
Southwest Florida In Focus | Episode 323| July 9th, 2026
7/9/2026 | 25m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Join Jennifer Crawford and the WGCU News team for the latest episode of Southwest Florida In Focus.
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Southwest Florida In Focus | Episode 323| July 9th, 2026
7/9/2026 | 25m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipTHIS IS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN FOCUSED.
COMING UP, A PARASITE TARGETING THE BODY IS SPREADING.
IT'S CALLED CYCLES WE'RE TALKING TO A DOCTOR ABOUT ITS IMPACT AND HOW YOU CAN STAY SAFE.
FROM THE MIDWEST TO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, THE CLASSIC MUSICAL OF CHICAGO.
A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT HOW THIS CHOREOGRAPHY CAME TO BE AND HAVE A CAST.
FEELS ABOUT LEARNING THESE MOVES AND WE LOOK AT WHAT IT TAKES TO GRADUATE FROM FIREFIGHTER TRAINING SCHOOL AS THE NEW CLASS OF FIRST RESPONDERS ARE READY TO ANSWER THE CALL.
HELLO, I'M JENNIFER CRAWFORD.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
HEAT WAVE WE'VE BEEN UNDER MAY ALSO BE THE CAUSE FOR AN INTESTINAL PARASITE.
IT'S SPREADING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
HE'S CALLED CYCLISTS AND THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAYS OUTBREAKS OCCUR WHEN THE TEMPERATURES HEAT UP IN LATE SPRING AND SUMMER.
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAS REPORTED 60 CASES IN THE STATE.
11 OF THOSE ARE IN LEE COUNTY, 2 IN COLLIER COUNTY AND ONE IN HIGHLANDS.
BUT OTHER STATES ARE SEEING A MUCH HIGHER SPIKE IN NUMBERS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST, MICHIGAN AND OHIO ARE REPORTING MORE THAN 1000 CASES COMBINED.
JOINING US NOW IS DOCTOR JAY GUPTA, PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM HERE AT FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY DOCTOR GUPTA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY IN STUDIO.
THERE ARE MANY CONCERNS RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE AND THE COUNTRY REGARDING THIS PARASITE.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHAT THIS IS?
>> AND STAY CLOSE FOR DAYS HAVE BEEN A SITE WHICH CAN THEN INFECT THE GUTS OF HUMAN BEINGS AND THE 2 BECAUSE IT CLOSES LIKE A GOOD IDEA.
AND THEN WITH THAT BOOMING IN CANNES THE SYMPTOMS AND LAKE FATIGUE THROUGH LAKE LOCATED FEVER HIT AND THE TIMES NOTED HANDFUL MEETING.
IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CLOSE THE PAGES.
JEN.
SO THOUGH IT'S NOT LIFE THREATENING, ONE SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS.
THE GATE ADDITION DOES NOT CALL KIT SPECIES IT DID AND A YOUNGER IT YOU WHAT IS THE CORRELATION BETWEEN OUR HIGH TEMPERATURES?
>> AND THIS PARASITE SPREADING.
>> YES, AND TYPICALLY IT'S A PLUS FOR THE CHANGE IN HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS THAT'S WEIGHTS AND PREVENT IN COUNTRIES LIKE MEXICO.
THEY DO AND NOT THE TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL COUNTRIES INCLUDING AS SOME OF THESE FEES YEAR AT.
SO IT'S IT'S IT'S QUITE PREVALENT IN THE SOUTH AND CENTER.
MIKA AND FOR YOU THIS TIME, IT IS, OF COURSE, HOT AND HUMID BUT THAT BEING SAFE AND IT TYPICALLY CASES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN LINKED TO IMPORTED PRODUCE AFFLICT.
THERE'S BEEN CONCERN AND THE CDCS CAN FUND.
DAN HAS ALSO BEEN AND DOMESTIC CASES THAT THESE CASES REACH ADAM AND THE CONTINUATION AS AL QAEDA MISTAKENLY.
BUT THE HISTORICALLY IT HAS BEEN AN IMPORTED FISH PRODUCE FRUIT.
SO YEAH, THE HEAT AND THE AND HUMID CONDITIONS SO FLOATED TO DO HAVE THOSE.
>> WHAT KINDS OF PRODUCTS AT THE STORE BERRIES BAGGED SALADS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
>> FISH, GREEN, LEAFY BEACH DAY.
IT IS BIG CITIES.
I LIKE THE FACT SALADS TO COME BOTH NESBY TEASE ME AND THEN I THINK ONLY IN SCHOOL BEING AND WHY TONY INS, THOSE THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN IMPLICATED WHITE ONIONS?
I THINK SO.
THOSE HAVE ALSO BEING TICKETED.
YEAH.
SO SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO AS CONSUMERS TO REALLY TRY HARD TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM GETTING SICK FROM THIS?
YES.
>> AND THE MAIN THING AND THEN THE MAIN POINT SAID THIS TENDED HYGIENIC HABITS, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WASH YOUR HANDS TOTALLY BEFORE AN OFTEN HANDING 3RD USE.
WATCH OUR GAMES ALL THE PRODUCE IN RUNNING WATER.
AND THE BEST WAY, OF COURSE, IS TO COOK IT.
AND BECAUSE IT DOES INSIDE OF A VEHICLE CONTAINED PAGES, EVEN TO FREEZE ANYTHING.
THEY'RE NOT FOOLPROOF.
SO THE BEST WAYS TO AND THEN FOR UNIQUE FISH FOOD USE TO WEST IN CODY.
AND TIM.
IT DID COAT.
>> AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IF YOU HAVE THIS PARASITE, IT CAN SORT OF BEING YOUR SYSTEM FOR A WHILE BEFORE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON AND IT COULD LAST FOR WEEKS.
THE SYMPTOMS THAT'S TRUE AND IN CONDITION, PETE, IT AS A COLONY DETAINED TAKEN FOR THE BETTIS 8 DEVELOP SYMPTOMS.
>> AND HUMAN BEING SITS BETWEEN 2 AND 14 DAYS AND THEN OUT OF THE DITCH AND WE CAN SEE IN A WEEK.
AND DID AND THAT.
AND THIS THING COMES REALLY AT THE END.
IT AND THE MAY DISAPPEAR FROM THE SECOND FIGHT.
IF NOT, HE DID IF HE DID WITH AND THEY VOTE, EAT IT KILLED.
OF COURSE.
BUT IF NOT TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS, THEN THEY MEET.
THEY MEET AND THE MEDIA THAT WOULDN'T BE THE END OF WEEKS AND EVEN MONTHS.
IN MANY CASES, OF COURSE, IT'S 50 MEETING.
IT DOESN'T OKAY.
GUY.
BUT IN SOME CASES IT MAY KIND OF LINGER.
AND THAT MIGHT LEAD TO CONTINUOUS NO LOSS OF APPETITE CONTINUOUS DATA AND TO DO SO, WAIT EVEN.
>> ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE OUR AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS?
>> OF COURSE, >> FOR SKI AND I WANT TO SHAVE.
YOU WANT THAT THESE NO COST TO AND DISDAIN THIS CDC IS CLOSELY MONITORING THE SITUATION.
AND AT THE DATA BEING A LUCAS SPIKE IN LEE COUNTY, WHICH IS MORE THAN THAT TYPICAL CASES.
WE HAVE EV.
AND BY THE WAY, WE DO HAVE SOME CASES IF THE UNIT BUT THAT COULD BECOME THE NEWEST AND FIFE.
SO AND DCF.
THERE HAS BEEN A SPIKE AND WHAT YOU JUST THINK TO WE STILL DON'T KNOW.
WE DON'T EAT LINKED TO CALL MY SHOE FROM REGIS WHICH IS THEN DISTRIBUTE THROUGH THE PRODUCE ON THE EVE OF THE COUNTRY.
WHAT WE DID STILL MYSTIQUE AND WITH THAT EVEN THE SPIKE IN FOOD INTO IS IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THAT KIND OF OLD BIG IN DID MICHIGAN AND THE KNOWLEDGE AND NOTICED IT'S NICE TO DO NOT KNOW.
SO I JUST SEE THAT BIG CAREFUL AND CAUTIOUS BUT DAYS NO NEED TO BE.
AND THIS IS SO THE ISLAND AT THIS STAGE, AT LEAST.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY.
DOCTOR GUPTA.
>> THANK YOU.
>> FOR THE LATEST ON CASES OF THE PARASITE IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL.
YOU CAN VISIT WGCU DOT ORG.
LIVESTOCK ARE A PILLAR OF FLORIDA'S ECONOMY.
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, IT SAYS CATTLE RANCHING AND DAIRY OPERATIONS BROUGHT IN MORE THAN 1.0 1 BILLION DOLLARS IN SALES REVENUES IN 2022.
WHEN AN OUTBREAK OF THE NEW WORLD SCREWWORM HIT TEXAS CATTLE IN JUNE.
IT RAISED CONCERNS FOR FLORIDA'S AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY.
WGCU RADIO HOST MIKE KINIRY TALKED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PROFESSOR ABOUT POTENTIAL IMPACTS.
>> THIS IS GULF COAST LIFE.
I'M MIKE KINIRY.
THANKS FOR JOINING US.
THE NEW WORLD SCREWWORM HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY BECAUSE IT TURNED UP IN SOUTHERN TEXAS AND EARLY JUNE.
THESE PARASITES ARE ENDEMIC TO CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA THESE DAYS.
THEY WERE ONCE PRESIDENT IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES BUT WERE ERADICATED IN THE MID 1960'S.
THE PARASITE IS ACTUALLY A FLY WHOSE LARVAE BURROW INTO AND FEED ON THE LIVING FLESH OF WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS.
CATTLE PRIMARILY IN THE TEXAS CASES UNCHECKED SCREWWORM OUTBREAKS CAN BE ECONOMICALLY DEVASTATING FOR CATTLE AND OTHER LIVESTOCK.
FARMERS.
THERE'S ACTUALLY A LOCALIZED OUTBREAK OF THE NEW WORLD SCREW WORMS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS IN 2016, BUT IT WAS CONTAINED USING WHAT'S CALLED THE STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE WHERE MILLIONS OF STERILE FLIES ARE RELEASED WITH THE GOAL OF THE MATING WITH WILD FEMALES WHICH CRASHED THE POPULATION BECAUSE OF SCREWWORM OUTBREAK IS POTENTIALLY A BIG DEAL FOR THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING HERE IN FLORIDA.
I'M JOINED TODAY BY DR CAMPOS KRAUER.
HES CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LARGE ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES AND DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE, ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, DR CAMPOS KRAUER.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW.
>> IT'S A PLEASURE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM IT.
>> SO EXPLAIN A-G'S DESCRIBE WHAT US AS FOR OUR LISTENERS.
>> YEAH.
ALL OF THIS CRIME HE DID IN A VERY SIMPLE TERMS.
THE SCREWWORM IS A FRY THAT'S NATIVE FOR MOST OF THE AMERICA SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA FOLLOW UNITED STATES.
IT WAS AROUND FOR A LONG TIME UNTIL THE WAS ERADICATED IN THE CELLAR.
UNITED STATES.
THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS FLY IN ANY OTHER FRIDAY LEDS EGGS AND THEY PRODUCE LARRY BOSS OR MY GUTS.
IS THAT MOST OF THE OTHER FRIES?
LAY THEIR EGGS ON THE ROTTING ARE DEAD CLEATS.
FOR THE LARVA TO GROUP FOR THESE EGGS TO HATCH, THE LARVAE, TO COME IN AND START FEEDING ON THAT.
THE BIG DIFFERENCE WITH THIS IS THAT THE SCREWWORM?
THAT'S ON DEAD AND ANIMALS OR THINGS.
IT FEEDS ON LIVE GETTING EARLY.
BUT THE WARM BLOOD AND THE MOST.
THAT'S THE BIG THING.
AND THE OTHER THING IS ALSO WITH YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT A PATHOGEN IS NOT A DISEASE.
IT'S A PARASITE.
SO THIS FLY TENDS TO SEARCH FOR THE MOST ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR ANIMALS THAT HAVE SMALL MUSICIANS CA BRUCE SAYS, AND THAT ATTRACTS THIS FLY IN.
THAT'S WHERE HE'S GOING TO LAY ITS AND IN THOSE EGGS WILL HATCH INTO LITTLE LARVA.
AND THOSE MAGGOTS WILL GO IN AND THEY START FEEDING MORE ACCESS TO ON THESE ON THE TISSUE OF LIVING ANIMAL.
>> HOW CONCERNED ARE FLORIDA CATTLE FARMERS AND OTHER LIVESTOCK FARMERS?
I GUESS DEER FARMERS ABOUT THESE FLIES POTENTIALLY SHOWING UP IN FLORIDA RIGHT NOW.
>> WELL, EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS WORRY WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE.
PROBABLY THE OLDER OLDER PRODUCERS, IT HAD A LITTLE EXPERIENCE BEFORE IT WAS GONE BY AND YOU ARE PRODUCES.
I'VE NEVER SEEN THESE CASES.
AND AS ALWAYS SHARE MONDAY.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE A GROUP HERE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA.
WE'RE WORKING IN COORDINATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WORKING GROUP NATION WITH FOR THEM FAST AND EFFICIENT WILDLIFE TO BE ABLE TO.
IT PREVENTS THIS FLY FROM COMING IN AND IF A COMES IN, THERE ARE ALSO WAYS TO TREAT IT.
SO THAT'S THE OTHER THING IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.
THERE ARE TREATMENTS TO PREVENT THE INFECTION AND ALSO TO CURE THE INFECTION.
IS ALWAYS THAT ALL OF THE TRICKY PART WILL ALWAYS BE WILDLIFE BECAUSE HE'S, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN REALLY HOLD AND CATCH ALL THE WILDLIFE.
YOU NEVER KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE SO THEY CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE TRICKY BY FOR PRODUCERS.
I THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK OLD.
LOOK FOR IN TERMS OF.
WORK WITH YOUR RETURNING AREA.
MAKE SURE THAT HE'S AWARE OF THE NEW PRODUCTS.
THERE ARE OUT.
THERE HAVE JUST BEEN APPROVED FOR USE IN CASE THERE'S AN OUTBREAK BUT WERE WORKING REALLY HARD TO TRY TO PREVENT THIS FLIGHT FROM COMING INTO FLORIDA.
>> WELL, THAT IS UNFORTUNATELY ALL THE TIME WE HAVE AND WANT TO THANK MY GUESTS.
DR.
ONE CAMPUS CROWDER IS CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LARGE ANIMAL CLINICAL SCIENCES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE, ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
DOCTOR CAMPUS CROWDER.
I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
>> THE IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE.
AND ANYTIME YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE REACH OUT.
Coming up, a musical classic has to find a way to maneuver around the stage with its own choreography.
A look behind the scenes about how Chicago is moving Southwest Florida.
THIS YEAR MARKS THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROADWAY REVIVAL OF CHICAGO.
THE SECOND LONGEST RUNNING MUSICAL IN BROADWAY HISTORY.
MELODY LANE THEATER IS PERFORMING THE MUSICAL AT THE ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS JULY 10TH THROUGH THE 12TH WGCU ARTS REPORTER TOM HALL HAS DETAILS.
WHEN MELODY LANE THEATER, SELECTED CHICAGO FOR SUMMER STOCK SHOW.
SAMMY DOUGHERTY KNEW THE THEATER COULDN'T AFFORD THE RIGHTS TO BOB FAUCI'S ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY.
>> SO SHE AND ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER ATHENA ROSE BELLIS THAT THE NEXT BEST DIRECTORY THEY CREATED THE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY THAT WOULD MAKE BOB FOSSE, PROUD.
THE RESULT IS A SPLENDID IF OR SHOW GUARANTEED RASSEL DAZZLE ON SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AUDIENCE HERE'S ATHENA ROSE BELLIS.
>> WE LOVE THE WHOLE FOSSE STYLE OF IT.
AND WE DEFINITELY WERE WANTING TO HEAVILY LEAN INTO THAT CYLIS STICK SIDE OF THINGS AND ALSO THE LIKE ICONIC PARTS OF CHICAGO.
>> THE SPREAD HE REALLY FINDING WAYS TO KEEP THE ORIGINALITY OF IT.
>> BUT ALSO ADD OUR LITTLE SPIN SEEN GEORGIA OR A NARROW PLAYS.
ROXIE HART.
>> HERE'S HER TAKE ON THE ESSENCE OF FAUCI'S DISTINCTIVE DANCE VOCABULARY.
IT'S IT'S REALLY A RESTRICTIVE.
A LOT OF IT IS.
>> EVEN THOUGH IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S SLOWLY, YOU REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO KEEP EVERYTHING.
PERFECTLY IN LINE.
SO IT LOOKS HOW BOB FOSSE INTENDED IT TO BE.
>> THAT'S ON FULL DISPLAY IN THE SHOW.
SUBVERSIVE LISA DUCT OF OPENING NUMBER.
ALL THAT JAZZ IS A LOT OF WHAT FAUCI.
>> HIGHLIGHTS IS SMALL.
SHARP MOVEMENTS.
SO YOU'LL SEE IN THE OPENING OF ALL THAT JAZZ.
THERE IS A MOMENT WHERE THEY HAVE THEIR FINGER UP.
AND THE ONLY THING THAT MOVES IS THIS FINGER.
SO I LIKE TO TELL THE KIDS LIKE THERE'S A SPOTLIGHT ON THAT ONE BODY PART OF THAT ONE MOVEMENT.
>> AUTHORITY, I'M BELLA.
SOME BREAKS FAUCI'S MOVEMENT, A STENT WHICH FLIES IN THE FACE OF THE ELONGATED LINES IN OUR ROTATION OF CLASSICAL BALLET.
ANOTHER THING THAT SAMMY LIKES IMPLEMENT TO IS THIS KIND OF BROKEN THIS THAT HE LIKES TO CREATE WITH LINES.
>> SO INSTEAD OF JUST STANDING UP STRAIGHT, HE'LL HAVE LIKE ONE SIDE BENT.
>> WHAT DOUGHERTY AND ELLIS ARE NOT MERE MINUTES.
THEY PUT THEIR OWN UNIQUE SPIN ON EVERY NUMBER.
THEY'RE IN ADDITION, ALL THAT JAZZ IS A SHOWSTOPPER.
COMBINING THE DECADENCE OF CABARET WITH THE POLISH OF A CHORUS LINE JOVAN EDGE.
THE TECH WHO PLAYS VELMA.
KELLY PUTS IT LIKE THIS.
>> I FEEL LIKE IT'S STILL VERY TRUE TO FOSSE, BUT JUST MAYBE A LITTLE BIT LESS.
>> I THOUGHT ABOUT BULL BULL LIKE A LITTLE MORE.
JUST LIKE JUST A LITTLE MORE POLISHED.
I DO THAT.
>> ONE NUMBER IN PARTICULAR ILLUSTRATES THE ORIGINALITY THAT DOHERTY BELLIS AND DIRECTOR AMBER AND TULARE AND FRAUD TO THE SHOW.
THAT'S WE BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN AND THE NUMBER BELIEF LIMITS TYPICALLY PORTRAYED AS A FRONT ROW.
A QUEST WITH ROXY AS HE'S COMING SITTING IN ISLAM.
>> WE WANTED TO SPEND IT MORE LIKE AN AREA.
THAT'S ALL SO THAT WAS REALLY FUN.
BEING ABLE TO.
KIND OF JUST TAKE DO A WHOLE DIFFERENT TAKE ON THAT NUMBER.
THEN WHAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY SEE IN A LOCAL PRODUCTION OR ON BROADWAY.
A OKAY.
AND HE'S LIKE CONTROLLING ME WITH THOSE LIKE >> STICK-ON STRINGS.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT ROXY IS BEING CONTROLLED THROUGH BILLY FLYNN IN A SHOW FILLED WITH NUMEROUS SHOWSTOPPERS >> HONEY, HOT RAG IS A STANDOUT MOMENT.
EMBLEMATIC OF THE MUSICAL'S ENERGY AND FLAIR ROXY DEVELOPMENT TO LET IS DEFINITELY GEORGIA.
RUN ARROWS IN YOUR VONAGE.
THE TAX FAVORITE NUMBER.
>> SHE'S REALLY JUST LETTING GO AND HAVING FUN.
IT'S ALMOST FEELS LIKE SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD REALLY POINT.
>> WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER.
DO I LIKE HER?
>> HECK, NO, NO, WE DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER.
BUT THERE IS A >> MUTUAL RESPECT.
AND I FEEL LIKE.
HONESTLY BETWEEN GEORGIA ARE CLOSE, THERE IS MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF SOME SORT OF LIKE.
TRUST, WHICH IS KIND OF CRAZY BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH SO UNTRUSTWORTHY.
BILITY LANDS VARIATION OF CHICAGO IS SMART HOME REGINAL.
>> AND WELL ACTED.
WELL, SON AND WELL DANCE.
WHAT MAKES CHICAGO SO SPECIAL?
IS IT SATIRE AND ITS CYNICISM?
IT'S A BROADWAY PASTICHE WITHIN A 1920'S VAUDEVILLE FRAME.
IT'S THE WAY THE WRITERS MAKE THE AUDIENCE COMPLICIT IN BLINDLY LOVING ROXIE AND VELMA EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE 2 COLD-BLOODED MURDERERS.
BUT ITS ALSO TIMELY.
IT'S AN INDICTMENT OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND OUR PERIOD FASCINATION WITH SENSATIONALISM.
AS A SEGMENT SHOWS THE MELODY LANE THEATER PRODUCTION IS SPECIAL BECAUSE OF ITS UNIQUE SLANT ON BOB COSTAS, TRADITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY AND IT'S AN ASSERTION OF AN ACTUAL MC IN THE GUISE OF FAITH FARNSWORTH WHO DRUNKENLY KEEPS THE AUDIENCE INVESTED IN THE CHARACTERS AND THE STORY LINE, WHAT'S BECOME A MORE RECENT CLASSIC PRO-AM CLOSE TO FORT MYERS THERE LAST WEEKEND.
BUT SEVERAL OTHER THEATERS ARE ALSO PRODUCING THE SHOW.
THE ARTS BONITA, ACTOR THEATERS BRINGING FROZEN TO THE STAGE, JULY 17TH THROUGH THE 26.
IT FEATURES A NUMBER OF ALL-STAR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL FEE.
NOMS WERE BACK IN TOWN FROM COLLEGE FOR THE SUMMER AS MOTION AND NELSON CANTERBURY GRADUATE, WHO'S HEADED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IN PURSUIT OF A DEGREE IN ACTING IN THE FALL.
NOW, I WAS RECENTLY AT ONE OF THE REHEARSALS WHERE SHE INLAND HAMAS.
WE'RE LEARNING THE CHOREOGRAPHY FOR LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR.
SINCE IT'S RELEASE THAT TRAFFIC FROM THE MOVIE EARNED OVER 215 MILLION PLAYS ON SPOTIFY.
IT'S ALSO THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY.
DISNEY VILLE, I'M SAYING WITH THE DISNEY PRINCESS.
AND THE NUMBER HOGS APPEARS TO BE A CHARMING PRINCE WHO SWEEPING ON OFF HER FEET.
BUT THERE'S MUCH MORE GOING ON THAN THAT.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK.
THIS MAY LOOK LIKE AN EARLY REHEARSAL, BUT ACTUALLY 2 TALENTED ACTORS LAND OF MOSS AND SHANNON NELSON BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF LEARNING THE CHOREOGRAPHY FOR LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR WONDER FROZEN'S MOST PSYCHOLOGICALLY SUBTLE SONG.
ITS SHANNON NELSON IS A RECENT CANTERBURY SCHOOL GRADUATE WHO BEGINS PURSUIT OF A BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS AND ACTING IN THE FALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IN WINSTON-SALEM.
WHEN HAMAS IS A SOPHOMORE AT PACE UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK CITY.
THEY'RE PLAYING PRINCESS ANA OF ARUNDEL AND PRINCE HANS OF THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS ON ITS SURFACE.
LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR, APPEARS TO BE A MEET CUTE WHICH ON AND HANS FALL IN LOVE.
IS REALLY TURNS ON THE CHARM.
AND AT THE END OF THE NUMBER PROPOSES MARRIAGE, WHICH ON A READILY ACCEPTS THE PREMISE SEEMS OUTLANDISH.
IN FACT, AN ASSIST OR REMARKS THAT THE QUICK ENGAGEMENT IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.
IT IS BUT NOT FOR THE REASON YOU MIGHT THINK ON A 16.
LOCKED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN A DARK, ISOLATED CASTLE FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.
SHE'S HAD NO CHANCE TO WORK THROUGH THE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA OF LOSING BOTH PARENTS AND BEING SHUT OUT BY HER SISTER NOT TO MENTION BEING DENIED ANY CONTACT WITH CHILDREN OF HER OWN AGE.
AND ALONG COMES HINES, THE FIRST PERSON TO SHOW HER ANY INTEREST OR AFFECTION THAT WELL, SHE CAN REMEMBER EVER IN THE SONG ON A SINGS.
I SEE YOUR FACE.
THAT'S CODE FOR THE REALITY THAT SHE'S BLINDED BY THE FACADE, DEEPER SENSE AND DOESN'T REALLY KNOW HIS HEART AND WHAT IS IN HOMS AS HEART SPOILER ALERT.
HANS IS MAKING A POWER GRAB.
HE TOLD HER THAT HIS 13TH IN THE LINE OF SUCCESSION TO HIS FATHER'S THRONE AND HAS BEEN, QUOTE, SEARCHING HIS HOME LIFE FOR HIS OWN PLACE ON IS NAIVE.
HEART MELTS AT THE SEEMING VULNERABILITY, BUT SAYS MOSS PAUSES USING VULNERABILITY TO GAIN HONEST TRUST.
IT'S A TOOL OF MANIPULATION AND IT'S ON FULL DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE SONG.
THAT'S A LESSON MUST LEARNED IN HIS SCRIPT ANALYSIS CLASS AT PACE UNIVERSITY ANA.
AND MOST OF THE FROZEN AUDIENCE.
I THINK THAT ON IN HOMS ARE IN SYNC AS THEY PERFORM THE SONGS CHOREOGRAPHY.
BUT MOSS HAS TO GIVE SUBTLE HINTS THAT THAT'S REALLY NOT THE CASE AT ALL.
HE'S A HALF STEP BEHIND HIS MIRRORING HER MOVEMENTS.
HE'S MIMICKING HER WORDS.
HE'S PRETENDING THAT HE'S THINKING WHAT SHE'S THINKING.
BUT IT'S AN ACT.
IT'S A SUBTERFUGE TO GAIN HER CONFIDENCE.
AND WHEN HER HEART WHILE LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR, MAY LOOK LIKE ANY OTHER SURFACE LEVEL.
DISNEY DANCE NUMBER.
THE SONG IS DESIGNED TO ALERT THE AUDIENCE TO HANS DIABOLICAL AGENDA.
WHICH IS TO CLAIM THE KINGDOM HAS HIS OWN.
THAT EXPLAINS ELSA'S REJECTION OF HER SISTER'S ENGAGEMENT AND WHAT LEADS HER TO CLOAK THE KINGDOM IN A PERPETUAL WINTER OF ICE AND SNOW.
SO HATS OFF TO COMPOSERS.
KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ AND ROBERT LOPEZ FOR THIS EXPERT USE OF THE LITERARY TO LIVE FOR BOATING IN THE GUISE OF A SEEMINGLY SHALLOW DISNEY.
MEET KID.
YOU CAN SEE THE FINAL PRODUCT WHEN FROZEN TAKES THE STAGE AT THE ARTS BONITA CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, JULY 17TH THROUGH THE TWENTY-SIXTH FOR WDSU NEWS.
TOM HALL.
>> COMING UP, THE NEXT GENERATION OF FIREFIGHTERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS ARE READY FOR THE CALL AND WE'RE FINDING OUT THE CALL AND WE'RE FINDING OUT Exactly what they go through to earn a degree and the bond that they have already forged.
AT FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF FIREFIGHTERS IS READY TO RESPOND.
THE SCHOOL'S FIRE ACADEMY OFFERS BOTH THE FIREFIGHTER, ONE AND FIREFIGHTER TO CERTIFICATES WHEN PAIRED WITH AN EMT CERTIFICATION STUDENTS CAN FIND JOBS AS FIREFIGHTERS AT MOST FIRE STATIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
FSW GRADUATES TO CLASSES PER YEAR AND WGCUS EMMA RODRIGUEZ WAS AT THE FIRST CEREMONY FOR THE GRADUATES.
>> 6 MONTHS AND 482 HOURS OF TRAINING >> IF YOU READY, THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES.
ASPIRING FIRST RESPONDERS IN FLORIDA.
>> TO BECOME CERTIFIED IN FIREFIGHTER ONE AND FIREFIGHTER TO ITS 3 DAYS A WEEK OF PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, PUTTING OUT SIMULATED FIRES, THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF THE JOB AND TEAM BONDING FIREFIGHTING IS CLASS LEADER BRANDON VALDEZ IS NEXT.
STEP AFTER LEAVING THE MILITARY AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT.
HE SAYS HE LOVED THE EXPERIENCE MORE THAN ANYTHING.
>> THE FIRE SERVICE IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IN THE WORLD.
I WANT TO BE A PART OF IT.
BUT OVER TIME WE JUST GREW TOGETHER IS LIKE A GROUP, A TEAM AND A FAMILY.
AND IT JUST GOT TIGHTER.
AND THEY REALIZE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT AN INLAND TENSION PERSON.
I JUST WANT THE BEST FOR US.
>> THROUGH FSW PARTNERSHIP WITH NORTH COLLIER FIRE STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO EQUIPMENT AND GO THROUGH DRILLS.
THE ACADEMY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ON ITS OWN PARTNERING WITH A LOCAL STATION IS TYPICAL FOR A FIRE ACADEMY, BUT NOT ALL CLASSES HAVE 100% PASS RATE LIKE THIS JULY'S CLASS TUSD AS NORTH COLLIER FIRE DEPUTY CHIEF MICHAEL JIMENEZ POINTS OUT.
>> THE WAY IT HELPS HIM IS THAT THEY HAVE MORE HANDS-ON AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY SEEING WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SEE IN THEIR CAREER.
SO INSTEAD OF HAVING TO IMAGINE, I THINK OF WHAT IT IS THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO.
WE HAVE EVERYTHING FROM A ROOF PROP.
WE HAVE THINGS FROM TO CUT.
WE HAVE ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO FOR FORCIBLE ENTRY.
SO WE HAVE DOORS SO THEY GET TO DO SEARCH AND RESCUE AND EVERYTHING AS THEY WOULD IN REAL LIFE.
>> SOME GRADUATES ARE ALREADY HAVE THEIR EMPTY CERTIFICATION IN WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR JOBS AND FIND EMPLOYMENT.
BUT THE CREDENTIALS AREN'T THE ONLY THING THEY BURNED.
ACCORDING TO GRADUATE ROCKWALL SACK.
HE'S HOPING TO BE HIRED WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR AND EVENTUALLY BECOME A PARAMEDIC.
>> REALLY TAUGHT ME >> A LOT OF THINGS THAT MANNERS, PERSEVERANCE, HARD WORK.
I OWE EVERYTHING I'VE LEARNED THIS COUNTY.
I KNOW WE'LL STICK WITH THE FLUORESCENT LIGHTS AND A REALLY, REALLY HAS SHAPED ME INTO A BETTER PERSON.
FOR WGCU NEWS IM EMMA RODRIGUEZ.
>> THE NEXT APPLICATION WINDOW FOR THE FSW FIRE ACADEMY OPENS ON THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
HAVE A GREAT EVENING.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN RIGHT HERE ON SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN FOCUS.
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