Jesse March on Festival Theatre & Community Arts give his Popcorn Pick of the Week (Hour 2)

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Welcome back to Nightlight everybody with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network.

I literally thought you were just miming the talking.

And

that explains it because you were doing that.

I thought we were playing like a game of chicken or something like who's gonna.

I just was music jackass.

Okay.

No, no.

Well, come back tonight.

Light everybody.

I'm peach wabba sitting across the country from me tonight is Mr. Greg Bach.

He is in Arizona.

taking in some spring training and some $30 Bloody Marys because he's got that kind of scratch.

And Dom Lee is holding down the fort in Madison.

So we've got you covered.

Great to have you with us tonight on this Thursday night in just a few minutes.

Jesse March will be here from St.

Croix Festival Theater, a really cool operation.

He's going to tell us about their upcoming season and then he's going to stick around and make the popcorn pick of the week.

What do you think about that, Greg?

I am such a fan of that idea.

You are so smart.

You pick the best popcorn pickers ever.

Well, your popcorn pick picking is second to none.

We haven't been let down yet.

No.

And that

wasn't being sarcastic,

either.

No, I know, I know.

No, we always come away with a movie pick and that's the goal the whole dealio is we have something going into the weekend to watch We also have a question of the night which lends itself to that as that very same thing as well tonight So Tom, why don't we refresh people's memories?

Let's talk about the question.

Okay question question question question question question question This question

Well, I just said we're making the popcorn pick of the week Greg tonight with Jesse March.

It is also National Popcorn Day, so this is kind of a no-brainer.

Tonight's question is, what movie goes best with popcorn?

Basically, what's a good popcorn movie?

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of the

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So that app is multi-use.

That's right.

It gets a little

break this hour.

Yeah.

Unless you text us your favorite popcorn movie, then by all means, please do so.

It's always more fun when you guys

participate.

And I feel a little lonely here in Wisconsin.

Greg is soaking up the rays in Phoenix.

What's the temperature now?

Has it gone down at

all?

Oh no, it's in fact, I think it's gone up to, no, it's still 102 degrees.

This is

weird.

A high of 102 with a low of 64.

That is a wide swing, okay?

That is just a very wide swing.

That's actually...

In again, not to beat a dead horse in a dry heat.

That's actually pretty good sleep in weather 64.

I

would totally take 64.

Yeah, I would totally say I'm going to have to put ice in this bed.

OK, seriously, it's going to be it's going to be a warm night here.

So but again, I'm not complaining.

I'm being I'm I am funny whining right now.

I'm very happy to be here.

It's going to be a very good time.

I'm looking forward to this weekend.

So and it's going to be fun.

And I'll have probably sunburn.

when I come back, so you have something to laugh

at.

I look like I'm sunburnt all the time, so I would welcome that.

And we'll find something to make fun of you about, because that's what we do.

That's what you do.

It's tasteful,

right?

Yes.

Oh, no, no.

I feel like this is the joshing of people who care.

That's how I feel about it.

Now, Pete, you are a...

Producer a writer a director an actor a comedian you are part of the Hollywood industry in my opinion Even if the matter what you think I that's how

I

view you as part of that still you

still

have you know What do you consider a great popcorn movie?

I put on the social I answered the question on social media tonight, and I put LA confidential And I think I put the sting.

I'm really into crime dramas

Lately an LA confidential to me is It's a great popcorn movie because it's almost a perfect movie It's a little bit like sinners or one battle great score great actors great sets.

It's a period piece I totally lose myself in that movie in it

It made me, you know, I lived in Los Angeles for several years.

I wish after I saw that movie, I could have gone out there in the 40s before all the crazy freeways, but it was

still

kind of an up and coming town, probably like Phoenix was at some point.

And I would have loved to have gone out to those Western cities in those times.

But yeah, I would say LA Confidential or the Stinger, my popcorn movies.

Well, we're thinking of that kind of movie.

You know, honestly, for me, I would pick like two of my most favorite movies of the modern day in the past like 10 years.

our guy Richie is the gentleman and the nice guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.

And those movies are just so fun and good, well written, very exciting.

I mean, I felt like nice guys should have done better in the theater because it should have had a sequel.

Like it should

have

been.

Those guys again, and maybe they'll make another movie in a couple years like 10 years later in the 80s But it was it's like when I watch those movies.

I'm excited.

It's I'm not like I've watched it so many times I know everything that's gonna happen, but I still love the imagery I still love the the script the music is fantastic in both movies and it's a it's a kind of thing where like if someone came over to the house and they said oh the gentleman I'd be like let's watch it right now

watch it right now, turn it on right now, and I'll make some popcorn.

That is, to me, those are two very big popcorn films.

That's great.

It's like comfort food, really, when you get to a movie, and you can just put it on at any time.

I do that all the time, and I'm embarrassed to say I've not seen The Gentleman, but I'm adding it to my list.

That's your popcorn pick this week, Greg.

I appreciate it.

Oh,

you've never seen The Gentleman?

I've never seen The

Gentleman.

Oh, my

gosh, you will.

That movie is, in my opinion, for me, Guy Ritchie's best movie.

It

has

nice.

The casting is perfect.

The story is fantastic.

It is a Colin Farrell like he steals.

He's he's I don't know if you'd say he stars in the movie.

I guess you could.

Yes, you could say stars in the movie, but he almost plays a side character.

But every scene he's in, he steals it 1000 percent.

Nice.

Yeah.

Yeah, Dom.

Join the fun man.

What's your what's your what movie goes good with popcorn while you guys were talking I was thinking

I was thinking about it I was thinking man I I enjoy horror movies especially when I'm eating something because it's like kind of like a I get nervous so I just kind of binge eat So I would say oh,

I have that binge eat when I'm nervous Excited happy sad depressed

Normal, nothing, sleeping, awake.

Go on.

Sorry.

For me it is just when I get scared.

So I would say Sinister.

Sinister is the scariest movie I've ever watched.

So if I were to... I would need popcorn for that movie.

I would need it.

Sinister is by far.

Any all the movies.

Two and three.

Same difference.

Three Sinister movies?

I think there are.

I want to say there are,

yes.

Is that the one that's like, it's like part of the wider universe of like the nun and all those movies?

See, his thing is, I want to love horror movies.

My wife loves horror movies.

My sister-in-law watches like Italian, Japanese, Korean horror movies.

Those movies are next level, by the way.

You think that American horror movies are scary?

Those films scare your soul.

Yeah, a lot of popcorn there.

They stay

with you.

And I just, can I, it's something about it and it makes me so upset because I want to know that world too.

People who love horror movies just seem to have so much fun.

And here I am going, well Halloween the scary movie.

Not only that, but there's a horror film or more than one sometime that they come out every week.

They're such money makers Oh, yeah, I'll just say you guys have great taste in movies because the gentleman gets 76% on the tomato meter 278 reviews.

That's a very good score 84% audience outstanding sinister Dom it depends which one you're talking about, but the original gets a 64 Okay, the follow-up gets a 14% so assume you're talking

about the original.

I think the original.

They

both reviewed very well.

Yeah

Wow, that's awesome.

That's the problem with horror movies, too, is that first of all, saying horror movies is hard.

You got to really pronounce that word.

Horror movies is that you get these movies that come out and like, you know, whether we're talking a Saw or Halloween or, you know, one of the classics.

And then they immediately want to make a sequel and they want to make it bloodier and they want to make it simpler because they want to spend less money.

And the sequels.

a lot of the times just super sock.

But because they're so cheap, if they make a 2% profit, they're like, make a third one, make a fourth one, reboot it, make a seventh one,

let's keep going.

Absolutely.

And that's kind of

proof too.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly, yeah.

I mean, I think the same thing goes for, but I think the same thing kind of goes for comedy and like comic book movies or as you call them genre movies because, you know,

I'm sure Marvel wants people to love the new Spider-Man movie, but there are going to be people who hate it and people of consequence who hate it.

But it doesn't matter if they make a billion and a half dollars.

That's what really matters in the long run.

You know, they keep making Avatar movies because they make money.

Not because people are like, this movie inspires me to be a better person.

All right.

Yes.

And I will say this too, if you guys have not seen LA Confidential,

my

public one 99% critics.

I'm on Tomatoes 94% 5% less of the audience liked it.

So there you go.

We've got some stream comments.

We should probably get to here too.

Tracy Anderson texted earlier in the show and said, I'm hopeless.

I don't know what that meant.

Yeah.

But I feel bad.

No, you're not Tracy.

No, you're not Tracy.

You're hopeful and amazing.

Let no one tell you differently, especially yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you found the show and we're here to help you.

We hope we put

a smile on your face in some capacity.

If we're the reason why you're feeling hopeless, I am so sorry.

Well, and it's kind of mean that

she let

us know that,

you know, you could just give your opinions to yourself.

Robert from La Crosse, listening WLCX says, I never eat popcorn, so I cannot answer quote the question.

Well, okay, Robert.

Okay, well then.

Daniel Barry sports highlight says was up everyone.

Happy Thursday back at you, buddy.

Thank you, Daniel Lil Irv on the stream says ET great pop.

There you go.

Really.

Yeah.

One of the all time classics.

I saw

them moving the theater with my mom and my sister when it came out.

And I remember getting up away from them when they started crying because I was so embarrassed.

Oh, I

didn't understand why they were crying because I was so little.

So I was like, why are you crying?

I got up and like, you guys are weird.

Everyone else is crying.

You

leave.

Who's

the

sociopath with no feelings?

You know, I was only four or five.

It's a, you know, it's like the one thing that doesn't make me cry is E.T.

weird, very, very weird.

Brett and Brown deer listening on W.A.U.K.

The best movies for popcorn are chick flicks because I don't eat pop.

I don't eat popcorn and I don't watch chick flicks.

Okay.

Thanks.

Wow.

Wow.

At least

they're playing.

At least that's true.

But popcorn is good.

Popcorn

is delicious.

That's just something to say there.

Nick Wallander from Comedy City in De Peer says Jurassic Park, another great

one.

And Andrew Brown.

Is that my Andrew Brown?

Is that the?

Yes, that is.

That's my buddy Andrew Brown, not Melania.

It makes you lose your appetite.

Oh, boom.

Got him.

Got him.

Negative energy tonight, but that's OK.

We'll take it.

It's movies.

Vince on social media.

The very funny Vince Moranto says Kentucky Fried Movie, few if any will get this reference, hint the opening scene.

Zinc

oxide and you.

I

don't remember the opening scene.

It's been like 25 years since I saw it, but we had David Zucker on the show several months ago and we asked him about that movie too.

That put them on the scene.

The Zucker brothers and Jim Abraham's great Wisconsinites, great

Milwaukeeans.

And Dick Chud now who created comedy sports before before they became Kentucky Fried movie.

He was a part of Kentucky Fried Theater and he left to come to Wisconsin and I studied under him at Comedy Sports.

So it's like it's always something that's in my heart that

we got to have him back on the show now that you're on the show too, because I had a really good talk with him.

He was so much fun.

OK, we are coming back with St.

Croix's Festival Theatres Jesse March.

He'll be here to tell us about their upcoming.

Season, and then he's going to make the popcorn pick, folks.

Do not go anywhere.

Let us know what your favorite movie is with Popcorn

and Speechwabba and Greg Bogg on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Great

tune.

Well done, Dom.

Thank you.

Welcome back to Nightlight, folks.

I'm Pete Chihuahua sitting across the country from me as Greg Bach.

He is in sunny, sweltering Arizona for some spring training baseball and a visit with his mom.

And Dom Lee is in Madison working the board.

It's good to spend a Thursday with you guys.

I have to say that.

I

agree.

And

Dom, so you know, so no one else tells you differently.

While you were gone, we spoke so highly of you and just sung your praises and your talents and your abilities both like inner talents and your outer talents as well Anyone who says differently that we were making fun of your hair or well, you know No, I wasn't

no saying someone says that.

Okay.

I'm just saying says that I'm just as we love your hair.

Yeah, we love your hair If anything, I'm jealous of your hair.

It's why I would make fun of your hair.

I'm jealous of it

Oh,

anyone dares say that they're lying to you.

Thank you

Thank you guys.

Thank you.

Thank you,

Pete.

Well, we're here to help and you're part of the team, buddy.

So we don't want to leave you out.

Well, thank you.

If we don't tease you, it means we don't love you.

That's true.

That's true.

It's

like I said, we're going in bunk beds, right?

We're going to bunk beds.

Greg's in Arizona.

It's one full.

It's one full.

It's one full.

So it's a lot of cuddling and respecting space.

OK.

It's a little, it's not going to be

comfortable.

Chris from Madison says a pro wrestling event with jalapenos and popcorn really slaps.

Oh, I love how he's I'm totally stealing that

Yeah, yeah, it's uh I'm trying to think like I those big buckets of popcorn the ones that are like, you know divvied into three pieces like

the

regular the cheese and the caramel I Try to keep them separate

just because of, you know, whatever.

But then every once in a while, they get into each other's little corners.

I'm like, this is still delicious.

This is still delicious.

Jalapeno on popcorn.

That is something I'm going to be thinking about all weekend now.

I could eat jalapenos on

anything.

I love it.

Oh, really?

And I love the suggestion.

Yeah, for sure.

We've got, oh, I always have to read a Godfather of Green Bay text.

Cam said, we had Reno 911, Lieutenant Dangle.

That is correct, Cam.

And he says you were supposed to have Patrick warburton cam is obviously reading or watching some kind of behind-the-scenes thing about the movie, but yes Do we have a Jesse

no we do not

You did not ask me you did not ask me that question.

We do not know Jesse that question Do we have Jesse comma Dom not comma Greg you're right?

I'll

get

out of

here

It's been a good run.

It's been a solid almost four weeks.

And you're right.

I've overstepped.

I try to defend Dom's honor from those people out there who try to lie about what we say when he's gone.

But the point is, is I'm sorry, everybody.

I'm so, so sorry.

And you're right.

Horror movies are the best movies ever.

Yeah.

In fact, Tony, the trucker says, Gents, all movies are good popcorn movies.

Some are just better than others.

Butter and salt, please.

Greg, were you referring to the

bucket of popcorn that you, if you bring it to the theater, you get to fill it up every time.

No, no, no, no, no.

This is like a

gift of set.

Like you buy it like a, you know, a sharper image or an airport where

it's

just

a

big canister.

And then there's a piece of like thick cardboard in the middle that like separates it into three different kinds of popcorn.

So you got the regular popcorn.

It's really like that big bulbous popcorn too.

So there's regular popcorn, that's

salty.

Then there's cheese popcorn and then there's caramel corn.

And it is,

I can't eat those anymore.

My doctor doesn't think I should eat those because they're like very tall.

They're very big buckets and and and You buy them and they sit there and you're like whatever and then you open them and with and you could you could have it sitting there for like a Week or two weeks not thinking about then you open it and it's gone within a day and a half

JB Topson responding to no response to my eating habits

Here here here if I had responded it we wouldn't have had time to get to them because I have I have feelings about cheese popcorn and caramel corn caramel corn I can really two buckets of yeah cheese popcorn like the first five to ten bites are lovely and then I feel like I can never get the orange stuff off my hands and I'm already kind of sick of the taste

true two things rubber gloves and second of all

That 11th to 1,000 thousandth piece is also delicious as well.

If

I'm putting on rubber gloves to eat a food I've got a problem I think with whatever put on a bib to

eat seafood or ribs Yeah, I have there you go.

There you go.

It's like they're like tiny bibs for your hands

Once again, Greg has proven himself

to be more knowledgeable than me.

Denise O'Neill says, anything scary, I can really pound down the popcorn then.

Thank you, Denise.

J.B.

Thompson

says, very aggressive statement.

Robert says, might as touch.

J.B.

Thompson says, tunnel vision and Andrew Brown.

Did you read?

Oh, you read Andrew Brown?

I'm looking.

Yeah.

Anything scary?

I just, I really want to watch a scary movie.

I told myself, I watch centers.

I know people are like, that's not scary.

I know for a lot of folks that movie isn't scary because they watch scary movies.

So it's like saying to someone who never eats spicy food, here have this like, you know, hot pepper, it's going to

affect

harder.

So for me, like I got to like gingerly go into this and I tell myself every year, watch one horror movie, make it simple, don't like go, don't go too far, don't go into like a terrorizer go into, we'll have just like, you know,

Watched Friday the 13th, the original,

do that one.

Have you watched one so far this year or no?

No.

No.

No.

And by the way, I've been making that promise to myself for about 12 years.

Oh, man, you just binge watched some horror for like, I would say Sinners isn't really a horror film.

There are elements of it.

And it is, it's very creepy sometimes, like

my

wife a couple times went, oh, but it's not, it's, there's so much more going on.

I don't know if that would count.

for a horror movie, but I think it would.

I think you could get away with that.

OK,

good.

You're a good citizen.

I'm not the horror police.

Hey, we are coming right back, folks, with Festival Theater.

Festival Theater in St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

Beautiful St.

Croix Falls.

Jesse March will be here after the break.

Our question of the night, what movie goes best with popcorn?

Be part of the fun and text us on the stream, the app, the old fashioned text line.

Just be part of the show.

We're coming right back.

This is Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

It's time for the nightlife popcorn pick of the week where we recommend a movie that you'll either enjoy or won't.

Here's your host, Pete Schwabba.

Hey, and Greg Bach too.

I love

that.

Yes, we are Peach Wabba and Greg Bach, your hosts of Nightlight here on the Civic Media Network.

It was great to have you with us on this Thursday night.

Folks, Michigan is locked in a battle right now.

It is tied.

They are the one seed, and I mean, it's 2-2.

It's only 30 seconds in the game, but watch them.

Wow, you really marve Albert that drama right there.

Hey, folks, it's Thursday.

That means it's time for the Popcorn Pick of the Week.

And here to help us make that pick and talk about the upcoming schedule at the St.

Croix Falls Fantastic Festival Theater is Marketing Associate Actor and Fight Choreographer, Mr. Jesse March.

Hey, Jesse, how are you?

Hey, Pete.

Hi, Greg.

Thanks so much for having me on.

Hello.

Our pleasure.

So let's do the Popcorn Pick.

We'll do like a quick pick, and then we'll get to your schedule if that works for you, because it's great to have you here.

Yeah.

Okay.

I love

that.

Um, you're thinking that I have to come out.

I have to let you know, my, my, the popcorn movie, the one that I think is the best to chew on.

Yeah.

Well, you could do that or you could just give us a movie pick of something you think we might enjoy this weekend.

So enjoy this weekend.

You know what?

I'm going to throw out.

Hold on.

Hold

on.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Don't say it yet.

Okay.

Hold on to that.

I need some information before we.

Yes, we need.

Yeah, we have a tried and true system here.

We have to ask a series of questions.

Of course.

Maybe it'll be

a

Glenn

Powell

movie.

Who

knows.

Maybe it'll be a Glenn Powell movie, exactly.

All right, go on Pete.

You begin the questionnaire.

You got it.

All right, Jesse, how do you like to watch movies?

Are you a theater guy or just something you can lounge to at home?

I'm often a home lounger, but I kind of, I kind of, I go halfway.

I have a projector.

So I am in the home.

So it's as if I met the theater, but without anyone else that I don't know or like.

Wow.

So there's no one behind you whipping goobers at your head, some 14-year-old kid or something.

Well, I mean, my friends can be obnoxious sometimes, but yes, generally, generally, you're right.

Love it.

When you go see, oh, sorry, when you go to the, if you go to the theater, let's say like you're gonna, because I know for myself, I tend to only see certain movies in the theater because I want a certain pizzazz.

Yes.

What are you seeing in the movie theater when you choose to go to a traditional theater experience?

You know, it's often something that I feel like the sense of being in the place is necessary.

I'm thinking about like when cats came out.

I went and saw cats in theater because I needed to yell at the screen with other people.

I was gonna say, you brave soul.

Brave, brave soul.

It was one of the best times I've ever had in a movie theater.

Me and my friends, we sat down and we rock you forward the whole thing.

Shout out the whole time.

And the two other groups of people at the end of the movie turned around and were like, you made that movie for us.

That was the experience we needed.

It was glorious.

So that's typically when I'm gonna go to the theaters.

I need to be in the thing.

Or if it's like, you know, a really like.

like, very, like, very cinematic kind of a thing, you know?

Or something like iconic, you know, a Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, something

like that.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Great answer.

What about, what's your favorite movie snack?

Home and theater, if you would, please.

Oh, well, I think I, I'm going to pull this one that I was currently eating.

This is my new favorite snack.

These are, these are spicy sticks.

Oh.

They are like I

feel like I feel like the name says it all

It truly does.

They're like these like I don't if you can see here, but like they're like these kind of like gluten

Yeah

sticks and they're like this like chewy kind of snappy little that I'm deeply addicted I

love it.

You're a theater guy.

I love that you had a prop ready for that and it was right off camera.

That is spectacular

I also use these these mango steams.

These are my favorite fruit.

I'll get a bag of these and I'll chew through these all the time.

So yes, the prop is

this.

I am learning so much here.

That's how

they

roll and say growth falls.

Have you in your in your life?

Have you ever theater hopped?

And if you did, how many movies did you see at one time?

I was a frequent theater hopper, particularly as I did my mom and I, I would plan the whole day.

We would go from morning to night and I would pick the movies based off of time and we would, I think our record was five.

Dang!

We spent a whole day in the theater at one point, yeah.

And was there ever any sort of, like, excuse me, haven't you been here since, say, 10 o'clock?

No.

Wow, okay.

No, I love it.

I

love that.

Security at

most of those theaters is not very intense.

I mean, you're paying a 19-year-old minimum wage.

Do you really want them to intervene, please?

Right.

I mean, like, no, thank you.

You know what I mean?

Who's going like, oh, I've seen you.

And how are you going to know it?

Sometimes you buy a second ticket, like, somewhere, you know, sometimes, but.

Love

it.

OK.

All right, I'm kind of in favor of that even though I'm a screenwriter and Jesse is taking money out of my pockets But I still applaud you for your wherewithal and you're because I've done it too.

I'm sad to say

You know, it wasn't it wasn't all right.

It was in my poor youth, you know

Alright, let's see here Pete you got another one for him.

Yeah, what do you have you ever snuck booze into a theater?

I

mean, you're

thinking already way too long, Jesse.

I don't think I have.

I think maybe someone else I've been with has, but I'm not often someone who, I sneak the food in.

Yeah.

Okay.

And to that end, I have snuck a lot of food in.

This is awesome.

All right.

I think since we have a limited time and we do want to talk about festival theater, we should get right to your pick.

Jesse, if you're okay with that, Dom, a drum roll, please.

Jesse March, Festival Theatre, St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

What is your popcorn pick of the week?

I'm gonna give you a Miyazaki film.

I think you should go watch Princess Mononoke this weekend.

Wow.

Wow, okay.

I

have to Google the spelling and then I will buy a

movie ticket.

I feel so uncultured right now.

What's

it called again?

You can do Princess Mononoke, or you can do Howl's Moving Castle, but I'm going to say do Princess Mononoke right now.

It feels very apt to our time.

It's a lot about environmental preservation and technology versus nature.

It's got a very beautiful story of self-sacrifice and love.

Uh, it's a it's baller.

It's very, very.

Wow.

Nice pick.

That's, we have not heard that one in the two years we've been doing this.

That's fantastic.

Thank you,

uh,

Jesse, Mark, print princess, a mononoke.

Love

it.

All right.

One of

the Miyazaki classic.

Is

this the same guy who did spirit it away?

Yeah.

Okay.

Perfect.

I'm in.

I'm in.

Oh yeah.

I'm in.

Okay.

I'm in.

All right.

Thank you so much for that, Jesse.

That's a wonderful pick.

My pleasure.

I can't wait to hear what you think about it.

Yeah, next time you're on will we hopefully both will have viewed it And we could have a discussion, but hey tell us what's going on at festival theory You got some great stuff coming up as your new season is right around the corner

You're absolutely right.

We packed it this season.

Our goal this year was accessibility and expanding our audience.

And so to that end, we have some really great pieces for the whole family, for anyone of any age range.

So we are starting off with, we have two separate...

categories of performance.

We have our Playmakers series, which is kind of like our community and like youth performance.

And so this is more of like, I think a learning opportunity and a community opportunity.

So to that end, we're doing Frozen Junior right now.

So that's

gonna

be Frozen, you know, it's frozen, but with with kids, it is gonna be excellent.

And that's Lindsay Fry, who you've had on before she's directing that piece right now.

And then we're moving into Shrek the musical, which is also going to be our playmakers.

But we're kind of, we're adding a few professional artists to that one to kind of up a little bit of the production value in Shrek.

So that's going to be coming up in the summer.

So that's kind of our playmaker series.

And then we have our main stage.

And so to that end, we have a few really great pieces.

We have The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, which is a really great piece about four really interesting ladies, Marie Antoinette being one of them, these revolutionary

women.

It is really worth checking out.

We also have the three musketeers, which I am personally very excited about because I'm directing that piece and fight warrior has like 24 fights in it.

And I am very excited to be casting a few women as my musketeers.

I have two out of three musketeers will be women.

What will the names be?

Will you change the names?

No, I'm gonna keep them.

I'm gonna keep them

nice.

Jartanian

will still be a man, so Jartanian is one of the, he's like the new, he'll be the fourth, the fourth musketeer.

But the three are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

And I feel like those can be, they can be relatively gender neutral.

So

I'm

pretty excited for that, for that opportunity.

And then in the fall and winter, we have an original work by Mark Rosenwinkel.

He's an artist that works with us pretty often.

He's directed for us a lot.

And this is a show called Never Enough.

And it's a love story that is about a young couple and an older couple.

They're the same people.

And you kind of go back and forth in their lives in the love story of how they met and where they are now.

And it is exquisitely beautiful.

Nice.

After that, we have Pride and Prejudice, which is Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice.

So it's very funny.

It's very funny, sort of like almost slapstick kind of a vibe to it.

And we finish out our year with the classic, It's a Wonderful Life.

So, you know, from talking about film stuff, this is a straight adaptation to the stage of It's a Wonderful Life.

And that's going to be our holiday show.

I was going to just ask there, forgive me for not knowing that that was originally a movie or was it a stage play then adapted into a film?

You know, I actually don't know the order, but it's most famously a movie.

Like it's very famous.

That sounds

like an amazing lineup.

Yeah, that's so much fun.

I'm

very excited about it.

I think people are going to be pretty stoked on what we're working with.

We have some excellent artists coming in this year.

We're just sort of our finishing our casting process right now.

And I'll tell you, I am very excited for who we're getting on board.

You guys have this great Jesse March as our guest.

He is a marketing associate at the Festival Theater in St.

Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

For more information on anything they're doing, go to festival, festivaltheater.org and that's theater, T-H-A-T-H-E-A-T-R-E, the old fashioned way, Festival Theater.

I would just

simply say with an R-E at the end, you are a much braver man than I am.

And I flubbed it, so.

But your turnaround is so fast.

For some of these shows, you got something going down and something going up.

You must have a really enthusiastic crew.

Yes, we do.

And we also stagger our teams.

So oftentimes it will be different people working on different shows or one show will be up and then we'll be working on the next show in a different space.

So that we are often trying to have something coming down the pipe once one one bit after the other.

Nice is there anything else going on there besides are there like are there classes are there jam sessions for people who are looking to learn like learn acting learn Writing things of that nature.

What else happens at the theater?

I'm so glad you asked.

Yeah, we actually have a whole workshop series happening this summer.

One of the ones that I am teaching is called Heroes and Villains.

It's about Shakespeare's Heroes and Villains and it's a stage combat course also dealing with Shakespeare as well.

So that's happening and we have a couple other workshops as well for youth and for community members as well.

So looking up workshops and things like that is a really good idea.

We also have some concert series and small events throughout the year.

So those are always just going to be on our website and like worth

checking out.

So we often have something happening kind of all the time.

That is fantastic.

Folks, if live theater is not part of your regular agenda, take my word for it.

Go see some live shows.

These guys work really hard and they

have a

really respected theater there in St.

Croix Falls and they bring in directors from New York and actors and they cast a lot of local people too.

So it's great stuff.

Tell Lindsay I'm sending her my reel.

Do not finish casting what she's casting yet.

OK, so

you know, you got you got, you know, and if you two ever want to come out and see a show, you've got season passes anytime.

Wow.

You just let all we will

membership has its privileges.

We

will

prepare to be dazzled.

Thank

you so much, buddy.

With us.

We've got lots of stuff to do in town.

It's a beautiful town.

And it's gorgeous.

Yeah, exactly.

So, uh, Jesse March folks, check out more information, uh, festival theater.

That's with an RE at the end dot org festival theater dot org, uh, Jesse break a leg, have fun.

Come back soon, buddy.

Thanks so much.

Thanks, Jesse.

All right.

You

got it.

Uh, we, uh, Greg, we got some more texts to read.

We've got, uh, we've got the night cap coming up in just a few, a couple minutes.

So Dom, how you feeling?

Are we good to go?

Good to go.

Let's do it.

All right, well, so let's let's finish the show as scheduled or okay.

We're coming right back.

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Welcome back to Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach here on the Civic Media Network

My name is Greg Bach and across the country right now in Marinette, Wisconsin is Pete Schwabba in Madison is Dom Lee on the boards.

I am in actually I am in Chandler, Arizona right now.

I thought it was going to be in Phoenix, but I'm in Chandler, Arizona just outside here visiting my mom and we're going to have a really good time.

My mom and her partner and we're going to go see some baseball tonight.

It's going to be really, really fun.

They're listening to the show right now.

Hello, Greg's mom and partner.

It's good to have you with us.

Dennis, Dennis, Jackie.

Dennis.

Oh, Dennis.

Would it kill Dennis to text into the show, Greg?

OK, don't put people around like that.

That's not how you're going to get fans.

Seriously, man.

Seriously, we need all the fans we can get.

And you're like, oh,

you're not good enough

because

you're texting.

I was going to say the nightcap here.

Let's do the nightcap.

It was a great show now.

It's just like, my goodness, I have to fight Pete.

Great.

I made it awkward.

I don't want to do that.

your mom is texted.

She's wonderful.

And I have no doubt

Dennis is awesome

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