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Inside The Arts: She Loves Me, Food of Love, Prescription Joy

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She Loves Me, Rich Arnold as Georg & Dody Piper as Amalia | Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane

This week on Inside the Arts, love blossoms between pen pals as Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane continues its season with the award- winning musical, She Loves Me. Artistic director Michael McKelvey joins us with cast members Richard Arnold and Dody Piper.

Then, Big Easy award-winning actress, Broadway and screen veteran Leslie Castay is returning to the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane with her original hit cabaret show, The Food of Love. It's subtitled, The Broad, The Ballad and The Bard. And, it features music inspired by Shakespeare. Leslie Castay joins us in studio.

And, Prescription Joy, presents an original play, Clean Squad: An Antiseptic Adventure. The healthcare clowning organization uses humor to help hospitalized children and their families heal. Alex Smith and Becca Chapman stop by for a chat.

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"This is NPR's Morning Edition, at 89.9 WWNO. Good Morning, I'm Diane Mack."