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Radio Theatre: Reactions by French audience to UMD show takes actors, director by surprise

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published March 11, 2016 at 10:18 AM CST
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The bridal party scene. (L to R) Kayla Peters, Rebekah Meyer, Lauren Schulke
Photo courtesy Eric Le Roux
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Where the Lyon theatre department is housed: the Palais Saint Jean (where Napoleon once slept)
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French actors from the Conservatoire de Lyon working with the UMD actors
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The UMD group

Fresh off their triumph with Spoon River this fall, UMD students and four staff members, including director Tom Isbell, journied to Paris as part of an exchange program between UMD's School of Fine Arts and the Conservatoire de Lyon.

The exchange has been a delightful - and eye-opening - experience for staff and students alike, but Isbell said the reaction of the French audience, particularly to a touching scene before a wedding, took them all by surprise.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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