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Tootsie, the musical comedy based on the 1982 film of the same name, is visiting Proctors in Schenectady now through Sunday. This Tony-Award winning show shines a light on society's treatment of women and the trouble with show business.

This week's Book Picks come from owner of Bennington Bookshop, Phil Lewis.

In Malcolm X’s famous 1962 address, “Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?” he stated: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” These words are central to Brianna Holt’s new book, “In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So "Post-Racial" America.”

"A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them" by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan chronicles the gripping story of the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to power not in the old Confederacy, but the West and the Heartland of America in an age characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity, The Roaring Twenties—The Jazz Age.

The new musical “Some Like it Hot” - based on the 1959 MGM classic directed and co-written by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe - is steaming up the stage at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre in New York City. Actor Kevin Del Aguila joins us.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, Albany’s Chief City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs, investigative journalist and UAlbany and RPI adjunct professor, public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, and Chairman of Capital District Latinos Dan Irizarry.

Jennifer Egan, one of the leading fiction writers of her generation, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for her bestselling, structurally inventive novel, "A Visit from the Goon Squad." Her much-anticipated "The Candy House," is the story of a Silicon Valley billionaire who creates a company that allows users to upload and download human memory.

The scientists are back to field your inquiries! WAMC's Ray Graf hosts. Give us a call at show time. 1-800-348-2551. E-mail -VoxPop@wamc.org

Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin have announced Chester Theatre Company's 2023 season, the first under their direction. Barry and Franklin are known for their award-winning work on the Town Hall Theatre stage, and they are now heading the organization and programming works for Chester audiences.The season embraces a range of humor and heart and includes works by MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker; Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph; and Loy A. Webb and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb.

Dietician Nicole Rodriguez is back to talk health, diet and taste! To join the conversation call 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.