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Medway Woman Thinks Outside the Box DJ Takes Local Cruise Back in Time
“America’s Got Talent” Contestant Goes Far in Competition By J.D. O’Gara It took Donna Purnell over 30 years to tell her parents about her special talent, one she and her husband had kept secret for years.
By J.D. O’Gara
At age 47, Donna, a hockey Mom, teacher and CCD instructor told her parents and brother that she was escape artist “Alexanderia the Great,” and she’d be performing an escape in her home town of Dedham to raise money for Dedham Athletics.
The Clicquot Cruise. The name clicked for car enthusiast Jim Murphy and his wife, Judy, when they began the Saturday night get-togethers 12 years ago, in the parking lot owned by the Rosenfeld family across from the old Clicquot soda factory on Main Street in Millis. The two had gone to a big, longstanding car cruise in Natick, when they thought it might be nice to start one in Millis.
“They really didn’t know what to say,” she laughs. “The only other person on this planet who knew besides me and Bill had been my sister-in-law.”
“We figured we’d start something over here,” says Murphy,” and we ended up getting 100 to 150 cars. Sometimes it’s hard to try to find places to put them all.”
Nowadays, “Alexanderia the Great,” of Medway, Mass., has gained national acclaim for her performances in the 2013 NBC show “America’s Got Talent,” making it all the way to the live
Medway woman Donna Purnell, or “Alexanderia the Great,” recently received national acclaim as an escape artist on “America’s Got Talent.” Purnell escapes have rivaled Houdini’s, and she’s a pioneer in the field of escape artistry for women.
final competition at Radio City Music Hall. “She was my junior prom date,” says Bill Purnell. “I was 16, and
she had pool in backyard, and to impress her, I did a rope tie and jumped in. She said, ‘Oh, I can do that.’ I said, ‘No, you can’t.
I’ve read all these books.’ So she
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In the beginning, Jim and Judy would supply all the music. “My wife and I would bring out the stereo and set it up, but it got to
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