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Old 11-04-2004, 04:49 PM
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Wake Up, Nashville! Shania's Coming

From the Nashville Tennessean:

Wake up, Nashville; Shania and ABC do morning show downtown

By BRAD SCHMITT
Staff Writer

If you're going to come on over to see Shania Twain tomorrow morning, don't be stupid — get there early.

Shania Twain will perform four songs as part of a live (sort of) ABC Good Morning America show outside at Fifth and Broadway, and you're invited. But you won't be alone.

Show producers, Twain's record label executives and marketers for local ABC affiliate WKRN-Channel 2 all say they're expecting a crowd numbering in the thousands. There were reports early in the week that many Twain fans planned to camp out overnight to make sure they get close to the stage.

''The feeling is there's gonna be a ton of people,'' says WKRN marketing director Mike Tarrolly.

Twain will sit down for an interview with Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer around 7 a.m. and she'll start singing around 7:20 a.m. But here's the tricky part: Channel 2 delays its broadcast of GMA by an hour. So when Twain sings at 7:20 a.m., it won't air on Channel 2 until 8:20 a.m. Also, people at home will see Twain sing only three songs — including Party for Two, her current duet with Billy Currington — as the fourth will be taped for airing on Good Morning America's weekend show Saturday morning.

So what three other songs will Twain sing? Twain's handlers won't say, but a publicist promises big hits.

Those who go will see GMA personalities Sawyers and Robin Roberts, a former WSMV-Channel 4 sports reporter. Co-host Charlie Gibson and weatherman Tony Perkins are expected to remain in New York. The GMA stage will be outside Rippy's barbecue restaurant on the southeast corner of Fifth and Broadway.

The crew from News 2 This Morning — Neil and Heather Orne, meteorologist Kevin Skarupa and Joe Dubin — will broadcast live from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. at a stage outside Legend's honky-tonk on the northeast corner of Fifth and Broadway. Because of the hour delay, GMA and News 2 This Morning actually both broadcast live from 6 to 7 a.m.

Twain will perform in the round on a stage just outside Robert's Western World, between Fourth and Fifth avenues.

Downtown commuters will face extra traffic and closed roads tonight and tomorrow during morning rush hour: Broadway is closed between Fourth and Fifth all day today through late tomorrow morning and the Broadway closing will expand to between Fourth and Seventh avenues following today's afternoon rush hour.

Fifth Avenue will be down to one lane today between Demonbreun and Commerce and those two blocks will be shut down altogether following this afternoon's rush hour.

Those who want to watch the show unfold will have to enter the area at Fourth and Broad or Sixth and Broad. Those will be the only places to get in.

Getting there

Shania Twain will perform live in the round Friday morning on a stage just outside Robert's Western World, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Access to the area will be via Fourth and Broad or Sixth and Broad only.
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