And good morning. It is 706 time to talk about theater theater, the legitimate theater,
not the illegitimate theater, but the legitimate theater. And I was going to play you something
here and my thing went, cock eye on me. I don't think it's worth it. Let's see if it's
working here. Oh, you're working. It's working. Just want to play a little tune for you to
kind of lead us into what we're going to talk about with Jocelyn Fish from the
Rec Einstein Theater Guild.
Every thing has its season, everything has its time, show me a reason, and I'll
You're right, cats fit on the windowsill, children fit in the snow, so why do I feel
I don't fit in anywhere I go, rivers belong where they can ramble, eagles belong where
they can fly, I've got to be where my spirit can run free, gotta find my
corner of the sky. Okay, that's from a Broadway musical, as a matter of
fact, that's the new Broadway cast version of the song, and we'll find out
exactly where it's from at just a few moments, John Slingfish is here, she is the
marketing director and development. And what's that?
Director of marketing and development. I keep forgetting that. I'm very
undeveloped. That's why I can't remember that. And she is here to talk about the
new schedule, the 88th season, before we get to that, we still have some of the
old schedule to talk about. Yes, we do, yes we do. And opening up by the way the
cast's clay show is just great. Wasn't that fun? And especially to do the the
talk back afterwards, we did that after each performance actually, and every
single audience was so engaged with that show, and had so many questions about
that time period, how the cast felt about being in the show, and then just
tons of questions about cashless clay and Muhammad Ali and all of his life.
So it was quite quite wonderful. You know, I love the TV show, The Odd Couple.
And in The Odd Couple, Oscars got to review some musicals and shows. It
hasn't wanted to do it, so he's ponsed it off on Felix. One of the shows they
do is a musical of the Lewis Schmelling fight. And Felix said, I really
like that song, My Glass Jaw. I thought that was real bouncy and a lot of
punished. So you do a musical of the cast's clay play. My glass jaw, my stolen
bike. Yeah. Okay, so that was very good. Excellent. The people who did all the
plays, the roles were great. In the questioning afterwards, somebody had a
good question. Cashess Clay had an older self. One of the friends had an older
self, but the younger brother didn't have an older self. He just stayed the same.
Never said that was funny. That was a good question. It was good question.
Why did he make some casting choices and yeah. Okay, coming up next is a fun show called
Always a Bridesmaid starts March 28th. Yes, they are in the middle of rehearsals.
They actually get to move on to the stage tonight. The costumes, especially, are going to be
over the top. Ugly Bridesmaid stresses. As you can imagine, lots of wonderful story about
female friendship, but also just absolutely everything that can go wrong with wedding
and wedding preparations does. So it's very funny. It's a great, just a great comedy to get,
you know, you don't have to think about it. And sometimes shows are great when they just make
you laugh and make you laugh and make you laugh. That's what we need. Yes.
Need a good laugh. Yes. After that is your big musical, the big finale for the season,
Legally Blonde, which I remember this played at the Palace Theatre on Broadway for a long time.
Legally Blonde is based on the on the regular comedy movie with Reese Witherspoon.
Yes. And so actually they have their very first rehearsal tonight. We have 28 people,
I believe, now in the cast. So 28 people. It's a big gas. What kind of dressing room
do you have for those people? We're going to cram over somewhere. So yeah, Doug and his crew
are working on getting that role in. So yeah, very excited to have that come together.
I want you to know if I ever appear at the Racine Theatre Guild, I want my own dressing room.
Okay. Nobody around you. I want to ballet. Yeah, I want all that. So this is the 87th season
of the Racine Theatre Guild that's going to be wrapping up. I mean, you still got to go for a while.
I know it feels it's always weird to be talking about one and the other still going on.
That one technically doesn't wrap up into June 30th, but yes. And then in July,
why don't you set your season in July, not September? So most theaters actually do July first
June 30th. It makes sense for our taxes number one. And that's just how our quote-unquote
calendar runs then. So yeah. And plus, I know when in Broadway summer vacations, that's
where they make their money. Yes. Yes. They don't make them, you know, during a snows
they make them then. Yeah. So that's good. Okay. Let's unveil the new season, the 88th season
of the Racine Theatre Guild. I'm not going to, I'm not going to wait any more. I was going to say
something that I'm going to keep going now. The drowsy, the drowsy chaperone. Yes. The drowsy
chaperone will open the season on July. So that's what we call one of our bonus shows. So we have
five shows that are part of the core season and then three shows that are a bonus show. So this
is a bonus show that we're on in July. It is a tribute to all things Golden Age musical.
It has high jinks. It has tap dance numbers. It has an Anjanaugh who, you know, is ready to give up
but then has this big flashy dance number. It has mobsters and everything you can think of
from this imaginary 1928 musical called the drowsy chaperone. And so it's actually told by a man
in a chair, remembering all of his favorite things about listening to this album throughout his
life. And he interrupts the show and talks about people throughout the way. So it's a fun, fun,
fun time. Okay. So the drowsy chaperone runs July 18th through the 27th of this year. And then
a classic, the importance of being earnest. A classic. It is. The classic. The importance of being
earnest has been around for 130ish years. Oscar Wilde wrote it. And it is still, it is
personally one of my favorite shows just because I think the dialogue and the cutting banter
is so well done. It's about two men who both have fake personalities. Jack pretends to be his
own flandering brother Ernest. And Elginon has a sickly friend, Bunberry, who's on the cusp
of death any moment. And he uses that as a way to get out of stuff he doesn't want to do. But then
they both switch identities and both call themselves earnest. And it gets a very confusing charade of
who's who. And they're trying to impress two different ladies who both think they're in love with
the same man. It's so madness ensues. And yeah, this is going to be the third time the theater
guild's actually done it. We did it in 54, I believe. And then 78. So it's been since 1978.
Since we've done it. All right. Yeah. The importance of being earnest runs September 5th through
the 21st. And then comes. I want to suck over. Dracula. But this is not. This is a comedy.
This is a comedy. It is called Dracula. A comedy of terrors. This actually started as a podcast
fundraiser during COVID as a way to help support artists at the time and has now transformed it
into a stage show. And it is everything you can imagine about parody and hijinks and slapstick
pays a lot of tribute to the 39 cents Monty Python and actually even the Carol Brunette show.
So it's it's a race around Transylvania to try and track down Dracula.
I want to suck your blood. Give me your neck. Yeah. All right. Dracula comedy of terrors.
That's October 24th through November 9th. It sounds so far away. But I'm telling you,
I'm going to be sitting in a theater in October watching this show. And I'm going to say,
we were talking about that before spring started. All right. So let's just quick review the
drowsy chaperones July 18th of the 27th. The importance of being earnest September 5th through
the 21st Dracula. A comedy of terrors October 24th through November 9th. We've got more coming up
in just a moment. Keep it right here. We've got Jocelyn Fisher's here. She's the director of
marketing and development at the receipt theater. Yeah. I want to call a documentary.
Yeah.
Join us. Leave your filter flower.
Join us. Leave your cheers to sour. Join us. Come and waste an hour or two.
Do they do? Journey. Journey to the spot. Exciting. Mystic and exotic.
Journey through the erratic darkness. We've got magic to do. Just for you. We've got
the record plays to play. We've got hearts to perform. Hearts to warm. Kings and things to take.
My spawn as we go along our way.
Okay. We won't tell you what show that's from now. We'll tell you in a few minutes. Our first
song we played corner of the sky in this song. We're not going to tell you what it is. It's magic
to do, but we won't tell you where it's from. Just yet. The suspense is building. It'll be the last show
we talked about. Jocelyn Fish is here. We're talking about the 80th season of the
Racine Theater Guild. They're a new calendar of shows that are coming up this season and this
year and next year. You unveiled it last night. Yes. You get a good response so far. Yes, actually,
very, very excited. People are, it's always amazing to me what really people are drawn to
because I personally have things I love and other people have things they love and what they
want to get involved in or what they want to see. So it's always, it's always great to hear what
people are excited for. Okay. Here's a musical that a lot of people don't know actually played on
Broadway. Originally, it was in 1968 movie musical starring Dick Van Dyke and Salianne House and
they made it into a Broadway musical later on and they did a great job. I happen to see it on
Broadway where I took my sister in law. So last Broadway show I've seen and we went to see this
show and now you're bringing it to the Racine Theater Guild. We are Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang coming for our December show. So this is going to be I think a great holiday
time show. This will be one where we also have outreach performances for schools. So it's again
about an inventor whose children asks him, they ask him to repair a car, old rusty race car.
Yes. It's a fun name. The whole show is all fun names. Anyway, so he fixes up and he ends up
putting a little magic into it and it can fly and it can float and it attracts the attention of
truly scrumptious and then but also the Baron and Baroness and they are very jealous and want it
for themselves. So they abduct his father and the inventor and the kids have to go rescue him.
And it's just everyone knows of course Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the song but there's also two
sweets and how should I buy that? I should buy that. So I think it's just going to be it will
I'm so excited to introduce I think it's one of those shows that you get to introduce the next
generation kind of things because I remember watching the movie several but I can't tell you the
last time I saw it and even I'm, you know, I'm so excited to see TCM runs at a lot. Yeah,
yeah, excited to see it again. So yes, I think it's I think it's a it's just a wonderful, wonderful
story. Now I showed you I've got this when I saw it on Broadway, I bought this in the lobby,
the making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This is the making of the London Burton musical of it.
And the big thing is and you can't do this because of the way the theater is built but they
actually flew a car with people in it above and all over throughout the audience up to the balcony.
And in this DVD, you get to see how they pulled that off. What a dangerous stunt. Crazy.
But it worked. Nobody ever got hurt. Yeah, I mean, we'll have a car. There'll be some theater
magic in it, but you know, it's it's I think the story is just wonderful and of course it's the
Sherman brothers who everyone knows of all of their Disney hits. So wonderful musical. Yeah,
Dick Van Dyke played the lead in the movie musical. What the big thing was I remember when it came
out in December of 68. And it was from the author of James Bond. He wrote all the James Bond
thrillers and they said, is this going to be a thriller? What is this movie that's got a James Bond?
He in Fleming wrote this. Yeah, he wrote all the James Bond movies and he wrote this one as well.
And Chitty Chitty. What a little different than Bond. Yeah, correct. It gets pots. Pots is the name.
This should be a Chitty Chitty bang bang. And again, I saw it on Broadway. I know it's a great show.
And I know you're going to love it. Kids are going to love it. Adults are going to love it. It's
very good. Very funny. The musicals. The music is great. It's December 12th through the 21st.
Now you have none of these shows cast yet, right? No, everyone can come out and audition for these.
We'll probably have audition dates coming up towards the end of May. I'm going to think.
Think that acted as 90s. He's still. I know. He still works. He was in Mary Poppins.
Come to see me. You know, we can put him to work. He was in Mary Poppins Returns dancing when
it was 90 years old. So yeah. Okay. So that's December 12th through the 21st.
January 16th. Rip Corde. Now I'm not familiar with this one. Yes. So Rip Corde is a new comedy
about Abby, who has a room at a senior living facility, big sunny room, all to herself.
And she's kept it that way. She has scared off every single potential roommate who has come.
Until she kind of meets her match in this new roommate, Marilyn. And they butt heads because
Marilyn is determined to stay. Abby's kind of, you know, standoffish and doesn't want to make
friends. And Marilyn just won't take that. She wants to be your friend. She's happy. She's excited.
And so they make a bet of who will get to stay. And it becomes kind of an all-out one-uping battle of
trying to pull pranks, telling secrets, et cetera. And it includes a parachute. Of course,
at some point they actually do do a little skydiving. And get to hopefully make a jump into a
friendship at the end. So really, really fun show. What's really good is you really have,
I wouldn't call it a handicap, but you've got to challenge it because you really don't have a
curtain to bring down. Everything's got to be in front of everybody. So you really don't have
a curtain to set things up and then raise the curtain like they do a broad one and do multiple
scenes like record. We've got that takes place in the senior living center. It takes place in a
park. It takes place in a haunted house. It takes place in a plane. So you know, you have to make
all these different locations in one show in some way. I find it amazing how you can do all the
scene changes right in front of our faces. And you don't even notice it because they wear black
and it's a blackout. And you open your eyes, the lights come up and there it is all done again.
Theater magic. That is good. All right, quick review. Then we're going to get to the last three
shows, which are big, big, big. I promised you big. We've got the drowsy Shaperone coming up July
18th. We've got the importance of being earnest on September 5th. Dracula, a comedy of terrors on
October 24th, Chitty, Chitty, bang, bang, December 12th in Rip Gord. Now this is a new music, a new
upplay January 16th coming up three big ones. We'll talk about those coming up in just a moment.
Jocelyn fishes here, marketing director and the developer developed market direct.
Well, I got it. Don't say anything. Director marketing of development.
Yes, I told you what the college, I can remember the stuff. It's not that difficult.
It's time.
Show me a reason and I'll soon show your rights.
Catch it on the windowsill, two blinds sitting to show.
Why do I feel I don't fit in anywhere I go.
Where my spirit can't bump me. Got to find my corner.
Hear the sky.
It has to stay true. It has to go.
It has to go. It has to go. It has to go. It has to go.
When the clouds have the lightning, then you'll have your soul.
And don't you see I want my life to be something for the night.
I remember the long weekend forever.
Oh yeah, yeah, you go.
The long weekend fly.
I got to be where my spirit can't bump me.
Got to find my corner.
Hear the sky.
Jackson five.
Now why we playing that song.
Well, we'll tell you in a few minutes.
Here's not important.
You know exactly now you will find out that we played it earlier.
We played a version of it from the new Broadway cast.
We also played magic to do from the new Broadway cast.
And we have another one coming up in just a moment.
But first we're talking to Jocelyn Fish, the director of marketing and development
of the Racine Theater Guild.
They just announced last night their 88th season 88 years.
That's crazy.
That's great. You know, in 1938, 26 people got together
and put 50 cents each into a pool and $13 and, you know,
and now we're here 88 years.
All right, quick review.
Here's what we mentioned in the first half hour.
The drowsy chaperone opens up July 18th.
Then you've got the classic, the importance of being earnest.
September 5th, Dracula, comedy of terrors on, yeah, comedy of terrors on,
I was saying errors on our cover 24th, chitty, chitty bang, bang, the musical.
Yes.
Not the movie.
It's the stage musical, which is almost like the broad alarm,
it's like the movie musical December 12th.
Then Ripcord, a new play opens up January 16th.
And then here's what I saw this movie.
Yes.
And I loved it.
And you say it's a little different than the movie.
It's called The Girl on the Train opens up February 27th.
Yes.
So The Girl on the Train huge, huge New York Times bestseller and book became a movie.
And the theatrical version is so imaginative and interesting because it's about Rachel,
who is very obsessed with this couple that she sees through the window of the train every
morning.
She kind of puts herself into their lives because their lives are what she wants.
It looks very happy and perfect.
And then the woman that she's been observing goes missing.
And so she kind of puts herself physically into the middle of this investigation.
And she becomes a suspect.
She becomes a witness.
She her brain gets intertwined with memories and revelations and and putting the pieces
of the puzzle together.
So it's a very, very suspenseful modern thriller and it really was super popular both as the
book and the movie.
And so we're very excited to bring it to the stage.
Yes.
I loved the movie.
I thought it was.
Who started the movie?
Emily Blunt.
Emily Blunt starred.
Yeah.
The girl on the train.
Yes.
Wow.
So different than everything else you have this season.
Yes.
And different than some of the mysteries we've done in the past.
It's not necessarily the, you know, find the bad guy, you know, detective sleuthene type
thing.
Like we've done for the past few years.
It's a kind, it's a very different kind of mystery and thriller.
So I'm excited about that.
Oh, yeah.
The girl on the train.
I can't wait for that.
The hobbit.
By the way, girl on the train is February 27th through March 15th.
Yes.
The hobbit.
April 10th.
Yes.
The hobbit.
April 10th through the 21st.
Of course, based on the J. R. R. Tolkien story of Mr. Billboard Baggins, who does not want
to leave his comfy, cozy home, and he's coerced by Gandalf to join this group of dwarfs
on the search for their treasure.
And so he reluctantly goes on a journey and has to battle goblins and dragons and not
have enough food.
And he's just miserable.
A lot of the time.
Let me get to work in the morning.
Yeah.
But he learns a lot about what he has to offer to the world and to this group of people.
And it's such a well-loved character and well-loved, you know, the Lord of the Rings franchise
is just everyone who loves it, just is so enamored with it.
And so we're excited because this is again, one of our outreach shows.
So this will be performed for local kids as well and have lots of roles for kids in
it because they can be little dwarfs with big beards and super fun.
I know what it is.
I tell you my typing story.
Yes.
I get to tell you my typing story.
Okay.
I see was watching me type with one finger.
Johnson was watching me type a few minutes ago, one finger.
And I said, I got an eight plus in typing in high school.
How did I do it?
Our teacher was a dwarf.
She was only a little bit, a little over three feet tall.
And she couldn't see over the big manual type writers.
And you can hear her clomping coming down the aisle.
And then you type the way you're supposed to type.
But when she was up front and she wasn't on her box, she couldn't see us.
And she said, I know you boys are going to sit in the back and cheat.
You'll get your eight plus.
But you won't know how to type.
There's not a week that goes by.
I don't think about miss Cole miss Cole because I type with one finger and I get an eight
plus in typing.
That woman was so right.
Yeah.
And we thought, oh great, we got miss Cole.
We're going to sit back here.
She won't see us.
And that will be great.
And she was so right.
All these years later, all the time I sit here typing.
All right.
We're going to save the big one for just a moment.
Okay.
You always end up on a big musical.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The big finale musical.
It's kind of our cemented thing that pulls the whole season together.
The signature.
The signature.
This is it.
This year's big musical is legally blonde.
This one is.
Oh, you got to wait.
I'll tell you about it in just a moment.
Jocelyn Fish is here.
Director of Marketing and Development of the Receive Theater, girl.
When you are as old as I my dear, and I hope that you never are, you will woefully
wonder why my dear.
Through your cataracts and cataracts, you could squander away or sequester a drop of a precious
year.
For when your best days are yesterday, the rest are twice as dear.
What good is a field on a fine summer night if you sit all alone with the weeds or a succulent
pair of with each juicy bite.
Get out your teeth with the seeds.
Be sure to make stop trying to wait for fortune and fake your secure.
For this one thing to be sure of, mate, there's nothing to be sure of.
Oh, it's time to start living, time to take a label from the world we're giving, time
to take time, cause spring will turn to fall in just no time at all.
I never wondered if I was afraid, when there was a challenge to take.
I never thought about how much I weighed, when there was still one piece of cake.
Maybe it's meant, the hours I've spent feeling broken and bent and unwell.
But there's still no cure so heaven says, as the chance to raise some hell, everybody
oh, it's time to start living, time to take a label from the world we're giving, time
to take time, cause spring will turn to fall in just no time at all.
Now when the dreary's do a top and a siege of the sands begin,
I throw these free gold shoulders back and lift these noble gins.
Give me a man who has handsome and strong, someone who's taller and steadier.
Give me a night that's romantic and long and give me a month to get ready.
Now I can play lay some aging away and persuade him to play in some brandy.
Well, it's hard to believe, I mean let us pray to my a man who calls me brandy.
Oh, it's time to start living, time to take a label from the world we're giving.
That's the original Broadway cast from 1972, Pippin starred Ben Boreen,
and that lady who we, you finally figured out the wrong one.
I finally remembered the grandmother.
That's right.
I read Ryan from the Beverly Hills Village.
I mean, you don't think it was a Broadway star.
Oh, it's crazy.
And she even refers to herself as brandy in the song, yeah.
So I don't know if they ever left that in or not, but there's no time at all.
We're not going to tell you where it's from.
I guess we can now.
It's our final show of the ADA season.
This will be running a year from now.
March 15th through the 31st, when I say may.
Plime here.
May 15th through the 31st of 2026.
It's Pippin.
Pippin the musical.
Yes.
Yes.
And all the songs we've been playing this morning.
We've been teasing corner of the sky.
The Jackson five.
We played magic to do, which we played the new Broadway cast Ben Boreen sang it on Broadway.
And this one, no time at all.
We're in Ryan sang it from the 1972 original Broadway cast version.
Pippin.
Yes.
Yes.
Wow.
Musical that's been around since 1972.
It is by if everyone is familiar with wicked.
If nothing else, it's wicked creators.
Stephen Schwartz is one of his very first musicals that he did.
So since wicked's been getting a little love, it's been nice to kind of tie the tie people
to like where he started from.
But it's a story of this company of players that come together and they tell this story of Pippin.
And sometimes try manipulate the story of Pippin.
Son of Charlemagne who wants something more from his life.
And he's not really sure what that is.
And so he ends up going to war.
He ends up exploring his passion.
He ends up leaving a revolution.
And he ends up hopefully maybe finding love in the end.
He gets to make a decision of what he wants, which the players aren't maybe necessarily very happy about in the end.
So great music.
Great story.
A lot of people have wonderful memories of the original version.
Of course, Ben Varene.
You can't think of the show without thinking of Ben Varene.
And it was the revival in 2013, one best revival for Tony Warts.
Now you said the Irene Ryan part of grainy from the very little Billy's just played by Andrea Martin.
Andrea Martin in the 2013 version.
Yes.
So yeah, it's a lot of just iconic songs and iconic characters.
And just one of those stories that you kind of walk away with a warmth in your heart.
Now when you start casting for Pippin, this is over a year from now.
Over a year from now.
So everything will have open auditions.
That one we would likely do auditions February Marchish of next year, which is so people got time to prepare.
Go get the album.
Go get the sheet music.
Start thinking.
Start singing the songs.
It's one great song.
Glory we didn't play.
That's another great song.
Glory.
Love song is wonderful song.
Our manager and artistic director Doug actually had a couple of these songs in his wedding.
He talks about.
So you know, it's one of those ones that people just fall in love with them.
And keep connected to throughout their life.
Years ago we had Sunday brunch on Broadway in our stations.
And some of this, some of the albums they didn't have.
So I went to the public library.
And Pippin was one of them I got out of the library.
And I was pulling out of my garage.
I had a condo at the time.
And I must have had them on the roof of the car while I was opening the door.
Go away with them on the roof.
And I never saw them again.
I had to buy a brand new copies for the whole scene public library.
So if you see Pippin in the library.
That's a brand new copy that I bought courtesy of Don and Rose.
What could have happened?
Oh, I put them on there was like three of them.
I left on the roof of the car.
And Pippin was one of them.
Let's do a review for people just tuning in now.
Yes.
This is the brand new twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty six.
Schedule the 80 season of the Racine Theater Guild.
Let's kick it off with the drowsy shaperone.
Drowsy shaperone in July.
Great tribute to the Golden Age musicals of yesterday year.
Then we got a classic over a hundred years old.
The importance of being earnest.
Yes.
Great comedy written by Oscar Wilde as well.
Yeah.
Then Dracula, a comedy of Terry's.
Interesting way you got this.
This is not a Broadway player or anything.
It is now.
It is now.
It started on a podcast.
It started on a podcast.
Very zany.
Very Monty Python tongue in cheek.
Observed characters.
I think people are really going to enjoy it, especially at Halloween time.
And the Christmas musical will be Chitty Chitty bang bang.
Now this is based on the movie.
It's very rare that a Broadway show is based on a movie.
Although it's happening with legally blonde.
Yes.
Usually it's the other way around.
The Broadway music and they make a movie out of it.
This is just the opposite.
It was a movie with Dick Van Dyke, animated to a Broadway musical.
I saw it on Broadway and it was just fantastic.
I loved it.
Yeah.
I think it's going to be something that a lot of people, even if they don't know,
they're going to come and just.
You're going to walk away singing Chitty Chitty bang bang.
It's like impossible to get that song.
I know.
And truly scrumptious.
And truly scrumptious.
The heroine's name.
Yes.
The heroine's name.
The Italian house.
Her name was truly scrumptious.
That's where it comes up.
Ripcord.
This is a different one.
Ripcord is a newer comedy about two women battling it out for a room at a senior living facility.
And it's their hoot and a half.
But there's also a lot of heart to it and a lot of friendship involved in the story too.
The girl on the train.
This is a great mystery.
February of 2026.
We're going to do a really gripping thriller, really theatrical piece.
Lots of elements of imagination and reality kind of coming together on the stage, which will
be quite something.
And I think really put the audience on the edge of their seats.
And rumor hands it.
Emily Blunt, who started the movie version will start in the received here.
Girl version.
Emily Blunt.
With her husband, the guy from the office.
Tom Crisinski.
Tom Crisinski.
Yes.
Who's a great, he's directing it at the receiver go.
A Hobbit.
April 10th.
Yes.
The Hobbit.
Or the ring.
Or a middle school outreach show in the spring.
And so yes, load the rings.
Everyone knows.
The precious, of course, that Bill Will Baggins is going to help the dwarfs find and Gandalf's
in there.
And elves are in there.
And all the wonderful characters that people know from the world of the Lord of the Rings.
And of course, the big finale, the big musical May 15th, we talked about Pippin.
Pippin.
Pippin, Pippin, Pippin.
Great score.
Wonderful music.
It's a very different musical to just the storyline of it, but the players coming and telling
the audience the story, I think, is a really interesting aspect of the show too.
They help bring the audience in and understand everything that's happening.
I just realized the actual synopsis is on the back of the card.
Yes.
I'm sitting here for an hour, which is part of my hand, and it was realized right there.
This is.
I say this every year.
Yes.
It's one of the best.
Yeah.
Everyone out here is a winner.
Yeah, we're really excited.
And, and you know, so people can become season, take a hold.
There's like you, you know, Don's been a season, take a hold.
Or with us for years.
For eight years.
Eight years.
Eight years.
While you look great for your age.
But that's the best way to save money throughout the whole season.
And then you get your kind of permanent.
And you don't have to think about it.
You don't have to think about it.
And you get to renew that seat next year, if you want.
We also have great options of flex passes.
If you're never quite sure what your schedule's like, you can buy a pack of flex passes
and turn those in like three for one show, two for another.
You can use them not only on the main stage show that we've announced, but also on our comedy series,
our spotlight series, and our jeans jazz series.
And then individual tickets don't go on sale for drowsy chaperone until after legally blood opens.
And then the rest of the season in visual tickets will go on sale July first.
And let's remind everybody there's only one way to get tickets to receive theater
guild.
That's a guaranteed way to get them.
Yes.
That's the schlep on down to the box office.
Or go online to receive theater dot org.
That is the best way to get your tickets.
There's scammers out there.
Yes, do not go to other third party websites.
That there is a that has become a very unfortunately popular thing across the country across
theaters.
I know.
And it's legal.
It's legal.
People are listing our tickets for exorbitantly high prices.
What's the highest price?
Twenty bucks.
Sixteen twenty two is our highest.
Twenty.
So if you're paying more than twenty two dollars, don't walk run to the receiving theater guild
and get your ticket yourself.
Yes.
This is this is some schedule.
Yeah.
I can't believe how good of it.
But it's not over yet.
We've got always a bride made opening up March 28th.
I think we have some tickets to give away too.
You do.
Yes.
For the March 29th performance at 730.
All right.
So always a bride's May is next.
And then the big finale musical legally blonde.
Yes, this is the musical based on the Reese Witherspoon movie.
Again, this is kind of weird because normally it's the other way around.
Movies are they kind of snare the Broadway musical and make a movie out of it.
This is different.
And it's going to be super fun.
We're going to have live dogs on stage, of course, for legally blonde.
I'll rule too.
I was.
Yeah.
And I think it's a matter of time.
It's not going to be soon.
I think it's a matter of time before wicked comes to the university because you got to let
it play out on Broadway and the day they don't let you get it yet.
It's going to be eventually.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe I don't know.
It might be one of those ones where the rights will never be available.
Really.
Find out.
There are shows they'd ever let them out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah.
If you need to Steven Schwartz, fix, Pippin is your ticket.
I am so glad you you debuted here.
I'm glad we set this up.
I'm glad I got to chat with you.
You're all so excited about stuff.
So that's not where I was.
You heard it's second.
I heard it first here.
Jocelyn Fisch, director of marketing and development at the Racine Theatre Guild, Doug
insanenses the artistic director.
Yeah.
And the director.
He's the guy who.
Now you have a committee to pick these out.
Yes, we have a play reading committee.
So they actually we read over 150 plays to determine the eight that we were going to do.
And so it's people from on stage, off stage, different age ranges.
And we all work together to come up with this.
And then you have to see if you can do it.
I mean, right.
You have to apply for rights.
And but you physically do this on stage.
We have that discussion a lot of what are the production elements, what are the costumes, etc.
So yeah, there's a lot of a lot of thought that goes into this.
It's not just pulled from a hat.
There's a lot of discussions, a lot of talking and figuring out what what's best.
And we'll bring people in and what will bring people into the seats, not only, but also audition and help backstage.
Thanks for coming in.
