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Born Yesterday Star Talks with WNED
Mike Desmond (2009-06-15)
Gray Powell stars in "Born Yesterday."
BUFFALO (wned) - The Shaw Festival is featuring Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" on its main stage in the Festival Theatre, a look at corruption in post-World War II Washington, featuring a corrupter, a corrupted senator, a lawyer who is the bagman between the two, and the corrupter's girlfriend, the Billie Dawn character who made a star out of Judy Holliday.

The show opens as a political scandal is unfolding in Ottawa involving former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and a growing scandal in Washington involving campaign contributions and government contracts.

On the Shaw stage, actor Gray Powell is Paul Verrall, the idealistic reporter who changes Billie Dawn's life.

Click the play button above to hear WNED's Mike Desmond interview of Gray Powell.

Shaw Festival information on its production of Born Yesterday © Copyright 2009, wned