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Overture Center 2025/26 (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Mon Apr 21, 2025
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gentlemen.
Hour number two here on this Monday edition.
If there was ever a night that needs lighting, it is this gloomy Monday in our typically beautiful state of Wisconsin.
Our question of the night is, what is your favorite serial killer movie?
We've had some great suggestions and contributions so far, so please feel free to weigh in on that.
Whether you're on the text line at 855-752-4842 on the Civic Media app, which is very easy to use or on the stream at Facebook, YouTube, or ex-Twitter.
My guest right now is Kirsten Larson.
She's the program director of the Milwaukee Film Festival, a phenomenal film festival.
You know, Kirsten, my son just pointed out to me.
Yesterday that I say the word phenomenal a lot and now I'm very conscious of the fact that I'm saying it But I it is a perfect adjective right for your film festival.
Yeah, I we are phenomenal.
So it's appropriate
There you go The film festival this year takes place April 24th through May 8th do yourself a favor and go see one of the many offerings they have about 200 Is what Kirsten said said last hour and there are still tickets available for opening night You have these great
Events, too, called happy hours.
Can you tell people listening a little bit about what you guys do at your happy hour events?
Yeah, definitely.
So, I mean, this may come as no surprise, but we are Wisconsin, so there's drinking at the happy hours.
But beyond that, we just get everybody loosened up to get to know each other.
So we call them filmmaker happy hours because we really encourage our local filmmakers and the filmmaker guests.
to come out to those, but they are available for anyone to attend and just sort of talk about filmmaking or just the festival in general.
And then you'll see for each of them, they have different hosts for them.
So one I'm especially excited about is the Cartemquin films, Happy Hours.
They're a very iconic Chicago documentary production company.
That has been responsible for films like hoop dreams, which is you know known as one
of the best
documentaries of all time So I'm so happy that we can have our family down in Chicago come visit us and You know crack open a beer and talk movies
That one sounds really cool and they make they churn out more great documentaries they're like a juggernaut in the in the documentary world and
you know as you know i'm a native chicago into uh they we all love to come up to wisconsin i ended up making it my home i liked it so much so i'm sure you didn't have to twist any arms to get people from chicago to come up to wisconsin to talk about their their really cool company
oh yeah not at all
um okay so the the other one you have i thought this was interesting you're you're talking to people from action wisconsin uh this is a group that is trying to pass incentives for filmmakers here in wisconsin to do rebates or
uh tax breaks to alleviate the cost to filmmakers and attract business to wisconsin does milwaukee film or the milwaukee film festival uh support that one way or the other are you just giving them a forum i would imagine you guys would weigh in on the side of the filmmakers but it can be a bit of a political issue so i don't know if you're trying to sidestep that or where you guys stand on that
oh yeah
Yeah, we obviously want filmmakers to have those incentives and opportunities to make films more easily in our great city and state.
But yeah, we are not personally involved in making or fighting for those incentives.
But yeah, having this kind of event where they can talk about the work they're doing filmmakers can learn about that is definitely the kind of.
conversation and promotional contribution that we're able to give.
That sounds like a great event.
And if I lived closer, I would definitely, that's one I would definitely attend.
I would love to hear what they have to say.
I've had several people from Action Wisconsin on this show over the course of the last year, and I know that things are coming to a head there.
So I actually wish them luck.
I really hope they're able to get those passed.
And speaking of that, while we're on that topic, Kirsten, how many films, not a specific number, but
Do you guys allot a certain amount of films every year to Wisconsin filmmakers or films that are shot in the state?
Not necessarily specifically Wisconsin.
We have our Cream City Cinema Program, which is all local filmmakers.
So that's the five counties.
in the Milwaukee area, but yeah, obviously anytime a film has some sort of Wisconsin connection to it, we're going to pounce on that.
But yeah, we always have the Cream City Cinema Program, which has lots of local talent on display.
I love it so much because, similar to Sally,
You get to see all of these films that are filmed here or the actors are from here or people behind the scenes got to work on it.
And they just get to have their films shown on an absolutely huge, gorgeous screen and have Q&As with all their friends and family.
And they're so joyful and really what the festival is all about.
So we always get our film submissions and we just sort of see
what comes in every year.
And then we just have the very, very hard work of whittling it down from that giant pile.
And I know we always know it's going to be great, but it's it's always so fascinating to see what's going to come through.
That's great.
My guest is Kirsten Larson.
She's the program director of the Milwaukee Film Festival, which takes place April 24th to May 8th.
Get your tickets now, folks.
There are still tickets available for opening night, which is always a fun event.
We have just another minute or two here with Kirsten because I'm sure she has to get back to work Kirsten what if someone said to you I Can see three films this year.
What would you tell them to see at this year's festival?
All right, so we always tell people to Check out our spotlight presentations category, which is like the opening night film Sally and desperately seeking Susan
Um, but three other films from that category, we have the silent 1920s film notes for our two that will be playing musical accompaniment, which is always a very unique film experience that you can't have very often.
And so being able to see that at the Oriental is going to be great.
And especially with.
the new Nosferatu coming out, everybody has to check out what the original one was like and there's no better way to do that than with the Anvil Orchestra playing alongside it.
Then we also have a documentary called The Librarians, which is a political documentary like we were talking about with librarians fighting against people trying to ban books.
And so I just am really excited to see that one.
And then we're also having a panel afterwards where the filmmakers will talk to librarians from Milwaukee and sort of see how these issues are relevant to our city specifically.
And then the closing night film is called Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.
And that is just a fun rom-com.
It is both French and British.
about a woman who goes to a Jane Austen writer's retreat and then, you know, ends up sort of living out a Jane Austen kind of romance.
So we always like to end the festival with a crowd pleaser that will send people off into the world having fun.
So I'm excited for everybody to come together and watch that one.
I absolutely love that.
The whole festival sounds fantastic.
Keep up the great work there, Kirsten.
And don't be a stranger.
Please come back on and tell us how it's going.
And I'm excited to talk to some of the people you've referred me to this week.
So we'll see if we can help you put some butts in the seats, but not that you need the help, but break a leg this year and have a great time.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
All right, that's Kirsten Larson, the program director of the Milwaukee Film Festival.
Conrad, did anything grab your attention there?
I'm Exactly, I'm so curious as to how they did it without being detected like
like I used to when I first moved back to Wisconsin it was so cold here I would mall walk my wife and I sometimes I go with my mom we would walk them all you go back and use the restroom and there's all these like cavernous hallways and like it just gives you this weird feeling like what's back there like that truly fascinates me and that's probably the one I would I would want to see as well um
So thanks to Kirsten Larson and good luck to everyone at the Milwaukee Film Festival this year.
Tim Sowers is coming up in just a few minutes, folks.
He's gonna tell us they just got their new lineup at the Overture Center in Madison, the beautiful Overture Center on State Street.
Tim is the Chief Artistic Experiences Director, and he gets to pick the lineup.
So we'll talk to Tim about what they're offering.
We've got how we doing on text am I caught up?
No, I've got a new one here I need to get to that our question of the night folks.
What is your favorite serial killer movie and?
Kirsten suggestions were great.
I love them, but Barb from Waukesha That's the 262 she says Friday the 13th from 1980 saw it at the drive-in theater.
Oh my gosh Have
Couple they're pretty cool.
I mean, they're just a different experience and I think I've been there a handful of times I guess like when I was in high school and seeing a film like Friday the 13th with a bunch of kids in cars.
That's a special That's a special experience So what do what should we should we go to a clip here before we take another quick break?
What do we have con?
Do we have time to do a quick clip before?
just a quick clip.
Let's do it.
to
Okay, awesome.
How long have you lived out here?
Man, I don't know.
I quit wearing a watch when I moved out here.
Wow, that's so cool.
Yeah.
No, like my cell phone has a clock on it, so I don't really need it.
Right, so basically the same thing.
How old are you?
I don't really believe in age or numbers.
You know, I don't...
I mean, if you had to put a number on, I guess that'd be 44.
Thanks for taking me out here.
This is the first time I've felt good in three weeks or so.
You need to get back on that board is what you need to
do.
Yeah?
Hey, here's the deal.
When life gives you lemons, just say, frick, the lemons have failed.
Yeah, no.
You said it, totally.
You got to just pull yourself up by your wetsuit, get back on that board.
Hey, look, man, if you're attacked by a shark, are you going to give up surfing?
Probably, yeah.
That's great.
All right.
When we come back, folks, after this very short break, don't go anywhere.
We're having fun here.
Tim Sowers joins us from the Overture Center in Madison.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are lighting it up tonight.
And it needs, this night in particular, it needs lighting.
It is a gloomy day in Wisconsin.
I, you know, kind of, I think this is like one of the worst springs on record.
It's just really sucked.
No, it blows.
I'm going to be honest.
Forget about it.
Glass half full, Pete is gone.
Brian checking in on the text line.
He's in the 414.
He says Hannibal Lecter film series and TV show I've not seen either one of those I don't think unless he's talking about the Hannibal Lecter is like from Silence of the Lambs.
I said manhunter.
That's my favorite serial killer movie share ears folks Let us know on the text line the app or the stream and we will read it on the radio right now We've got a lot to get to still we got a lot of show left because our pal Tim Sowers
the Chief Artistic Experiences Director at the Overture Center right there in Madison just Unleashed or unveiled I should say a new lineup and some great shows coming up the Overture Center He joins us tonight here on nightlight to talk about them Tim.
How are you?
I'm good.
The
Sun just came out
down here.
You're right.
It was
crap brutal man the
whole
awful
spring
cold.
It's terrible
I know it.
So let's we got to bring a little warmth here with your new with your new agenda.
I think how you doing tonight, Tim?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm just getting over COVID.
But other than that, I'm all
right.
Oh, wow.
I know it.
First time?
No, it's like third.
OK.
How does it how does it affect you?
Like, does it really kick your butt?
Are you one of those people?
Just my
sinuses.
It just hits my sinuses.
And then it takes like five months to go away.
Like, that's it.
It just hits my sinuses.
But it's all right.
It was weeks ago, but I'm still...
You sound like you.
You must have gotten it right after you were on the show when you came into the studio.
I got it
in.
I got it, like... Towards the end of March.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, you sound great.
It's good to have you.
Thank you.
You sound top notch.
Yeah.
So you've got all these great shows coming in.
Let's talk about, before we get to the new lineup or the new shows you've just announced, you've got three shows that people can still see in this current season.
Are there tickets available for Clue, MJ The Musical, or Wicked?
All of them.
Wicked tickets are getting scarce.
But we had a huge on sale.
We do subscriptions first.
And then with Wicked, we had a
single ticket on sale and we were like the 10th highest one day total Since like 2014 That's pretty good people are excited to see it.
It was perfect timing right with a movie coming out and
Absolutely, we just drove by in Appleton the other day.
Yeah the performing arts center there.
Yeah all it now, but
MJ the musical is either there or coming there.
I know you guys have it coming up in June.
Yeah, how is that show?
I may have asked you this actually
It's actually there, you know, there's so many Biopic musicals out there and this one's one of the better ones.
Okay, because it really focuses on his Genius as an artist,
right
and the period of time is set when he's rehearsing his dangerous tour So they go back in time and look at
him growing up and stuff, but they really just focus on him and his music and his creative genius, really.
And I think it's a good way to do it, right?
So
there is story, there are story
elements.
I mean, the
story element to it is, is he's being interviewed by I think Rolling Stone magazine, and then he's, you
know,
looking at his life and talking about his shows.
But there's a there's a number in there that has to be one of my favorite.
Numbers from a Broadway musical and it's it's a number with his three geniuses and it's like Fred Astaire and Bob Fosse and and then I think it's the Walker Brothers from vaudeville.
I think that was their name
very
very it's a very cool piece so
It's very, it's popular.
It'll do really well.
It's doing really well across the country and its tour.
So that's
really good.
Is it, uh, do they do smooth criminal in it?
I don't remember.
That's such a
great
song.
Um, okay.
So let's go to the new lineup.
You guys just, uh, roll this out.
I think last
week, um, just, yeah, Thursday,
man.
Yeah.
Just last week.
Right, right.
So you have this, this caught my eye and I think it sounds so fantastic.
Back to the future, the musical March 10th through the 15th and 20th.
What on earth?
Tell us about that.
It's the movie on stage really.
They're pretty tried and true to the story of the movie.
It has an original score, plus then some of the hit songs like The Power of Love, that's part of the movie.
And there's a DeLorean and it flies.
On the stage.
Yeah, we'll see.
I mean, it did.
I saw it on Broadway flying.
Yeah, so people were that when we did a live event the other night, and that was one of the titles that people were most excited about back to the future.
So how do I mean?
Let me ask you this because you have the great Gatsby on this list, too, that I want to
ask you
about.
But I do you ever have shows?
And I think I'm sure you wouldn't book them if they didn't work.
But when when they're not typically musicals and
they write
music for them, does it ever seem forced or is it like?
I'm sure the ones you book work.
But you ever watch one of those and go, this is sort of the other.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
There's it's.
It's hard.
The trend right now on Broadway is movies, movies, and more movies being turned into musicals.
And I like when they write an original score for that.
Sometimes it's a jukebox and it's somebody's music that's just kind of put in there.
That's what Mama Mia is all about.
They create this plot.
put in all the album music, but I like it when it's original.
I'm with you.
And I, that's why I just, and like the outsiders too, I haven't seen that either, but I'm like,
one of the best in years.
That's what you said last time.
It's
just a
powerful, beautiful show.
I
noticed that was not on your list though.
Maybe they're not ready to send it out.
No, it's going out next year for the first time, but usually.
With a title like that, it'll probably play longer dates in the major cities.
All right, Tim Sowers is here.
We're getting the lowdown on the lineup at the Overture Center in the new season, which comes up.
We'll have more with Tim after a very short news break here.
It's Pete Schwabba in Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Welcome
back to Nightlight!
I'm Pete Schwabba.
Great to have you with me on this Monday as we kick off our last, our fourth quarter here tonight.
Our question of the night, there's still time.
If you want to get in on the fun is what is your favorite serial killer movie?
I said Manhunter.
Conrad said Scream.
Tyler from Wisconsin Rapids says Christina Ricci plays Naughty in her portrayal of Lizzie Borden, the mini series, killing more than Ma and Pa, Ruthless.
I forgot about that one too.
Thank you, Tyler.
Brian from Milwaukee says, yes, I'm talking about manhunter, silence of the lambs, Hannibal Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising, the films and the NBC series Hannibal.
Okay, I thought that's what you meant.
Thank you for clarifying that, Brian.
Yeah, it was pretty hard to argue with Hannibal Lecter stuff.
I still say Brian Cox, the best Hannibal Lecter in manhunter.
Not as much camera time as Anthony, what am I trying to think of Conrad?
Who plays?
Anthony, what's that?
Anthony Davis, I'm totally blanking.
He won the Oscar for a, hey, Tim, do you know who played, who am I thinking of?
Yeah, the two.
Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter.
Oh my God, I can see him.
Anthony Davis in my head.
No, is that Anthony?
Is that right?
Hopkins.
Anthony Hopkins.
Oh yeah, Hopkins, there you go.
Shoo.
I get that all the time, like people think he's,
And he was great.
He's a phenomenal actor.
Slightly over the top, in my opinion, in that film.
Do you have a favorite serial killer movie, Tim?
I do.
And
it just
came to... I just read an article about it just a couple days ago.
American Psycho.
Oh, you're the second person that said that to me.
I have not seen that in years, and I think I saw it sporadically.
I got to see that.
Yeah, and here's one reason I love it.
They made a musical out of it.
I think I knew that
too.
It was a bomb in the States and I saw it and I loved it.
I thought it was cool and chilling and I think it was ahead of its time.
But
they did it in London.
The original was in London with Matt Smith.
So American Psycho.
That's interesting.
All right.
Great choice.
You're joining the club of america.
I think that's actually I think you're actually the third american cycle So that might be our frontrunner, but we've had a lot of
serial mom or serial mom Oh, who
is
remember serial mom with tathleen turner?
Oh
my god.
Yeah, was
that serious movie?
Was that a serious movie about a serial?
No,
it was a it was a comedy serial killer comedy.
That was pretty fun Opposed not
opposed to that.
That's
great.
I know right
um
Alright, so here's another here's another show.
I have not seen yet.
I hear it's absolutely hilarious You guys have added this for next October The Book of Mormon.
Oh my gosh, the Book of Mormon is probably one of the best musicals ever written It is so wrong and so right at the same time And I mean really it's a perfect little musical you have it satires everybody You have a love story in it.
The score is stunning
And it's been running on Broadway forever.
I'm going to say maybe 10, 20, 10, 20, 15 years maybe.
That sounds about right.
I haven't seen it yet.
I have to.
It's so fun.
It's so fun.
I need to live across the street from the Overture Center or the PAC in Appleton.
When you live on the edge of the universe like I do, it's tough to get to these shows, and I feel very left out, Tim.
I'm going to be honest.
Well, our state is fortunate to have great centers all over.
Fox Cities is great, and they get a great Broadway series, and I know that's right.
Absolutely.
Here's a classic that
will play November 11th through the 16th of this year, some like it hot.
Yeah.
Tell me about that.
It's good.
It's a original score.
It's jazz.
It's based on the Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis movie.
They've updated it a little bit to give it more of a modern sensibility to it, even though it's still period.
Great score.
It's great.
That's what was that a musical when it first came out.
It wasn't right.
No It was that movie that wasn't a movie.
Well, there's music in that right, right?
I think Okay, I haven't seen it in forever.
Yeah, I haven't either remember watching as a kid But and then here this is huge news and I'm not surprised Hamilton is coming back and we'll
kick off
2026 at the Overture Center
Yeah, that's exciting.
How many is this like the third time through for him?
Third time for us.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's another show.
It's going to have it's going to continue to run for a long time.
Yeah.
People love it.
Where does that rank?
If I if I could get personal here, Tim, I'm not trying to make you cry or anything.
I don't like to get too much into people's past.
But Hamilton, where does that rank?
Is that up there for you on the top of like you've seen everything?
Where do you rank Hamilton?
It's up there, but it's not like super up there.
I would say it was probably in my top ten.
Okay.
I saw that in Milwaukee and I liked it.
It's fun.
The energy is great, but I wanted more music.
Like the lyrics and all that were great.
But I don't know.
I feel like I should like it more.
I hear you.
Thank you for not judging me.
I'm not
judging
you at all.
Okay, so that kicks off 2026.
That's pretty cool.
One of the biggest musicals last, I don't know
how
many years.
And then you've got, this is interesting.
I was reading about this today, Water for Elephants makes its Wisconsin debut in June of next year.
What is that show?
Well, it's based on that big popular book.
There was a movie with Reese Witherspoon.
It takes place about this man who finds love in this traveling circus.
And so the show's visuals are, they have aerialists in it, they do a lot of circus acts in it.
So it kind of has a cool little vibe to it with the spectacle with it as well.
That's cool.
It's all original music.
Oh, nice.
Was the movie a musical?
No.
Okay.
No, and I'm trying to think who wrote the music to Water for Elephants.
It's like a country group or a... Pigpen... No, a theater company wrote it.
So it kind of has a folk... Kind of has a...
Oh,
cool.
Broadway feel to it.
This movie just completely went under my radar.
It's Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christopher Walt.
Yeah, I have not seen this.
It
wasn't super great compared to the novel.
The novel was huge when it was out, Water for Elephants.
Okay.
Here's the one I'm the most excited to ask you about.
It's one of my favorite books of all time, The Great Gatsby.
Gorgeous.
Also, it's probably one of
the most it was it's probably one of my favorite shows I've seen in the last couple years nice it is the visuals it is it is an old-fashioned Musical spectacle the visuals are so stunning when I saw it on Broadway.
I kept gasping at it because they were doing stuff that was crazy Crazy amazing and it's a you know great classic story jazz score.
It's it's
I loved it.
It's still running on Broadway, so still doing good.
And that got a popular response the other night, too.
And another one, again, this is kind of a theme here in our discussion tonight, but it was not a musical, just a phenomenal story.
But I read something you wrote about it, or you were interviewed, and you said the music is outstanding.
You mean great Gatsby?
Yeah.
It's great.
And on Broadway, it starred Jeremy Jordan, who's one of, probably one of the best voices in today's musical theater.
And yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah, really good.
Well, the line of sound's amazing.
It's exciting.
Tim Sowers is here.
He's the chief artistic experiences director at the Overture Center in Madison.
He does great work there.
They're a list of shows they put on that all of their theaters are outstanding.
Tim.
Tell us a little bit about the Overture Presents.
That's a different series.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So we have really the non-Broadway shows, which I think there's 30 some and there'll be more we add all the time.
So they're all on sale right now for subscription and you can purchase three of them and save 10 percent or the more you purchase, the more you save.
And the only way you can get the tickets right now is all through subscription.
To get to go on sale in the summer and do you want to know what the biggest highlight was for that at people the other night the naked magicians?
I mean to grab my eye just
They're hilarious they're hilarious we had them I don't know seven or eight years ago and They're just they're from Australia and they just they're great magicians and they
You know, their gimmick is they get naked on stage, but you never really see anything given where they place things.
You know, it's like it's pretty fun.
They're pretty fun.
So I was glad to see they were back around again.
That's hilarious.
So you offered that with the with the Orbiture Presents series, as well as music or the story of Simon and Garfunkel and an evening with David Sedaris, which sounds cool too.
Yeah, David Sedaris, we bring him, he's here every other year.
He's probably one of the nicest people I ever met.
I've heard that, yeah.
Yeah, he sits out in the lobby before the show and signs books and autographs and stuff and then he goes and does his show and then after the show he does the same thing and he's in that lobby until everybody's gone.
That is really impressive.
It is impressive.
One of the reasons he loves doing it is he gets stories from these people.
just
by talking to them.
He gets stories from them.
He's an incredible guy.
He sells really well.
He's very popular.
The other thing you guys have is a full or you're hoping anyway for the next year to have a full on fringe festival.
Yeah.
So in Edinburgh, there's a real big fringe festival that I go to in the summer.
It's 3000 shows, right?
when I go, I go for like 10 days and see 40 and feel like I've seen nothing, right?
And it's all these kind of quirky, fun shows and Cirque.
And so last year we did, I had like four or five shows, I put them on a weekend to see what people would think about that kind of a show.
And it did really well.
So this year we're doing a full festival where it's in like, I don't know, I'm in four venues, I think with
Shows and then we're gonna turn the lobby into a big hub with food and drink and live entertainment so people can hang out and Go see go see all the different shows it
sounds like
and then that's you know That's where the naked magicians.
They're part of that festival.
Oh Wow, they're part of the fringe.
Yeah, I mean that makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah,
yeah That's where they were discovered.
They were discovered at Edinburgh at the Fringe Festival
When they were discovered, were they naked or were they wearing clothes then and then added the clothes later?
Well, I think it was the same same
idea That's
the
other thing that's the other thing at the the fringe is cool because it's like, you know during the mornings their shows for families and kids and then the later you get into the day The body or the shows But
we've good to see that transformation over the course of the
day
Tim, what are you?
Thank you again for your time as always.
Love hearing what's going on at the Overture.
But what are you watching?
Are you, you got anything?
You always seem like you're watching really cool stuff.
I started that new John Hamm.
Oh yeah, how is that?
I watched the first episode last night and I was like, I'll give it a second episode and see what I think.
Okay.
And then Hacks came back.
So I'm a fan of Hacks with Gene Smart and HBO.
I've seen all those so far.
That's a good show.
Have you done a
pit?
No, I don't tend to watch medical.
I don't either, but someone was saying, oh, it's so hyper intense.
And I always feel like it's really like the drama in these medical shows is so manufactured.
I mean, I'm sure there's drama because of the nature of the job.
But I just, I watched the first episode and I'm like, yeah, didn't do it for me, you know.
The only medical show I liked was...
Oh my God, it was Laurie Metcalf.
Love her.
Getting On, have you ever seen that?
Oh no.
It's based on a British show.
It was on for a few seasons.
And it's all about these people that work in the death and dying ward.
And it's a comedy.
a dark comedy.
Hey, Tim, can you hold that thought for one second?
I'll let you finish that on the other side of this really short break.
Tim Sowers is going to finish his thought.
We're talking TV, and we just had a great talk about Broadway musicals.
We'll be right back on Nightlight with Pichuaba on the Civic Media Network.
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Welcome back, folks.
We are about to close things down here on the Monday night edition of Nightlight.
Barb from Waukesha, that's the 262, she says.
The Donald loves Hannibal Lecter.
Yeah, I'll take your word for the bar, but I think you're right about that.
We have just another minute or two here with our pal Tim Sowers.
Tim, I'm sorry I had to cut you off.
We have
a computer that
just kind of takes over, so
you get caught off if I can't.
I get
it.
Yeah.
But you were saying, I'd love for you to finish that point.
Getting
on.
That's
dark.
It's dark comedy.
It was on HBO.
And it was about these quirky people working in this
Jerry Attrick Ward and Nisi Nash, who is one of her best.
I love her.
She's one of my favorite and Alex Borstyn from Mrs. Maysall.
Yeah, she was on it.
June Squibb, if you remember, June Squibb,
the older
act.
I mean, it was a
great cast with Laurie Metcalf.
Laurie Metcalf is one of my all-time favorite comedic actresses.
She's so funny.
She is so funny, and she's great on stage, too.
I've seen her a couple times on stage, and she's just great.
All right, well, that's a good getting on.
I'll have to make enough of that.
Well, let's do this again soon, my friend, as always.
Anytime.
So much fun having you, and good luck with the new lineup.
It sounds fantastic, and one of these days I'll bump into you over there.
Okay.
All right, have a great night, Tim.
Thanks so much.
All right, that's Tim Sowers.
Check out the overture center.
I think it's just overturecenter.org.
They have a great lineup all new shows coming out in 2026 And uh, a few you can catch still on this uh, this current roster.
I think it was the michael jackson mj And uh What else is that a clue and then there was one other one was it wasn't handled?
Oh wicked.
Yeah, so they still have tickets for all three of those two in this current go-round Uh, brian was on a two con red brian from milwaukee texted in
I think even before we googled it, he said Anthony Hopkins.
For whatever reason, there's so many Anthony's.
I can never remember his last name.
He would have been terrible.
Right.
But interestingly enough, Anthony Hopkins can post just about anybody up.
I mean, he's only like five, eight, and he's an actor.
You'd be surprised.
He's got some hops.
Take
Yeah.
It's good stuff.
I want to see, I did not get to see this weekend.
I really want to see Drop.
That's supposed to be excellent.
And the other thing I want to see is Sinners.
This Michael B. Jordan film, the Ryan Coogler movie, crushed at the box office about a 98%, I think, on Rotten Tomatoes.
And I was unable to get to the theater to see either one of those because it was Easter and everything was closed.
How do you like that?
And of all the movies, I mean, seriously,
Wait, I'm having trouble following that so the
It's like it's not fully CGI yet Okay, it's not complete but they see they somehow got that version and put it online and During this you can see like the lines the harnesses people are on Like when they're up high or something or like the CGI just doesn't look good Like you can see Jack Black's hand going through with the dog that he's trying to bet
what is like going through.
So it's like they don't get to see the full experience actually pirating that movie.
That kind of serves them right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
I still haven't seen it.
I don't know that I will, but I am curious.
I will admit for curiosity's sake, I do want to see it.
it sounds like I can't really with any kind of accuracy.
Hey, our buddy Matt Harper posted on Facebook a picture of I don't know if you follow him But it says on this day in 2018 what was left of the Bradley Center looking out from game three So I guess that means they would be looking across the street and it's right and you can see
the
high in the background We were just talking about Milwaukee earlier, but it looks like a baseball field like it's outside the roof is gone and there's just
It is such a cool and melancholic photo.
I
people post stuff like this.
looks like everything has
stripped off of it, like the paint, the stands.
I would love to know what stands those are.
Like is that the second row or the second section or whatever?
Yeah.
I mean, there was floor level.
was a cool stadium.
But why did the Bradley Center went up?
I think around the same time, the United Center went up in Chicago, and the United Center is still...
Fully functioning.
I don't know where it weighs or where it ranks on the list of great stadiums But I did they make a mistake with the like was it outdated when they built it?
I don't get why they had to tear that down so fast
but a hockey to maybe
Yeah, that's true Thank you for posting that matt you gave us something to talk about here in the closing moments of our monday night edition of nightlake at great shows all week Ladies and gentlemen tomorrow night on the show laura kezman will be here She made a documentary called cycle and i believe she shot it in russine She'll tell us all about this documentary that you can see at the milwaukee film festival and then our pal Wrestling announcer civic media zone rich locacio joins us
Look, SEO.
Conrad, I blame you for this.
Sorry.
We'll Google it.
We know Rich.
It's just like our brother.
He's going to give us all the information we need from WrestleMania over the weekend.
There was a lot of stuff going on.
Always fun to talk wrestling with Rich and independent film.
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