Dean Poling

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Published 11:22 am Sunday, March 30, 2025 VALDOSTA – Colt Ford didn’t know if he’d ever play Wild Adventures again. He didn’t know if he’d perform anywhere or do anything again. Last April, Ford finished a show, walked off an Arizona stage and collapsed. He suffered two heart attacks – widow makers, the kind that often kill instantly. He said he was brought back from the dead. Not once but twice. Ford has no memories of the heart attacks.

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Published 5:15 pm Monday, March 24, 2025 VALDOSTA – Something happened May 29, 1913, when composer Igor Stravinsky debuted “The Rite of Spring” as music for a ballet in Paris. “That ‘The Rite of Spring’ sparked the most famous riot in music history when it was premiered at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées … has long been the stuff of performing arts lore,” music critic Ted Libbey wrote. But did the premiere inspire a riot, or merely an outraged response?

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Published 11:18 am Monday, March 17, 2025 VALDOSTA – The secret for Mark and Jennifer McQuade’s happily ever after may be working together on a big Broadway musical production. Dr. Mark McQuade is the Lowndes High School director of theatre. Dr. Jennifer McQuade is the LHS director of chorus. They have been a couple for 21 years, have three children and work the long hours of preparing for a school production together.

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Published 8:08 am Saturday, March 15, 2025 VALDOSTA – Creating, producing and presenting shows celebrating genres of music is a fun challenge for Neil Berg. The challenge: Select the best Broadway tunes or the top rock & roll hits or the most memorable movie songs; research, curate and present fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about these songs, shows, performers, movies; cast top Broadway performers to sing these songs.

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Published 7:41 am Friday, March 14, 2025 Henry V: Dan JonesWhat most people know of medieval English King Henry V, if most people know anything at all about him, is what Shakespeare wrote of him. Rambunctious and partying young Prince Hal of “Henry IV Part I” and “Henry IV Part 2,” before becoming the serious warrior king of “Henry V.”And if what most people know is the Shakespearean Henry V then most people know the fiction of Henry V. In other words, most people don’t know Henry V.