It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc, good

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

I'm going to introduce our next guest, Sarah Jones,

by saying she's a Tony Award-winning performer writer

and comedian who came back home from LA to perform an hour

reimagining of WNY's first ever broadcast on our 100th birthday earlier this week, did it in the green space.

So before we talk about her new work,

just for the fun of it, let's take a listen

to about a minute of her interpretation

at that event of the then, meaning

1924, Queens Borough President Maurice E. Connolly.

Queens Boulevard, which we have widened and extended from Long Island City all the way to Jamaica.

It's now wider and longer than that great marvel of Paris, the Chancelleize.

Future generations will walk its serene tree-lined path.

And revel in a boulevard that's more glamorous and prosperous than the chanselisee or anything,

anything to be found in all of the old world.

Yeah, 1924 thought, and we know that happened, right?

So you can watch the entirety of that performance at WNYC.org

slash 100 if you'd like to and while Marisee Connolly may have been

first for her Sarah is known to play a lot of characters local to the New York City area at the

same time in the same show. She's a one-woman act, a hilariously complex

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