{"id":128823,"date":"2026-01-23T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:52:10","slug":"arts-alive-three-from-620s-drilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128823\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Alive: Three from 620\u2019s \u2018Drilled!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on Arts Alive! we\u2019re joined by Bill Leavengood and Constantine Grame, the authors \u2013 book and music, respectively \u2013 of the political comedy Drilled! The Final Term?, onstage this weekend at The Studio@620.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the podcast is singer and actress Bailee McQueen, who plays multiple roles in the fast-moving production.<\/p>\n<p>Leavengood and Grame collaborated on an earlier version of Drilled!, which also co-starred McQueen; the compositional pair also created Gaspar! The Musical, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>All the action in Drilled! takes place in an dentist\u2019s office, and combined with the pointed barbs and witty lyrics (written by Leavengood) about the current state of politics in America, audience will come to understand the double meanings ascribed to words like pain, and numbness, and the play\u2019s title itself.<\/p>\n<p>Access showtimes (today through Sunday) and tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/thestudioat620.org\/events\/drilled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arts Alive! is recorded in the podcast studio at St. Pete Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the arrow to listen to the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.stpetecatalyst.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Arts-Alive-Drilled-final.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/media.stpetecatalyst.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Arts-Alive-Drilled-final.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Arts-Alive-Leavengood-McQueen-Graeme-DeYoung-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"435\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today on Arts Alive! we\u2019re joined by Bill Leavengood and Constantine Grame, the authors \u2013 book and music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-128823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}