakes in a certain way, where
they think that it's negativeor they put so much on it
whereas it becomes a scary, abig scary thing.
And Elephant's Gerald taught usall a lesson with the song
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that's about to be played.
Um, it's called mac the knife,and she just really liked the
song, and one day, during a liveuh performance, she said let's
give it a shot, let me see if Ican sing mac tonight.
Uh, she didn't.
She forgot the words in themiddle of the song, forgot
completely, forgot the words,all right, but she didn't let
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that stop her.
She scattered and hum-hahed herway through that song.
She did not stop.
Okay, that's the key.
She did not stop and guess what?
Y'all the people that listen,you guys got to go and listen to
this song.
She won an award, I think it wasa grammy.
She won an award for a mistake,and that is what I always want
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to leave people with is, whatyou may think is a mistake is
either a learning lesson or it'ssome sort of leveling up.
You're learning what yourweaknesses may or may not be, or
it's not a mistake really atall, because she was able to
knock down a lot of barriers andwalls.
As far as scatting and thingslike that, um, that really would
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not have even possibly happenedhad she not made all those
mistakes during mac the night in19 in the 1950s.
So that's what I want to leavepeople with.
We're not all, nobody's perfect, nobody knows everything, and
we learn through our mistakes.
So if you're feeling like down,or you're feeling like you know
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you're a failure, or you'refeeling like like you're not
doing whatever you think youmight supposed to be doing, uh,
give yourself a break.
All right, give yourself abreak, um, and really just look
at what positives you're gettingout of it.
I like, I like to tell peopleuh, even manure gets sold to
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make uh vegetables.
So think about it point of view.
Okay, and that's uh, that's amessage from sue directly.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
All right.
Well, thank you guys forsitting down with us absolutely
thank you even though we're notsitting, but I am no, but thank
you guys for taking time out tosit with us.
We're super excited, break aleg, opening night and hopefully
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we'll be in the crowd cheeringyou guys on absolutely I'm gonna
be there hopefully, nothopefully.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
You're coming, you're opening night baby.
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you.
Hi everyone, erin boogie herebringing you a throwback
interview with Sue, the producerof Poughkeepsie Rising
alongside Talent Davis.
I wanted to air this interviewbecause Sue is hard at work on
another Poughkeepsie Risingproduction entitled A Lady in
Zuav, a musical based on thelife of Cathay Williams.
Who is Cathay Williams, you ask?
She was the only woman to servein the US Army as a Buffalo
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soldier and enlisted at just 17years old by disguising herself
as a man under the name William.
Cathay William served under theservice of General Philip
Sheridan and witnessed the RedRiver Campaign and the Battle of
Pea Ridge during the AmericanCivil War.
According to the National Parkswebsite, over 400 women served
in the Civil War by posing asmale soldiers, but Williams was
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the first Black woman to enlistand the only documented woman to
serve in the US Army.
She is also the only knownBuffalo soldier.
I thought that was a reallyinteresting subject matter and I
hope to sit down with Sue againto be able to discuss this
before opening night of the newmusical.
So, sue, if you're listening,please come on our show.
In the meantime, I'm reallyexcited to revisit her interview
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with Talent about herproduction of Ella's Jukebox
Cafe.
I know that musical was a laborof love for all involved, and I
can't believe we didn't getthis interview out to our
listeners sooner, so I reallyhope you enjoy it.
Welcome back to In the FieldRadio.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm here with Miss Lady D.
What's going on?
And we have Sue, the producerand Talent from Ella's Jukebox
Cafe.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Hey, peace, love and light everybody.
We're super excited to be herewith you guys.
Super excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thank you so much for the opportunity.
Really appreciate it.
So real quick.
For our listeners who might notbe familiar with you guys, why
don't you guys just take asecond to introduce who you are
and tell them a little bit aboutwhat you got going on?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So my name is Talon Davis.
I'm a Poughkeepsie native, aproduction team member and a
cast member of PoughkeepsieRising's first ever production
of Ella's Jukebox Cafe.
Poughkeepsie rising's missionis to bring paid professional
opportunities in the performingarts to up-and-coming artists of
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all ages from poughkeepsie andthe greater hudson valley area,
and we are mounting our veryfirst production at the james
and betty hall theater atduchess community college that's
awesome she was.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
we have the interview with LS Jukebox and I was like,
well, what's LS Jukebox?
Because we've just been callingit like the play, the play, the
play, the play.
And I was like, well, what thehell is that?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, ok, well, let's correct one thing it is not a
play, it is a musical.
It's a musical.
It's a musical and, to be evenmore specific, it is a musical
review.
And for some of our listenerswho may not know what a musical
review is.
A musical review just meansit's almost like a mini musical,
so it's not a full scalemusical.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Like Rent or anything like that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like a Rent or the like that Right.
Like a rent or the like, right.
It's more so like a minimusical that has a storyline, a
through line, but primarilyinvolves singing, right?
So it's dancing and you knowacting, of course, and you're
back, so do you want tointroduce yourself?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yes, darling.
Hello, my name is Sue theproducer.
I represent the Living HistoryTheater, which is producing this
musical review.
Living History Theater is abrand new production company
bringing history that isnormally left out of the
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conversation or overlooked orforgotten, like Ella Fitzgerald
being living in Hudson, new York.
When I found that out, I said,oh my God, we got to let people
know that Ella Fitzgerald is ahistorical icon from the Hudson.
And, at the end of the day, um,I knew that my first uh debut
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as a production company neededto um pay everybody that was
involved.
So, um, I put together a team,um, and we got it freaking put
up and in a couple of weeks acouple days actually, oh my god,
a couple days we'll we'll haveour debut and people will have
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gotten paid and people will haveseen an amazing show, amazing
can I ask this question, or I'mgonna ask this question early,
but I want to see a faceresponse.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I think that I think that personally, I have an
elephant in the room.
I don't know if anybody wantsto, else wants to admit to this
elephant, but both of youmentioned that your organization
brings paid opportunities topeople, which I think is really
important and really cool forthis area, because I just see a
lot of people do like free stuffand they're kind of like you
(05:20):
know, they get just it'sdiscouraging, you know, and
exposure does not pay the billswith this?
uh, someone involved with thisproduction does not have a
history of making sure peopleget paid, I'm sorry.
And so how did, how did youguys end up looking with this
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person?
How is it, how, how is itworking with this person?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
yeah, um, oh, go ahead, sue, go ahead um, I'm not
sure what that is or whoeverthis individual is, but, darling
, when anybody joins myproduction, people are going to
get paid.
I don't deal in whateverhappened in the past or whatever
someone is, whatever, I don'tdeal with that.
(06:05):
All I do is make sure that whenyou guys join the team, it is
expected and understood thatpeople can get paid.
So it was, uh, as we saidearlier, pre-production and uh,
we are going into the hall atthis point, so I'm not sure, but
that has nothing to do withthis, you dig yeah and yeah,
absolutely, sue and lady d, youknow.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The other thing that I want people to know is that
you know, as I said earlier, I'ma Poughkeepsie native and I've
been singing and performing here, you know, since I was a very
small child and so, um, one ofthe reasons why I'm so grateful
to be a part of this particularproduction and this particular
team is that they have placedpaying artists for their work at
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the center.
That is not a practice, as yousaid.
You know that we see very oftenin the city of poughkeepsie, um
, particularly, um, and ingeneral, people have this notion
that artists are supposed tojust give of themselves and
their souls for free, and as ifartists or artistry is not an
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expertise that we have todevelop and cultivate and learn
and grow in, just like any otherprofession that you would pay
to or pay to, uh, get right.
So, so, yeah, that was superimportant for for Poughkeepsie
Rising, and let me also say thisPoughkeepsie Rising is a brand
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new non-profit only spanking new, spanking new spanking new.
Only been around for about ayear um no, not even darling,
not even um.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
That would be like what?
Six months?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
right, right, right.
So.
So a full year, right, um, butwhat Poughkeepsie Rising has
been able to do in terms offundraising and and and, you
know, ensuring that it pays itscast and crew, has been nothing
short of amazing, so yeah butthat's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, because I was like, how is it?
Because there's some peoplethat were part of that old way
and I'm like, so how has people?
Been paid because they justdon't have the history of doing
that.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, soto see you guys be able to
change that is really special to.
To be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well and talk about the origin of the play, how that
came about.
I know you guys had gonethrough some changes because it
was originally supposed to be aplay, Now it's a musical review.
Talk about putting PoughkeepsieRising together and how all
this came to be.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, I'll take that, talyn.
So at the very, very, let's goback to the.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But what?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
happened was as an ovary right.
So at the beginning of the yearI just made a conscious
decision to tell history thathas been forgotten, overlooked
or just disrespected, to betruly honest.
So there's a lot of historythat when it hits the movie
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theaters or however, it kind ofgets diluted, it gets changed,
all kinds of stuff.
So I wanted to keep the historyas close to actual reality as
possible and that's where Ideveloped Living History Theater
and once Ella Fitzgerald'sstory came through a playwright,
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we decided that we were goingto mount this production as the
historical telling of EllaFitzgerald's life in Hudson, new
York.
Now, as people may or may notknow, but there's different
things that can happen in theproduction when you're when
things are happening and we werenot able to fully go through
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with the historical play I'mtelling of Ellis story.
But we realized that even for aDecember show the story was a
little heavy and we said, well,it would be in our better
interest to start some to dosomething like a musical review
which is easier to pull off.
We'll be able to showcase moretalent and it'll be a light,
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more lighthearted story, notonly being a more lighthearted
story, but a reintroduction toElla Fitzgerald in general, to
people who did know EllaFitzgerald and people who didn't
know who Ella Fitzgerald was.
So we realized, through justthe journey of trying to put on
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this historical play, that weneeded a little bit more time to
put on a full on.
I mean, we were pretty likedone ho about getting things
done, but we also want to dothings with a certain kind of
quality, a certain level ofquality.
So we did not want to rushputting up the historical talent
of Ella Fitzgerald's life inthe Hudson, but what we did
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still want to do was put upsomething that would bring
people to the understanding ofwho Ella Fitzgerald was as a
musical historical icon.
I mean, she did so many things.
Guys, please look up EllaFitzgerald.
She's hilarious.
Not only hilarious, but she'sjust amazing in general and have
some fun for December.
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So that's really where the seedfor Poughkeepsie Rising came
from, because while we weregoing, all the talent involved
was really an undertaking.
There's no artist in residencyprogram.
(11:50):
So we're literally we realizedthat we were building an
airplane as we were flying itand we realized that we needed a
not-for-profit for that.
We need to get really big moneyfor this, especially if we're
going to pay people.
We're looking at an upwards of80 something thousand dollars.
Oh my God, we were like whatare we going to do but shout out
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to the UU and Community Matterstoo for helping us out before
we got our not-for-profit status?
But yeah, that's howPoughkeepsie Rising came about.
Living History Theater took onwanting to pay tribute to Ella
Fitzgerald once I found out thatshe was a Hudson Valley native.
And then we realized, in orderto really pull it off, like
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Talyn said, with paying peoplethe rate, that is like you know,
not like just a stipend thatyou could go and get some Chuck
E Cheese.
You can actually go and dosomething with this stipend that
we give you guys.
So that's how PoughkeepsieRising and Living History
Theater was able to cometogether.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How did you come across the information that Ella
Fitzgerald had ties to theHudson Valley?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, again, the playwright that came to us at
the very beginning.
Let us know that EllaFitzgerald was a Hudson Valley
resident and that was theunderstanding that she had gone
through this turbulent lifestyle, but she was able to overcome
it and then go to Harlem andthen win the very first Apollo's
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Amateur Night.
So it's a very harrowing storyof overcoming adversity and
things like that.
So at the beginning of the year, a playwright let us know about
that, and we were able to justbe like, of course we got to pay
tribute.
Sell if it's daryl.
That's crazy.
Nobody, very few people, let's,I won't say nobody, but very
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few people knew that fact andthat blew me away yeah, that
that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's an important piece of history for our area
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
talent, you're in the show also.
This is why you're allowed tobe late, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
This is why what.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
This is why you're allowed to be late.
Listen here, All right.
Who are you in the musicalreview?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, so it's kind of funny to say, because I'm
actually playing myself in termsof, like, the title of my
character.
My character's name is Talent,all of the characters in this,
in this fantastical world thatyou're going to see.
We're all playing ourselves interms of our names, but our
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characters are characters, so so, You'll be like oh really, this
is how you get down.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh, okay, right, right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So it's like it's like a larger than life type of
extension of who we are asindividuals and in that way the
show is very pedestrian, in thatway, right.
So like we're not necessarily,you know, coming up with
characters or movement oranything like that that feels
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choreographed or or that feelslike it's outside of us, but
rather rather um, channeling, uh, who we are on the inner and
blowing that out of proportionfor a character that people will
be entertained by.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So like shrooms.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Oh, my God Now we got to edit.
Right Right, totally Yo.
Now we gotta edit, is thatright right, totally yo.
I like it.
Pg-13, baby, pg-13.
And the show is a family andthe show is a family friendly
show, so the whole family cancome to this we recommend ages 7
(16:07):
and up, but it's definitely afamily show.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's freaking hilarious, like our.
Um.
The person who conceived theshow is also our director and
choreographer, and his name isjason williams.
Um, you might know that namefrom.
I believe it was season 16 ofamerica's got talent.
Um, the aws, um, inspirationalsingers were on america's got
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talent.
Um, if you don't know who thatis or or haven't heard of it,
please do google it or youtubeit.
Um, they are absolutelyphenomenal and jason is a riot
to work with um, and we're sograteful to have him, uh, be a
part of the production and he ishilarious, so, and he is a
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character, so I feel like heinserted himself himself in the
show.
So definitely come and check itout and, uh, you're gonna,
you're gonna get that.
You're gonna get some comedy.
You're gonna get, uh, someamazing singing.
Okay, yes, you're like you geta little bit of everything, but
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I mean, when you guys see thetalent that that you know will
be on that stage, like you willbe blown away.
And I'm not saying that becauseI'm a part of the cast.
I'm saying that because thiscast is actually amazing, so I'm
very excited and they're allfrom the hudson valley.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Like 99.9 percent.
Jason is coming up from newyork city, um, you know, but
99.99 of the cast is from thehudson Valley.
Which is another thing that wewanted to be very super clear
about was the money that we doget from these sponsors.
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Shout out to City Poughkeepsie.
Shout out to the AKAs, you know, shout out to the county.
We wanted to pump that backinto Poughkeepsie and the Hudson
Valley, so that's definitelysomething to be proud about.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And we're pretty tapped in as far as who's out
here in the community talentwise, pun intended and you know.
So we know, know talent, weknow rose mariah, etc.
Etc.
And it was, um, it's reallycool to see them being a part of
such a big production, outsideof what they do on their own
time right people that careabout them, because it hurts my
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soul when I see people get justused and taken advantage of and
that happened or not, haveopportunities in this area.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That part that part, not that I was gonna say
poughkeepsie.
One thing about poughkeepsiethere's no shortage of talent
here at all.
I don't know.
You know, people have theselike weird preconceptions about
poughkeepsie.
Like when they hearpoughkeepsie they're like oh,
it's a hick town with tumbleweedand you know they think of
gunshots and robberies.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Straight up?
No, it is true though.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I do.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was like oh, I'm out of here, but part of the
beauty of Poughkeepsie, not evenpart.
I would argue that the mostbeautiful thing about
Poughkeepsie is its people.
And like I said aboutPoughkeepsie is its people.
And, like I said, like there isno shortage of talent here, but
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there is a shortage ofopportunities, and so
Poughkeepsie Rising is workingto change that and to my
knowledge it is the onlyorganization, perhaps even the
first of its kind, specificallydesigned to bring paid
professional opportunities inthe performing arts.
There's a lot of organizationsworking on the visual arts and
things of that nature.
But in my years of living I'mnot going to say how old I am I
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already know.
Okay, e don't be putting me onblast for all these people Right
.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
That's what I said all 21, I don't amen, please do
look, look, touch hair behindear.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm like that's out of college clearly.
Um no, you know, in all myyears I've not seen an
organization like the gipsyrising, so I'm so happy to be a
part of it and that that thatthey're here, you know.
So we need people to support,support, buy tickets come see us
(20:36):
.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We'll talk about a little bit about some of the
songs that you guys areperforming in the musical,
because it's not just straightup like that's all I'm gonna ask
you wait a minute.
Hold on that.
No, they.
That's spoilers, right there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
okay, I have to protect the show Because it's
not just straight up like.
That's all I'm going to ask youabout.
Wait a minute, hold on.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, that's spoilers right there.
Okay, I have to protect theshow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Right, we can't tell you Did you sign an NDA?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Because if you didn't , then spoil away Yikes.
No.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
We know how this works up in here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
She's a bad influence over here's like even just uh,
just describe a little bit, umthe music that people can expect
.
If you don't want to give upsong titles and that sort of
thing, that's fine, but justthat way, a little bit of an
idea okay, explain um thejukebox, um the mod post-modern
jukebox effect.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Is how we're going to be doing that that's we, we're
on the same page, sue, sue, sueis like my, sue is my big sis.
You know um.
You know we be on the same vibe, the same frequency, and it's
crazy but so um, what you canexpect is is is essentially like
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we are taking these these okay.
So, okay, let me say thisthere's something called the
postmodern jukebox on YouTube,right, and what they essentially
do is they take jazz songs,jazz covers, you know,
traditional jazz standards,things of that nature, and they
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interpret them in a modern waywhile paying homage to the jazz
style or big band style of musicof the jazz era.
We are essentially doingsomething very similar, right,
where we are taking these jazz,these, you know, Ella songs, and
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turning them into productionnumbers, right, Taking these
Ella songs and kind ofinterpreting them for the
theater or, as Sue would say,for the theater.
You know, we're taking thesesongs that a lot of people know,
love and cherish and payinghomage to Ella in a way that is
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exciting, in a way that is verytheatrical and dramatized but
also blends the past with thepresent.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I like that, that that's gonna be so exciting yeah
, it's, it's honestly listenwhen y'all see this, this
opening number oh my gosh thisopening number is wild.
It's wild like I'm would.
I tell you we was, we were inrehearsal going over the, the
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opening number, just actuallythe other day and, um, when I
tell you I was sweating, I wassweating like that number kicks
my butt like it was.
It was, it's, it's, it'shonestly amazing, it's amazing
you have to you have to see it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You gotta come see it well, tell the listeners, when
it is where it is, how they cansee it yeah, sue uh, so it's
going to be at the james andbetty hall theater at dutchess
community college.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Shout out to dcc.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Shout out to tommy my final big question is what is
next for Poughkeepsie rising?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
oh, darling a nap um.
Let's keep it real, no um heardyou, but give me strength and
lord.
Um, but no, seriously.
Um, it was a huge undertakinggetting this debut put up and
really the next thing forPoughkeepsie Rising is to do a
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understanding of what worked,what didn't work and build the
infrastructure so that thingsare simpler, going forward and
then mounting the next show,which will be, again, a tribute
to Ella Fitzgerald.
But we won't be talking aboutthe specifics of that at this
moment because we are stillgetting.
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You guys get tickets for thisshow, but for Gipsy rising is
not done, for Gipsy's rising isnot done by a long stop.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, gipsy rising is here to stay for the long haul,
which is why we need y'all tosupport, support, support,
support, support, support,support.
We need you to buy tickets.
We need you to spread the word.
Word of mouth is the mosteffective.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Tell a friend, to tell a friend.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
We need everybody, and their mama and their cousin
and their brothers and theirsisters and their baby mamas and
daddies.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And that's basically all of Talon's family makes up
my whole.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I'm saying we have everybody at the show so that we
can prove right to our donors,to our sponsors to our community
, that this is something thatthe community needs and this is
also something that thecommunity wants.
Talon, can you just stop?
I'm trying to pull somethingthat community wants.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh, I'm trying to pull up on opening night.
I'm trying to be there afterthe lights, you know right with
a hot date oh lord, look at that.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yeah, you can snuggle up.
You can snuggle up at our showyou don't think I'm all cultured
.
Yeah, oh my god, cut it out.
Talent.
Can you give a shout out to oursponsors in our ad the folks
that are in our program adplease?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yes, absolutely so.
We want to give a shout out toour sponsors and to folks who
have purchased ads.
So shout out to thePoughkeepsie Performing Arts
Academy.
Shout out to Fall Kill CreativeWorks.
Shout out to Minute man Press.
(26:32):
Shout out to Amadeus Strings.
Shout out to Jade Seed Soaps.
Shout out to Lead forPoughkeepsie, which I am a
fellow of.
Yes, shout out to our allies.
We have a lot of them, but wewant to shout out right now, the
public arts commission for thecity of Poughkeepsie.
(26:52):
We want to shout out theUnitarian Universalist
Fellowship Community, matters 2,arts, mid Hudson, the Family
Partners Center, queen CityLounge, reason and Reckoning.
And a huge shout out to ourCommon Council members.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yes, and the AKAs, whom Ella Fitzgerald was an
honorary member, of which isanother piece in history that a
lot of people did not know about.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yes, yes, shout out to the AKAs.
They set it off with thedonations from the Pan-Hellenic
Council.
Thank y'all.
So much, everybody, and please,please.
We are still acceptingsponsorship and program ads for
our playbill, so if you areinterested in that, please do
(27:42):
email Sue.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yes, please.
Poughkeepsierising at gmailcom.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is there anything else that you guys want to let
the listeners know?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, yes, go ahead, talon.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You go first, sue, you go first.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
No, no, I'm going to close it out.
I'm going to talk about Mac andKnife, but you go ahead y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, we don't have our official Instagram yet, but
you can follow the journey atTalentMusicENT Again, that's at
Talent flyer.
You can do that at my instagramat talent music ent.
Um, and the last thing I wantto say is just that, like, I'm
(28:33):
just so grateful, man, like I, I, this is like the like, the
inner child in me, the littleboy in me, is like screaming and
jumping for joy.
Um, because all I've everwanted to do is be an artist
that's well-known here in myhometown, but also be
(28:54):
compensated for the work thatgoes into being an artist.
And so this is such a wonderfulopportunity and I'm so excited
about the arts movement thatPoughkeepsie Rising is
endeavoring to undertake,because we know that the arts is
(29:16):
super impactful.
We know that the arts helps toreduce and prevent crime.
We know that it helps to reduceand prevent violence Right, and
these are things that plagueour community.
We also know from thetransformation the PCSD
transformation that the arts,and specifically the performing
(29:41):
arts, is the number one careerpathway of Poughkeepsie City
students.
That is the thing that moststudents want to do.
So there is an alignment ofactivity happening here in the
city of Poughkeepsie,no-transcript.
(30:31):
So I'm super, super gratefuland thank you so much for this
opportunity.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yes.
So my last thing is I want toset up what song is going to be
played um once we uh rap,because oops, one second, I'm
also driving y'all, so I justwant to make sure, okay, um, so,
um, one thing about EllaFitzgerald was darling she would
(31:02):
always give it a shot, andthat's one thing that I
definitely have learned.
Putting on this show, um,helping develop Poughkeepsie
Rising um, and just launching awhole production company from
scratch within a year, um, beingable to put up something.
(31:22):
A lot of people look atmistakes in a certain way, where
they think that it's negativeor they put so much on it
whereas it becomes a scary, abig scary thing.
And Elephant's Gerald taught usall a lesson with the song
(31:43):
that's about to be played.
Um, it's called mac the knife,and she just really liked the
song, and one day, during a liveuh performance, she said let's
give it a shot, let me see if Ican sing mac tonight.
Uh, she didn't.
She forgot the words in themiddle of the song, forgot
completely, forgot the words,all right, but she didn't let
(32:07):
that stop her.
She scattered and hum-hahed herway through that song.
She did not stop.
Okay, that's the key.
She did not stop and guess what?
Y'all the people that listen,you guys got to go and listen to
this song.
She won an award, I think it wasa grammy.
She won an award for a mistake,and that is what I always want
(32:28):
to leave people with is, whatyou may think is a mistake is
either a learning lesson or it'ssome sort of leveling up.
You're learning what yourweaknesses may or may not be, or
it's not a mistake really atall, because she was able to
knock down a lot of barriers andwalls.
As far as scatting and thingslike that, um, that really would
(32:54):
not have even possibly happenedhad she not made all those
mistakes during mac the night in19 in the 1950s.
So that's what I want to leavepeople with.
We're not all, nobody's perfect, nobody knows everything, and
we learn through our mistakes.
So if you're feeling like down,or you're feeling like you know
(33:17):
you're a failure, or you'refeeling like like you're not
doing whatever you think youmight supposed to be doing, uh,
give yourself a break.
All right, give yourself abreak, um, and really just look
at what positives you're gettingout of it.
I like, I like to tell peopleuh, even manure gets sold to
(33:37):
make uh vegetables.
So think about it point of view.
Okay, and that's uh, that's amessage from sue directly.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
All right.
Well, thank you guys forsitting down with us absolutely
thank you even though we're notsitting, but I am no, but thank
you guys for taking time out tosit with us.
We're super excited, break aleg, opening night and hopefully
(34:11):
we'll be in the crowd cheeringyou guys on absolutely I'm gonna
be there hopefully, nothopefully.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
You're coming, you're opening night baby.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Welcome back to in the field radio.
You know what I'm about to do.
Make sure you follow In theField Radio.
Write to me, tell me what youthink, do song requests.
You know what I'm saying.
Talk to me, do shout outs.
If you write to me in the DMs,I'm going to read it and I'm
going to do what you tell me todo.
Boss me around.
I like that stuff.
(34:41):
Add In the Field Radio oneverything.
All right, I'm about to get outof here.
Big thank you and I love you toanybody that's rocking with us.
All our loyal listeners Loveyou guys.
Thanks for chilling with thosechicks on Mondays In the Field
Radio 91.3 FM, wvkr Poughkeepsie.
(35:03):
Have a good night.
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