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\nHere\u2019s where I\u2019ll be this coming weekend conducting the bows music to my musical, The Color Purple, and then on Saturday morning from 11-12:30 sharp conducting my high school marching band playing a medley of my greatest hits in the GORRRRRGEOUS lobby of the historic Fox Theatre with the cast of The Color Purple singing along.\u00a0 I don\u2019t read music (despite writing all we\u2019re playing), and just imagine what the 60 piece Mumford marching band, 20 member pom pom squad, 25 member Color Purple cast, me and 250 attendees singing along will sound like in here\u2026 To kitsch!<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/mumfordinvite<\/a><\/p>\n My postings may be erratic this week as I\u2019m shooting the whole week as a documentary.\u00a0 I\u2019m also the closing keynote speaker at the Rust Belt To Arts Belt conference about the rejuvenation of Detroit on Thursday. http:\/\/www.rustbelttoartistbelt.com\/about\/<\/a>. I\u2019m making numerous trips to my high school, going on a lot of tours of the kitschiest places in the city, seeing high school and grade school friends, attending three performances of\u00a0 The Color Purple, and did I mention that my family planned my aunt\u2019s memorial right smack dab in the middle of the day of my marching band performance and two performances of the show??!<\/p>\n Hopefully I\u2019ll be posting little travelogues daily but no promises to what condition my brain will be in at the end of each day. Off to Detroit and we shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s where I\u2019ll be this coming weekend conducting the bows music to my musical, The Color Purple, and then on Saturday morning from 11-12:30 sharp conducting my high school marching band playing a medley of my greatest hits in the GORRRRRGEOUS lobby of the historic Fox Theatre with the cast of The Color Purple singing … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,2562,1501,87,193,13,2568,37,75,997,261],"tags":[2627,2559,2624,3260,2564,3256,943],"class_list":["post-30307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-detroit","category-families","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-school","category-self-expression","category-songwriting","category-the-color-purple","category-travel","tag-allee-willis-greatest-hits","tag-fox-theatre-detroit","tag-marching-band","tag-mumford-high-school","tag-rust-belt-to-arts-belt","tag-the-color-purple","tag-the-color-purple-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}