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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Broadway performer Brittney Johnson (Wicked) stars in an Estonian story about being able to control the weather -- and the responsibility such power brings.
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0:00.0 | Calling all circle round fans, we're starting something brand new. |
0:05.7 | A club for listeners like you. |
0:08.5 | You can now join the Circle Round Club and enjoy a bunch of new, fun and exciting ways to circle around with us. |
0:16.0 | Club memberships come in all shapes and sizes. |
0:19.0 | You can find the one that's right for you and your family at wbur.org slash Circle Round Club. |
0:31.0 | WBR Podcasts Boston. |
0:40.0 | Have you ever wished you could control the weather? |
0:44.0 | Like if your soccer game is rained out, you could just snap your fingers, sum in the sun and scare the clouds away? |
0:51.0 | Or if you want to go sledding and there's not enough snow, you could just say the word and suddenly frosty white flakes come tumbling from the sky. |
0:58.0 | In today's story, we'll meet a character who's given this very power and all the responsibilities that come with it. |
1:13.0 | I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time. |
1:18.0 | Today our story is called, blowing hot and cold. |
1:22.0 | Versions of this tale have been told in Estonia, a country in northern Europe. |
1:28.0 | Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this tale, including Brittany Johnson. |
1:34.0 | The first black actress to play Glinda the Good Witch in the popular Broadway musical Wicked. |
1:39.0 | Brittany is also grace to the Broadway stage in Leigh, Ms. Rob, Motown the musical, Beautiful the Carol King musical, Sunset Boulevard and Kristen Chenoweth for the Girls. |
1:49.0 | So Circle Round everyone, for blowing hot and cold. |
1:59.0 | In a kingdom way up north where the winters are long and the northern lights dance and twirl in the wide open skies. |
2:12.0 | There lived a farmer named Lucinda. |
2:15.0 | Lucinda made her home in a clapboard cottage on a winding country road where she spent long hours feeding her chickens, milking her cows and tending to her bountiful garden of vegetables. |
2:28.0 | It was a quiet, solitary life, but late one night, for the end of autumn, she was awoken by a knock at her cottage door. |
2:39.0 | Hmm, I wonder who that could be. |
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