This is New Wisco Weekend, and I'm Lisa Hale, your host.
Now, when we talk about original entertainment in the Greater Green Bay area,
one of the first names that comes to mind is Frank Hermann's of Let Me Be Frank Productions.
Frank joined Nightlight with Peach Waba to talk about his latest production.
I found my thrill on Scraze Hill, playing through August 10th.
Here's a little bit of that interview.
Frank Hermann's is here with the legendary Frank Hermann's of Let Me Be Frank Productions,
and some of the stuff we were just talking about off the air, unfortunately, I can't share,
because it was great stuff. It was gold.
Don't you wish you could do that.
I mean, you should like a podcast.
You can't.
Yeah, but let's talk about your new show.
Found my thrill on Scraze Hill.
So you're not from the city.
I'm not.
So tell me what Scraze Hill is.
Scraze Hill is right outside of East of Peer.
It's a hill.
Back in the day, the Scraze owned it.
Hilly Haven was up there as a ski hill,
but it was a place that was farm fields.
The Niagara escarpment, which is a cool word,
created that hill from the glaciers.
Kind of a, it's the tallest point in Brown County.
And it was a place that was secluded.
And you could go up there in park.
There was lots of little places to park your car.
And this is where the place that the boys and girls
from the high schools around the area and colleges
would bring the drive up there in the cars.
And they would park.
That's where I was made.
And they would neck.
They would neck, as they say.
As have it, they call it.
They used to say that they had.
We're necking.
And they built all of you and all the TV towers are up there.
Oh, yeah.
That's where they put the first TV tower for WBAY back.
In 1955, in fact, I got a picture of it.
And that's kind of the thing,
Scraze Hill, and there was one road up there, Dickinson Road.
Now, it is full of multi-million dollar mansions.
And it's the who's who of this area owns houses up there.
So I make fun of that.
And I play a Professor Scray.
And my family owns that hill.
And I want to keep it beautiful.
I don't want the lifestyle of the rich and famous
being brought up there.
Not like what happened to Alloway.
I love that.
So what's the music in this one?
It's all from the 59, 60, 61.
Oh, nice.
So it's that cool stuff.
Sorry, sorry, oh, sorry, oh, sorry.
Uh-oh.
It's like that kind of stuff, you know?
Found my thrill on Scraze Hill.
Music from the 60s.
And it starts right around the corner.
$10 of every ticket goes to New Cap.
And great night to come if you want to support your community and support us.
And then we run for four weeks all the way through August 10th.
Found my thrill on Scraze Hill.
So tell us a little bit about the plot.
We know that music is from the 60s.
But what's the plot for the whole thing?
It was the place to go parking back in the 60s.
But I wanted to make it a little bit more inclusive of the whole
Dupier community.
So I play Professor Frank Scray.
And my family owns Scraze Hill.
But I am, I teach it, say, Nobert College.
And I teach a class called Sociology 101-ish.
And I have diverse characters in the show.
The kind of the stereotypical cheerleader,
the stereotypical Norbertine, the person becoming a priest,
which is no longer a core curriculum.
And then I have a theater major who's very dramatic,
which is another non-core curriculum
anymore at St. Norbert College.
So we'll make a little fun of that.
And then we got the football player.
And then I got the person on scholarship, academic scholarship,
who plays sports.
And she plays center for the St. Norbert,
a girls basketball team.
And she's four foot 11.
So there's the didn't cancel that program.
They didn't cancel that program.
Yeah.
So that's so fun.
All right.
So tickets are available at tickets to our
Resh Center box office.
Go there.
Follow me.
Myrtheater.org.
I know a guy.
Just run by Frank's house.
My son is also in the show, my 14-year-old son,
who is a phenomenal.
In fact, he was going to come the night.
We couldn't do the show.
He can sing like a bird.
Well, he was here.
He was here last time.
He was here last time.
14-year-old Harrison Herman.
He plays my son.
He's the gifted kid who graduated high school at 13.
He's kind of that know-it-all kid.
And he spies on all these guys who are parking on Scraze Hill.
So we can learn the ropes of necking.
Of necking and other procedures.
I could probably use a brush up.
There you go.
I would be like, what are you going to use again?
Kids don't mind me.
So he's like mine.
And I get angry with him for being a peeping time.
You can go to jail for that.
But he goes, then I can call their parents.
And I use blackmail.
I go, good, good, good job, son.
There he goes.
I use blackmail in my job all the time.
I don't know why I have an English accent.
I always think of professors.
I'm that classic college professor who has the goatee,
has the hair slick back, and I am very knowledgeable of things.
You do the accents really well, though.
But let me ask you this, when your family,
your wife Amy, who is brilliantly talented, I told you,
we talked about this before the interview.
Somebody posted a clip of her on Facebook singing a song from Mama Mia.
It was un-breath-taking.
Oh, no, it was from Abba.
Yeah, it was a winner takes it all, right?
And it was called...
Is that a Mama Mia?
But it was called, what was the show call?
I can't remember.
So you're going to play something.
I'm going to play some from Mike Nesbeth, see if you like it.
All right.
Frank Hurms.
A most hopeless situation for Joanne and the man and the time that made them both run.
She was only a girl and I knew that well but still I could not see.
That's the whole that she had was much stronger than the love she felt for me.
But staying with her in a little bit would work.
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