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How do you take one of the most challenging and powerhouse songs on the contemporary stage and make it your own? Dreamgirls opens at Columbia Entertainment Company on October 24th and this week Diana Moxon chats with its director, David Hall, and actors Olivia Henderson and ShaMarea Houston, who'll be performing as Effie White in the show and singing the huge song made famous by Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson, 'And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going'. In Act Two of this week's show, Diana talks to Columbia Art League Executive Director, Kelsey Hammond, and Central Bank of Boone County's Vice President of Marketing, Mary Wilkerson, about the 60th annual Boone County Art Show and how it all got started on a rainy Saturday morning back in 1960.

On this week's Speaking of the Arts Diana talks art, non-profit management, and dynamic grandmothers with the Columbia Art League's new Executive Director, Kelsey Hammond, and then Dr. Joan Stack stops by to talk about the river-inspired new Center for Missouri Studies, which opens on Saturday 10th August, and what you put in a 5,400 square foot gallery when you have over 12,000 works to choose from.