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Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, and I want to know, are you a Charlotte?

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Are You a Charlotte?

Today, it's exciting. We have Craig Vierico, who plays Ray King, the jazz guy. Very, very, very exciting to talk to him.

His first episode with us aired in 2001, June 10th, 2001, and it's called Defining Moments.

And it was really, really fun to catch up. He's had a really fascinating career and we

hear about some very interesting things that he has done in the past. He's really, really fun and

he's so great as Ray King, as I'm sure you all remember. So please enjoy talking with Craig Beerco.

Let me just say, I'm so, so, so excited that you're joining us because I often think about

you.

I'm like, Craig Beirico came on our show at the weirdest time.

You play the most interesting, meaning like we were in, we were already in, we had big,

we had Aden, there were these long storylineslines and then you just walked in the middle of it

you know to play your fantastic jazz man as we call you um who's technically your name is ray king

it's a good name so take us back what was it like what do What do you remember? How did it happen?

Oh, well, at the time, I was, I think I was on the last part of my year doing The Music Man,

Susan Stroman had done a revival of the Music Man, and I had been doing that for the year.

So I was sort of in that zone,

just kind of robotically, not doing the show, but, but you know what it's like. Yeah,

eight shows a week. It's full on. It shows a week. It's, uh, it's really something. And so I was,

I had been doing that for close to a year. And the call came. And as you know, if you're doing a show that's,

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