| A Ride With Bob |
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A Ride With Bob is the first-ever play about the life and music of Bob Wills. Written by Ray Benson and Anne Rapp, and performed by twenty-five actors and musicians, with several dozen costume changes on a colorful theatrical set, A Ride With Bob includes the live performance of 15 of Wills’ most well-known songs in a plot that interweaves Ray Benson’s present day with various stages in Wills’ storied career. Synopsis of the Story Ray Benson’s 36-year odyssey leading the band Asleep at the Wheel seems to have lost direction. He briefly met his musical mentor Bob Wills in 1973, but never got to chat; the interstates all look the same, and the bus feels like a dead end, especially when the new driver begins to rant about actually being the Ghost of Bob Wills. Ray isn’t convinced, so “Bob” takes him on a series of song-filled remembrances of his illustrious and sometimes outrageous life…first as a boy in the cotton fields, a young talent blackballed from radio by W.L. O’Daniel, his first recording session, and his struggles with fame in Hollywood and his many failed marriages. His music and his life story become one in songs such as “San Antonio Rose,” “Faded Love,” and “Roly Poly.” The bus trip concludes in Tulsa with Ray having finally gotten to know his hero, awestruck and re-energized to keep the band and Wills’ music on the road forever. 
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