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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

Scrabble, Episode 3

By Paul Oyler / May 18, 2010 /

OK, so on the first show, I won big, and then in the second show, I should have lost in the first round, then had a cakewalk in the second, and got impatient and blew a decent shot at the 5 grand in the Jackpot round.  That show was the last taping of the day,…

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Scrabble, Episode 2, Part 2

By Paul Oyler / May 18, 2010 /

In which I make a dumb mistake and maybe blow 5 grand.  Of course, if you think it’s easy, you try it…

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Til There Was You

By Paul Oyler / May 13, 2010 /

The most beautiful of the songs in The Music Man—chiefly because I’m not singing the melody, but only a little harmony at the end, with the very talented Katrina Scoggins leading the way!

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Marian the Librarian

By Paul Oyler / May 13, 2010 /

Perhaps the most challenging number I had to do, mainly because of the difficulty of getting the timing of the first stanza down.  But my exceptionally-talented leading lady, Katrina Scoggins, pulled me through, and at least on this night, we hit it dead-on.  Sorry that you’ve probably got to crank your speakers full-blast, but we…

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The Sadder but Wiser Girl

By Paul Oyler / May 13, 2010 /

If I hadn’t butchered a couple of tiny moments on this one, it might be the funniest of the videos from The Music Man:

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