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The Local Show: July 19, 2012

This week, a behind the scenes look at the making of the national PBS Arts special "Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony presents Joyce DiDonato as well as a preview of the upcoming Fringe Festival.

This week on The Local Show, we go behind the scenes of Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony Presents Joyce DiDonato featuring KC’s own soprano diva recorded live in March at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. The special airs nationally July 20th as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival series. Randy Mason speaks with KC Symphony Maestro Michael Stern and DiDonato about the making of this very special program.

Also this week, Kansas City Fringe Festival Executive Director Cheryl Kimmi sits down with Nick Haines to discuss how the “Fringe Fest” has become KC’s premiere arts festival, featuring emerging and established artists performing a variety of creative pursuits.

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Homecoming Appetizer: Creating a National PBS Arts Special

The Local Show proudly shares a behind-the-scenes peek at the Kauffman Center festivities in a piece we call Homecoming 101. Be sure to tune in on July 20 at 9 p.m. to see Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony presents Joyce DiDonato.

Welcome to Season Three of The Local Show. This week, the arts are where we turn our attention, in part because tomorrow night we get the rare chance to share Kansas City with the entire country on the PBS Arts Summer Festival. The program is called Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony presents Joyce DiDonato.

DiDonato is an amazing singer who still makes her home in Kansas City, even though she’s a star on stages around the world. In fact, she won the Grammy for Best Opera performance last year. As you’ll see, she’s a big fan of her hometown and of the symphony as it has developed under the guidance of music director Michael Stern. Homecoming: The Kansas City Symphony presents Joyce DiDonato will air on Friday, July 20 at 9 p.m. on KCPT.

Randy Mason talks with both of them about the TV special and more, as well as with Paula Kerger, the president of PBS. But first, we want to share a behind-the-scenes peek at the Kauffman Center festivities in a piece we call Homecoming 101.

Joyce DiDonato and Michael Stern on stage in a discussion with a director

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WTF: KC Fringe Festival

Nick Haines finds out WTF--What's the Fringe---from the KC Fringe Festival Executive Director, Cheryl Kimmi.

The Local Show goes from the world of opera and the symphony to the fringes of the art scene in Kansas City. Yes, it’s that time again for the Fringe Festival. Now in its eighth year, the 11-day festival is jam packed with live theater, dance, performance and visual art, puppetry and storytelling, bellydancing, plays, film and fashion.

Twenty venues stretching from the Crossroads into Midtown are slated to host more than 400 performances . Nick Haines gets a preview from Fringe Festival executive director Cheryl Kimmi.

Logo for Fringe Fest--Kansas City's Premier Arts Festival July 19-29, 2012

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