S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. On today's Arts and Culture show , we hear about a new KPBS series , plus a remembrance of a legendary figure in San Diego art. I'm Andrew Bracken in for Jane Heinemann. Here's to conversations that keep you informed , inspired , and make you think. A new video podcast from KPBS looks into the history of stripper energy and activism in San Diego.
S3: When I was closing up the girls , the parking lot was empty. I went out to my car and there were still three guys there and they won't let me leave. They have my car door. They're laughing. They think it's funny. And so I take my gun and I pointed it at them and I said , I've asked you really nicely. I have to get home. Oh , the look on their face. So that was a little bit of my stripper energy. I was not going to let anybody frighten me.
S1: KPBS host Debbie Cruz speaking with arts reporter Beth Accomando. She's the creator and host of the new KPBS video podcast Stripper Energy Fighting Back from the fringes. The first episode is out now on YouTube or@kpbs.org. You'll want to catch up before episode two drops on June 5th. When we come back , we revisit a conversation with the Tony nominated director of the musical The Outsiders.
S5: The outsiders follows Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny Cade to 114 year old and 115 year old trying to get by in Tulsa , Oklahoma. It's a story about class warfare. It's a story about chosen family and belonging , and it's also a story about masculinity in all its forms and its tenderness and its aggression and rage , in its love. And at its heart , I think it is about friendship and belonging.
S5: So one thing that felt really important to all of us was to tell a story that could be true to the time. You know , one of the first lyrics you hear in the musical is This is Tulsa in 1967 , which is such a particular time in this country. So that felt really interesting to us to explore.
S5: I remember getting the script and the demos and turning on the first song , Cool Hand Luke , and just grooving like , you know , the band has been rehearsing for the first time , so I've been able to hear kind of the sound with its nine piece orchestra , and it's funky and it's so good , and it's so from the heart , and it's so visceral. And so that's something that I find really unique to the musical theater world.
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