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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chante LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about all of the plays you can expect to see this summer!

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman discussing The Clean House playing through June 29 at the Horizon Theatre.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about Song of the Living Dead!: A Zombie Musical at Dad’s Garage. The musical, directed by Kate Warner with music composed by Eric Frampton, runs June 6-July 5.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes chatting with CL’s own David Lee Simmons about Bruce Davidson’s Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-68.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about Sweeney Todd playing through June 1 at the Fox Theatre.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about Out of Hand Theater’s Schreibstück.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and Debbie Michaud discussing Marcus Kenney’s exhibit Midnight in America showing at the Marcia Wood Gallery.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about the 2008 Summer Guide — dropping today! Check it out for the best 111 things to do this summer.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman discussing the play Some Men playing at Actor’s Express.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing two plays currently showing in Atlanta: Blood Type: Ragu (through May 11, 14th Street Playhouse) and The Poetry of Pizza (through June 8, Theatre on the Square).

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes chatting about the Sculpture in Motion exhibit at the Botanical Gardens. Through Oct. 31. Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave. Tues.-Sun., 9 a.m.-7 p.m. $9-$12. 404-876-5859. atlantabotanicalgarden.org.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (through May 17 at 7 Stages) and Free Comic Book Day happening this Sat., May 3.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s David Lee Simmons and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing The Marriage of Figaro. $27.50-$133.50. Sat., April 26, 8 p.m.; Tues., April 29, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., May 2, 8 p.m.; Sun., May 4, 3 p.m. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. 404-817-8700. www.atlantaopera.org.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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The Marriage of Figaro

$27.50-$133.50. Sat., April 26, 8 p.m.; Tues., April 29, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., May 2, 8 p.m.; Sun., May 4, 3 p.m. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. 404-817-8700.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sandra Piques Eddy (far right) has made Cherubino, the precocious pubescent pageboy of Mozart’s classic opera The Marriage of Figaro, a staple in her repertoire. After all, the character was the focus of her master’s thesis in music performance at Boston University, where she decided that moving from soprano into the lower range of mezzo-soprano would better fit her voice.

“Before I switched, I was auditing some classes, and I remember hearing one of the [two] arias by Cherubino,” the Boston native says of the 18th-century opera’s famous “pants” role, where a female plays a male. “And I thought, what a great aria. I even thought it was a soprano aria at first. But I thought to myself, ‘That would be so fun to sing an aria like that!’”

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Debbie Michaud and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing vegan and activist Gene Baur’s compelling new book, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the play In Darfur. Through May 11. $15-$30. Horizon Theatre, 1083 Austin Ave. Wed.-Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 p.m.; Sun. 5 p.m.; April 19 & May 3 5 p.m. 404-584-7450. www.horizontheatre.com.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing Doubt, playing on the Atlanta Stage at the Alliance Theatre through May 4.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Janelle Monáe is almost finished limbering up in Studio 1 on the first floor of the Atlanta Ballet’s building on West Peachtree, doing her stretches in black leotard and black-and-white floral-print skirt. She has the figure of a ballerina, with a face of brown porcelain and her trademark hair pulled back in a bun.

But this is a world alien to even the interstellar-inspired Monáe. She’s no ballet dancer; she’s a pixie-sized, big-voiced singer from the world of OutKast’s hip-hop and soul. Monáe stares into a wall-to-wall mirror, her reflection moving not to a selection of Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev, but her own song, “Sincerely Jane.”

It’s one of about 10 contemporary songs that will intersect with orchestral music for big, an unprecedented ballet and hip-hop collaboration this weekend between the Atlanta Ballet and OutKast’s Big Boi. In addition to the hip-hop star, artists associated with his Purple Ribbon Entertainment group will perform. Monáe’s the only one who’s actually dancing in the production as well as singing in one of the numbers, so it’s important to nail this down as precisely as possible.

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As part of this week’s cover story on the Atlanta Ballet’s collaboration with Big Boi, David Lee Simmons spoke with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, a group that had previously worked with the Ballet for Shed your skin.

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Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal / Music for this podcast was provided by the Podsafe Music Network

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s David Lee Simmons and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing this week’s cover story (out today) about big, the collaboration between Outkast’s Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet. big. $25-$125. Thurs.-Sat., April 10-12, 8 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., April 12-13, 2 p.m.; Sun., April 13, 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. 404-817-8700. www.foxtheatre.org.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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