November 15, 2024 • 37 mins
Trey and Brian take the stage with the founder of the biggest little theater company in South Dakota Kristi Brunes.
Kristi Brunes is the founder and principal director of the Stratford Community Theater in Stratford, South Dakota. Born from a bar bet 30 years ago, the Stratford Community Theater is a celebrated regional institution composed entirely of volunteers from the local farming community who put on a yearly play, the proceeds from which greatly benefit the local community.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Kristi Brunes is the founder and principal director of the Stratford Community Theater in Stratford, South Dakota. Born from a bar bet 30 years ago, the Stratford Community Theater is a celebrated regional institution composed entirely of volunteers from the local farming community who put on a yearly play, the proceeds from which greatly benefit the local community.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Okay, before we get started, seriously, explanation, what was.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
That that you must recognize, if not directly, it's one
of those old classic high school drama theater you know,
warm up exercise, the things that like God, bless her ms, cook,
thank you for planting that in my brain in whatever
grade it was like, it's like there's another one good blood,
bad blood, red leather, yellow leather. Those are the things
(02:06):
that you have to sort of warm up for a play.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right, You noticed it's all in the same voice.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah, because let's just say, my skills as a thespian
are fairly limited. But but but here's the thing, like
you must have. Well, I know we both did high
school drama. We both did plays. Yes, do you actually remember,
when we're talking about remembering those experiences, do you remember
what your first play was?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh? Wow, well, first the first play, first time my
feet ever touched the boards. It was an eighth grade
production of Last Tango in Paris. I always, of course,
I played the Marlon Brando part of Paul. Get the butter,
Get the butter, get the buta, get the battle. No,
(02:51):
no margin, but get it. We'll get get in the bathtub,
put the butter. But seriously, the first play, yes, was
eighth grade production of The Mouse that Roared with the
old Peter Sellers movie.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah. Our science teacher actually directed it. I think he
had like a little love of theater and there he was,
and he directed it eighth graders at seventh and eighth graders.
Actually I played the Peter Sellers role, and uh, they
had a problem. Of course, the school didn't have a
lot of money. But we need a flag of Grand Fendwick,
(03:31):
which is this fictional town and my dad always liked
to kind of get involved when he could. And he
comes home one night from from work. I think there
was an office party at this restaurant called Juomors in Davenport, Iowa,
which was Juamor's Castle at Davenport, i It was. The
building was a you know, uh prefab looking castle thing,
(03:54):
and uh he bought he brought home the bar nap
of Juamors and there were two like dragons facing each
other like a crest. Sure, and I took this bar
nap uh into play practice and he goes, oh my god,
there's our flag. So they recreated the Jumber's logo for
the flag and our eighth gra bar nap eighth grade play,
(04:18):
how about You?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
My first first play?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Just old were you?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Well, however old you are? In third grade?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I was, I was seventeen, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Third grade. I got the coveted lead in the Jinks
Elementary School Christmas play. And by that I mean I
was saying the damn class.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh yeah, the big guy.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
With the pillows and the you know, elastic beard, the
whole thing. Yes, that was that was the first one.
What other plays were you in? Of note? Though, as
as time went by.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I think in our introduction show, our very first we're
talking about how what the show's about. I mentioned that
Missus Bayliss, my music teacher. She's in there.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Somewhere is Bayliss there, missus music and theater.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So yeah, then after that of your good man Charlie
Brown my junior year, senior year Oklahoma, which every high school,
every college, every theater has done.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Farmer and the cowboy can't be friends. I'm just the
girl who can't say no. All right, cool. I always
liked the song. So yeah, those and then some college
some things in college, Yeah, did check off? Oh yeah,
you got college. It was college off.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I hated that Pinter did a lot of pincher.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh yeah, you went deep. I was mostly broad comedies.
I went deep, just like last Tangle in Paris was
do you want to reprise that again?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Kept the Bible? Uh, get theaetet.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I did mostly broad comedies. It's like, you know, the
the Louder, I can't hear you and you can't take
it with you, kinds of like Big Sure and and
and really the only drama I ever did was, wasn't.
I mean, it was a musical and it was actually
more of a comedy of errors because I played the
jerk Nazi boyfriend what's his name Rolf in Sound of Music? Oh,
(06:29):
and and it was you were the uniform? Oh oh yeah,
and it was thank god there's no photos of this,
but but but it was a comedy of errors, you know,
because I had to do a dance number for you
are sixteen going on seventeen. You wait, little girl on
an empty stage for fate to turn the light on.
(06:50):
You know, very good. So we're there, we are, and
it's the gazebo and there's an and I'm an eighty
pound weekling and not a very good dancer and an
upper classman who was a very skilled thespian. Don't know
where she is today. Kelly Johnson, Kelly Johnson was this
beauty with a great voice and uh and was playing
(07:11):
the Maria role. And the plays staging called for us
to be on the gazebo and then I come off
the gazebo and then she jumps into my arms and
we spin around and I and I dropped her. I
dropped Kelly Johnson. Ooh yeah, it wasn't Yeah, this wasn't
a rehearsal, or well, it happened once in rehearsal, and
(07:34):
that's probably that's probably when the director should have taken
the note to like, let's adjust that choreography. But no,
it was just left.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's Kelly Johnson picked you up. She's probably a little
stronger at that point. Yes, but like what she land
on by the way, he just kind of like on
her back and then I sort of.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Tried to make it gracefully there you did profession hold
her up, but she probably hates me to day. What
about let's get out of high school theater please and
talk about like some what are some of the best
plays you've just ever seen?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Ooh ooh plays? Or can I add musicals to those?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, that's certainly in the same category.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, the best musical because I was never really into musical.
I performed them in high school. And everything's up to
day in Kansas City. Can't get away from Oklahoma right now,
you really can't. But my dear friend to this day
I met when I first moved out here, Jill Wheeland,
who played Vicky vic from and love her so brilliant
(08:38):
and she's so lovely. But she took me We dated
a little bit when we first met, and she took
me to see a musical that was very, very hot,
Phantom of the Opera. Oh yeah, I'd never seen a
production like that, the music orchestra, you know that. That
was my first taste of oh, big time Broadway, you know,
(08:59):
level stuff, long running, and I loved it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I've seen a lot of Broadway shows. The original cast
of Book of Mormon was incredible and spam a lot.
Original cast Something Rotten, which was actually written by one
of my first friends here in Los Angeles, amazing writer
named Kerry Kirkpatrick. You I can never get enough of
that kind of experience. But have you also ever seen
(09:23):
a play go wrong in any way?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yes, yes I have. In fact, I was in it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Okay, I honestly was. Is this the Marlon Brando No, no.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Get the get the bottle that's going to be a
go to for this entire show. So it was as
a matter of fact that the mouse a roared.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh okay, right, So what happened?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It went horribly wrong, And but I will say it
gave me my first taste of and you know how
much I loved the improv comedy. Yes, it gave me
my first taste of improvisation or thinking on your feet,
sure and playing the Peter Seller's character. And I really
do forget the scenario here. But my assistant or my
(10:10):
general or lieutenant or whatever comes in and he's going
to tell me they're charging the castle or he's this horrible,
horrible news. And he was a seventh grader. I was
an eighth grader. Seventh grader. He's so stupid. No, he
was a great, great guy. And we both, of all
of us in the cast, we had no idea what
(10:31):
we're doing. Of course not, you know. And he comes
in and he's got this important news to tell me,
and which one is my camera?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
This one?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
This one?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
This one? Okay, he had this. He walks on stage
and I look at him and he does this.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you're just listening now, Brian's making a rather hysterical
face like he's on the verge of either sobbing or
chitting himself.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
His eyes got so big and he started and more
than anything, I remember the pleading look in his eye.
He's pleading like I can't do this, I can't major
stage front. So I had to pick it up. Yeah,
and I went with you know what you're probably thinking.
I went with the oh, I can tell by the
look on your face that they're attacking the castle, you know,
(11:17):
and well done, I'm doing all this in his dialogue
Getting Through, Getting Through, he had about two or three
other scenes to finish off the play, but he walked
off stage during that scene, walked out of the back
music room at the high school and left in costume.
It's scared. I felt so bad for him. It scared
(11:39):
the hell out of him. So wow, to improvised kind
of get around that too. Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That but that is a very informative experience.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, that's that's amazing. Well, and by the way
that happened, that kind of thing happens not just in
small you know school productions or whatever. It happens all
the way up into you know, big time productions. I
once went to there's an incredible theater here in Los Angeles.
I'm sure you've been to, which is called the Geffen
in Westwood, But for many years before it was called
(12:09):
the Geffen, it was the Westwood Playhouse, and it's a
historic old theater. But by the just before it became
the Geffen Boy, it was getting long in the tooth
and it was in need of a lot of financial
support at that point. And so one of the last
productions that was there when it was still the Westwood
(12:29):
Playhouse was an incredible production of the play Head of Gobbler.
This is a very, very moving drama. And the lead
in this particular production that I saw was Anette Benning,
one of the greatest acts alive, right really, So she's
playing this role in heada Gabler, and we're all excited
(12:52):
to be there. And I have a seat on the
aisle about halfway down through the theater, and there's a
seat right in front of me. These are old seats,
but the seat right in front of me on the
aisle that's open until just before the lights go down.
And just before the lights go down, an usher helps
to the seat in front of me none other than
(13:13):
mister Charlton Heston. Right, get so out and this is
late in his life. Charlton Heston, you know, God bless
him with the two pey and the hut he said.
They help him to his seat and he sits down.
And now, like I'm excited to see Anette Benning in
this show, but like, I'm kind of distracted by the
fact that, you know, Moses is sitting in front of me, right,
and so the lights go down. I see the back
(13:36):
of his two pay the show begins. Now we all
get swept into the drama. Annette and the rest of
the cast are incredible. And then we get most of
the way through the play and there is this incredible
monologue that she delivers front stage center. It's so dramatic,
it's so powerful you could hear a pin drop in
this theater. And just when she is in the middle
(13:56):
of this incredible monologue, all of a sudden, mister Heston's
chair just decides to spontaneously implode and it completely collapses
underneath him, and in that classic Heston like baritone, he screams, Oh,
dear God, and he falls in God, it falls right
into my arms, you know, to pay a skew. I'm
(14:21):
helping ben her. The ushers come wrong, God bless her,
and net just freezes on stage. Holds, holds, holds. They
help mister Heston out, and then she continues, right, the
show must go, Dear God, Dear God.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, we have to do this now. It's a
must for me. I'll do my Marlon Branda light and
you finish, you finish your fond Oh yes, Charleon, he
is lying, Okay, good, get the button.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh dear god, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
And that is the full extent of our dramatic ability.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
But listen, here's the thing. Whether they go well or
they go terribly wrong in some way, there is still
always something so powerful, especially at a time when it
feels like AI is kind of infiltrating the arts in
so many ways. Right, there's something about seeing people perform
live on stage that is an incredibly maybe the most
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powerful experience of human connection. And and it's it's that
kind of thing that you know, it makes a lasting impact,
very true, probably like no other art form. This is
this is it's it's Shakespeare. Of course. Shakespeare put it
this way in Hamlet when when he says the play
is the thing, right And and so when we come back,
(15:32):
we're going to meet somebody who may actually understand that
better than probably anybody else we've ever met.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Nice nice hook.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So what we're saying is, let's go out to the lobby.
Let's go out to the lobby. Let's go out to
the lobby and have ourselves repeat.
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Speaker 1 (16:30):
Come then we will thank you. Suck all right, ladies
and gentlemen. For over thirty years, our guest today has
directed the Stratford Community Theater in Stratford, South Dakota. We
(16:50):
are thrilled to welcome the marvelous Christy Bruns.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Christy, you guys are too crying.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
No, no, no, Well, let's let's start kind of at
the beginning. Let's start out with tell us about Stratford,
South Dakota.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
Stratford, South Dakota. Most people have never heard of it.
It's a very small town of last count sixty seven people.
It's a type of town where most everybody knows all
of their neighbors and quite frequently their dogs and cats.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, I would imagine with sixty seven people. And is
it true that like it was kind of a bustling
town until the twenties and then got kind of got
raised by a fire. And then and then the eighties
came along, the railroad pulled out, and then you know,
then you're really down to well, it.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
Came in following the railroad when the railroad first came through,
settling this area. And in the twenties we got up
to over six hundred people, with like three banks and
multiple lumber yards and all sorts of stuff. And then
there was a fire in the livery stable and it
pretty much burned the town to the ground and most
people never rebuilt. Okay, So they kept busy, they kept
(18:02):
cohesive as a community, had a school until nineteen fifty
six the high school closed and things kind of fell apart.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Did that little town do the same thing that my
little town? I come from the town of Still when
I was born and raised there and now to this
day is two thousand people. But yeah, when they took
out the railroad, and I forget seventies or sixties or whenever,
that was a railroad went through, a terrain went through,
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and then they took that out, and everything just became
kind of duller and not as exciting, and businesses kind
of closed up a lot of them. Did that happen
to Stratford? It did?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I think probably first of all, when the school closed, sure, you.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Know, and then a lot of the people had to
go to another town for school.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
They kept the grade school till probably.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Almost seventy midas anyway, and then when that closed, then
there just wasn't much here, you know. Now there's one bar,
there's a business that licenses trucks, there's a coffee shop
where the old men get together nbs every morning.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
That's pretty much the town.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And did you grow up in Stratford or were you
a transplant to Stratford?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
No.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
I grew up just outside of Stratford on a farm. Okay,
did move away, moved to California for a while, lived
in southern California, kind of up in the one of
the fire roads up above west Lake and Thousand Oaks
in that area, and then came back and got married,
moved to Minneapolis, and when we had a family, decided
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it was this is the place to raise him, so
we came back.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Before we got to see your lovely face, we spent
a few minutes talking about our theater backgrounds and our
theater history. And this is why we wanted to talk today,
for all the wonderful things that you do, not only
for your community, but for surrounding communities. So let's go back. Now,
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let's go back, and let's find out how this all began.
You decided you wanted to put on a play for
the town, and what what got you to that point?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Okay, we talked about it for several years overbeers, because
that's when people do their best thinking. But we never
got to the to that point until one of the
surrounding towns was.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Going to do a play. They bought the scripts there.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
They needed two men to dress up as women, and
they couldn't find any men brave enough to do that.
So a gal that worked in Stratford at the Elevator
brought the scripts and said, I don't think Stratford would
have trouble with this. Put up for shut up, put
on a play, so bar back basically, but we.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Did it and it continued from there.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So the two guys that put on a dress that
needed to be cast that way. They didn't have a
problem with it in Stratford.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh no, no, we have no shame here.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, I was just about to say, Christy did so.
You know, if you ever want Tray and I to
come and be in one of your plays, in it
a dress, I'll wear leader hosing, in a tube top.
Whatever you need me to wear, we'll put on. What
if I held you to that, I'm in.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Okay, I will remember that.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So this was thirty some years ago. Did you put
on this play? Was it? Was it a hit then?
I mean, did the whole town come out or has
it grown? Or is it the exact same thing? Everybody's
involved with everybody's help and everybody's volunteering. Was that like
that at the beginning?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It really was?
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Wow, Probably not quite as many people involved because we
didn't do it as many nights. We only did it
two nights, right, and so the first night we just
served a keg of beer and some popcorn.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know, Beer's kind of returning theme in this interview.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I've noticed it's all I.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Feel like they should have brought a six pack.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Yeah, yes, you should have brought a six packs.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
And then one of our older ladies just said, well,
how about if the ladies cook, and so they cooked
this fancy meal. They even had desserts that they lit
on fire, the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Wow, so we've got concessions as well. This is uh yeah,
this is good. And what was that was that first show? Christy?
A comedy, a drama, a serious Chekhov play? What was it?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
It was a comedy?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
The comedy okay, good.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
We just about exclusively do comedies, you know, once in
a while murder mystery, just kind.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Of break the break and then start back with comedies again.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
So the goal is to show people a good time
and you know, sort of pull them in and give
them an escape.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So concessions were, uh, were had from the kind of
the very beginning. But now am I correct saying that
it's become a dinner theater experiences. It is because of
volunteers and everybody kind of chips in.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Everybody volunteers, nobody gets paint.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I love this. I read this article about the wonderful
things you're doing in Stratford and this was the menu.
I think it was last year or this past March Ham.
Now from where you and I are from, you're gonna
love this. Yeah, you literally had ham scalloped potatoes. God,
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Stratford's famous. This is how it's described. Stratford's famous glazed carrots,
and I love gradesc and I want to know why
they're famous, because what are you doing to the carrots?
I got to have some salad, bread, home baked desserts
by the volunteers, you know how good.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
That's good. Mouth is watering now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And a glass of wine or two oh possibly a beer, oh.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yes, or some of those glasses of wine. We really
don't cut you off unless you get two obnoxious very.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Literally my be America's single greatest theatrical experience. I cannot
wait to come to the Stratford Community Theater. So with
only sixty seven people in town though, Christy, I mean
literally everybody must have been in multiple productions at this point, right,
or functioned as a crew member in some way or
contribute into some way. I mean you're pulling everyone in.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Yeah, most of them.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
And we do drop from the surrounding area, you know,
for waiters, for cooks, for actors to so you know,
the sixty seven are the ones that live within the
city limits.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But it's a farming community. Shall we joined quite a
few of the farmers and local laborers. Everybody, right.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
A couple of questions, Christy, are you the one that
picks whatever play you're going to do each year? I am, okay,
all right, and it's always comedy or usually you say comedy.
And I love you your logic in this because it's
it's in the middle of the dead o winter and
you're in South Dakota. You need something that kind of
cheer you up a little bit. Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
That's exact right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Gotta warm things up. And then you know, as the
artistic director, I would also imagine, are you directing all
or most of these shows?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Or all except one?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
So far?
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Okay, okay, there was one I wasn't able and my
daughter in law jumped in and just did a great job,
and I'm assuming she'll do the same again soon.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did you have any theater background when you were in
high school or college? Have you always loved walking the boards?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I've always loved theater.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
When I was a little kid, Nice Stratford had a
lot of plays.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
At the time.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
They had the high school, so of course they had
the school plays, sure, and the parent teachers organization.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
They would put on a play.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Usually a man did a play with all the cast
as men dressing up as women, and then the women
would do a play where they all the parts fulfilled
by women. And one of the first times I became
aware of this at all, I came in from playing
out in the yard and my father, who was a farmer,
so we had the farmer's tan where you know, he
is absolutely just deep, deep brown farmer's tan every place
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that a T shirt doesn't cover, and other than that white.
But he was standing in our dining room in a
sleeveless blue dress with a blue hat and netted veil
on it, white pumps, red lipstick, and I was just floored.
But I was fascinated, and then I wanted to go. Yeah,
(26:30):
you did about So then every time they did a play,
I'd ask the folks if I could go. And Mom
was usually on stage, or when she wasn't on stage,
she would play the piano. So she started dressing me
up in a costume that more or less fit with
the theme of the play, and she set me down
by the piano and told me to be quiet, and
(26:52):
after it was over we could go run around and
play and be anything we wanted to on that stage.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
See this is incredible. I mean, so this is not
just a family tradition for your family in particular, but
then it has become a tradition for the greater community
family of Stratford. And I've got a guess at this point,
with all the thirty years worth of the shows you've done,
you must have figured out by now, like any savvy
casting director would like, who are the real stars in Stratford?
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh? Yes, yes, that's how I picked the place is
I'll read a play and if I get to one word,
the obvious cast member just jumps out at me in
a part ah, And plus I make the story, then
that's how we go.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Is it a challenge to find? If you need new people?
You probably have a circle for the troop of your
of your regular go tos. But let's say you have
to bring in someone else because they're always there and
they volunteered and hey, you'd be perfect this part, but
that's just not in their DNA. Do you have to
kind of talk them into doing it? And if you do,
(27:58):
I bet you it's kind of like a care Yoki
bar where the first time you go with their friend,
you're like I'm not going to sing, but the first
time they do is like, I'll be at another play,
let me go, Can I do some more?
Speaker 10 (28:09):
You nailed that because probably one of our Staunchiush actors
the first year I couldn't get him to be at it.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
She was scared. He did agree to pull the curtain.
Oh he thought maybe.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
He could do that, but he was really nervous pulling
the curtain where anybody could see it. Since then, he's
been in dozens of plays, and he's been he's dressed
at a tutu, and he's been a chief of a
primitive African tribe. I mean, she'll do anything now.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
So incredible they warm up to it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
So what's incredible about this Brian, though, is not just
that she has warmed her community up to this and
taken them off and out of their comfort zones and
put them in shows and entertained the community at large.
But in the way that maybe only theater can do,
and certainly maybe in the way that only Christy Bruins
(29:04):
can do the Strafford community. Theater has made a genuine
impact on that little town and on the surrounding area.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And I will interject this because I love this fact
that tickets go on sale for these three weeks in March.
Tickets go on sale in December. Okay, they sell out,
correct me if I'm wrong, but they sell out in
nearly two hours. Wow, they sell out. Christie has to
put people on a waiting list because they're coming from
not only Stratford, but just surrounded counties and towns all
(29:37):
over the place. It's become the.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Thing, and they are not just entertaining people, but they are.
I feel like, honestly, I feel like we have to
literally just I feel like we have to just lay
out this list.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
We're gonna have to read it right. Yeah, this was
too long to memorize, but we want to. And if
you'll indulgence, we have to sing some of well a
lot of you. In fact, we're gonna get into this list.
You better pack a sack lunch because it's going to
take a couple of minutes. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yes, these are the things that the Stratford Community Theater
has helped the different ways that Strafford Community Theater has
helped impact their community.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Sorry, this is a landmark moment. Yeah, I'm actually putting
on my readers for the first time on the show.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Oh so yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Wow, look at that. If you're just listening to us
right now, Brian has instantly aged by thirty minutes. It's true.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Yes, each time you hear a bell, by the way,
another of Stratford angel gets its wings. Here's here's what
the Strafford Community Theater has done for its community.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh, let's see here. Oh, just a few things. Helped
dozens of families with personal emergencies travel to medical treatment,
buying fuel for people's homes in the winter, and helping
out after house fires.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
They have provided summer theater programs for kids in the area,
stablish to a child in Need program to help students
who can't afford school activities or kids who just need
a little extra money for a winter coat.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But wait, there we go. Yes, but an installed a
new scoreboard for the local baseball dime.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
That's awesome, purchased tables and chairs for the Strafford Community
Hall and park, and installed new playground equipment for local
and area parks.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
This is yep, and love this one. Why I love
all of them actually, but help build a new fire
hall that services not just Stratford, but five other townships.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I mean, that's incredible, donated to local surrounding churches. Helped
renovate an old school building into a fitness facility, fixed
the roof and heating and AC systems for the community hall.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Paid for a new asphalt parking on Main Street.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
That's nice and they probably what they got, like three
or four parking spaces in a town of sixty seven,
But that's important. Funded all kinds of programs in and
around Stratford for music, for drama, for speech, even for robotics.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Not only purchased a chairlift for the local church but
also held special performances to benefit the building of a
new church in a nearby town. And come on and Brian.
Every year since nineteen ninety five, if we have this right,
the Stratford Community Theater has awarded literally dozens of scholarships
(32:23):
to help students chase their dreams on and off the stage.
The power of art, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I mean, anybody, anybody who ever questions the power of
the arts should head straight for Stratford. They've got at
least a few newly paved parking spaces for you there.
Thanks to the Stratford Community Theater and people like Christy
Bruns who clearly recognized that Shakespeare was right. The play
definitely is the thing it is.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I think probably my favorite thing about this whole thing.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
We started the kids programs in the summer, and at
first we did kids plays that we some of us directed,
and then we called in directors from Missoula, Montana to
come every year for a week. But the kids get
so involved. They can't wait, just can't wait to get
involved in the theater, to be old enough to help here,
whether it's waiter or do dishes or.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Be on stage. They and when I go to school plays.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Put on, you know, at the local schools, the kids
that have been involved in our summer programs almost always
have the leads.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
It's just exciting.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Let me ask you this, Christy, why I mean when
you talk about those kids excited to be involved in
this way, and not just the kids but the local
community members, what do you think it is about plays
that really pulls so many different kinds of people, as
so many different ages together in such a strong and
remarkable way.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Wow, that's a tough question.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
I think it's I think it's everyone coming together and
volunteering to do something good, you know, and there's if
somebody comes to the theater or to Stratford with the need.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
If we can help them, we do the whole community.
Speaker 10 (34:06):
I mean, I'm certainly not the one that that does this,
you know, I'm the director of the plays and kind
of the ones that they go to with ideas and
stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
But just that everybody comes.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
In and and just works together for the good and
to give everybody a good time.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
I think that's does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Absolutely makes all the sense in the world. It's what
we're trying and probably failing to do with the show.
But thank you so much for doing that. And let
me ask you this. We definitely want to know if
if people who don't live in Stratford South Dakota, and frankly,
I'm about ready to leave LA and move there myself.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
She said, She cast us. I know, if we put
on a.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Skirt exactly and I'm in. But if people who don't
live in Stratford South Dakota would like to in some
way help you in your amazing three plus decade mission
to bring the power of theater to sixty seven people
and in the larger community beyond, how can they do that? Christy?
Is there any way that people at home listening or
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watching us can help.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
We do have a go fundme page fantastic and so
and that just whatever we take in we end up
putting back out into the community.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
You know, we're it's needed.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
So if someone wants to help, they can just go
to GoFundMe and search for Stratford Theater.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Great. We will make sure that we put a link
to that on our Begod Humans podcast website as well
to make it easy for people.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We can't thank you enough, and obviously we're both very
very well. We are. We've become fans and like I
said at the beginning, I think it was off the
air when we first punch you up that I just
really do worship you. You remind me so much of
the very special people in my life that got me
into the arts, and lovely what you do. But I
(35:59):
guess probably the most important question we're going to ask
you today, did you want to ask her out?
Speaker 5 (36:05):
You ahead and ask it well, knowing what you know
about us now after this brief interview, which one of
these do you think would make a better leading man?
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Wow, you're both awfully handsome. Maybe if you took off
the shirt I can.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Tell we'll be back right after this bigger.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
We will take you suck.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Oh my god, you were so right about her. She's
like our prototypical high school drama teacher.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And and you know, there's some symmetry here. It's so
I don't know perfect that this is in Stratford. Where
was the birthplace of William Shakespeare?
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Are we talking about perhaps Stratford on the avon?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
That's it? And see, I wonder.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Say, don't wow, we are really shaking Man's point. We
are showing our theater geet them here proudly listen. Thank
you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
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Speaker 5 (37:09):
Go to our website be Good Humans podcast dot com,
where we will absolutely post the GoFundMe link for the
Stratford Community Theater so you can help support their incredible program. There.
Let's keep the party going. UH, if you would please
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Speaker 5 (01:46):
That that you must recognize, if not directly, it's one
of those old classic high school drama theater you know,
warm up exercise, the things that like God, bless her ms, cook,
thank you for planting that in my brain in whatever
grade it was like, it's like there's another one good blood,
bad blood, red leather, yellow leather. Those are the things
(02:06):
that you have to sort of warm up for a play.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right, You noticed it's all in the same voice.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah, because let's just say, my skills as a thespian
are fairly limited. But but but here's the thing, like
you must have. Well, I know we both did high
school drama. We both did plays. Yes, do you actually remember,
when we're talking about remembering those experiences, do you remember
what your first play was?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh? Wow, well, first the first play, first time my
feet ever touched the boards. It was an eighth grade
production of Last Tango in Paris. I always, of course,
I played the Marlon Brando part of Paul. Get the butter,
Get the butter, get the buta, get the battle. No,
(02:51):
no margin, but get it. We'll get get in the bathtub,
put the butter. But seriously, the first play, yes, was
eighth grade production of The Mouse that Roared with the
old Peter Sellers movie.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah. Our science teacher actually directed it. I think he
had like a little love of theater and there he was,
and he directed it eighth graders at seventh and eighth graders.
Actually I played the Peter Sellers role, and uh, they
had a problem. Of course, the school didn't have a
lot of money. But we need a flag of Grand Fendwick,
(03:31):
which is this fictional town and my dad always liked
to kind of get involved when he could. And he
comes home one night from from work. I think there
was an office party at this restaurant called Juomors in Davenport, Iowa,
which was Juamor's Castle at Davenport, i It was. The
building was a you know, uh prefab looking castle thing,
(03:54):
and uh he bought he brought home the bar nap
of Juamors and there were two like dragons facing each
other like a crest. Sure, and I took this bar
nap uh into play practice and he goes, oh my god,
there's our flag. So they recreated the Jumber's logo for
the flag and our eighth gra bar nap eighth grade play,
(04:18):
how about You?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
My first first play?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Just old were you?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Well, however old you are? In third grade?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I was, I was seventeen, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Third grade. I got the coveted lead in the Jinks
Elementary School Christmas play. And by that I mean I
was saying the damn class.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh yeah, the big guy.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
With the pillows and the you know, elastic beard, the
whole thing. Yes, that was that was the first one.
What other plays were you in? Of note? Though, as
as time went by.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I think in our introduction show, our very first we're
talking about how what the show's about. I mentioned that
Missus Bayliss, my music teacher. She's in there.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Somewhere is Bayliss there, missus music and theater.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So yeah, then after that of your good man Charlie
Brown my junior year, senior year Oklahoma, which every high school,
every college, every theater has done.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Farmer and the cowboy can't be friends. I'm just the
girl who can't say no. All right, cool. I always
liked the song. So yeah, those and then some college
some things in college, Yeah, did check off? Oh yeah,
you got college. It was college off.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I hated that Pinter did a lot of pincher.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh yeah, you went deep. I was mostly broad comedies.
I went deep, just like last Tangle in Paris was
do you want to reprise that again?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Kept the Bible? Uh, get theaetet.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I did mostly broad comedies. It's like, you know, the
the Louder, I can't hear you and you can't take
it with you, kinds of like Big Sure and and
and really the only drama I ever did was, wasn't.
I mean, it was a musical and it was actually
more of a comedy of errors because I played the
jerk Nazi boyfriend what's his name Rolf in Sound of Music? Oh,
(06:29):
and and it was you were the uniform? Oh oh yeah,
and it was thank god there's no photos of this,
but but but it was a comedy of errors, you know,
because I had to do a dance number for you
are sixteen going on seventeen. You wait, little girl on
an empty stage for fate to turn the light on.
(06:50):
You know, very good. So we're there, we are, and
it's the gazebo and there's an and I'm an eighty
pound weekling and not a very good dancer and an
upper classman who was a very skilled thespian. Don't know
where she is today. Kelly Johnson, Kelly Johnson was this
beauty with a great voice and uh and was playing
(07:11):
the Maria role. And the plays staging called for us
to be on the gazebo and then I come off
the gazebo and then she jumps into my arms and
we spin around and I and I dropped her. I
dropped Kelly Johnson. Ooh yeah, it wasn't Yeah, this wasn't
a rehearsal, or well, it happened once in rehearsal, and
(07:34):
that's probably that's probably when the director should have taken
the note to like, let's adjust that choreography. But no,
it was just left.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's Kelly Johnson picked you up. She's probably a little
stronger at that point. Yes, but like what she land
on by the way, he just kind of like on
her back and then I sort of.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Tried to make it gracefully there you did profession hold
her up, but she probably hates me to day. What
about let's get out of high school theater please and
talk about like some what are some of the best
plays you've just ever seen?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Ooh ooh plays? Or can I add musicals to those?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, that's certainly in the same category.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, the best musical because I was never really into musical.
I performed them in high school. And everything's up to
day in Kansas City. Can't get away from Oklahoma right now,
you really can't. But my dear friend to this day
I met when I first moved out here, Jill Wheeland,
who played Vicky vic from and love her so brilliant
(08:38):
and she's so lovely. But she took me We dated
a little bit when we first met, and she took
me to see a musical that was very, very hot,
Phantom of the Opera. Oh yeah, I'd never seen a
production like that, the music orchestra, you know that. That
was my first taste of oh, big time Broadway, you know,
(08:59):
level stuff, long running, and I loved it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I've seen a lot of Broadway shows. The original cast
of Book of Mormon was incredible and spam a lot.
Original cast Something Rotten, which was actually written by one
of my first friends here in Los Angeles, amazing writer
named Kerry Kirkpatrick. You I can never get enough of
that kind of experience. But have you also ever seen
(09:23):
a play go wrong in any way?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yes, yes I have. In fact, I was in it.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Okay, I honestly was. Is this the Marlon Brando No, no.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Get the get the bottle that's going to be a
go to for this entire show. So it was as
a matter of fact that the mouse a roared.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh okay, right, So what happened?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It went horribly wrong, And but I will say it
gave me my first taste of and you know how
much I loved the improv comedy. Yes, it gave me
my first taste of improvisation or thinking on your feet,
sure and playing the Peter Seller's character. And I really
do forget the scenario here. But my assistant or my
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general or lieutenant or whatever comes in and he's going
to tell me they're charging the castle or he's this horrible,
horrible news. And he was a seventh grader. I was
an eighth grader. Seventh grader. He's so stupid. No, he
was a great, great guy. And we both, of all
of us in the cast, we had no idea what
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we're doing. Of course not, you know. And he comes
in and he's got this important news to tell me,
and which one is my camera?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
This one?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
This one?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
This one? Okay, he had this. He walks on stage
and I look at him and he does this.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you're just listening now, Brian's making a rather hysterical
face like he's on the verge of either sobbing or
chitting himself.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
His eyes got so big and he started and more
than anything, I remember the pleading look in his eye.
He's pleading like I can't do this, I can't major
stage front. So I had to pick it up. Yeah,
and I went with you know what you're probably thinking.
I went with the oh, I can tell by the
look on your face that they're attacking the castle, you know,
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and well done, I'm doing all this in his dialogue
Getting Through, Getting Through, he had about two or three
other scenes to finish off the play, but he walked
off stage during that scene, walked out of the back
music room at the high school and left in costume.
It's scared. I felt so bad for him. It scared
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the hell out of him. So wow, to improvised kind
of get around that too. Wow.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That but that is a very informative experience.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, that's that's amazing. Well, and by the way
that happened, that kind of thing happens not just in
small you know school productions or whatever. It happens all
the way up into you know, big time productions. I
once went to there's an incredible theater here in Los Angeles.
I'm sure you've been to, which is called the Geffen
in Westwood, But for many years before it was called
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the Geffen, it was the Westwood Playhouse, and it's a
historic old theater. But by the just before it became
the Geffen Boy, it was getting long in the tooth
and it was in need of a lot of financial
support at that point. And so one of the last
productions that was there when it was still the Westwood
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Playhouse was an incredible production of the play Head of Gobbler.
This is a very, very moving drama. And the lead
in this particular production that I saw was Anette Benning,
one of the greatest acts alive, right really, So she's
playing this role in heada Gabler, and we're all excited
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to be there. And I have a seat on the
aisle about halfway down through the theater, and there's a
seat right in front of me. These are old seats,
but the seat right in front of me on the
aisle that's open until just before the lights go down.
And just before the lights go down, an usher helps
to the seat in front of me none other than
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mister Charlton Heston. Right, get so out and this is
late in his life. Charlton Heston, you know, God bless
him with the two pey and the hut he said.
They help him to his seat and he sits down.
And now, like I'm excited to see Anette Benning in
this show, but like, I'm kind of distracted by the
fact that, you know, Moses is sitting in front of me, right,
and so the lights go down. I see the back
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of his two pay the show begins. Now we all
get swept into the drama. Annette and the rest of
the cast are incredible. And then we get most of
the way through the play and there is this incredible
monologue that she delivers front stage center. It's so dramatic,
it's so powerful you could hear a pin drop in
this theater. And just when she is in the middle
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of this incredible monologue, all of a sudden, mister Heston's
chair just decides to spontaneously implode and it completely collapses
underneath him, and in that classic Heston like baritone, he screams, Oh,
dear God, and he falls in God, it falls right
into my arms, you know, to pay a skew. I'm
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helping ben her. The ushers come wrong, God bless her,
and net just freezes on stage. Holds, holds, holds. They
help mister Heston out, and then she continues, right, the
show must go, Dear God, Dear God.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, we have to do this now. It's a
must for me. I'll do my Marlon Branda light and
you finish, you finish your fond Oh yes, Charleon, he
is lying, Okay, good, get the button.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh dear god, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
And that is the full extent of our dramatic ability.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
But listen, here's the thing. Whether they go well or
they go terribly wrong in some way, there is still
always something so powerful, especially at a time when it
feels like AI is kind of infiltrating the arts in
so many ways. Right, there's something about seeing people perform
live on stage that is an incredibly maybe the most
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powerful experience of human connection. And and it's it's that
kind of thing that you know, it makes a lasting impact,
very true, probably like no other art form. This is
this is it's it's Shakespeare. Of course. Shakespeare put it
this way in Hamlet when when he says the play
is the thing, right And and so when we come back,
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we're going to meet somebody who may actually understand that
better than probably anybody else we've ever met.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Nice nice hook.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah, you like that.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So what we're saying is, let's go out to the lobby.
Let's go out to the lobby. Let's go out to
the lobby and have ourselves repeat.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
How do you bring a cultural phenomenon like Wicked to
the big screen? Join me, Jack, Will and Coley for
a special episode of Scene on the Screen where I
sit down with the director of Wicked, John m Q.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
What you have to say is unique and is valuable,
and that's what you should be chasing the things that
scare you the most, and Wicked scared the hell out
of me.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
You can find Scene on the Screen anywhere you listen
to podcasts.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Come then we will thank you. Suck all right, ladies
and gentlemen. For over thirty years, our guest today has
directed the Stratford Community Theater in Stratford, South Dakota. We
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are thrilled to welcome the marvelous Christy Bruns.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Christy, you guys are too crying.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
No, no, no, Well, let's let's start kind of at
the beginning. Let's start out with tell us about Stratford,
South Dakota.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
Stratford, South Dakota. Most people have never heard of it.
It's a very small town of last count sixty seven people.
It's a type of town where most everybody knows all
of their neighbors and quite frequently their dogs and cats.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, I would imagine with sixty seven people. And is
it true that like it was kind of a bustling
town until the twenties and then got kind of got
raised by a fire. And then and then the eighties
came along, the railroad pulled out, and then you know,
then you're really down to well, it.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
Came in following the railroad when the railroad first came through,
settling this area. And in the twenties we got up
to over six hundred people, with like three banks and
multiple lumber yards and all sorts of stuff. And then
there was a fire in the livery stable and it
pretty much burned the town to the ground and most
people never rebuilt. Okay, So they kept busy, they kept
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cohesive as a community, had a school until nineteen fifty
six the high school closed and things kind of fell apart.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Did that little town do the same thing that my
little town? I come from the town of Still when
I was born and raised there and now to this
day is two thousand people. But yeah, when they took
out the railroad, and I forget seventies or sixties or whenever,
that was a railroad went through, a terrain went through,
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and then they took that out, and everything just became
kind of duller and not as exciting, and businesses kind
of closed up a lot of them. Did that happen
to Stratford? It did?
Speaker 6 (18:45):
And I think probably first of all, when the school closed, sure, you.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Know, and then a lot of the people had to
go to another town for school.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
They kept the grade school till probably.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Almost seventy midas anyway, and then when that closed, then
there just wasn't much here, you know. Now there's one bar,
there's a business that licenses trucks, there's a coffee shop
where the old men get together nbs every morning.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
That's pretty much the town.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
And did you grow up in Stratford or were you
a transplant to Stratford?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
No.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
I grew up just outside of Stratford on a farm. Okay,
did move away, moved to California for a while, lived
in southern California, kind of up in the one of
the fire roads up above west Lake and Thousand Oaks
in that area, and then came back and got married,
moved to Minneapolis, and when we had a family, decided
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it was this is the place to raise him, so
we came back.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Before we got to see your lovely face, we spent
a few minutes talking about our theater backgrounds and our
theater history. And this is why we wanted to talk today,
for all the wonderful things that you do, not only
for your community, but for surrounding communities. So let's go back. Now,
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let's go back, and let's find out how this all began.
You decided you wanted to put on a play for
the town, and what what got you to that point?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Okay, we talked about it for several years overbeers, because
that's when people do their best thinking. But we never
got to the to that point until one of the
surrounding towns was.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Going to do a play. They bought the scripts there.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
They needed two men to dress up as women, and
they couldn't find any men brave enough to do that.
So a gal that worked in Stratford at the Elevator
brought the scripts and said, I don't think Stratford would
have trouble with this. Put up for shut up, put
on a play, so bar back basically, but we.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Did it and it continued from there.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So the two guys that put on a dress that
needed to be cast that way. They didn't have a
problem with it in Stratford.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Oh no, no, we have no shame here.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, I was just about to say, Christy did so.
You know, if you ever want Tray and I to
come and be in one of your plays, in it
a dress, I'll wear leader hosing, in a tube top.
Whatever you need me to wear, we'll put on. What
if I held you to that, I'm in.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Okay, I will remember that.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So this was thirty some years ago. Did you put
on this play? Was it? Was it a hit then?
I mean, did the whole town come out or has
it grown? Or is it the exact same thing? Everybody's
involved with everybody's help and everybody's volunteering. Was that like
that at the beginning?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It really was?
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Wow, Probably not quite as many people involved because we
didn't do it as many nights. We only did it
two nights, right, and so the first night we just
served a keg of beer and some popcorn.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know, Beer's kind of returning theme in this interview.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
I've noticed it's all I.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Feel like they should have brought a six pack.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Yeah, yes, you should have brought a six packs.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:12):
And then one of our older ladies just said, well,
how about if the ladies cook, and so they cooked
this fancy meal. They even had desserts that they lit
on fire, the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Wow, so we've got concessions as well. This is uh yeah,
this is good. And what was that was that first show? Christy?
A comedy, a drama, a serious Chekhov play? What was it?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
It was a comedy?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
The comedy okay, good.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
We just about exclusively do comedies, you know, once in
a while murder mystery, just kind.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Of break the break and then start back with comedies again.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
So the goal is to show people a good time
and you know, sort of pull them in and give
them an escape.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So concessions were, uh, were had from the kind of
the very beginning. But now am I correct saying that
it's become a dinner theater experiences. It is because of
volunteers and everybody kind of chips in.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Everybody volunteers, nobody gets paint.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I love this. I read this article about the wonderful
things you're doing in Stratford and this was the menu.
I think it was last year or this past March Ham.
Now from where you and I are from, you're gonna
love this. Yeah, you literally had ham scalloped potatoes. God,
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Stratford's famous. This is how it's described. Stratford's famous glazed carrots,
and I love gradesc and I want to know why
they're famous, because what are you doing to the carrots?
I got to have some salad, bread, home baked desserts
by the volunteers, you know how good.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
That's good. Mouth is watering now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And a glass of wine or two oh possibly a beer, oh.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yes, or some of those glasses of wine. We really
don't cut you off unless you get two obnoxious very.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Literally my be America's single greatest theatrical experience. I cannot
wait to come to the Stratford Community Theater. So with
only sixty seven people in town though, Christy, I mean
literally everybody must have been in multiple productions at this point, right,
or functioned as a crew member in some way or
contribute into some way. I mean you're pulling everyone in.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Yeah, most of them.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
And we do drop from the surrounding area, you know,
for waiters, for cooks, for actors to so you know,
the sixty seven are the ones that live within the
city limits.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But it's a farming community. Shall we joined quite a
few of the farmers and local laborers. Everybody, right.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
A couple of questions, Christy, are you the one that
picks whatever play you're going to do each year? I am, okay,
all right, and it's always comedy or usually you say comedy.
And I love you your logic in this because it's
it's in the middle of the dead o winter and
you're in South Dakota. You need something that kind of
cheer you up a little bit. Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
That's exact right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Gotta warm things up. And then you know, as the
artistic director, I would also imagine, are you directing all
or most of these shows?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Or all except one?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
So far?
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Okay, okay, there was one I wasn't able and my
daughter in law jumped in and just did a great job,
and I'm assuming she'll do the same again soon.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did you have any theater background when you were in
high school or college? Have you always loved walking the boards?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I've always loved theater.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
When I was a little kid, Nice Stratford had a
lot of plays.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
At the time.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
They had the high school, so of course they had
the school plays, sure, and the parent teachers organization.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
They would put on a play.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Usually a man did a play with all the cast
as men dressing up as women, and then the women
would do a play where they all the parts fulfilled
by women. And one of the first times I became
aware of this at all, I came in from playing
out in the yard and my father, who was a farmer,
so we had the farmer's tan where you know, he
is absolutely just deep, deep brown farmer's tan every place
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that a T shirt doesn't cover, and other than that white.
But he was standing in our dining room in a
sleeveless blue dress with a blue hat and netted veil
on it, white pumps, red lipstick, and I was just floored.
But I was fascinated, and then I wanted to go. Yeah,
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you did about So then every time they did a play,
I'd ask the folks if I could go. And Mom
was usually on stage, or when she wasn't on stage,
she would play the piano. So she started dressing me
up in a costume that more or less fit with
the theme of the play, and she set me down
by the piano and told me to be quiet, and
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after it was over we could go run around and
play and be anything we wanted to on that stage.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
See this is incredible. I mean, so this is not
just a family tradition for your family in particular, but
then it has become a tradition for the greater community
family of Stratford. And I've got a guess at this point,
with all the thirty years worth of the shows you've done,
you must have figured out by now, like any savvy
casting director would like, who are the real stars in Stratford?
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh? Yes, yes, that's how I picked the place is
I'll read a play and if I get to one word,
the obvious cast member just jumps out at me in
a part ah, And plus I make the story, then
that's how we go.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Is it a challenge to find? If you need new people?
You probably have a circle for the troop of your
of your regular go tos. But let's say you have
to bring in someone else because they're always there and
they volunteered and hey, you'd be perfect this part, but
that's just not in their DNA. Do you have to
kind of talk them into doing it? And if you do,
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I bet you it's kind of like a care Yoki
bar where the first time you go with their friend,
you're like I'm not going to sing, but the first
time they do is like, I'll be at another play,
let me go, Can I do some more?
Speaker 10 (28:09):
You nailed that because probably one of our Staunchiush actors
the first year I couldn't get him to be at it.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
She was scared. He did agree to pull the curtain.
Oh he thought maybe.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
He could do that, but he was really nervous pulling
the curtain where anybody could see it. Since then, he's
been in dozens of plays, and he's been he's dressed
at a tutu, and he's been a chief of a
primitive African tribe. I mean, she'll do anything now.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
So incredible they warm up to it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
So what's incredible about this Brian, though, is not just
that she has warmed her community up to this and
taken them off and out of their comfort zones and
put them in shows and entertained the community at large.
But in the way that maybe only theater can do,
and certainly maybe in the way that only Christy Bruins
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can do the Strafford community. Theater has made a genuine
impact on that little town and on the surrounding area.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And I will interject this because I love this fact
that tickets go on sale for these three weeks in March.
Tickets go on sale in December. Okay, they sell out,
correct me if I'm wrong, but they sell out in
nearly two hours. Wow, they sell out. Christie has to
put people on a waiting list because they're coming from
not only Stratford, but just surrounded counties and towns all
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over the place. It's become the.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Thing, and they are not just entertaining people, but they are.
I feel like, honestly, I feel like we have to
literally just I feel like we have to just lay
out this list.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
We're gonna have to read it right. Yeah, this was
too long to memorize, but we want to. And if
you'll indulgence, we have to sing some of well a
lot of you. In fact, we're gonna get into this list.
You better pack a sack lunch because it's going to
take a couple of minutes. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Yes, these are the things that the Stratford Community Theater
has helped the different ways that Strafford Community Theater has
helped impact their community.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Sorry, this is a landmark moment. Yeah, I'm actually putting
on my readers for the first time on the show.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Oh so yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Wow, look at that. If you're just listening to us
right now, Brian has instantly aged by thirty minutes. It's true.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Yes, each time you hear a bell, by the way,
another of Stratford angel gets its wings. Here's here's what
the Strafford Community Theater has done for its community.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh, let's see here. Oh, just a few things. Helped
dozens of families with personal emergencies travel to medical treatment,
buying fuel for people's homes in the winter, and helping
out after house fires.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
They have provided summer theater programs for kids in the area,
stablish to a child in Need program to help students
who can't afford school activities or kids who just need
a little extra money for a winter coat.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But wait, there we go. Yes, but an installed a
new scoreboard for the local baseball dime.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
That's awesome, purchased tables and chairs for the Strafford Community
Hall and park, and installed new playground equipment for local
and area parks.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
This is yep, and love this one. Why I love
all of them actually, but help build a new fire
hall that services not just Stratford, but five other townships.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I mean, that's incredible, donated to local surrounding churches. Helped
renovate an old school building into a fitness facility, fixed
the roof and heating and AC systems for the community hall.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Paid for a new asphalt parking on Main Street.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
That's nice and they probably what they got, like three
or four parking spaces in a town of sixty seven,
But that's important. Funded all kinds of programs in and
around Stratford for music, for drama, for speech, even for robotics.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Not only purchased a chairlift for the local church but
also held special performances to benefit the building of a
new church in a nearby town. And come on and Brian.
Every year since nineteen ninety five, if we have this right,
the Stratford Community Theater has awarded literally dozens of scholarships
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to help students chase their dreams on and off the stage.
The power of art, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I mean, anybody, anybody who ever questions the power of
the arts should head straight for Stratford. They've got at
least a few newly paved parking spaces for you there.
Thanks to the Stratford Community Theater and people like Christy
Bruns who clearly recognized that Shakespeare was right. The play
definitely is the thing it is.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I think probably my favorite thing about this whole thing.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
We started the kids programs in the summer, and at
first we did kids plays that we some of us directed,
and then we called in directors from Missoula, Montana to
come every year for a week. But the kids get
so involved. They can't wait, just can't wait to get
involved in the theater, to be old enough to help here,
whether it's waiter or do dishes or.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Be on stage. They and when I go to school plays.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Put on, you know, at the local schools, the kids
that have been involved in our summer programs almost always
have the leads.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
It's just exciting.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Let me ask you this, Christy, why I mean when
you talk about those kids excited to be involved in
this way, and not just the kids but the local
community members, what do you think it is about plays
that really pulls so many different kinds of people, as
so many different ages together in such a strong and
remarkable way.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Wow, that's a tough question.
Speaker 10 (33:49):
I think it's I think it's everyone coming together and
volunteering to do something good, you know, and there's if
somebody comes to the theater or to Stratford with the need.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
If we can help them, we do the whole community.
Speaker 10 (34:06):
I mean, I'm certainly not the one that that does this,
you know, I'm the director of the plays and kind
of the ones that they go to with ideas and
stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
But just that everybody comes.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
In and and just works together for the good and
to give everybody a good time.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
I think that's does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Absolutely makes all the sense in the world. It's what
we're trying and probably failing to do with the show.
But thank you so much for doing that. And let
me ask you this. We definitely want to know if
if people who don't live in Stratford South Dakota, and frankly,
I'm about ready to leave LA and move there myself.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
She said, She cast us. I know, if we put
on a.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Skirt exactly and I'm in. But if people who don't
live in Stratford South Dakota would like to in some
way help you in your amazing three plus decade mission
to bring the power of theater to sixty seven people
and in the larger community beyond, how can they do that? Christy?
Is there any way that people at home listening or
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watching us can help.
Speaker 10 (35:15):
We do have a go fundme page fantastic and so
and that just whatever we take in we end up
putting back out into the community.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
You know, we're it's needed.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
So if someone wants to help, they can just go
to GoFundMe and search for Stratford Theater.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Great. We will make sure that we put a link
to that on our Begod Humans podcast website as well
to make it easy for people.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We can't thank you enough, and obviously we're both very
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Go to our website be Good Humans podcast dot com,
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