Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection. Right here, one, kay, one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust. We're going Broadway on you. Here
Speaker 1: we've got the Kelly Ford and Kathy Venable and here
Speaker 1: with us today we're talking about the Broadway. I hope
Speaker 1: I'm saying that correctly. Yeah. Well, you know what, I
Speaker 1: not very good at French, but I like the food.
Speaker 2: Good answer, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah. First of all, tell us a little bit about
Speaker 1: what's going on here, Keathy.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, we have a wonderful show of Broadway tunes.
Speaker 3: It's about an hour and ten minutes long. We did
Speaker 3: it in Tulsa at the Philbrook Art Museum, sold out
Speaker 3: there and had a great crowd, and thought, we want
Speaker 3: to take this thing on the road.
Speaker 1: Well, good, it's.
Speaker 3: Piano and voice. I'm playing piano, Kelly singing and I
Speaker 3: also sing.
Speaker 2: So we do it. We solo. It's really a fun,
Speaker 2: fun no intermission. Just one hour.
Speaker 4: After our debut, we had so many people say you've
Speaker 4: got to do that again somewhere, and I thought, okay,
Speaker 4: let's do it again.
Speaker 1: So well, here we are, we are. Do tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about yourself now you do this, especially engagements.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean a little bit about myself. I'm a singer.
Speaker 4: I have a vocal performance degree. I was on Star
Speaker 4: Search way back in the day. Hey, and somehow I
Speaker 4: ended up doing corporate events. I stumbled into it, and
Speaker 4: I've been doing that for years now, so I get
Speaker 4: to travel some. And I thought, you know, Kathy came
Speaker 4: back to town after COVID hit and we started working together,
Speaker 4: and I thought, let's do this Broadway show together. And
Speaker 4: so it's something I've always wanted to do. She's got
Speaker 4: a lot more experience on Broadway than I do.
Speaker 1: But I was going to say, yeah, you've boomed Broadway.
Speaker 3: Yes, I moved to New York and three when I
Speaker 3: was thirty five, I thought, I'm going to go and
Speaker 3: see if I can play some Broadway orchestra pits.
Speaker 2: And I did, so is there for twelve years.
Speaker 3: Then I went on tour with Phantom of the Opera,
Speaker 3: Sounta Music and Frozen for five years, and then pandemic
Speaker 3: hit shut our business down, and I came back home
Speaker 3: to Tulsen thought I miss home.
Speaker 2: So I'm here, but I still want to do the
Speaker 2: Broadway music.
Speaker 3: And Kelly's really good at it, so we wanted to
Speaker 3: do that together.
Speaker 1: Well it sounds like it was fate for you too, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think so, absolutely. Yeah, Yeah, we met in I
Speaker 3: guess twenty ten. We did a show Milk. Who Kathy
Speaker 3: Vinible is, so I've known who she was for a
Speaker 3: long time. Yeah, and Kelly for It's famous too, so
Speaker 3: I've known him for a long time.
Speaker 4: Anyway, she's really amazing. So we got to work together,
Speaker 4: and yeah, we.
Speaker 3: Needed this show with Signature Symphony back oh wow, twelve
Speaker 3: thirteen years ago and really got to sing with that orchestra.
Speaker 2: I think it was that long ago. So it's nice
Speaker 2: to get to sing again.
Speaker 1: To tell you, guys are going to pair up on
Speaker 1: August tenth, seven thirty at the historic Constantine Theater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've already been there, You've done the layout.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've checked it out a few times. We've got
Speaker 4: some friends in Bahusca. So yeah, it's a cool theater.
Speaker 4: I heard it's haunted, but we're not supposed to talk
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 2: No, No, they don't like it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you some stories right there. But anyway, in
Speaker 1: that place, I did a music video there, so I
Speaker 1: know what it feels like to be on that stage
Speaker 1: and I've also performed for live audience on there too.
Speaker 1: You can see the eyeballs everybody.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's an ultimate setting, really good. But the acoustics
Speaker 4: are amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess it was built as an opera house back
Speaker 4: when there was no sound reinforcement available to anybody. And yeah,
Speaker 4: the acoustics are really nice. So we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is really going to be a fantastic event.
Speaker 1: We've got tickets available through event right, Yes, I said
Speaker 1: it right, that's one in a row.
Speaker 2: Yes, you got it.
Speaker 4: Broadway soire Pahusca.
Speaker 2: That's what you look for when you go on the website.
Speaker 1: That's what wonderful. What are your favorite songs on here going?
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I've got so.
Speaker 1: Many everyone, we do well.
Speaker 4: The ones the ones I took me a while to
Speaker 4: learn was Trouble. You got Trouble from music Man and uh,
Speaker 4: I really love doing that one, so that's new to me.
Speaker 4: The other ones I've done several times before. But you know,
Speaker 4: there's soliloquy from U Carousel that's fun. But there's some
Speaker 4: really cool arrangements that aren't normal your normal arrangements that
Speaker 4: I that I've found so once for Impossible dream uh
Speaker 4: one is from Wizard of Oz. If I only had
Speaker 4: a brain. That's a really cool arrange.
Speaker 2: They're jazzy.
Speaker 3: I am not a jazz pianist, but he found some
Speaker 3: arrangements that make me feel cool because they're written out
Speaker 3: kind of jazzy.
Speaker 1: Which which ones do you like?
Speaker 3: I'm excited about getting to sing from Sound of Music
Speaker 3: because I did that tour, so I'm doing I have
Speaker 3: confidence in springtime, so that'll be fun. Get to play
Speaker 3: and sing on that. And the is hysterical. On the
Speaker 3: comedic songs, she's really good.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Has to sit at the piano and sing and play
Speaker 4: and communicate and all that. All I have to just
Speaker 4: stand up there and well, he found his funny bones.
Speaker 1: He's got a good agent.
Speaker 2: There you go, and I do too. Are fun doing
Speaker 2: this together. It's a fun show.
Speaker 1: Now. This is going to be August the tenth at
Speaker 1: seven thirty at the Constantine Theater. What do the ticket
Speaker 1: ranges are?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty dollars dollars?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get all those entertainments for all
Speaker 3: that for thirty we had some fifty dollars tickets, but
Speaker 3: those are all sold out.
Speaker 1: I figured, so were those the ones where they have
Speaker 1: the nice table.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, fancy down front?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, they know how to first class.
Speaker 2: Theater is pretty pretty.
Speaker 4: You know, there's not a bad seat in there, there's not,
Speaker 4: surely not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're really cool. Like I said, you you
Speaker 1: it's intimate. Well there's there were a lot of seats,
Speaker 1: but it's not over. That's the way I like these theaters.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're going to be, you know, really
Speaker 1: up close to the artists, but respectfully giving them space. Good.
Speaker 4: And our program is just piano vocal, so it lends
Speaker 4: itself to intimacy anyway, because you just there's nothing. It's underproduced.
Speaker 4: You get what you you know, it's it's very minimal.
Speaker 3: So we're telling stories about the songs and some personal
Speaker 3: experiences with them, so it'd be nice to because audience.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's also a great storytelling venue.
Speaker 1: It is, and I can see where that is really
Speaker 1: going to play well in that venue and also to
Speaker 1: the people too. Now I understand we've got folks that
Speaker 1: may be coming in from far away is Kansas and Tulsa.
Speaker 1: It could be Voklahoma City, Bartlesville. You know, everybody's invited.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like geographical district thing that's going
Speaker 1: to hang up. You know, if you can hear a
Speaker 1: voice and you want to witness to show you.
Speaker 4: Can't, yes, one of those city oh yeah wherever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're not that far from a lot of places,
Speaker 3: so come on down.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got such beautiful historic theaters in our area. Constantine,
Speaker 1: you got the Coleman over there, Miami and the Pocket
Speaker 1: over there as well. Oh and it's all three of
Speaker 1: these things. You know, it's like that's that's the theater Trinity.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't been to the Constantine Theater lately,
Speaker 1: you might as well just say eight pen because they
Speaker 1: really dressed that thing up and done a lot of work,
Speaker 1: really a lot of work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can come in for dinner because there
Speaker 3: are great places really close to the theater to have
Speaker 3: dinner as.
Speaker 4: Right, So partnered with the Dirty Laundry, which is a restaurant. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so if you want to come, tell them you come
Speaker 4: to the concert, show them your ticket and you look
Speaker 4: fifteen percent off your meal wow before the show.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you just got to show the ticket.
Speaker 3: Right, and you know There are plenty of other places
Speaker 3: around there too.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: The red drumming places and pizza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right before.
Speaker 1: I go out of town, go to the let' see
Speaker 1: a little bad Brad. You can do that too, Okay,
Speaker 1: down the street. You know, the whole the whole town
Speaker 1: is historic. To be quite honest with you, I haven't
Speaker 1: been there in a while. Make a day of it.
Speaker 1: Go there in the afternoon, do some shopping, grab yourself
Speaker 1: a meal, and then top it off with one of
Speaker 1: the best shows you're ever going to see this year.
Speaker 2: Thankank you. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: You ought to be looking forward to you.
Speaker 2: It's all about us. Oh yeah, you have kind of.
Speaker 1: Caught up and then everything else. Oh yeah, we are going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing it. It's a really fun show. It's
Speaker 2: a happy show. You'll leave with a smile.
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of work to get it ready,
Speaker 4: but it's been such a joy to be able to
Speaker 4: perform it and to thought, let's just do this as
Speaker 4: many times as we can't.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because it's.
Speaker 1: Well, you know something, I think you guys are just
Speaker 1: getting started.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. I like that idea. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you for that.
Speaker 1: So you did the TV show. I got to ask you,
Speaker 1: what was it like to do Star Search? Oh?
Speaker 4: It was amazing. Uh, you know back in the day,
Speaker 4: you know, we'd watch stars. This was before American and Idol.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, and just the one with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a clip on YouTube you can find kell
Speaker 3: with mcman.
Speaker 4: Thanks. And my mother would say, you need to audition
Speaker 4: for Star Search. So I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 4: So there was a little address at the end of
Speaker 4: the program on the and I wrote it down and
Speaker 4: I sent him a cassette demo. Didn't hear back from
Speaker 4: from for six months, and then they called me and
Speaker 4: they said, can you send us a video? And I
Speaker 4: made a video and sent that to them overnighted it
Speaker 4: to him. You didn't hear back from him for six months,
Speaker 4: and then that a whole year later, they called me
Speaker 4: and said, this is Chad from Star Search. Congratulations. So
Speaker 4: they flew me out to l A and I was
Speaker 4: I lost, but it was it was a good experience
Speaker 4: and I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I sang, well I heard the recording. Yeah I got robbed.
Speaker 1: Yes, we got the Hollywood back story coming up here exactly.
Speaker 4: But you know, a lot of a lot of well
Speaker 4: known people were on Star Search. They were Sindbad the
Speaker 4: comedian he was, he was on. There a lot of
Speaker 4: singers that didn't go very far on Star Starch ended
Speaker 4: up having pretty good careers.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I understand there are actually a
Speaker 1: few bands that are still playing today that were in
Speaker 1: the pop genre or I think say Brown Brown right.
Speaker 4: I did a corporate event with Sawyer Brown and I said, hey,
Speaker 4: you were on you want to start.
Speaker 1: Right about the nicest guys you ever want to meet.
Speaker 1: I know, I know the world gets smaller, doesn't it does?
Speaker 2: It really doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know you're going to bring Broadway back home books.
Speaker 1: I want you to know. It's called Broadway and you
Speaker 1: go to event bright dot com to get you tickets,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be at the historic Constantine Theater.
Speaker 1: If you go to the hysteric one, you go to
Speaker 1: the wrong place and go to the historic. Oh well,
Speaker 1: there will may be some historical moments, but you want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you get your tickets. It's a
Speaker 1: it's only thirty bucks and you can show your tickets
Speaker 1: at the at the Dirty Launch, at the Dirty Laundry
Speaker 1: and you get fifteen percent off your meal.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 1: So you know, like I said earlier, make a day
Speaker 1: of it. Just go over, do some walk and do
Speaker 1: some talking, do some shopping, do some meeting, and then
Speaker 1: do some reclining and.
Speaker 4: Joyeical museums in the hus Ben Johnson Museum is my favorite.
Speaker 2: It's really.
Speaker 4: Shop, do some museums to go to the Dirty Laundry
Speaker 4: for dinner, and come to our show.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, you'll feel clean as a wisdom. Yeah, I won't
Speaker 1: think you both were making the big trip up here
Speaker 1: than having. It's so forward to seeing you on August tenth. Okay,
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