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Storyteller Kevin Kling returns to the Fitzgerald Theater June 7, welcoming five-time West Virginia Liars Contest champion Bil Lepp
May 24, 2007
WHAT: Stage Session with storyteller Kevin Kling, champion liar Bil Lepp and host Heather McElhatton
WHERE: Minnesota Public Radio's Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E Exchange St, St. Paul
WHEN: Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $29, $25 and $20; discounts are available for MPR members. Call the Fitzgerald Theater box office at 651-290-1221 or visit www.fitzgeraldtheater.org.
TUNE IN: This event will be recorded for broadcast (date TBD). Kevin Kling returns to the Fitzgerald Theater for another Stage Session appearance on June 7 at 7:30 p.m. Kling's childhood stories and topical observations touch upon universal human experiences, with plenty of absurdity and irony in the mix. Heather McElhatton will host.
For this show, Kling invited his friend Bil Lepp, five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars Contest and Methodist minister, to tell a few whoppers. Kling met Lepp at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., where he was floored by Lepp's performances. MPR's senior news editor Euan Kerr has been given four minutes on stage to tell a tale about setting out to learn German and how it almost got him killed.
The show will also feature Stage Session's ever-adventurous mix of words and music. Musical guests include singer and accordionist Simone Perrin, cellist Diane Tremaine and African drummer Kenneth Komtanghi performing a duo, and Wendy Lewis and her band. The house band will be the stellar and suave Robert Bell Trio.
Kling built his reputation with his groundbreaking plays "21A" and "Fear and Loving in Minneapolis" and toured his one-man show, Home and Away, across the United States. His stories appear frequently on NPR's All Things Considered. His latest collection, Alive, features nine of his stories and was recorded live with audience in The UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio.
Host Heather McElhatton's first novel, Pretty Little Mistakes, was published May 1. The book provides the reader with 150 possible endings, "some of them drug-fueled sexcapades," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Source: Data are copyright Arbitron, Inc., Nationwide and PSA data. Arbitron data are estimates only. Spring 2006/Fall 2006 average
Press Contacts:
Jennifer Haugh
Minnesota Public Radio
651-290-1369
jhaugh@mpr.org
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