Dreamgirl with Actress Donna Allen Figueroa

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Actress Donna Allen Figueroa had an audition for the Chicago production of Dreamgirls, but there was one small problem, (small being the operative word.) And Christine and Hannes discuss the talent necessary to compete in the competitive world of musical theater.

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0:29.9	Hey! Welcome to the story-worthy podcast.
0:45.2	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.
1:07.0	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Spinney, and we're coming to you from the Skylight Music Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:10.0	Yay, aye, aye, y, something else, Milwaukee. What's happening?
1:45.7	Oh, the Skylight is a fine production company. He's been around for quite a few years. I used to go to their productions when I lived in Milwaukee. And they're doing well? They do very well. They have their own theater. They do, I saw an excellent production of Chicago there many, many years ago. Okay. Used to have a tiny little theater. Anyhow, we're doing a, we have a subject that has to do with musical theater, and I thought, hey, I should send a shout out. So we flew ourselves all the way out here, and we're now in the lobby of their current theater, which is on Broadway in Milwaukee. Well, you know, it's nice to have a budget with our show. You know, the way we're going to fly to here and we can just go wherever we want to be.
2:00.8	Well, it's good because we've stopped chartering commercial flights and bought our own jet. Oh, yeah. That makes a lot more sense. That was a big story worthy on the side. Yeah. People think it's a Southwest jet and they try to board it because there's SW on the side. It's very confusing. It is confusing. So we're going to need to put our photos on the side of the jet. Why are we talking about musicals?
2:02.2	I wonder.
2:02.9	Because of our guest and her. It's very confusing. It is confusing. So we're going to need to put our photos on the side of the jet.
2:00.8	Why are we talking about musicals? I wonder. Because of our guest and her connection to a major musical. That's right. Our guest, Donna Allen Figueroa is her name. Figueroa, Honest. What does that remind you of? It reminds me of a big old street in downtown Los Angeles. Me too. I know. Because, you know, ironically, we had another fellow on a couple of weeks ago.
2:20.5	He had the last name Figueroa. Such an asshole. What is go? Yeah, he was. He was really a dick. God damn. We kid. We kid because we love. All right. So here's what's happening. Donna Figueroa is here. She has a story called Dream Girl. Dream Girl. So I think she's talking about the musical Dreamgirls. The Musical Dreamgirls. That's what I happening. Donna Figaro is here. She has a story called Dream Girl. Dream Girl. So I think
2:34.8	she's talking about the musical Dream Girls. The musical Dream Girls, that's what I thought.
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