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[Audio] Little Shop of Horrors at MSU Theatre This Weekend

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On Sounds Good, Tracy Ross and Todd Hatton speak with MSU Music Department Professor Maribeth Crawford and members of the cast for Little Shop of Horrors about this weekend's production.

The rock musical utilizes four different puppets of the man-eating plant Audrey II. The larger puppets weigh 300 and 600 pounds and are manipulate by two actors. Dr. Chris Mitchell voices Audrey II while conducting the band.

Crawford says the play has a different ending than the movie and has a cast of just 10 students. It is rated PG-13 for language and violence and Crawford says children 6 and under will not be admitted to the show. Run time is about two hours with intermission. Tickets are available at murraystatetickets.com or by phone at 270-809-4421.

 

Tracy started working for WKMS in 1994 while attending Murray State University. After receiving his Bachelors and Masters degrees from MSU he was hired as Operations/Web/Sports Director in 2000. Tracy hosted All Things Considered from 2004-2012 and has served as host/producer of several music shows including Cafe Jazz, and Jazz Horizons. In 2001, Tracy revived Beyond The Edge, a legacy alternative music program that had been on hiatus for several years. Tracy was named Program Director in 2011 and created the midday music and conversation program Sounds Good in 2012 which he hosts Monday-Thursday. Tracy lives in Murray with his wife, son and daughter.
Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
A proud native of Murray, Kentucky, Allison grew up roaming the forests of western Kentucky and visiting national parks across the country. She graduated in 2014 from Murray State University where she studied Environmental Sustainability, Television Production, and Spanish. She loves meeting new people, questioning everything, and dancing through the sun and the rain. She hopes to make a positive impact in this world several endeavors at a time.
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