{"id":24977,"date":"2023-02-19T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24977"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:57:15","slug":"audio-a-chat-with-dionne-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/audio-a-chat-with-dionne-warwick\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: A Chat with Dionne Warwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24978\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hits.jpg 550w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hits-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hits-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>Beloved and legendary entertainer Dionne Warwick is co-executive producer of a new musical revue. With her son and manager Damon Elliott, Ms. Warwick is one of the forces behind <em><strong>Hits! The Musical<\/strong><\/em>. A 50-city tour kicks off this coming week with a pair of shows on February 23 and 25, right here in Asheville North Carolina at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hits! The Musical<\/em> is built around a medley of 80 songs from across several decades. The production features a cast of 29 talented performers ranging in age from 7 to 22. Ahead of the premiere, I spoke with Dionne Warwick and Damon Elliott about the upcoming tour. <strong>Listen to our conversation below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24977-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dionne-Warwick.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dionne-Warwick.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dionne-Warwick.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about <i><b>Hits! The Musical<\/b><\/i> including tour dates and ticketing, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thehitstour.com\/\">thehitstour.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved and legendary entertainer Dionne Warwick is co-executive producer of a new musical revue. With her son and manager Damon Elliott, Ms. Warwick is one of the forces behind Hits! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44],"tags":[5097,5098],"class_list":["post-24977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-live-shows","tag-dionne-warwick","tag-hits-the-musical","cat-41-id","cat-44-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24982,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions\/24982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}