I've been working on the railroad I've been working on the railroad All the lives, long
days
Place with two defunct railroad stations.
Railroad Depots.
That's right.
One's Timekeeper Distillery.
Yeah, they've done a beautiful job of that.
And the other is the beautiful Chamber of Commerce.
Yeah, both are really nice.
There's a lot of working on the railroads still, though, in Wausau.
A lot of railroads, underrated rail town.
Even though we have two defunct rail stations.
Depots.
Yeah, depots, thank you.
The train tracks are still humming.
Yep.
And we forgot to talk about the Pop Concert last week.
Oh, yeah.
The 53rd annual Wausau West Pop Concert was a couple weeks ago, and I meant to mention that it was one of the best pop.
concerts, but it
was
also one of the ones where there was the most heckling for people's friends.
Oh, they heckle and like poke fun in a nice way type of thing?
One person in particular got heckled more than anybody I've ever heard heckled in my time ever going to the pop concert.
So how was that taken?
Is that taken as I have the most people who like me because I'm the most heckled?
Let's go Gideon!
There's a lot of that, a lot of that.
His name was Gideon.
I don't know who that is.
He was a nice guy, looked like a nice guy, very talented individual.
Good for Gideon.
It's my brother!
It's just raining through the theater.
Ow, Gideon!
Wow.
He was in a bunch of different stuff, too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Gideon kept getting the shout out.
Yeah, a lot of people think of Memorial Weekend as the beginning of summer.
Yeah.
I think at Pop Concert Weekend, it's kind of the beginning of summer.
Oh, yeah.
And that gives you a couple extra weeks of summer that way, too.
Right, right.
But either way, it's episode number 71.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Just from miles away from the iconic, historic, famous, legendary Snake Bridge
in
Warsaw.
We miss you, Snakebridge.
This is the Wassup Business Show.
I'm Ryan.
And I'm Paul.
And who do we have on the show this week, Paul?
We have Sean Wright celebrating 100 years at the Grand Leader.
100 years.
That place is shut down.
Everything's out of it.
They're starting it from scratch.
Sean's going to tell us all about it.
They still have some
money to
raise.
Yeah, they still have some money to raise.
And the construction team is a deadline that we're not sure if they're going to hit.
Yeah, it's Myron Construction.
Myron Construction, we're going to stay.
on them.
Yeah.
This will be exciting because they only have until November to get it all refurbished.
They seem confident.
That seems like a lot of work in a short amount
of time.
We'll see.
And what kind of theater is it going to be after it's done, Paul?
Will we call it big?
No, not so much big.
Okay, I'm on the right.
I can tell
I'm
on the
right path.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Large?
No, not a large theater, even though it is a rather large theater.
Oh, grandiose.
That's too much.
That's
too much.
I took it too far.
Too
far.
About a slightly shortened version of it.
Grand.
It's still going to be the grand theater after it's done with construction, from my own construction.
So this will be exciting to hear from Sean Wright coming up about that.
And on a more serious note, CEO and president of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, Tim Parker is going to be in here to talk about everything they're doing for the tornado victims in Ringle, which is
crazy.
It is crazy.
stepped up and done some cool things.
So I'm excited to talk to Tim about that.
And you follow the Marathon County inspections in the Wausau Daily Herald, the restaurant inspections, right?
I do.
I haven't seen the most recent one, however.
It's riveting every week, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You hear about who got dinged for what at the restaurants.
You're like, huh, I can't go there.
Right.
That's usually what you want.
It's your instinct.
Yeah, yeah.
But you kind of want to go back.
But I give them a second chance, depending on the violation, of course.
Of course.
Did you?
It's not going to be a Pedro situation.
No, they didn't.
No one came back.
Yeah, nobody
came back.
But Skonys, I've never heard of anybody getting 19 violations.
It's like the inspector was in a bad mood that day.
Skonys got 19?
19,
man.
I like that
place too.
It's a great place, is it not?
Good food.
I'm not going to list them all.
There's too many.
Yeah.
But I feel bad for Skonys.
Yeah.
You know, I
mean, the
headline reads basically they got 19 violations and we don't know what they are.
We don't know.
It's a cool place.
Yeah.
Have you ever go there to play pool?
I have.
It's like a pool hall and I feel bad because it'd be good to maybe have them on because one thing that these inspection reports never give you is the other side of the story.
Right.
I'm sure there's another side.
There's another side to every story.
Right.
And so I think.
It's probably good, maybe we can get them in here to explain, because there's probably an explanation.
Right.
Because we don't want Skonys to be, you know, in a position where people are scared to go there.
Right, right.
Yeah, I'd like to maybe, let's give them a call and get them out in the next few weeks.
Okay, all right.
Speaking of drama in the business world and restaurant world.
One of our favorite things to speak of.
Vanado.
Yeah.
Vanado is back open.
Been there.
After three months of being closed, they had a water pipe situation.
It flooded, flooded.
And these people are the least lucky people in the world.
It's a beautiful, Vanado is a beautiful little wine bar in downtown Wausau.
I have been there and it is beautiful.
It's gorgeous.
And the best guac, the best guacamole in
town.
And
they make it right there,
of
course.
They make it right there.
And when they first opened, above their establishment, they had a beautiful hotel, kind of a boutique hotel.
Oh, that's right.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then that got closed down because they were out of... Fire coat, something or other.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
happened and then they at one point said they were gonna move town they were leaving town they were they were
gonna move
yeah and they were gonna close vanado down and then I think they joined the historic Dudley Tower right named after the beautiful dick Dudley and then that kind of fell through and they were gonna move into the foundry that's right what a ride and then their place that they're currently in they never really moved anywhere I don't think well I think they were in they had a second location in the Dudley Tower for a short brief period of time okay and now
they're out of there and then they had a flood in their current place.
Unreal.
Can't catch a break.
Yeah.
That's a
lot going on.
Good people, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I liked it.
But yeah, we wish them all the best as they reopen from their flood.
Yeah.
Okay.
Here for Pinato.
All right.
So we'll be right back with the executive director of the Grand Theater in Wausau.
Sean Wright on the Wausau
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Hey, Sean.
John, it's been too long.
It
has been too long.
And you've been busy, man.
We have been busy.
You've
got the second century pin on your lapel,
on your beautiful blazer there and everything.
Yeah, you know, we've managed to have the final shows in this iteration of the grand.
And that's it.
That's it.
Well, that's the
final
show.
Central Wisconsin School of Ballet was in for the showcase.
That's brilliant.
I have to say, before we get into this, I think Sean Wright is in the running, if not in the lead, for the best dressed man in Wausau.
Your check will arrive later.
I appreciate
that.
You know, if we do what we can.
Well, let's just describe.
What do you trivia, Paul?
Do you remember the name of the gentleman that was in here that was an expert?
I think his daughter is in the Wisconsin School of Ballet.
Yeah, Wisconsin School of Ballet, the expert in men's fashion.
You can see I'm thinking.
Of course, I might know.
I'll give you a clue.
He has a great cologne line.
I'll tell you that.
Antonio Centeno.
Centeno, yes.
Yes.
I think his daughter's in the Central Wisconsin School of LA.
Absolutely.
But anyway, you know.
He's a very well-dressed man.
He's a well-dressed man.
He's in the running.
Can I just describe Paul?
Let's just describe real quick what Sean's
wearing
because he really is.
Every time I see you, you're dressed very handsomely if I do say so myself.
Okay.
It is a light blue blazer with kind of a sky blue sky blue with what would you describe the pattern on there?
It's a windowpane.
Oh, okay.
Windowpane kind of a pink windowpane.
Yeah.
Or would it be
chartreuse or that's more of a pink
than a
chartreuse.
And then we've got a checkered.
pink and white dress shirt under there.
Looks custom fitted to me.
And then the handkerchief.
What do we call that out of the lapel or pocket square?
Pocket square.
Yeah.
It's really sharp.
My point is you're representing the grand theater.
Damn well.
And was off.
You know, when my wife
hears this, she will want a rebuttal of the fact that when she met me in college, I thought high fashion was, well, I'll tuck my long sleeve T shirt into my sweatpants as opposed
That's a good look.
Yeah.
That look needs
to come back.
Tuck the t-shirt into the sweatpants.
Exactly.
It means you're casual, but also business.
How
did you meet your wife?
I don't think
we
ever talked
about that.
We met in undergrad at Westminster College, which is a liberal arts college in Fulton, Missouri.
Was it at the
library?
No, no.
It was at a croquet party on a fraternity lawn.
Yeah, it was called an excuse for a sorority and fraternity to have an
event
together.
I'm not sure how much croquet actually, right?
But you know, you did the party t-shirt and everything.
Yeah, croquet, that's like polo without the
horses, right?
Yeah, it's
not fancy.
I don't know why Fox hunting in Scotland or something.
Literally, the Grand Theater is closed down for the longest that it's ever been closed down, well, probably since COVID, right?
Since COVID, yes.
Before COVID, let's take COVID out of there.
That was a blip.
Yeah, you're going back to Arts Block.
It would have been the last time it was closed.
And it was
closed for longer than this?
It was closed for longer than that
for Arts Block.
Yeah, it was closed for almost a year with Arts Block.
Basically, half a one season and half of another.
And now it's going to be closed until November.
First of November, yes.
And you expect them to be right on track if not ahead of schedule.
Myron's doing all the construction.
We're going to hold Myron to those dates.
Myron,
everybody.
That's right.
Craig, keep on
schedule here, buddy.
Craig,
keep your folks
on schedule.
Iron construction is responsible for
opening
on time.
They are the sponsor of the show that we will open with, which will be announced here in a few weeks, which is November 7th.
So, you know, they've got incentive to get the, to get the building built.
They want to have that opening show.
So can I
negotiate?
Can I take a guess on whom it might be?
If I get it right, would you, would you?
Blink twice if you get it right.
Oh, that's funny that he said blink because I was going to guess blink one and
you
two.
Okay,
not link 182,
but that would be an interesting one.
Yeah, that would be interesting.
What's my
name again?
What's my
name again?
So
what's my age again?
Yeah, the donors didn't go for that one.
I think they probably who was that?
Yeah, right.
But this does allow the Grand Theater to bring in much better guests.
All this construction, it's kind of being demoed right now.
You just showed us a picture before we got on the air.
Right.
All the seats are already out.
It's a vacant room.
It is.
It is.
So Myron.
went to work on Monday morning, getting the seats out of there, demoing these seats that are 60 plus years old, most of which very deep in concrete.
So getting them out was very much a demo situation, but they're all
out.
And where are those going?
Because I'm sure a lot of people in Wausau would love and be honored to have a seat from the Grand Theater.
To watch
a
Packer
game or whatever.
You know, as I said, a lot of them were just not in any condition to be salvaged when
She got him out of the concrete.
Some of our local groups, the Wausau Community Theater, was able to salvage some for their rehearsal space.
Central Wisconsin Children's Theater actually took a pretty large number out of
the
balcony.
And then the Wisconsin Historical Society, Marathon
County Historical
Society, Blake and his team, they took some as well.
And pretty much that was about the inventory of what we could get.
out that would be in one piece that would have, you know, with the way those seats were, they were mounted down in the concrete.
So even if you take them, you then have to figure out a way to mount them to something.
It's not like you can just, you can't just put it in your, your basement and watch a Packers game.
Right.
Paul.
Not just set it on the floor.
You
would tip over Paul.
Okay.
So what about like maybe bronzing one and putting it in the, on the 400 block?
about that.
But we have we have some, you know, that we have in our archives.
So maybe maybe we'll bronze it, put it out on bronze one.
But you're for all the people who sat uncomfortably for six decades.
Try this one out.
It's bronze.
But the new seats, you were telling us at one point, have drink holders.
They do.
Right.
Absolutely.
These are all the new seats, 1169.
So we're going down to come down from 1208.
And when the pit is in
as they are for a lot of Broadway shows will actually be down to 1127 from 1172.
So 40 to 50 seats, depending on the configuration,
is
what we'll lose, which is still, we can make that work.
And the seats are all being custom made.
There's a company out of Japan, Kotobuki, who does incredible, incredible work.
And
so these seats will all, you know, they'll have the wood backs, the wood bottoms, the way that historic theaters actually did back in the day, as opposed to this metal, you know, metal that we have currently.
just absolutely beautiful.
And yes, they, I will say the one, the one custom piece that this company that has worked literally all over the world in theaters, arenas, everywhere else said, you want cup holders in your historic custom, you know, built theater.
And we said, we live in Wisconsin.
Yes, we need cup holders.
Everyone's
thirsty.
So that was unique for them.
That was unique for them.
Yes.
That had to be something, you know, they've done cup holders before, but not with these sort of historic.
Custom built seats.
Yeah.
Yes.
We we definitely went through boy three or four versions of shop drawings Yeah, because
people were just putting it on the floor.
Yeah, right on the
floor What's the price tag if I may per seat, you know, you
know the total I have to go back I have to do the math and math it out But it's the seats are about a million dollars in total.
Okay, so
Well, let's just say it's a thousand seat.
Well,
he's got
his calculator
on.
I was guessing about $1,000 a piece.
Yeah, that would be about right.
It's about right.
Yeah, let's just say a thousand feet.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's an expensive chair.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
But
it's not an expensive chair if you think about it in cost per person sitting in it.
Like
per user.
Per user.
Yeah.
What did they say?
Konnichiwa.
We don't know about these drink holders.
They
are a really interesting company.
As their CEO, it's been a family business for decades.
Their CEO, Kiko, says, we love a challenge.
That was a challenge for their engineers because, of course, as we talked about, we had all these conversations when we were discussing cup holders.
It's one thing when you
You know, you go to a stadium, you know, you go to Pfizer form and it's on the back of a seat.
It's going to be plastic and green and match seat.
Well, we don't want that.
We want
something that matches everything else
and
fits with the historic thing.
You know, we went through a lot of different, you know, could we just get those old things that you put in your, you know, your window back in the day?
Right.
You know, that little set on your window set.
We'll just put those in a box in the back of the theater and you can take one.
If you need it, you take one and hook it on your seat.
You know, maybe we sell.
the hats that you could put your drinks in on either side.
With the straws.
Some guys at Myron might be using those over there today,
the hard hats.
Come four o'clock, they have
the hard hats with the cupholders.
The transformer.
It's amazing when you get into that process, the things that you do.
But that's the beautiful thing is that these seats are custom built and so they're not only going to be, they're not only going to look better, feel more comfortable.
You know, we're renumbering the theater, which is something that people have asked for years because right now,
If you sit on the floor, and for example, if you're sitting in M1, you could be sitting in M1.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
M1.
Right center.
Yeah.
All right.
M1.
M1.
And so we'll go to a more standard.
Who designed that?
Somebody 100 years ago.
Somebody a long time
ago.
Boy, they were dumb a long time ago.
It wasn't a Washington.
So it'll be 100, 200, 300, 400 the way that you would normally see.
Right, right, right.
For now on.
So that's going to be a nice change.
A little more inherent.
We're excited about that.
Well, it's cool.
to years and years of planning and detail in every single facet of this.
I mean, who was the committee that decided and had to just make all of these minute decisions on
everything?
Yeah, you know, we're fortunate in addition to Myron, our architect is the DLR group out of Cleveland.
They specialize in historic theaters.
They were actually the architect for ArtsBlock 23 years ago.
And one of their principles was actually a junior architect on that project.
You know, and so the great thing in working with them, he's been promoted.
Yeah.
He's done a few things.
Yeah.
And, you know, so the great thing about working with them is they have both the history of the theater and the community and the project, but also, you know, the tools working in other historic theaters.
You know, one of the things that they've loved to do is actually going back through some of the digitized archives of the Daily Herald and the pilot review at that time in, you know, from November of 1927.
Get some of the things described.
describing the grand, you know, describing, to determine where the seats truly red.
They were.
Was the carpet red?
It wasn't.
What color was it?
It was blue.
Oh, okay.
So you're going back to blue?
You know, you may see some blue carpeting.
Oh, okay.
Breaking news.
Yeah, breaking news.
Just all of those things and bringing in those color palettes and then, you know, and then within...
The decisions that get made, we've got a really great team on our staff from, you know, our general manager, you know, Olivia Hill and Joel Freiberg, Mark Weiss have literally been with the building, I think, since it was built.
No offense.
Not that long, but they've been there and have all that knowledge and do that.
And then we've got a really fantastic campaign committee headed up by, you know, Todd Nicholas as the campaign chair, Kay Grewling as our board chair.
And, you know, it's been a collaborative process, you know, when you have these conversations.
I use an example of that.
The seats currently have nameplates on it, or did.
They had nameplates on them for people who donated $100 back in either 1987 or at some period leading up to Arts Park.
You know, and our thought going into the project was those people have gotten their hundred dollars worth over
the over the money we've spent at this point
over the cost for a show.
Exactly.
We're going to be putting new, new donor plates in because people can name seats with this campaign.
And boy, I tell you what, when we mentioned that to to our campaign committee and to a few of the other stakeholders, yeah, it was it was if we had said, and we're going to paint a big mural that says go bears go in the, you know,
oh, yeah.
And they
were, they were saying, you know, I've sat in these seats for years.
I've got, you know, I have family members there or I had a board member who said, I'm honored to sit in Carolyn S. Mark's seats.
Right.
Right.
So again, working with Kodabuki, we approached them and said, can you put a donor plate on the back of the seat?
Wow.
And they
said, you mean two donor plates?
And we're like, yes.
The OG donors we
have.
The OG donor.
And
then
they, there was another time where they were like, you people in Wisconsin are very confusing, but okay.
And so every seat will be getting
that is currently has a name on it.
We'll get a brand new donor plate that will go on the back to reflect the previous
generation of donor and then folks have the opportunity and we've sold about 650 of them so far to name the seat in this.
Well, we
wanted to announce that we'd like to buy a was a business show.
See if we could.
Good, front and center, maybe in the pit.
Well, what are those going for?
I should have asked first.
Yeah.
2,500 on the floor and a thousand in the balcony.
So.
Well, we'll
think about it.
Yeah,
exactly.
Exactly.
We're running a tight budget.
Oh, we've got a folding chair that goes on stage sometime.
We'll just put a piece of gap tape on there.
Like a lawn chair from the
80s.
Yeah, wow.
Okay, cool.
So what do people do if they want to donate though?
Because you're still collecting.
We're still collecting, right?
We still are collecting.
We still have about $3 million to go to reach our full campaign goal.
People can visit grand100.org.
All the details are there.
You can make a gift there.
We are taking
three year pledges or two and a half year, I guess at this point, you
know,
giving people the opportunity to spread those gifts out.
We still have a few naming opportunities available, although it's really been amazing to see the major gifts that have come in and people wanting to name various aspects of the grand.
So
what's been the biggest gift that you've received so
far?
The biggest gift that we've received so far is from Dwight and Linda Davis.
Wow.
Yeah, Dwight and Linda.
Wow.
That's got to be a record donation for them, I would think,
a record amount.
Very large gift, yeah.
Yeah, the John S. Alexander Foundation was another seven-figure gift, and then we've had multiple six-figure gifts from groups, foundations, individuals, corporations.
That's been very great to see.
Well, and it's
going
to be night and day difference, right?
And one of the biggest parts of that is that you're going to be able to have different shows.
Like, I think we talked about Eddie Vedder is coming
at some point,
right?
Yeah.
Is that right?
No.
It's a tribute to Eddie Vedder.
It's Eddie Fedder.
Eddie Fedder is coming.
That's what he said.
Fedder.
Elton
Ron will also be coming.
That is an actual tribute
group.
Elton Ron.
Elton Ron?
No
doubt.
But in all seriousness, you're able to have much bigger and better acts come in,
right?
Yeah.
Because of the transformation.
Yeah.
We are because, you know, not only with the backstage areas, you know, we've got a brand new green room.
that's a true green room and not just a little cafeteria space as it is now.
Which matters, right?
Which
does, which does matter.
Star dressing rooms downstairs.
We're enhancing, you know, some of the lighting positions that bigger shows, including Broadway are asking for, you know, making some other enhancements to audio systems, video.
I mean, very cool.
Yeah, just a lot of those.
In some ways, we've invested a lot through the years in the technology, but this is really going to sort of move us to that next step forward.
And all those things matter when you're in competition for artists.
And a lot of the things that we're doing on the production side are just to keep us viable as a multi-night Broadway touring house.
I mean, that is our bread and butter.
It's the thing people really, truly... The Broadway stuff.
Yeah, I know.
And the multiple
night show is when they
come...
turn it and you got one thing going on tonight and the next thing you
got to get everything down
and put everything back up
or put new stuff
back
up.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what Broadway show comes in.
You take out everything you have because everything loads in and so but they have very specific needs and wants.
And so this will allow us to address some of those as well and not have to so often say we can't do that, which is something we've had to say a lot over the last two decades or so.
And some of those artists are real prima donnas when it comes to that green room, aren't they?
Yes.
Yes,
some of our guests are.
Green
M&Ms only.
Yeah, we don't have
much of a green
room.
But seriously, I mean, that makes or breaks some of them from deciding whether or not to come to the Grand Theater.
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
I mean, it's we hear time and again that people love coming to to Wausau.
They love coming to the downtown and everything that it has to offer because, you know, it's different than a lot of tour stops.
As I had in order to say, you know, it's really nice not to stay at a insert chain hotel by the interstate that has that we get on a, you know, get in a 15 passenger van to go to the show as opposed to we're right downtown.
And, you know, we can.
There's places to eat, places to drink, places to shop, all these things.
We know we have that working for us.
We know that we have...
Fantastic audiences who support it.
We have a beautiful theater.
Well, we want to make sure that our backstage matches up to that level of hospitality and welcoming environment.
So we're excited about about that and think it's just another tool in our toolbox as we try to get artists here.
I mean, that's the I always tell the stories that, you know, Jim Belushi in the board of comedy over the last, I don't know, 10 years, they've probably only done.
two dozen shows total because he's got other things
and he's
made enough money.
Yeah.
But I think they've been here four times in the last decade because he loves coming here.
And he loves
the Mint, right?
We
got a table for him over there.
And weren't you telling us at one point that he won't do a show on a Sunday because the Mint's not open or he won't do a show on a Saturday
because the Mint's not open on
Sunday?
Yep, the Mint's not
open on Sunday.
That's
exactly
that.
This is
our plea to open on Sundays, please.
That's right.
It would be a
great place to go on Sunday.
But originally, the Grand Theater
was developed by the Wausau group who those guys started Wausau papers and it was the DC Everest and all those group of guys, right?
And what was the reason that they decided to put what was equivalent to obviously millions and millions of dollars at the time into this theater originally?
Yeah, you know, if you look back, the Grand Opera House actually originally sat on the site, that goes back all the way to the, you know, the 1880s, 1889.
And then as it got
into the 1920s, they found that it was sort of like today.
It was a thing that brought people to the community, convinced people to stay in the community.
And as
the community was growing with all of those leaders, the Wausau Theatre Company owned and operated the theater and
you know, to be honest, we're very profitable.
Did very well.
Yeah, you went back and looked at the books.
Yeah,
trust me, they did.
They still have the records.
Yeah,
we still have some of those lunches.
And so there was a decision made at the time by there, they literally had shareholders, you know, stockholders in the Wild South Theta company who had a lot of those civic leaders that we've got this theater, but it's not up to the standard that we
think Wausau should be.
This is
what the Wausau group team was saying.
Yeah.
And, you know, and Frank Welter and the leaders of, you know, the Wausau Theater Company.
And so the decision was made to essentially build the grand, but that took them knocking down the Grand Opera House.
And because even in 1927, you don't want to be dark very long.
Right.
The Grand Opera House ceased to exist in March of 1927.
They demolished it the first of March, 1927.
Yes, as you may know, the Grand will be coming up on its 100th anniversary in 2027, so that means...
They opened, they built and opened the grand as it stands today in a little over eight months.
It opened on Thanksgiving Day
1927.
I remember you telling us that in your original
interview here.
Yeah, right.
You imagine we didn't even get the permits today.
Yeah, right.
There, but they, you know, they made the decision and that was if you look at the trajectory of the theater and, you know, in the 20s, 30s and 40s, it really had a
an amazing sort of, uh, you know, foothold in the entertainment community in terms of the types of shows that they could get.
I mean, the old thing is true.
Artists traveled by railroad and then it's a railroad community.
And so you had that.
You had a strong reputation as a movie.
house, you know, for this region.
I mean, truly for this entire region.
I saw
E.T.
there for the first time.
Yeah.
That's right, 87.
Yeah.
And then through the generations as it became less of a performing arts center and became focused purely as a theater, you had that.
And then, you know, obviously the trajectory, there was, as I mentioned in my remarks today at our, at our event, you know, in the early 1980s, there was a real concern that the Grand would cease to exist.
Yeah,
really fell into disrepair for a while,
didn't it?
It did.
And, you know, there was talk of...
Do we need a theater?
Would it be better as a convention center?
Does it need to be rebuilt as a multi, like a true movie theater?
Obviously in the 1980s, movies and multiplexes were all the rage.
Just
imagine if the Grand Theater was an IMAX.
Exactly.
How
horrible that would
be.
Well, I think it would be out of business.
Yeah, AMC six right now.
We lose that beautiful historic landmark, but it was
debated at the
time.
It was debated at the time.
And you know, and then the initial price tag for renovation and restoration came in.
north of three million dollars and in that period of time it just that just wasn't feasible but the restoration group kind of chaired by John Slayton and then Central Wausau Progress, Dick Dudley and other leaders came together and said is there essentially can we get another opinion on this and what they found in doing some work was that
You could do the theater and the theater, you know, as I think there was talk of some additional backstage areas, other things for $1.7 million.
And so that was the price tag.
And it was announced in May in 1985 that they were going to do it and reopened in the fall of 1987.
And
Dick Dudley had a real prominent role in that.
Absolutely.
Dick Dudley, the founder of Research Oil gas stations.
And I think obviously a broadcast guy, he was the former owner of WSAW Channel 7.
That's right.
And we ran into him along right around that time.
Maybe we talked him into it with our little pep talk that we gave him.
Mr. Dudley.
That's right.
We appreciate that.
Thank you for your service.
We've been working on WASA for decades.
But Sean, the Great Hall is also obviously part of the renovations.
And one of the things that you've mentioned in the past is that the acoustics in the Great Hall will change so that you can have bigger concerts where people can stand up.
Live music.
And so, two last questions.
One, who's the biggest and you can only choose one, the biggest, most popular, most successful artist to ever grace the stage at the Grand Theater in the past, historically, through its history?
I mean, you can
only choose one.
Aretha
Franklin.
Aretha
Franklin.
That's
a good one.
All right, Big Mama.
Is that her name?
I don't know.
Sounds right.
Queen of Soul,
usually.
Queen of Soul.
Queen of Soul.
That's
what I meant.
That's what I
meant.
She went to Sean to correct us.
Big Mama is my sister-in-law.
That's her nickname.
Hey, Laura.
She named herself.
So, okay, so then the next question and the last question is, who will be the biggest artist after it opens, reopens, the historic opening?
Can you break
the news?
I was
going
to say, we can't give away the season just yet.
When is that going to be announced?
That is announced on June 1st.
And the preview party will be at Rothschild Pavilion, because obviously we can't have it at the theater.
So we'll
get another historic space on June 2nd.
That's people's first chance to get tickets to, I think we have 38 different titles that will be announced as part of the season opening in November.
So you're
filled up for the season more
or less.
It is busy and full.
And the funny thing is, even if I gave you a name who's on the books today, that doesn't mean by the time we get a year from now that that'll be the case, because that's kind of the way our industry works.
You never know who's out there.
Well,
we experienced that one time, but
it didn't
change.
Eddie Muddy.
Oh, yeah.
God bless his soul.
He was announced.
We were all excited, and then
he
passed away.
So
what happened?
That kicked off the 1920 season, and it really kind of set the tone for the 1920
season.
It started a little later than we had intended, and then we did earlier.
earlier
than
we intended.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I will say, in my opinion, the old Crow Medicine show was the best show that I ever saw at the Grand
in the past.
Pretty solid.
I mean, unbelievable.
Yeah, that was, you know, true.
I think we've had two of the best shows, you know, leaving Broadway out of the equation just from a concert perspective, two of the best shows in the decade.
that I've been there.
Old Crow Medicine show.
And then we had Molly Tuttle in November.
And Molly is just, I mean, wow, well, what talent and oddly enough is doing some dates with Old Crow as well as some dates with Marty Stewart.
Oh, that's cool.
She just, yeah.
I wish I had been there for that one.
I remember we had the show and and then, you know, she was talking about heading out to California and she had some tour dates.
And then one night I just happened to be, you know, flipping through the channels and it's like, oh, tonight on Kimmel, Molly Tuttle is the musical
guest.
Oh, yeah.
I
literally just took a photo with her right
days ago
and she woke up.
She actually woke up that morning with no voice.
The night of the show.
She gave it all to wash.
She
literally woke up the morning of our show with with no voice and
all the morning
morning of our show.
Yeah.
The morning of our show with no voice.
She had performed the night before over in Appleton and we're indebted to our to our board member Dr. Ridwimu Harry who who it took one phone call and he said I'm I'm on duty today.
Get her in.
me and got her some.
The show must go on.
Yeah.
This guy knows how to
fix a voice.
He has insisted to be referred to as the rock doc from now
on.
So
we've got artists who have green room demands and board members who have, you know, numb to plums.
I need your voice doctor ASAP.
But that is saying something that in the past number of years, you've been here for over a decade or about a decade now and in your 10 years here, the best two shows Broadway excluded that you've ever seen happen.
in the past 12 months of the Grand
Theater.
You just never know what magic you're
going to
see on a nightly basis.
And I think that's always the thing that we love is, of course, when it's a big name or when it's a show people have seen before, when people say, oh, great show.
I really, really enjoyed the show.
Or they comment on social media.
That's fantastic.
What I love even more, the, well, I had no idea what I was going to see tonight, but wow, that was incredible.
It exceeded all my expectations.
Yeah, it blew me away.
Yeah.
You
get that added reverberation
from the audience where you're
like, no, that was something special.
Yeah.
And you can tell when you're in the audience, it's like, no, this is magical.
This is, I'm
seeing something special right
now.
Well, Sean, thanks for coming in.
Keep us updated.
What's the full campaign?
How much is the value of everything that you're
doing over there now?
It's about 17 and a half million dollars.
17 and a half.
Well worth every
penny.
All right.
Anything for Wassup.
Sean Wright, the executive director of the Grand Theater
in Wassup.
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I'm Ryan.
And I'm Paul.
And here's Tim Parker, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin.
Yeah.
Hey, Tim.
Good
morning.
Thank you.
Good to have you in, Tim.
Good to be with you again.
Yeah, thanks.
Before we start, I mean, we've had some really interesting stories with you over the years now of the Wausau Business Show, episode number 71.
I think you were on episode originally four or five, if I'm not mistaken.
That was early.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
We talked about Michael J. Fox and your meeting with Michael J. Fox and you share your common diagnosis with Michael J. Fox.
Right.
And you opened up about that.
But today we've got some other stuff to talk to you about.
I'm looking forward to that.
But before we start, I thought it would be interesting to ask you what your hidden talents are.
Oh, there you go.
Any hidden talents?
Hidden talents.
Hidden talents that the community... That would be talents that nobody knows about.
Might not know about.
Yeah.
They might know about some of my talents.
I do play saxophone.
Yep.
Yeah, I heard.
There are
multiple bands in the community here, which I really truly enjoy.
But maybe a hidden one was, I did get my master's in business administration.
People don't care about that.
But you're an engineer as well.
I'm an
engineer, but in between the engineering and the MBA, I did go to Clown College.
For
real?
All likes to pretend that he went to clown car.
Yeah, I've used that line before.
But some of you
were natural clowns
and other ones we had to
be
trained.
So what number were you coming out of the clown car?
Depending on the crew, probably.
Yeah, I
think I was down the line a bit because I did that because when I was a kid, my grandpa had some old cars that he drove in the 4th of July parades and things like that.
And I learned to ride the unicycle when I was 10.
Wow, cool.
So I'd ride the unicycle beside his cars through these parades.
At 10
years old?
Yeah.
Oh,
cool.
So then over time, I developed this little shtick.
Yeah.
And then I learned how to play my saxophone while I rode my unicycle and did a little drunk man routine.
Dressed
up as a
clown.
Yeah, dressed up as a clown.
Drunk clown.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, a young, in my early 20s out of college, you know, working my first job, I thought it'd be fun to make that official and go to clown college.
I
did
that.
The
parade
was in Flint, right?
Because
you grew up in
Flint, Michigan.
Yeah.
And where is clown college?
Well, this was in Grand Rapids.
I was living in Grand Rapids when I got out of college.
Okay.
Yeah.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Did you get any paying gigs post graduation?
I've never been paid to be
of clowns.
Okay.
I can say I'm
a
professional clown who's never been paid.
Yeah, right.
I did only one church picnic after I went to college
and I
never
did it again.
Volunteer.
What's the curriculum at clown college?
Well, it's a great question.
You know, it's a
ruling.
I think it was about a six month class at a community college.
Okay.
But there are aspects of being a professional clown that are, you know, with etiquette and you know, how you handle yourself,
how you
touch people or don't touch people, you know, really important things.
And then you can tell a true professional clown from a non-trained clown by how they do their makeup.
I just
can't tell the secret, but there are ways to know.
Oh,
there's secrets.
Yeah, so I'm actually qualified to be in the Shrine Circus, but I haven't worked my way up, obviously, only one gig.
You haven't gotten the promotion.
No, so
I would only be able to be in, like, the entryway of the tent, but I'm not qualified to go into the ring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're a greener, not a
performer then.
Yeah, it takes a
lot to really work your way up in the clown business.
Who's like the top clown in the clown industry?
Is it still Bozo?
I don't know.
You know, my wife did do the Bucket Bonanza on Bozo.
So yeah,
she was a kid.
So we, you know, clown kind of runs through the family.
Yeah.
But I don't know who the clown of the day is.
Actually, to be honest, I think clowns are a little scary these days.
Yeah, sure.
Well, there's some scary ones out there.
The clown hall of fame.
Who would be up in the clown?
Who are they?
Are they retiring any clown uniforms?
of the clown hall of fame or anything like that.
We'll do some research and get back to you.
Yeah.
Where are there other clown colleges?
I'm sure there are.
I get a lot of questions.
I'm sure down like in Baraboo or something, there
must be a lot of people
in college down in Florida.
There's some place where all those people retire.
So I gotta, I don't know.
Oh, there has to be.
There was a, the worst job of my career was in Chicago.
I worked at a firm and I learned the most from the worst job of my career.
But on the last day, I was so proud to quit.
And it was just such a bad culture in the office.
It was 150 people.
I loved the people and you know, but it just wasn't a good
environment.
And on the last day, I wanted to wear clown shoes.
And I still regret not going on the last day in clown shoes.
You have a full clown costume, don't you?
A Halloween party one time.
I went for as an amateur clown.
Okay, do you have the shoes?
I got rid of those.
Yeah, I didn't know that, fortunately.
You know, it's a classic Halloween costume.
The amateur clown costume.
So you have your degree.
Yeah, I have a certificate in a frame that's in a
somewhere in the storage room in
the
basement.
If I had that, I would have it framed in my office.
This is a pretty good hidden talent.
This one's going to be hard to beat.
University of Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth University, and at the top would be my framed clown college certificate.
There you go.
I'm full of worthless
trivia.
Oh, man.
How about in the 4th of July parade in Wausau?
Would you be able to participate in that still?
Or no?
Yeah, maybe.
It would take a lot.
Donation, maybe we start a
fund.
This community would have to accomplish something really important for me to do that.
Raise some money, raise some money.
Maybe come up
with an idea.
Okay.
Okay, I like that.
We'll come up with something.
$1,000, $2,000, remember
when?
I think probably a lot of zeros.
Oh, a lot of zeros.
Okay, what's the bare minimum?
Well, it depends on what we're trying to do, right?
But if
maybe we
create an endowment for some need
in our community.
Like what the cause is.
Yeah, what's the cause?
Unicycle, yeah.
There is an Instagram post of me riding my unicycle from here to the 400 block, if you want to look that
up.
On the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin's Instagram?
Yeah, you can probably find that.
Oh, that is.
So my staff has pulled half of the clown back out of me.
Because
you remember Jim Waldron, the former CEO of Wasa Window and Wall and then Wasa Tile, he came in and it was decades, well, probably 20 years
since he
went off the ski jump, the
water ski jump.
It had been
20, yeah.
And we raised it.
think a thousand dollars and then he said he'd do it
That his wife is way too dangerous.
He's too old to take that kind of risk.
He said, I don't think so.
I think a unicycle is a little safer though.
I do too.
It's safer, yeah.
We can talk about that.
Okay, get back to
us.
Further news on that.
All right, I'm looking forward to it.
On a more serious note though, how much did the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin give out in the past like 12 months to the Wausau area?
Yeah, we track usually year to year, but I would say in the last 12 months, we're $14 to $15 million.
Wow.
Incredible.
You guys do amazing work.
And what's the website for people?
www.cfonncw.org.
There you go.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's the initials.
Yeah, it is.
.org.
Easy as that.
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You do.
You do,
yeah.
Cool.
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There we go.
And so that'll be put to good use.
Thank you.
So yeah.
Thank you.
Happy to do that.
And you also have a tornado fund for the people of Ringle.
I do.
And I was talking to you about that the other day and I was just shocked at how many homes were totally destroyed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's devastating.
Five weeks ago today, as we record this today, the storm hit in the
late
afternoon.
And within two hours, I was talking to Pam, who's our finance person in the office.
And she's asking.
do we want to set up a fund?
And we had no idea if this was a bad tornado.
At that time, we heard something hit.
I
said, yeah, we're setting up a fund.
And then she said, we're going to charge our normal 1.5% fee.
I'm like, no, we're not charging any fee.
And we're
going to raise some funds to really help.
And so it took a day or so for us to realize the devastation that really took place with this tornado.
And yesterday, actually, we mailed out letters to 145 homeowners who were affected by this tornado.
145 homes in the Ringle area and a couple in Cronin wetter a couple other spots where it just touched down real briefly
on its
path 31 of these homes were completely destroyed
That's crazy.
And 43 of those had major damage, which means they're likely to be also just completely taken down.
So, you know, 74 homes pretty much lost and then others, you know, damaged and people are really in need right now.
So
that's a lot of fame.
They're all displaced.
It is.
Yeah.
It's devastating.
And as is normal with disasters like this, you know, a couple of weeks afterwards, a lot of people move on and think that it's gone.
Right,
right.
disaster's gonna affect our neighbors for years.
So really a difficult situation and hearts go out to the people who live there and
people who were affected.
Well, and the percentage, I mean, Wrinkle's not a huge community, obviously, so the percentage of people that had their homes destroyed is extremely high.
Yes,
yes.
It's wild.
And you are also, I understand, putting together emergency services in some capacity too, and you're kind of the ringleader behind that.
Yeah, you know, at the community foundation, we're always here
to convene.
If someone else is leading an effort, then we support that effort.
But
in
this case, unfortunately, emergency services were not.
activated.
And so after a few days, we realized somebody needs to coordinate all the efforts between the Red Cross and the Salvation Army and the volunteers on the ground.
And so we went ahead and took that role.
So we've been doing that for the last five weeks, just trying to coordinate all the efforts, make sure that the needs are being met, make sure that people are safe and to make sure that we're just taking care of the community and not duplicating efforts.
So
it's a big effort and not really the type of thing that we normally do,
but we're
happy to help because there's a need.
How much is in the Ringle Tornado Fund now?
Well, we've raised at the Community Foundation $376,000.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's great.
That's a long way.
That's good.
And 100% of that will be used to benefit the people affected by the storm.
And we've been deploying that money already.
So we, in the early emergency phase, we were
We're providing healthy food and dumpsters and diesel
fuel
for the equipment.
And now we've moved into more of the rebuilding phase.
And I mentioned that we sent out 145 letters.
And
that's to the homeowners because we're going to pay $1,000 of their deductible just to kind of help get them going.
Because that really activates a whole lot of capital to help in the recovery.
Are they just staying with family and friends in the area now?
It's a combination.
So if you go there, I've been
and fortunate enough to meet pretty much everybody who's been affected
and
see their homes or what's left of their homes or what was their home.
We've had people sleeping in a cot in what's left of their garage.
Friends bring a camping trailer over and they camp.
Other people are staying, I can think of one family, they're staying with their family in Merrill.
Other people have been able to get apartments that different people have freed up for them.
So it's a big combination.
are staying in hotels, although most of the insurance benefit to pay for a hotel is expired by now.
Have any of the hotels or apartment owners stepped up and reduced rates or anything like that?
Oh, for sure.
Yes,
they have.
I think if I mentioned one person, I would leave a few out.
What's great about this community is the outpouring of support.
And so many people have been there to help them in different ways.
And so it is a little bit difficult for me to pinpoint one person when so many people are involved.
How
emotional, how incredibly emotional.
I can't imagine the impact that that would have and obviously that's going to stick with them emotionally for the rest of their lives.
But thank God, nobody was injured even.
Nobody was injured, nobody was killed.
That's unbelievable.
Yes,
and when you talk to these individuals and hear their story and they show you the stairway in the basement that they hid under with their dog and the whole house is gone above them, it's just so hard to believe that nobody was.
injured
and some people were trapped for a while they were yeah of course but
but nobody was injured at all.
Nobody.
And let alone killed.
Gee, thank God, yeah.
Yeah, thank God for that.
And thank goodness for the emergency services that put out the message,
right?
So they knew
this
was
coming.
The word got out to them, so they knew.
And that is really important to be prepared.
Yeah, because imagine if it happened in the middle of an alley or something like that.
Yeah, right.
This was around 4 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, right?
It was.
I remember, yeah.
Well, that's awesome.
So if anybody wants to donate to this fund,
Obviously, you're at the forefront of understanding where the funds or the money could best be deployed then.
Should they just contact the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin?
They can do that.
You can call us.
You can email us.
You can go to our website.
You can send us a cash or check or stop by pretty much any way that you want to give.
We have a way that you can do that.
So going to our website is probably the easiest way.
Okay.
Yes.
Well, thanks for stopping by Tim and explaining.
all of that and telling, giving us an update on everything.
And for stepping up in a time of need, that's pretty awesome.
Yes.
And I think it's important for everybody to remember this is going to be going on
for
these people for a couple of years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't forget about
Wringle.
So keep thinking about
them
and hard to
fathom.
It is.
Keep it on your radar.
Yes.
All right, Tim.
Wringle, everybody that's listening in Wringle, we love you.
Yep.
We love you, Wringle.
Thanks a lot for stopping by.
Tim Parker from the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin.
Thanks to you.
Alright, you know people have been asking about the friend of a friend competition for ten thousand dollars The person that gets the most people to live and work in central, Wisconsin gets ten thousand dollars.
Yeah, it's a lovely contest We've been doing it for seems like a year now.
I think it has about a year I got a I got an email the other day.
Hey, when are you guys gonna announce the winner for the ten thousand dollars?
Oh, and we've been wanting to get the three finalists in right for the final announcement Yeah, and who won yeah, so hopefully we do that.
We're gonna do that next week.
Okay, cool.
Let's do it if we can
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