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The Local Show: January 19, 2012

This week, The Local Show features The Whole Person, David Westbrook, Quality Hill Playhouse and What KCPT Means to You Part Two.

This week, The Local Show profiles The Whole Person, the local organization that has been an advocate for people with disabilities for over 30 years. Cynthia Wheeler Linden talks to David Westbrook about his impressive career. Randy Mason gives as behind the scenes look at Quality Hill Playhouse, an intimate theater that plays host to musicals and cabaret revues of catchy classics from musical theatre and the American Songbook. And we continue our celebration of KCPT’s 50 years with a little help from our viewers.


Fostering Independence: The Whole Person

For more than 30 years, The Whole Person has been a local leader in representing people with disabilities. They’re also engaged in dozens of direct services that allow thousands of people with disabilities, all across the metro, to lead independent lifestyles.


Racing Around Obstacles: David Westbrook

Local Show guest host Cynthia Wheeler Linden sat down with David Westbrook, the former PR executive who is now Vice President of Strategy and Innovations at Children’s Mercy Hospital.


Spotlight on the Arts: Quality Hill Playhouse

Randy Mason takes you downtown to learn more about the Quality Hill Playhouse.


Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You? Part Two

KCPT public television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them.

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Fostering Independence: The Whole Person

The Whole Person has been a local leader in representing people with disabilities. They’re also engaged in dozens of direct services that allow thousands of people with disabilities, all across the metro, to lead independent lifestyles.

If you are disabled and living in Kansas City, chances are good you know all about The Whole Person. The nonprofit agency started in 1978 at a time when the rights of the disabled to hold jobs and gain access to public buildings were poorly protected.

Their early achievements included helping persuade the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to equip new buses with wheelchair lifts and improve physical access to polling places.

For more than 30 years, The Whole Person has been a local leader in representing people with disabilities. As you’re about to see in this profile from producer Rich Miller, they’re also engaged in dozens of direct services that allow thousands of people with disabilities, all across the metro, to lead independent lifestyles.

The Whole Person provides a variety of community-based, consumer-driven services to people with disabilities to promote consumer control and choice of services, self-direction, empowerment, independence, self reliance, self help, self advocacy and integration into the community. Services provided by The Whole Person emphasizes peer relationships and peer role models. The Whole Person services are offered without charge to all persons with significant disabilities.

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Racing Around Obstacles: David Westbrook

Local Show guest host Cynthia Wheeler Linden sat down with David Westbrook, the former PR executive who is now Vice President of Strategy and Innovations at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

For decades, he was the man to go to when major public figures or institutions in our metro had a really bad PR problem and they needed crisis management. If they wanted the best, they turned to David Westbrook, founder and CEO of the Corporate Communications Group.

Westbrook hit the top of his game and was named PR Executive of the
year in Kansas City. He is highly sought after on a slew of corporate
and nonprofit boards. For fun, he drives race cars. By the
way, he is totally blind. Local Show guest host Cynthia Wheeler Linden sat down with Westbrook who is now Vice President of Strategy and Innovations at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

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performARTS: Quality Hill Playhouse

Randy Mason takes you downtown to learn more about the Quality Hill Playhouse.

Our performARTS series, in conjunction with Studio Magazine, is an effort to spotlight some of the groups and troupes around town doing outstanding work in music, theatre and the arts. This week, Randy Mason takes you downtown to learn more about the Quality Hill Playhouse.

“My Romance: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart” begins its run this week at the Quality Hill Playhouse, and continues through Feb. 24.

Quality Hill Playhouse is dedicated to excellence in the live performance of works from musical theatre and the American Songbook, employing the finest local talent, and contributing to Kansas City’s cultural and economic landscape.

Quality Hill Playhouse produces six musicals and cabaret revues each year in a charming 153-seat theatre. J. Kent Barnhart serves as pianist and emcee for the cabaret revues, offering interesting tidbits about the music as well as his unique, humorous anecdotes. Professional singers and the relaxed yet elegant atmosphere make for entertainment you won’t find anywhere else. Discover why The Kansas City Star said it is ”like being invited into someone’s home.”

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