Editor\u2019s note: The Capital City Weekly is featuring two divas a week leading up to Juneau Lyric Opera\u2019s Sept. 24 \u201cWho\u2019s Your Diva\u201d competition and fundraiser. This is the fifth and final week of Q&As. For profiles of all the divas, see www.capitalcityweekly.com; more information also available at www.juneauopera.com. Doors open at 6 p.m., the show starts at 7 p.m., and the mistress of ceremonies is Juneau\u2019s own Gigi Monroe.<\/p>\n
LB:<\/strong> Last year\u2019s JLO Divas Event!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO: <\/strong>Who are three singers who have influenced you throughout your singing career?<\/p>\n LB: <\/strong>Axl Rose, the Indigo Girls, and my husband\/hype man, Geoff Kirsch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO: <\/strong>Who are local performers who inspire you?<\/p>\n LB: <\/strong>Shona Osterhaut, Collette Costa, and Christina Apathy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO: <\/strong>What are three songs you absolutely love to sing?<\/p>\n LB: <\/strong> Sweet Baby James, Closer to Fine, and Patience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO: <\/strong>What is your favorite local role or performance?<\/p>\n LB:<\/strong> That\u2019s a toss-up between Divas 2015 and several iterations of Mudrooms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO:<\/strong> What is your favorite place to sing (besides the stage)?<\/p>\n LB: <\/strong>The shower and my kids\u2019 bedrooms!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO: <\/strong>What is a famous movie or theatre role you would love the chance to play?<\/p>\n LB: <\/strong>Rizzo in Grease. I played her in a camp play when I was 11, but I\u2019d love to do it again at 40.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JLO:<\/strong> What are some of your other interests besides singing?<\/p>\n LB:<\/strong> Skiing, hiking, blogging at One Hot Mess, and talking.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To vote for Libby Bakalar, text DivaLibby to 71777 or visit her campaign page at http:\/\/igfn.us\/vf\/DivaLibby. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor\u2019s note: The Capital City Weekly is featuring two divas a week leading up to Juneau Lyric Opera\u2019s Sept. 24 \u201cWho\u2019s Your Diva\u201d competition and fundraiser. This is the fifth and final week of Q&As. For profiles of all the divas, see www.capitalcityweekly.com; more information also available at www.juneauopera.com. Doors open at 6 p.m., the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}