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World Premiere of Sandburg Musical in Galesburg Friday Night
Galesburg is playing host starting Friday night for a world premiere, and not just any world premiere, one relating to the the city's most popular former resident.

The Prairie Players Civic Theatre is hosting the world premiere of a musical called "Dust and Dreams" -- a musical celebrating Carl Sandburg -- that starts Friday night at the Orpheum Theatre and runs through Sunday.

Director Kurt Killam tells WGIL the musical is based on works in Sandburg's "Cornhuskers" publication, but is just as much about his birthplace as it is about him. "It's an element of community pride, too, because this is about Galesburg and this area and how it effects us today" Killam said. "It's amazing that Sandburg, 100 years ago -- at the end of this (musical) you'll see it -- he is foretelling the selling off of the farmlands, and conversion of rural into urban areas."

Killams says Sandburg's works precede each of the songs in "Dust and Dreams," while the songs themselves are lyricist Dave Hudson's responses to those poems.

Performances are Friday and Saturday night at 7:30, and Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, and tickets range from $11.50 for students, to $16.50 for adults.
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