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Story: “Danville Mom Is New East Bay Impresario”

"Krissy Gray is the new managing director of central Contra Costa's venerable Diablo Theatre Company."
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Story: “Walnut Creek ‘Legally Blonde’ gets Broadway veteran as its star”

"Five years and six days ago, "Legally Blonde" opened its pre-Broadway preview in San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre. About that same time, Bailey Hanks was a kid living in South Carolina, eating, sleeping and breathing theater, and vowing that one day she would be Elle Woods on stage."
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Story: “Blonde Ambition” – Diablo Magazine

"After years of singing lessons, dance classes, and community theater, she won the MTV reality contest Legally Blonde, the Musical: the Search for Elle Woods. That landed Hanks the starring role in the Broadway adaptation of the hit Reese Witherspoon movie, and now she is re-creating the part for...
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Story: “What You Can Learn From a Blonde”

"The show is about Elle proving to her boyfriend, all the rest of us, and ultimately herself that she is anything but a stereotype."
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Story: “BWW Interviews LEGALLY BLONDE’s Bailey Hanks!”

"Hanks talked with BWW's Linda Hodges about what it was like to be in the MTV spotlight, how she handles the challenges in her life what scrumptious thing she and Elle have in common - besides being blondes!"
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Story: “A Blizzard in Walnut Creek”

"Diablo Theatre Company provides a Walnut Creek blizzard of nostalgia and love with the second annual presentation of White Christmas..."
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Story: It Was a Wicked Good Afternoon for Oz Contest

There was no place like Broadway Plaza Saturday afternoon for two generations of the Philips family of Concord (with one generation of French poodle as well). They linked arms and skipped away from an Oz-fest.
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Story: If you could be a Wizard of Oz character, which character would you be?

In 1981, Barbara Walters famously tried to get Katharine Hepburn to reveal some truth about her inner self by asking: “What kind of tree would you be?” Maybe a better way to unpeel that onion would have been to ask Hepburn, or anyone for that matter, “If you...
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Story: “Walnut Creek Woman Leaves Money to Local Theater Company”

Madeleine Neal, a Walnut Creek resident, has bequeathed $56,000 to the Diablo Theatre Company.
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Story: “Follow Your Dream” scholarship winner

Congrats to Christina Paolini of Martinez who was awarded the "Follow Your Dream" scholarship by the Diablo Theatre Company for her achievements in the performing arts.
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