Friday Special Blend
Friday November 8th, 2024 with Susan Johnston - Micah Petti - Gianluca Petti
The Lion in Winter (Phoenix Players). Johnny Delivers (Wayne Ng). Funding Drive.

In Hour One, a gaggle of actors join Susan, Gianluca, and Micah in-studio to talk about The Lion in Winter (Written by JAMES GOLDMAN Directed by RICH HUTON), on stage November 15-23 at The Gladstone Theatre - Christmas 1183: The Plantagenets are gathering for a family Christmas and Henry II has a succession plan…. . When the rest of the family includes Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard Lion Heart and Philip King of France it’s by no means a slam dunk. The Lion in Winter is a comedy at the intersection of history and storytelling. In Hour Two, Wayne Ng joins Susan and Micah to talk about his latest and just-published book, Johnny Delivers (Guernica Editions). Eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong’s dead-end life consists of delivering Chinese food and holding his chaotic family together in Toronto . When his sweet but treacherous Auntie, the mahjong queen, calls in their family debt, he fears the family will lose the Red Pagoda restaurant and break apart. Invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and in cahoots with his stoner friend Barry, Johnny tries to save his family by taking up a life of crime delivering weed with a side of egg rolls. He chases his first love, but his hands are already full with his emotionally distant mother, his dream-crushing father, and his reckless, sardonic little sister. As he fights to stay ahead of his Auntie, sordid family secrets unfold. With lives on the line, the only way out is an epic mahjong battle. While Johnny is on a mission to figure out who he is and what he wants, he must learn that help can come from within and that our heroes are closer than we think. Dripping with 1970s nostalgia, Johnny Delivers is a gritty and humorous standalone sequel to the much-loved and award-winning Letters From Johnny. There's a launch event and fundraiser taking place tomorrow, Saturday November 9, 2024, | 2pm | Yet Keen Seniors’ Centre | 755 Somerset West, Ottawa. It's funding drive! CKCU is #PoweredByPeople, awesome people like you. The Thursday Blend is challenging folks to make $5 monthly donations -- Jeff even joined us this morning. Link is here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/friday-blend