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Singer Maud Hixson and pianist Rick Carlson honor the centennial of Doris Day in a show that looks beyond the sunny character presented in film and on records and reveals her darker personal struggles and remarkable courage in facing them. Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff was born in Ohio on April 3rd, 1922 and planned to be a dancer. When she was 13, the car she was riding in was hit by a train, shattering the bones in one leg, and leaving her unable to walk for three years. By the age of 15 she was singing with a band in Cincinnati and subsequently joined Les Brown and his Band of Renown, enjoying her first hit during WWII with the song “Sentimental Journey”. She found a second career in movies and was a top-ten box office attraction for a decade, starring in musical comedies like “Pillow Talk” to dramas such as the Alfred Hitchcock classic “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. Much of her personal energy was devoted to animal activism, and her foundation is still going strong.