I got a 16-year-old daughter who just got her driver's license
so she used to all drop to your knees and think the good Lord above that you live here and not where we live
She's growing up she's growing up, but I don't know when it happened man. I used to buy her many mouse panties and a little
Winnie the poo underwear. I came home the other day and I was helping my wife fold clothes
I pick up this little pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and I said hey
When you're gonna wear these for me. She goes I can't throw your daughter
There was nothing to them when the how-to wash tag is the biggest piece of cloth on there
It is so when you're holding me I'll never have a love of my heart
Baby if I swear it when we won't love I can hear music
I can hear music please The sounds on the city are fading
I sing the song for you I can hear music sweet, sweet music
Whenever you touch me baby whenever you're on your way
With love of you it keeps me satisfied and I can explain
I know the way I'm feeling inside you can hear me I can hear it going
I can hear music
I can hear music please The sounds on the city are fading
I sing the song for you I can hear music sweet, sweet music
Whenever you touch me baby whenever you're on your way
I hear music all the time yeah I hear music all the time
Baby I hear the music all the time I hear music I hear the music baby
Oh oh I can hear music I can hear music
I hear music I can hear music.
And seven or nine at W R G and radio all town radio. We're fresh.
I'm Don Rose and thanks for joining us here this morning.
Good. I have a beautiful day today.
Well, not really.
A lot of showers likely highs near 55, but it make you feel good.
Clotty tonight, lows 45, but it will be a nice day tomorrow and for the weekend.
Sunday tomorrow with a hundred fifty nine sunny Saturday and Sunday 61.
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Clotty and 52 degrees, but it's still a nice morning out there.
It really is.
And now we're going to take you all the way from the busiest place on the planet.
Broadway right in Midtown Manhattan, all the way to Genesee Depot.
Because my guest is Randy Bryant, the president and CEO of 10 chimneys in Genesee Depot.
And we're going to talk about what's going on there.
We have a big concert coming up there and we have a whole bunch of great shows back.
I get to give you a little history of Genesee Depot.
So Randy, good morning.
Thanks for joining us here.
I do appreciate it, my friend.
Good morning, Don.
How are you doing?
I'm doing just fine.
And I love Genesee Depot.
I love the 10 chimneys.
I've been there four times already, three times to take the tour and one time to see one of the performances
there and one of your guest stars.
But how did we get all the way from Broadway to Genesee Depot?
How did that happen?
Well, you know, it's, it's a culmination of one's career.
So Alfred Lunton, Linfantan, both of them being actors.
But Alfred was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, born and raised Milwaukee near the past mansion.
And his father was a lumber baron and he was loved to, they were vacation out in Genesee Depot.
So as he made his fame and continued to act and was acting all over the country, ended up on Broadway,
but never lost his connections with Genesee Depot.
And so when he came into his inheritance, he bought three acres out in Bull College Genesee Depot
and just continued to add on to that and he got to 106 acres.
But then he built a home and it was more like a, a,
oh, it was like a small cottage at the time and they just kept expanding it and his success in Genesee grow.
And so the last addition went on in 1943, but and that's how 10 chimneys was formed.
But yeah, so his career continued to grow.
He made it out to Broadway, but his, for the most part, his,
his roots in Wisconsin never left.
Now his wife is Linfantan.
Now she's not from Wisconsin though, is she?
No, she's from Essex, England.
And he, you know, they met in
2000, not 19, 19,
I was about to say that was reaching.
And, but you know, she was in, you know,
he saw her, basically fell over heels for her.
They were married in 20, I keep saying 20 in 1922, May 26, 1922.
So that, you know, they're about to celebrate, you know, we will be celebrating their
100th and second wedding anniversary on just a few days.
Wow.
That's, you know, and again, I've said, I've been there.
You can tour the home, the everywhere, the cottages, everything is open for touring.
I don't think you have anything closed off, do you?
No, no, and that's one of the beautiful things about 10 chimneys that is not closed off.
So you're not behind all their roles, everything there, along to the lunch.
So it's truly a, a experience.
Well, it's like escapism.
And it's interesting to back in the 30s, you know, America was going through the
great depression and, but they would use going to play and to movies where it's
escapism and 10 chimneys, it represents that today, escaping into this gentility, a more
relaxed era of time.
Now, I, I was in the guest bedroom and I'm walking around and all, and I am the biggest
movie and movie star fan, Broadway fan.
I went to a million Broadway shows.
I love the theater.
And I'm looking around the room saying, I wonder all the stars, the movie stars and
Broadway stars that stayed in this room.
And the lunt, the font, the London font, well, lunch, the lunch used to host some of the
biggest stars they came out there during the summer.
I really all season long to relax and have a nice weekend in Wisconsin.
Name some of the big stars that were out there stayed overnight.
Oh, sure.
So Helen Hayes was a very good friend of theirs.
And so she had her own room.
No coward was their good friend.
If they met years ago, when they were basically starting out as young actors, you had
Sir Lawrence Olivier, a very good friend, Vivian Lee, obviously, Carol Channey, just some
of not only the great and Broadway, but also on film, so Boris Karloff, oh gee, I'm just
looking, oh, a Catherine Hepburn Montgomery clip, Montgomery clip was more like their
son.
And they, they literally had a great love for these actors, made them that were coming up
or that were as well as many people that they highly admired, but they all come out to
10 chemis.
And you have to remember travel back then.
It took much longer than it is today.
So you were, you didn't just go there for a, you know, I'm going to go visit 10 chemis
and come back.
You literally went there and you would stay, definitely for a day, some stay for a week,
some stay for a month.
And, but there was a lot of activity to play there.
So you have many of the actors would go there and they would actually workshop plays.
And so it really was that plays of inspiration, rejuvenation, but also they've, they've brought
together directors, playwrights and actors and they created their own work.
You know, I'm thinking about how people got there from New York.
I guess you took a plane to New, plane from New York to Milwaukee.
You took a train to a certain point of bus and then a pack mule out to,
you know, we think of the roads and the transportation now.
But in the 1930s, 1940s, they didn't have that.
It was really way out in the country at that point.
It was really separated from no cell phones, no internet, no Wi-Fi, no television.
You didn't have radio, but that's it.
And whoa, that's right.
It truly was country and, but gorgeous, truly, truly gorgeous property.
I mean, we see it and it's, and think of it as, oh, this beautiful college area.
But back then, it was even more so with the rolling topography, the, you know,
because you're, you're really at the, the I say, I say trail, whether glacier
started to be seeded.
So on the, the property itself, if you look at, you know, it's in a kettle
meringue area, so the kettle where the glaciers dug out the area and the
meringue is where the pockets were.
So it's just really created just some beautiful topography.
And that's why Alfred cited the first house where it is.
And it just continued to grow from there.
So people coming from all over think about these actors that work
primarily in major cities that would come out there.
And they were just fell bound by this incredibly beautiful area,
but also being able to be in the presence of just such greatness.
Because one thing we have to remember is that the months, um, during their
era, they were bigger than any star that you can imagine here today.
They worked all over.
And so people, they were beloved by everyone.
You know how you know you made it on Broadway.
When they name a theater after you.
And in the, and this happens in New York right now, the Lone Fontaine
Theater is standing room only to Sweeney Todd, the demon bomber of Fleet Street
playing at the Lone Fontaine Theater now to a hundred percent capacity.
And that theater has been around and you know you made it big when they
name them playing with theater after you on Broadway.
So and they did, they did make, they think they made a movie or two, didn't
they make it together?
No.
So they actually at the time during their early career, they really
despised Broadway.
They made one movie and that was the Guardsman.
Yes, that's it.
With the making of the Guards when they took the proceeds from that and they
put in the, uh, the first LJ in ground pool in the state of Wisconsin.
Hold it right there.
Hold it right there, Randy.
We're talking to, we're talking to Randy Brian, president CEO of 10
chimneys.
Mark, tell me if we're going to find out more about this.
You're going to love it.
One day you look to see I've gone for tomorrow.
I'll follow the sun, someday you'll know I was the one, but tomorrow
me, so I'll follow the sun and now the time has come and so my love
I must go and though I lose a friend in the end, you will know, oh, one
day you'll find that I have gone, but tomorrow me, Randy, so I'll
follow the sun.
I'll follow the sun and now the time has come and so my love I must go and
though I lose a friend in the end, you will know, oh, one day you'll find that
I have gone, but tomorrow me, Randy, so I'll follow the sun.
Here at 721 to WRG and Radio Randy Bryant, the president and CEO of 10
chimneys is joining me today and this is the home of actors, Broadway stars,
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine and they lived in Genesee Depot.
What they are appearing on Broadway and then would go out, Genesee Depot, is this
retirement home?
So they appeared on Broadway and they, while they were appearing on Broadway, they were
continuing to create 10 chimneys, those 10 chimneys was created over a period of time
going from 1917 until the last part of the main house was done in 43 and then they
did an addition on to the cottage for Alfred Rubinlaw in 1959, but they, they were
acting, I mean, they were on Broadway, they were basically since night, since the 20s,
they were famous and the most beloved and then they retired to 10 chimneys in 1960,
but basically they would spend all their summers.
They had near contracts that there was two clauses, one that they would always perform
together and two that they would have their summers off to be able to stay out
at 10 chimneys.
When did it open to the public?
It opened to the public in 2003, so this is our 21st year.
So I must have been, because I've been going there since, since about that time,
so I must have been one of the early ones to get in there.
The tours are great, you have people giving the tours and you go to all the places,
you go to the cottages, you go to the every building on the lot there, yeah.
You start out in the main house, you go on to the studio where they were basically
acting, dance, do all that, and then you go to the cottage.
But meanwhile, while you're going through all that, you're passing, you know,
the chicken coop, the pool, and basically just enjoying the ground.
Now also, Alfred Lunt was a good cook, because I remember you go to the kitchen,
and you get to see their, oh, you get to go everywhere in that place.
Supposedly he was big on cooking.
Well, he was beyond just a good cook, he was a quarter on blue train chef.
And so when you had a meal at 10 chimneys, it was typically done by Alfred,
and he was also a big gardener.
And so a lot of the vessels came straight out of the garden.
Now, one of the things that really stand out about 10 chimneys is the guest artists you have there.
And you can buy special packages to go see these guest artists.
Now, my wife, I'm the biggest movie fan there is.
And Turner Classic Movies is my favorite channel.
Then we say, if you left that on the desert of the island, what would you take with your wife, your child?
Now, I take TCM.
And the guy, the very first host of TCM, I think 30 years ago, this year, I don't remember that many years,
was Robert Osborne.
He was the original host and the only host on TCM for like 20 some odd years.
He recently passed away, but you had him there.
He was, he put out a book, and you had a Q&A session with him.
I got to meet him when he was signing his book.
And then we had a Q&A session, and I got to ask a question.
And I was so excited and scared because I got to speak to Robert Osborne.
And I've interviewed Mickey Rooney.
I've interviewed Gary Sinise.
I've interviewed a lot of big stars, but I was scared.
I was talking to Robert Osborne.
He was my hero.
You were scared he's such a nice guy.
He was just really a wonderful man.
Well, I wasn't frightened.
He was going to bite me.
I was just afraid that, you know, here I am talking.
I didn't want to stutter or do something like that in front of Robert Osborne.
But you're right.
He is such a nice guy.
So you've had so many great artists there over the year.
How do you select them?
And we're going to talk about in the minute.
Who's coming up?
Okay.
Um, so, so basically, um, we've had Robert Osborne, um, Lord Lenny, um,
many of the great.
And, but they're basically part of what you came to with our conversation series
that 10 chimneys, where the, um, we interview them.
And then the audience actually has an opportunity to ask them questions.
Yeah, that's what I, that's what I get.
Yeah.
Every side is book.
Then we went to the, uh, little theater room there.
And we all sat down and got to raise your hand.
And he called on me and I got to ask.
I still remember the question I asked him to.
So, uh, so how do you decide who's going to come in there?
Who do, who chooses?
Because it was limited time.
So, and it's, it's not a big theater like an amphitheater to performance.
How do you decide?
So, typically, there's a connection with 10 chimneys by, for example, Lord Lenny.
Her, her, um, father was a good friend of the lunch.
Romulus.
He was a playwright.
And, um, so we invited Laura out, but primarily, you know, 10 chimneys is a,
uh, many of the actors.
It's a pilgrimage that they make because it's supposed to be ground zero for American theater.
This is where, uh, acting was perfected, um, especially as you know, acting today.
You know, back then when acting first started out, the actors would never on stage.
They, uh, one would speak.
The other would speak afterwards.
In the lunch talks over lines.
They turned their backs on the stage.
And because they were married, they got away with a lot of things.
So, acting was perfected there.
And so a lot of actors come out as, as ground zero, time daily showed up, um, for a tour.
And she came the day that it was closed.
And this was.
Oh, maybe 10 years before she ever, before we ever invited her out to be a master teacher.
But basically, I select them, um, primarily for their work.
You know, we want them to be, um, masters in their craft.
Highly respected by not only actors, but by the, um, the public.
And typically having a relationship to, um, furthering American theater and even further acting.
And in just a few minutes, we're going to talk about your current lineup.
Because you've got somebody coming in real soon.
We're going to talk about that in just a moment here.
So, um, hang in there.
Randy Bryant is my guest.
He's the president and CEO of 10 chimneys.
If you have never been there, take a day off, whether it be a Saturday Sunday.
What, what days are you open, by the way, for touring?
We're, we're open for tours from months as giving from Tuesday through Sunday.
Oh, okay.
So weekends good at.
Take your family.
If you have a grandparent, they're going to remember Alfred Luntlin Fontaine guarantee they're going to remember them.
Even if they've never been to Broadway, they're going to know who they are.
So Randy, see, we're going to talk about the current lineup.
He's got one coming up real soon.
So, uh, stay right here.
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My guest is Randy Bryant.
He's the president and CEO of 10 chimneys in Genesee Depot.
And we were talking about some of the performances at 10 chimneys.
We're going to talk about how you set up the tours
and how people can do that and how they make reservations.
And we're going to talk about all that.
But you've got somebody coming up this weekend at the,
it's called a cabaret with Eric Ives Garcia.
What's your name correctly?
It's Eric Ives Garcia.
Like Ives Monton, the actor.
I should have known that.
Yes.
Okay.
Now, this is a concert you're going to have, right?
Yeah.
So Eric is a, he's a cabaret.
He's traveled all over the world just back from Paris.
And so we're so fortunate to have him.
He's going to be doing music in his drawing room, playing.
And he's going to be a cabaret actor at 10 chimneys.
And engaging the public as well.
But he's just amazing.
And he's just one of many cabaret singers that come out to 10 chimneys.
With 10 chimneys is all about bringing the best of the best in American theater.
And cabaret.
So we have the, he's part of the music in the drawing room series.
But in addition to that, we have, I talk to you about the conversation series.
It's just the best.
So if you think about who has been out to 10 chimneys.
And this is just a small list.
So Lynn Regrave started out.
And Lynn, most people don't know, but she's named after Lynn Fontan.
And the Regrave was the very famous acting family.
And the lungs were very, very close.
Joel Gray.
Olympi Ducakis, police Rashad, Jason Alexander, Alfred Malena.
He's a Henderson tie daily.
And that's just a list of Massachusetts.
But when you think of the fellows, the lunch on 10 fellows, you have Coleman Domingo,
who was nominated for an Oscar this year for Ruskin.
And you have Sharon Lawrence who played in many, many different things.
And so there's many actors that come out here for a pilgrimage.
And so if you think of Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the Facebook community.
But one day, I got a call on the Sunday in February.
It was almost like 30 below zero.
And it was what's interesting.
You know, if you remember the Grand Budapest Hotel or all that.
And he went to come out and he brought out with him.
Francis Ford Coplas on Roman Copla.
So as I said, many of the actors make a pilgrimage.
And you have to remember what has changed since when the lunch we're acting.
Actors that do primarily plays, they do everything.
They do not just theater, but they do films.
And the films are streaming.
So they're not just on stage, but they're, you know, making movies and being on television.
So many people that you see on television and movies are actually actors that come out to tension.
You know, it's hard to believe that these people are Hollywood.
They're Broadway in New York, but they all converge on the tiny town of Genesee Depot.
And look, little old Wisconsin.
You know, I got a, I got a Joe Gray story for you here back in the 80s.
He had a movie out.
I think it's called Man on a String or something like that.
So I got to interview Joe Gray.
And all I did was going to talk about George M Cabaret and all the big Broadway musicals.
He was in the movies.
You want to talk about that every time I brought up Cabaret.
I would say, oh, yeah, that was nice, but Man on a String is a big movie.
And he kept leaning.
I wanted to talk about, you know, Joe Gray and Cabaret.
I want to talk about Joe Gray.
I'm Broadway and George M.
I want to talk about all those shows.
Yeah, that's nice.
But Man on a String is coming out this Friday.
And he kept steering me to that movie.
And I wanted to talk about the history.
He's very nice.
But his job is to promote the movie, not promote himself.
So.
Right. Right.
So, you know, Alan Alder said something.
And it's really profound.
And that is that.
When an actor, you see an actor on television.
And they play this role.
And you know them for that role.
It's sometimes can work against them.
Because they become tight cat.
And so many of them want to move beyond just that.
And you know what you know them as.
Because they want to be an actor of full breath.
You know, I, um.
I follow these Broadway show sites because I love Broadway musicals.
And some of the biggest actors now are going back to Broadway to perform.
They're not, you know, they're, they're going back there.
I don't know if the Hollywood roles are shrinking up.
Or it's just easier to do Broadway than to go on location and shoot a movie.
Let them just like to perform in front of a live audience.
And it would terrify me.
I guess I don't know.
I guess I could do it.
I've done television before, but I've never done.
You know, a live theater setting before.
Well, if you think about it, it's.
It's a lot of work.
It's very difficult.
And Sharon Lawrence was one of the said they were interviewing her.
Because when she came out here as a fellow.
She was probably the most famous fellow.
Back in 2000.
2012 when she was here.
And so everybody wanted to interview her.
And they said, well, what is it like being here at 10 chimneys.
And, and here you are to accomplish actors.
And you with all these these fellows and theater.
And she says, I'm in awe.
She says when you think about being able to remember your lives,
the on stage front and center and having to remember lives.
And there's no retake.
So the theater is considered to be definitely legitimate.
It's definitely legitimate form.
And people do go back because it does allow you to hone your craft.
And become really just.
The minimum even when they get some pinnacle of their career,
they want to come back because that is truly.
Being on stage is something that you can't duplicate.
And, but you know, when you're on stage, that's it.
You know, we have a theater.
I have a season tickets to for like decades through the Racine Theatre Guild.
It's a it's a community theater here in town.
It's a huge theater.
But it's a horse shaped stage.
There's no curtain to come down because that theater in the round.
But it's just, you know, it's dying horse shape.
You know, horse shape.
And most of the actors,
you know, you know,
you know, you know,
it's dying horse shape, you know, horse shape.
And most of the actors are volunteers.
I think all of them are volunteers.
They're Broadway quality as far as I'm concerned.
The whole production is Broadway quality.
I don't know how they remember their lines.
I don't know how they do it.
Now, I've talked to them and they say,
even if you goof,
you know, you can make the audience isn't going to know you missed the line.
Right.
But the other actor has to respond to the line that you was supposed to read.
And that's where the problem comes in.
I don't know how they do it.
I just, I, I,
I have to put.
That's where the problem comes in.
But that's actually the gift of the other actor to being able to continue moving things on,
even though you may have forgotten your lines, forgotten your portion.
Because it does happen.
People do forget their lines.
But part of being an actor is being able to help move it along.
You know, I have to have the call letters of the station.
And for I've been here 25 years and I still have to have call letters in front of me.
Let's say W R J N.
I don't know why guy.
If it's not there, I'm going.
I can't remember where I am.
You know, it's just one of those things that I, I don't know how they do it.
And by the way, the big actor who's coming to Broadway is Robert Downey Jr.
He's going to appear in a Broadway play.
And this guy just wanted the Academy Award.
Just at the most recent Academy Awards for Oppenheimer.
He is, you know, Iron Man.
He's been in movie solos life.
He's finally going to come to Broadway.
For the first time.
Yes.
Yes.
No, a lot of actors are coming back to Broadway or even coming to Broadway.
And, you know, but it's business also, you know, first of all, it's all acting.
But when you think of the business of it, you know, Robert Downey Jr.
connected to a show, he immediately people are going to show up.
Now, beside the Broadway show and the, the big actors appearing there to perform.
And also your conversations with certain stars.
Let's have a composting demonstration presentation coming up Saturday, right?
Yes.
So, you know, the month we're involved in so many different things.
And, you know, the one thing that I want to just pass on is that while there's very few people on earth that remember.
That knew the last directly, but it's just like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
You knew what they stood for.
And so the lunch.
It was all about living your best life.
And so he was a gentleman's farmer.
He loved the connection with the land and all that.
So at 10, 10 days, we have just removed all the invasive species on the land.
We have the largest invasive species removal and the state of Wisconsin by private concern.
And, but also composting.
So being able to not just throw away all your scraps, but be able to reuse them.
And to help keep generating this great earth that we have.
Our son just bought a composting thing.
I don't know what it's called.
It's a giant drum.
And as you put stuff in there and it chops it up into compost and you can use it.
And it's sitting out back here.
Yeah.
I just decided to get it one day.
And our backyard now because it was in no mole may season for the honey bees.
And it's like a tiger hunt going on our back.
Because the grass is so big.
I said to my wife, how do you expect me to mow this lawn when it's time to mow?
I'm going to need a, you know, one of those machetes.
They, you know, they're using the sugar cane fields.
You know, they're not throwing this.
You have to wear a pith helmet.
But, you know, it's so beside the arts.
You also have the gardening thing going on there where people can come.
And how do they do that?
Have to make a reservation.
How does that work?
Yeah.
So you just basically just call into 10 chimneys.
Two, six, two, nine, six, eight.
Four, one, six, one.
And just make a reservation.
It's free to the public.
And many people, their connection to 10 chimneys.
It's either through a tour or coming to one of our reprograms that we have out there.
So we had, you know, while composing today.
And that's going to take place just coming back today.
But in the past, we've had a container garden.
So, you know, it's, or even Justin.
And the proper way of saying hello or saying goodbye or saying thank you.
So there's many different things, but all those things are reflective of the lunch light.
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
Randy Bryant is your president's CEO of 10 chimneys, the home of the lunch.
And we're going to talk more about that.
Find out about some upcoming programs that are there and how you can take a tour at straight ahead.
I like the fire.
You place the flowers in the walls that you bore today.
Steering at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you play your love songs all night long for me.
Our house, what an appropriate song.
The lunch invite you to their house, their home, their estate out in Genesee Depot.
And Randy Bryant is here.
We got a few minutes left, Randy.
We're going to talk about.
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The windows are illuminated by the evening sunshine through their fiery gems for you.
Only for you.
The house is a very, very, very fine house with two cats in the yard.
Life used to be so hard.
Now everything is easy because of you.
Oh, forgive me, Randy.
Brand new studio.
I'm still learning the ropes and the buttons and things I shouldn't be pushing.
And I put something there which sent you into dial tone land.
Randy Bryant, the president and CEO of 10 chimneys.
Let's do a quick review here.
Tours.
That's to me, that's the best part of 10 chimneys to actually walk through these homes and these cottages.
Go through the kitchens where some of the biggest celebrities on Broadway and show business went.
How does somebody make a reservation for a tour?
They just call in to 10 chimneys on the reservation line.
Again, 262, 968, 4161.
They'll take your reservation and that's you up for your tour.
And just show up at that time.
And there's a big parking lot.
You can't, I mean, you can.
And don't you have a shuttle or you.
I remember one time.
I went into a shuttle.
Take me to the edge of the shuttle.
So you basically, you come.
The tour starts at the program center.
And there you can look at the exhibits.
You'll watch a video.
And then from there you'll take the shuttle over to the estate side.
You do your tour.
You come back.
You have a great museum store with great items in there.
And a lot of signature items.
So you can't miss it.
Yeah, great gift shop.
Just to just great.
We've, we've.
We always like buying and shopping through that gift shop.
Now.
Name some of the big events coming up.
Now we talked about you're having the composting event presentation on Saturday on Saturday on Sunday.
You've got your guest artist, the cabaret.
And what do you got coming up?
And that's actually Saturday and Sunday.
So Saturday.
You're able to come at six o'clock.
And so you can do a tour if you like before then.
As for and then.
Come to the cabaret at six o'clock.
And then on Sunday.
At two thirty.
We.
We also have Eric E. Garcia.
But along with that, you know, this year we can't forget.
The we have the permanent program for actors with a minimum of twenty years of acting experience.
And so that is the lump on 10 fellowship program.
The national program.
And so actors come from all over the country.
And we work with the major.
Theater is across the country.
So whether it's the Lincoln Center and a Manhattan theater club in New York or the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
Depp and Wilson Chicago.
Alliance theater out of Atlanta.
The center stage and L.A.
But all the major theaters.
And then they they nominate three actors.
Of those three.
We only select ten actors each year to come out.
And so that's July 21st through the 28th.
They're here.
They work along the side of a master teacher who was who typically has at least 30 years of experience.
And that is iconic.
And so on the Friday, which is the 26th.
Of July.
We have the conversations.
And so I will be interviewing that actor.
And the public has an opportunity to interact and to ask questions and things of that nature.
And then on the 27th of July.
That's when the actors show what they've been working on for that full week.
So I will say that this year you don't want to miss it.
It's someone that you're really going to have a great.
You know, I think I have to go back out there again.
It's been a couple of years of the first time I went with my wife.
And the second time I brought my mother with me.
And the third time we brought my mother-in-law to go out there.
And they said, this is, and my mother grew up in New York City going to Broadway musicals.
She's been through the one-fontein theater probably a half a dozen times.
Seeing different shows.
And she just was knocked out by this.
It's a lot of walking.
So if you have double walking, you might have, you know, it is a lot of walking.
Because you're walking through in the biggest state.
But it's well worth it.
And I got to tell you even going to the in some of the home in the home, the game rooms.
And just walking through the hallways of that place.
To know who walked there before Frankenstein's monster, Boris Karloff walked through that house.
You think about it.
And you're probably just the tip of the iceberg, you know, but the people that went there.
I just want to know how they got there.
I would like to know the process of how you go from Broadway or Los Angeles to get to Genesee Depot.
Because it's not like today you come on the interstate to get, you know, it's not like that back then.
I mean, that was real.
But even when you think of it, like even today, like for example, Richard Thomas that played John Boyle.
Yeah, you know, all these people, you remember Dick Sam Patton, who was an 80's enough and many different things.
You know, he was the luck.
He was like their child.
And there's to be no night.
And then yet here he is.
And when he was in his 80s, he's out at 10 chimneys.
And it's just really just amazing to see all the people that come.
There's a lot of actors.
A lot of the actors from the past.
It's just amazing to see all the people that come.
And there's a lot of the actors from Saturday Night Live that showed up on their own just coming out to 10 chimneys.
So it's your livelihood to see anyone.
And what's interesting is that they're taking the tours just like you.
So you'll be you sometimes you will know, sometimes you won't know who's taking the tour.
And yes, they could be a big Hollywood or Broadway actor.
And I got to ask you, by the way, we're just so lucky.
We live.
A lot of our listeners live in Racine and Kenosha area.
And so we're just very lucky that we're living so close.
Gotta ask you.
Everyone wants to know are there really 10 chimneys in that place?
Yes, there are 10 chimneys.
And that's how that, you know, back in the 40s, it was named the farm.
And then after they finished with the last chimneys, there's a month to end.
They call this 10 chimneys.
So it's been just known as 10 chimneys of 1943.
All right.
So they're really are 10 chimneys.
All right.
Randy Bryant, you're welcome back anytime, my friend.
Anytime you got a big performance you want to talk about, you give me a call.
Randy Bryant, the president and CEO of 10 chimneys.
Go to their website 10chimneys.org.
10 chimneys spell out to you.
And by the way, 10chimneys.org and check out all the programs there.
And take the tour.
You got to take the tour.
Hey, Randy.
Thanks a lot.
Good luck this weekend, my friend.
Thank you, guys.
Appreciate everything.
All right, bye-bye now.