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Whole Backstage Live!
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The Whole Backstage is Alabama’s oldest continuously operating community theatre. This show offers radio plays, interviews, vocal performances, music, comedy, and drama.
Episodes
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WBS Live! - Ep. 14 - Ajia Jones & John Everett Brewer
Ajia Jones is a newcomer to the Whole Backstage who has also been heavily involved with Arab Musical Theatre and The Lighthouse Theatre Company. Recently starring as Lucy in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", she is a motivational performer and a genuine team-minded cast member. John Everett...
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WBS Live! - Ep.12 - 50th Season Golden Gala
Andrea Oliver and Claire Richards are members of the WBS Board of Directors and both plan events and parties as part of their professional lives. We talk about what to expect for the Gala celebrating the 50th consecutive season at WBS, how to purchase tickets, and the significance of celebrating...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 11 - Britt Burns
Britt Burns is an artist and musician who has played in several bands and works as a videographer and photographer. You may have seen him on our stage in shows like Grease, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and as "Sweaty Eddie" in Sister Act! We talk about moving to Texas for a job with just a…
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WBS Live! - Ep. 10 - Don’t Miss Upcoming Events
Denton highlights upcoming shows and shares insight into what benefits come with WBS Patron membership as we prepare to open Patron registration and kick off our 50th consecutive season as YOUR community theatre. There will be exclusive Patron events and great opportunities to celebrate our 50th...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 9 - Aniah Havis (Part 2 of 2)
Aniah Havis is an exceptionally talented performer who is a treasured member of our Whole Backstage family. You may have seen her in shows like Bye Bye Birdie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Little Shop of Horrors, and Sister Act! She graduated from Guntersville High School in 2022 and is now...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 8 - Aniah Havis (Part 1 of 2)
Aniah Havis is an exceptionally talented performer who is a treasured member of our Whole Backstage family. You may have seen her in shows like Bye Bye Birdie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Little Shop of Horrors, and Sister Act! She graduated from Guntersville High School in 2022 and is now...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Dancing Ghost of Grancer Harrison
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. A lively fiddle and dancing feet can be heard when passing the Harrison Cemetery. Jane Kohl tells of how Grancer Harrison's zest for life and dancing persists…
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Crying Spirit at the Well
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. After a well digger is tragically buried alive, it is said that his spirit appears pleading to be rescued at the bare spot where the well was located. Voiced and...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - Huntingdon College’s Red Lady
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Julie Oliver voices the circumstances around which the suicide of a troubled and lonely young woman provides the back story for the haunting of Pratt Hall at...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Hole That Will Not Stay Filled
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Kate Griffith tells how the murder of an innocent man under false accusations fuels a ghostly compulsion. The guilt of these events catches up with his...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Return of the Ruined Banker
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Bad business dealings and a failed prison escape lead to the death of a disgraced business man. Tony Wildfong reads this unfortunate account. Produced by Johnny...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - Mobile’s Pipe Smoking Sea Captain
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. The ghost of an old salty sea captain makes its presence known, and even has a characteristic odor, as Thomas Darnell describes the man's lonely existence on...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Face in the Courthouse Window
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. An angry mob seeks their idea of justice after their county courthouse burns. Thomas Breland relays the history of how the likeness of a man's tortured face was...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Unquiet Ghost at Gaineswood
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Evelyn Carter's casket spent months under the stairs in the cold dark cellar of Gaineswood before she could be properly buried. Kristen Gillen tells of how her...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Josh Hood relays the events surrounding what was arguably the "greatest tragedy in Alabama's river history". The night the Eliza Battle sank below the cold water…
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Specter in the Maze at Cahaba
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. This specter is of unknown origin and purpose. Penny Snapp voices the happenings in and around antebellum Cahaba which led to several unsettling encounters in...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Faithful Vigil at Carlisle Hall
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. Laura Snapp brings us into the setting at Carlisle Hall, where a young woman pines for her lover away at war, and waits to receive news of his fate in battle....
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - Death Lights in the Tower
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. This episode is read by Mandy Moore Broadhurst and tells of a 19th century home in Tuscaloosa which gives a red glow from its tower, as if it were coming from...
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WBS Live! - 13 Days of Halloween - The Ghost of the Angry Architect
Whole Backstage Live! brings you 13 Days of Halloween featuring stories from Kathryn Tucker Windham’s “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey”. This episode is voiced by Rich Resler. Formerly located in Lawrence County, Rocky Hill Castle no longer exists; but it was home to more than one ghostly visitor…
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WBS Live! - Ep. 7 - Patrick Sisk (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of my conversation with comedian Patrick Sisk. Patrick lives in Orlando and is on a mission to spread joy with comedy after taking a 10-year break from sharing his talents. Listen to Part 2 for insights on balancing a full time day job and comedy, filtering unsolicited advice, and whether...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 6 - Patrick Sisk (Part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of my conversation with comedian Patrick Sisk. Patrick lives in Orlando and is on a mission to spread joy with comedy after taking a 10-year break from sharing his talents. Listen to Part 1 for a quick catch up on the evolution of his career in comedy, the club scene in and around Orlando,...
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WBS Live! - Bonus - John Everett Brewer
This Bonus episode is an impromptu discussion with Whole Backstage performer and board member John Everett Brewer. He was born into the WBS family and has since graced our stage in many productions including Charley's Aunt, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol Radio Play, Little Shop of Horrors, and…
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WBS Live! - Ep. 5 - Adam Carboni
Adam Carboni is a WBS alum and Guntersville native who is currently working in the film industry as a cinematographer. With experience as a director, film maker, and cinematographer Adam has worked on a wide range of projects that have taken him all over the world to film. You will hear Adam's...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 4 - John Harvey on Big Band of Brothers
Producer John Harvey joins WBS Live! to give an inside look at the production process of the highly acclaimed album "Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band". Released in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band’s debut album, the project is a...
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WBS Live! - Ep. 3 - Grant Lackey
Denton catches up with WBS alum Grant Lackey. We cover how to see Broadway shows for cheap, Grant’s experiences at the Whole Backstage, Auburn University theatre experiences, Grant’s vocal coaching business, moving to NYC during a pandemic, his extensive Broadway Playbill collection, best pizza…
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WBS Live! - Ep. 2 - Sea Shanties
Episode 2 is a short trip into the world of Sea Shanties. Denton looks into the origin and development of a few of the more well known shanties and offers some examples of memorable recordings. Links for the recordings shared in the episode can be found below. Follow our socials for updates and...
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WBS Live! - Episode 1 - Black Tie Series with Johnny Brewer
Johnny Brewer and Denton Gillen get together at the historic Whole Backstage Theatre in beautiful Guntersville, AL to talk about Johnny's smash hit Black Tie musical revue series which includes Black Tie Broadway, Black Tie America, and Black Tie Christmas. We cover early versions of similar…
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The Whole Backstage is Alabama’s oldest continuously operating community theatre. This show offers radio plays, interviews, vocal performances, music, comedy, and drama.
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The Whole Backstage is Alabama’s oldest continuously operating community theatre. This show offers radio plays, interviews, vocal performances, music, comedy, and drama.
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