45. Sitting Down with The Waldo

General assignment reporters Ali Juell, Christina Wallace, and Claire Taylor discuss the top headlines from the Thursday, Oct. 23 edition of The Lincoln County News. In the second segment, Lucas McNelly sits down with Keri Lupien, the current concert organizer and former president of the Waldo Theatre to discuss their upcoming season.

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Beyond the Broadsheet, a podcast by the
Lincoln County News. We are a community newspaper
based in Mid Coast Maine and we provide the most comprehensive,
in depth coverage available anywhere of the 18 towns and 1
plantation that make up Lincoln County.
My name is Claire Taylor, and I'm a general assignment
reporter here at the Lincoln County News.
And my name is Christina Wallace.

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I'm also a reporter here at LCN,covering the towns of Bristol,
South Bristol, Bremen and Nobleboro.
And I'm Ally Jewel and I cover Demerscotta, Newcastle,
Whitefield and Edgecomb. In last week's episode, reporter
Christina Wallace talked to AbbyIverson, the development
director at Coastal Kids Preschool, about the school's

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Sensory Friendly Pumpkin Fest event, which occurred on Monday,
October 13th. In our second segment this week,
podcast producer Lucas Miccinelli will interview Carrie
Lupian, the concert current concert Booker and former
president of the Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro.
But first, here are some of the top stories from the Thursday,

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October 23rd edition of the Lincoln County News.
Westport Island retained an environmental consultant
declaring the Westport Island Select Board's neutrality on the
issue of a potential data centerdevelopment in neighboring
Wiscasset. Board members agreed to hire a
national nonprofit consultant inan effort to protect the town's
interest. In their meeting on Monday,

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October 20th, Select Board ChairDonna Curry made a motion to
expend $1000 to hire Community and Environmental Dissent
Services to provide an in depth analysis of the proposal as well
as possible impacts and mitigation options for the
island. The motion passed unanimously.
The board member, Lisa Johnson, expressed hesitancy to make the

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hire before receiving more information on the proposal.
The Select Board is still awaiting a response to a Freedom
of Access Act request submitted to the Town of Wiscasset seeking
all information related to the data center concept.
Viscassette town officials have repeatedly said the idea is

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still in its earliest stages andno commitments or agreements
have been made. Developing story A new Edgecombe
storefront is having a homecoming.
Sea Wix Candle Company is returning to its roots with a
new brick and mortar location inEdgecombe.
Owners Cara and Michael Gaffney now operate two stores in

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Lincoln County with their Boothbay Harbor location and the
brand new shop at 289 Route One.The couple began the candle
company 14 years ago in a workshop beside their cottage in
Ungecombe. A lot has changed in the years
since, but the soy candles are still crafted with the same
hands on approach, free of chemical additives.
Sewick's candles are now available in Whole Foods, LL

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Bean stores and the Holy Donut Shop shops across New England,
as well as several local stores.Until the stores fully staffed,
Gaffney advised customers to look out for the yellow buoy on
the store's exterior to know if the shop is open.
It's such a creative way to tellif a shop is open or not,
especially in mid coast Maine. It's it's funny though, because

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it's on Route 1. I feel like you'll you'll have
to kind of slow down a little topeek out and see.
But yes, attention totally, verytrue.
In news out of Bristol, the Bristol Select Board started
discussions on whether to replace or restore the historic
Arch Bridge on Better Rd. duringtheir meeting on Wednesday,
October 15th. According to Select Board Chair

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Chad Hannah, the bridge is estimated to be over 200 years
old and is considered one of theoldest in the area.
Hannah said there have been 2 minor restorations on the bridge
in the past, but the stone continues to deteriorate.
For the bridge to continue to belisted on the National Register
of Historic Places, repairs would have to follow the
original dry lays stone technique, utilizing only local

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fieldstones without any modern materials such as mortar or
steel. The first step of the process to
either restore or replace the bridge is to install a temporary
bridge. Funds for the temporary bridge
will be built into the municipalbudget that residents will
consider during the annual town meeting in March 2026.
They currently do not have any cost estimates for whether

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restoring or replacing the bridge would be more cost
effective, but Chad Hanna said that both options are somewhere
north of $1,000,000, so they areworking with some architects to
decide which option is going to be best.
Big investment, very much so. And a Noble Borough woman's

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breast cancer journey inspired local support when her damn
Roscotta based team Fight Like AGirl topped the fundraising
leaderboard for the American Cancer Society's annual Breast
Cancer Walk in Portland on Sunday, October 19th.
Led by Noble Borough residents Mindy Star Fowler, who is

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currently in her final rounds ofradiation following a breast
cancer diagnosis, the 19 member team raised 14,460 dot.
There's more than 10% of the events total donations.
Star Failure and her husband John are longtime patrons of
King Ida's Pub in Damariscotta. Following Star Failure's

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decision to join the walk, the pub announced that they would
sponsor Star Failure's entire team in her honor and in support
of everyone touched by this disease and encourage the
community to become involved by walking, donating, or simply
sending love and encouragement, saying together we make strides.
Starfailer wasn't sure she couldactually complete complete the

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1.25 mile walk, which happened to be scheduled during her final
week of radiation, but her teammates were determined to
help her cross the finish line. Surrounded by friends and
family, Starfailer walked under the inflatable pink arch that
framed the iconic Portland headlight with her arm raised in
triumph. As of Monday morning, October
20th, the Greater Portland arm of the American Cancer Society,

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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk has raised 100,100
and 2000, pardon me, $615 for breast Cancer Research well over
this year's goal of 86,700. Wow, very cool.

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Yeah, I am impressed by the determination in a multitude of
ways. Is it to cross the finish?
Line so absolutely. Lincoln County collects top
honors in MPA contest The Lincoln County News collected 22
first, second and third place awards in the 2025 Main Press

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Association Better Newspaper Contest.
Included among the awards were second place honors in the
General Excellence Advertising and 3rd place recognition in the
General Excellence Print category.
Lincoln County Magazine, a seasonal publication made by the
LCN staff, received numerous awards including first place

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honors for Back to Lincoln County and 3rd place for Farm to
Table in the Supplement Special Section category.
Established in 1864, the Main Press Association works to
promote and foster high ethical standards and journalism.
It was a really fun event to be at.
Ali and I got to go to our firstMPA conference and awards

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ceremony, yes, and it was a goodtime.
It was lots of educational talksand things like that.
So it was just cool to see all of the other journalists and
the, well, not all of them, but a good chunk of the journalists
across the state because I, I feel like it can be easy to be

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so caught up in our own news environment.
It was cool to hear from other people here, you know, the winds
and the struggles that are goingon across the state.
Yeah, and even like meeting people from our neighboring
newspapers like the Mid Coast Villager or Boothbay Register,
it was really cool to see the people behind the bylines, if
you will, 100%. No.

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It was awesome. Take your time.
Looking forward to next year. Absolutely.
For Bill Bragg, hard work is a value.
This is our character of the county piece by Sherwood Olin.
For almost his entire life, William, AKA Bill Bragg, has
made his living doing the jobs that needed to be done in and
around his hometown of Walderboro.

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Bragg said his parents instilledthe value of hard work in him,
he said. I was raised if you want to do
something, you've got to work for it.
You're not going to sit around and do nothing and expect
someone to pay you. Nearly nearly 50 years as an
active Waldeboro firefighter, Bragg has made a living
combining private sector employment.

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We have a stipend or paid municipal positions.
To learn more about Bill Bragg, pick up a copy of the paper or
visit lcnme.com. Now on to our second segment
where podcast producer Lucas McNally we'll chat with Carrie
Lupian about life at the Waldo Theatre.
For Full disclosure before Lucasgets into the heat of it, both

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him and our editor Maya have previously served on the board
at the Waldo, so must be noted, but hope you enjoy.

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OK, I'm here with Kerry Lupian from the Waldo Theatre.
Kerry, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me.
So you I wanted to get you guys in here to talk about the Waldo
Theatre. So let's get the the history out
of the way first. So the Waldo Theatre was built
in. Oh, what year was it?
I knew this. 1936. 1936 it was modelled after Radio City Music

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Hall, right? Yeah, it was.
So the story behind it is there was a a businessman in Waldeburg
who had made his money in the lumber business and he thought
that Waldeburg really needed wasa state-of-the-art movie
theater. Sure.
So he enlisted the help of some local builders.
He used local lumber and he hired an architect that went on

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to Ben Schlanger, who later wenton to work on the Radio City
Music Hall. Let's see, the Kennedy Center
and the Symphony Hall in Australia.
So, so he went on to do some really great things and at the
time, the movie theater had state-of-the-art acoustics and
sound with RCA, and it was referred to as Maine's Little

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Radio City Music Hall. Very cool.
And so then the theater thrived for a long time and then not so
much. And the roof need to be fixed
and you guys got a new board in there and have revived the the
roof, fixed the roof, revived the theater and now you're off
and running. Yeah, that's a really condensed
version of it. But that's that's essentially

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what happened. I mean, it, it went through a
bunch of different iterations where it was a, it was a movie
theater and, and then culturallythat changed, you know, bringing
people to a theater to just watch movies.
At one point, I think it was a Masonic Hall.
It was a doctor's office at one point.
It really had a, a big heyday inthe 80s as a community theater

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Playhouse. And when we got together as a
group of citizens back in 2016 to reopen it, it was with the
idea that we wanted this venue to be more than just a building.
We really wanted it to be a community space where the
programming that happened was inresponse to what the community
wanted to see. So whether that was film or

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education or concerts or comedy,we were open to whatever was
going to bring people in the door, sell tickets and keep
pushing it forward to the futureso that we wouldn't we wouldn't
be going through another shutdown again like this was.
This was the last time that we were going to reopen the Waldo.
Right. Because you can't be like, well,
I like folk music and we're going to do folk music, and if

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you don't like it, tough. Exactly.
And that's that's sometimes thatcan be hard.
You know, the arts as an organization, people are really
passionate about it and people have their their things that
they're excited about and that they're passionate about or that
they have experience in. So, so it's, it's hard to, you

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know, give everybody a fair shotat putting something on the
stage. But that's really exciting
though, because you have all of these different ideas come to
the table. And I'm really proud of when you
look at our calendar, especiallyas we've grown over the past
couple years, just how diverse the programming is.
I mean, we really have somethingfor everybody and that's both in
acts and in in price and time ofday and offerings.

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I mean, it's really pretty broad.
I know every time I look at the calendar, there's always one
thing on there where I'm like, what is that?
Yeah, like where? Did that come from?
And sometimes it's something big, like when John Waters was
here, I was like, oh wow, John Waters, wow.
And then sometimes I'm just looking at, I'm like, I've never
heard of this. I don't even know what this type
of event is. Right what it what is this?

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And and that could be anything from a sing along to we do
something called craft cinema where we put the lights at 50%
and this is. One of my questions.
Am I jumping ahead? No, you're fine.
Where we invite people to come in and bring their their
knitting or their woodworking orwatercolors and talk in, in a
movie theater. I know.
And we show, you know, movies that aren't going to take a lot

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of attention span, whether that's Twilight or I'm trying to
think of some. Of the other.
Clueless is 1, so we we try to do all sorts of different
things. We've got a really great series
with Waldo After Dark where our programmers do campy, offbeat B
list horror movies like everything, and that's been

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really fun to see. What?
I, I went to one of those recently and it involved, it was
a horror movie, like an Italian horror Gallo film, and it
involved a Raven identifying a murderer in, in an opera.
And I was like, well, that is something I've.
Never seen before I've. Seen a lot of movies.
That's an interesting plot line.Yeah, that's been really fun to

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see. And Buffy and Sam, who run that
program, are just so creative. And I love seeing those kind of
movie buffs have something. Yeah.
In a cinema setting in the mid coast.
That's that's pretty cool. 'Cause flagship's not going to
book the Italian Gallo film fromthe 70s.

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Exactly, exactly. And we're, we're not set up to
do first run films either. It's it's really expensive to do
the projection, the sound. And I think a lot of people who
want to go see those types of movies want the leather
recliners with the popcorn and the surround sound.
And that's that's not who we are.
So we're trying to do what worksfor the space as well.

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How do you determine other than I know you, you sent out some
surveys, right? Like how other than just talking
to people at the Narrows, like how do you determine what the
community wants and doesn't wantto see?
And then and how do you differentiate between like, no,
this is just someone loudmouth who's very convincing.
Right, right. A lot of it is a bit of a, a

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calculated shot in the dark. And we get the feedback by what
sells really it's it's it's ticket sales.
When we booked John Waters, for example, the way that that
happened is the agent reached out and said, you know, John
Waters, he lives in Provincetown.
You should really think about booking him.

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It's a short flight for him to get from Provincetown to Owl's
head. And I think he would do really
great in the area. And I thought, oh, like, if we
book John Waters, is anyone evengoing to come?
Like, do people want to see that?
And we booked it and we sold outwithin, I think our first show,
we sold out within an hour. And then we added a second night
and that sold out within a few hours.

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So you after a while you start to get a bit of a feel for like,
OK, this is this is what the community wants.
I was at that the John Waters show, and there were a lot of
people there who never been to Walterboro before a day in their
life. Oh it.
Was a lot of who didn't even know Walterboro existed.
I, I get up before every show that I produce on stage and I

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welcome people to the Waldo and talk a little bit about like the
upcoming events and stuff. But I always start off asking
how many of you show of hands, how many of you are here for the
first time? And I would say without fail,
every time, 30 to 40% of the audience, it's their first time
being in the Waldo Theatre. And I think there's a lot of
people who've never been to Walderboro before.
We we get John Waters. We had people come from

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Cambridge and from the Cape and New Hampshire and Bangor, but
he's a bit of an exception. But I would say it's not
uncommon for us to get people tomake an hour and a half, two
hour drive to come for a show. There's a lot of shows that we
do because of a radius clause. So there's a, there's a thing in
all contracts that say if an artist is playing a venue, they

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can't play another venue usuallywithin 90 days, within 90 miles.
So you're not going to get an artist go to the Chocolate
Church and then come to us and then the Lincoln Theatre and so
on and so forth. So there's a lot of times we'll
get an artist and this is their only main appearance and people
are just so excited by that thatthey'll drive for whatever to to

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come see that artist. And then they get there and then
they say, oh, wow, I didn't realize that this theater
existed like, and it didn't looklike this from the outside.
And I had no idea that the seatswere so comfortable and the view
was so good and the acoustics were fabulous.
So that's that's really fun to see people come to the theater
for the first time and be surprised not only by the
quality of the art that's happening on stage, but also

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just how great the building is. It's a really great building.
Is there a trick to getting people here who aren't from the
area? Is it just a question of, oh, I
heard about it, John Waters. Think like what percentage of it
is The Who you're booking and they're going to promote their
show and which percentage of it is you guys trying to get the
word out beyond Lincoln County, for example.

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Oh, I wish I knew the answer to that.
It's I can't tell you how many times we book a show like John
Waters, right? We had him for two days back in
2023 and then we booked him for two days this summer.
How many people still are like John Waters was at the Waldo?
I didn't know. So it's it's hard, I think in
today's day and age to to advertise and get the word out.

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I mean, there's just so much information out there.
There's so many things happening.
So how do you tell people about this theatre and about our
events and the calendar and what's happening?
Obviously the artists do a good job of promoting the shows for
us, but but how do you connect with people in Lincoln County
and Greater Main about the offerings that we have?

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Like that's it's tricky. It is tricky.
It really is. So I have a fun story.
You'll Yeah, I may have told youthis story before, but so when I
was living in Pennsylvania and my first film came out and I
somehow talked flagship into booking it for a week and in
Thomaston. And so I spent like a month
promoting this. I came home, I was on the radio,
I was running Facebook ads. I was talking till I was blue in

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the face. You know, I thought everybody is
sick of me talking about this. Etcetera, etcetera.
And you probably know the feeling.
Here's like I'm just promoting this way too much.
Everyone hates me now. Second night guy comes in,
Michael Catalano, who I'm calling him out now on the
podcast and Michael Catalano, I went to school with him.
When I would come home for Christmas, I would watch

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football games at his house. Like this is not a guy I need to
tell about the thing. This is a guy who should already
know about the thing and alreadyhave pre bought it.
He comes in, I'm like, hey, you came to see my movie.
He goes what movie he was there to see the some Russell Crowe
thing. He didn't even know I was back
in town. Wow.
So it's just the always the example I use of like you think

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you're doing all of this and it's only this much in other
people's like, you know, they'rethinking about their own stuff.
And, and, and I would even add to that that, that I would say,
you know, we'll put an article in the Lincoln County News, for
example, that has been really great about working with us with
press releases and people will come up to us afterwards.
And I'm like, oh, I saw that andI forgot about it.

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And so it's, again, it's people's schedules are so busy.
There's so many different thingsto do in the area that it's,
it's hard. I mean, right now I, I've got
some shows coming up in November.
And I think there's also this mentality of like November 6
months away. So far away.
So far away. I'm like, oh, it's, you know, I
mean, I, I know we have a show this, we have a show on the 19th

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with Julian Lodge that is sold out.
And I know that there are going to be people who thought that
they had weeks left to buy tickets.
Yeah, I mean, I work at the Lincoln County News, have very
much interested in making sure the Waldo stays afloat.
And so I'm always checking your schedule and I'm still missing
stuff and forgetting about stuff.

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And I'll like, I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is
already happened in the past because we're recording this a
week early. And I was like, oh, right,
that's I missed it. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I mean, that's it's a real challenge.
It's both for the people who want to go to the things and for
you guys to you obviously want to sell the tickets.
Yeah. How do we market?

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Who do we go to? So what really has been working
is organic word of mouth. People will say, oh, I heard
about this place from a friend and and what's really kind of
cool is it's helping us on the other side of things where
artists and agents are reaching out to us in a way.

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And they said, oh you guys did that sold out show with 10,000
maniacs who you want to can. You put together a mist that I
want to go. To yeah, that was a really good
one. So people will will say, oh, I,
you know, I I heard about Henry Rollins or any other show and
they said, you know, the artist had a really great experience
there. You sold it out.

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It looks like a really cool venue.
Do you want to work together? Yeah, because that's what the
artists want. They want a sold out experience
and a good venue where they're taken care of and not, you know.
Absolutely. I'm sure our mutual friend John
has some horror stories about venues that did not go well.
Yeah, absolutely. And, and Henry Rollins, for
example, he was like, where am I?

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I'm like, you're in Waldoboro. And he was just like, I don't
know, like where am I? And he said, actually, he said
during the show, he said, this place is awesome.
I will come back and play it anytime.
I can't believe I've never played the Waldo Theatre, which
was so cool. And, and I think part of that is
the audience. The audience is so appreciative

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and grateful to have somebody like Henry Rollins or John
Waters come to their little theater in Walderboro, Maine,
and they didn't have to drive toPortland to, to go see this,
like this was happening in theirbackyard.
And that feels, I mean, that's just really cool.
And that, that I think what I'm really excited about and I love

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seeing is I think that that brings a level of pride to the
area. People are feeling.
Wow, like, look at Walderboro and people are noticing us and
people are coming here. And I, I look around the town
and I think of all the things that are happening alongside the
Waldo Theatre. And it just feels like this, you
know, for a long time, Waldoborohas just been kind of the

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forgotten coastal town of Route One.
And it feels more intentional now that that that Waldoboro is
a destination. I have a theory that Waldoboro
has a chip on its shoulder. That's my working theory.
I can see that. I mean, you know, you look at
you look at the how business Route one developed and people
now they think of Walderboro as Moody's Diner and a couple gas

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stations, couple gas stations and that's it.
And yeah, people come to the Waldo Theater like I had no idea
there was a downtown. It's just we get the similar
thing with the 5K and the half marathon.
People get in there and they're never been to Waldoboro before
and they're like, I had no idea this, all this stuff was here.
I didn't know Waldoboro had so many hills.
Yeah. They definitely say that around

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mile 10. When I hear that a lot, yeah, it
gets pretty rough. I.
Hate this place, I love it. I'll be right back next year as
soon as I recover. All right, So I want to talk
about the types of program you get.
We have film, theatre, music. Those are the three big ones.
Those are the three big pillars.We also do education and I guess

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like comedy would kind of fall into music, you know, live,
live, live events. And yeah, we try to program a
little bit of everything each each quarter, each month.
But we all have. So there's a film programmer,
there is a community theatre director.
I myself am in charge of. I'm the talent buyer for

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concerts, live music and comedy.And then we have an education
specialist too. So we all work together to kind
of fill the schedule and we all work a little bit differently.
The films are a lot easier to program with maybe four to six
weeks lead time. Right now I'm, I'm working on
offers booking into June, July of 2026.

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I, I just confirmed a show for September of 2026.
So we're all kind of working with like the schedule, trying
to figure out like, yeah, you know, how does that look along
with rentals and with with education, which can our
education department, we do bothafter school programs as well as

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summer camps and school vacationcamps.
But we also teach in the school system as well.
So. Oh.
So you're going out to like Miller School or GSP or Yeah.
Yeah, we've got a really cool education program.
It's called the Interact Program.
And Mia Branco, shoot, shout outto her.
She's fantastic. She has developed this system,
this this program where we go into, I think it's like 5 or 6

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different schools in the area and they work with the teachers
and the students in grades threeto five working on theater
skills. But the object isn't to get
children to memorize lines to a play.
It's not, it's not about gettingthe kids to perform.
It's about getting kids to articulate and make eye contact

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and, and use their bodies and, and, and express their emotions,
I think. Reese is in this.
I think he's doing it now. Really.
Yeah. Cool.
Because he had to be a dead fish.
Yeah. He was like, very good at like,
it was a very dramatic death of a fish.
Yeah, well, a lot of a lot of what they do too is they have
the children write their own plays and like the storylines

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are wacky. Like you thought that that movie
that you saw? Was weird.
Yeah, that's his character's name.
It's, it's so cool to see kids have that kind of especially in
today's world where like they'reable to just let their
imagination go and follow this path down to creativity and work

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collaboratively with their peersunder the guidance of, of
teachers and instructors to create art.
Like that's, you know, especially in in, you know,
where art is being cut so much from the public, you know,
system. It's really cool to see that
being fostered. So that's another part of our
programming that that we have there.

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Yeah. And that's, I mean, that's the
sort of thing that can hook a kid for life.
And you just wouldn't, you wouldnever know.
Yes. Like I've probably had a good
handful of people who come up tome after after shows or movies
and said, you know, I worked, I worked on the lights for a
theater production of Wizard of Oz years ago at 30 years ago.

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And I remember and it, it, it brought me to this job that I
have in communications now or itI still involved in community
theater or I have a love for thearts.
Like it's really cool to see howthat that spark can can stay
with a person through life. And if nothing else, it gives
them an appreciation for people,other people who do it.

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Yeah. Oh.
And that's, I mean, that's, that's a huge thing that we're
constantly trying to, let's say,capitalize on.
But we were trying to talk about, which is the idea that
the arts just aren't a transactional thing where like
you go, you buy a ticket, you sit down, you enjoy the
performance, you clap, you leave, you go home.
There's we're hoping that there's an appreciation for the

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the work and also an understanding that these these
artists and these institutions are just so important to the
fabric of our community. Like the arts are so important,
like politics aside and even like what's happening on stage
aside. It's just, it's such a beautiful

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thing and it's so important and we can't not appreciate it.
And the one thing you know, if you're the person who ran the
lights 30 years ago for whatever, whatever, the one,
you're not just sitting there pushing buttons like this board
here in front of me. You're watching this whole
ecosystem make a show run and beput on, and you're seeing all

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the behind the scenes stuff that's not just the five people
on stage. Yeah.
Yeah, it's creative. It it's and, and there are so
many more people for community theater.
There are so many more people off the stage who are making it
happen than the ones that are onthe stage.
And you know, we're, we just dida really great run of the 25th
annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical back in September.

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I think we did 5 shows and I think four of them might have
been sold out. And it was just, it was such an
amazing production. Like it was, it was community
theater elevated. It was just the sets, the
actors, the music, the directionit, the production of it was
just awesome. And the people involved behind

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the scenes, raising money, working the lights, being the
stage manager, doing the costumedesign, all those other people
were part of this process and itjust was so cool to see all of
that come together in a performance.
Yeah, it's like a film shoot andthere's this like a small army
behind the camera. Yep, Yeah, yeah.

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And it becomes a family, especially in community theater
when you're working with a groupof people for six, 810 weeks, Do
you just you become a family? Yeah, it's like, it's very
weird. It's like instant family and
then you all go. Yourself.
Yeah, everybody. Just and then you don't see them
again for like 6 months, you runinto an Hannah for doing Oh my
gosh. Yep.
So let's transition to murderingthe mob.
I saw this on the calendar. I'm assuming this is a play.

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If it's not a play and you are actually involved in the mafia,
then we can cut this. Part Listen, funding is really
tight right now for nonprofit arts organizations.
Yeah. So that is a play written by a
local playwright and it's interactive in that the
characters in the play are working in the audience as well,

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interacting with the audience tohelp solve a murder mystery.
So it's that one's going to be really good too.
I think that one's five dates aswell in November.
In November, which is so far away.
Yeah, it's so far away. Yeah, but you should buy your
tickets quickly. Like in two weeks.
It's insane. All right, so let me see.

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OK, let's talk about membership because you can become a member.
You, I think I might be a member, I don't remember, but
you can. What are the different forms of
membership? What's the benefit of the
membership other than a other than just being a member?
So our membership program, what it, it does a couple of things
for US1 it helps us to raise funds and it also helps us to

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bring people into the theater tobecome engaged so that they're
part of the newsletter and they hear about what's, what's
happening. And different levels of
membership can get you advance tickets to shows, it can get you
preferred parking, you get free movie passes.
So there's, there's different levels and, and perks to that.
Our membership drive happens in May and it's a, it's a year long

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membership. And that's one of the ways too,
that we, because we're a really small scrappy nonprofits, arts
organization, we're always looking to expand not just our
patrons, attendees, people who buy tickets, but we're looking
to expand our members, our donors, our volunteers, our

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board members. So we're always looking for ways
to grow our base. And that's that's one of them.
OK, cool, cool. So in May people can join them,
become a member, or they can probably do it now I would
assume. They can do it now.
I mean, we're always, you know, we, we're always taking
donations and we're always looking for volunteers.
You can go onto our website at the Waldo theatre.org and sign

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up to usher show to work, the concession stand, to become a
member. Just ways to get involved.
What would you say other than just money, because that's the
easy answer. What are the challenges in
keeping the Waldo going in 2025 that maybe didn't exist in 2000
or I don't know, what are the big challenges in keeping it

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going? OK, Well, we got to talk about
money, but I will, I will put that one on pause for a second.
I think. I think the, the, the big
challenge is one that we kind oftouched on earlier, which is
people's, the information cycle is so quick.
People hear something and then they forget about it.
So, so trying to stay relevant in people's minds, like staying

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at the forefront of what we're doing and, and publicizing like
constantly just having people beaware of, Oh yeah, the Waldo
Theatre because there's just so much competition for people's
attention out there. And, and I think people are, I
mean, like movies are a perfect example.
People consume movies and film in a way that's very different

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than what they did in 1936. I mean, when the, when the
theater was open in 1936, they used to show 2 to 3 movies a
day. Wow.
And people would, would come, that place was packed.
And, and that was before televisions and that was before
the Internet and that was beforeeven really highways and people,
which is why, like you look up at the coast of Maine and every

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town has an Opera House or a movie theater and, and people,
people were gathering not just in movie theaters, but at bean
suppers and, and Odd fellows halls and things like that.
So that's, that's changed now. So trying to get people to come
together for any reason, I thinkis really hard because they're,

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you're competing against people's schedules and their
finances and, you know, just other distractions.
So that's, that's hard. And I think you, you take that
and you combine it with a nonprofit arts organization
that's always looking for volunteers and people are
really, they're busy people haveone or two jobs, they've got

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kids, they've got a PTO, there'ssoccer games all over the place.
There's, there's the news. There's all different ways that
people are, are filling up theirday and, and they might not
always have time to volunteer orgive back.
So trying to keep people excitedabout about that is, is we're
always trying to do that. Did you?

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Find could you guys had somehow kept us going through COVID?
I have no idea how you managed to do that.
Yeah, that was. From the look on your face, I
could. That was COVID was hard.
I mean we. PTSD there so.
So just a little timeline, we westarted fundraising in like
really actively in 2018 with a capital campaign to reopen the
doors that the roof was falling in.

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We needed to do a lot of fixing of the roof and plaster and
plumbing and moisture and so on and so forth.
And the idea was 2020 is going to be our big real like this is
going to be the year we are going to just and people are
going to be so excited to gather.
And of course that that fell apart.
Now there, that was definitely double edged sword because on
one hand we hadn't done a lot ofthe, a lot of the work wasn't

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completed yet and we didn't haveall of the funding.
So by being closed an extra 1218months, we were able to get more
of that work done. The flip side of that is because
we weren't open, we didn't qualify for any, any funds.
And there were a lot of other PPP loans.
Exactly. And there were a lot of other
organizations that that did and we found ourselves like really

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behind because we didn't, because we weren't open, we
couldn't, we couldn't get some of those, those funds.
So I would say 2021, we started off really careful.
I mean, we didn't have a lot of money, we couldn't take a lot of
risks and we just didn't know, like there just wasn't a lot of
data points out there to figure out like what are.
Like, what do people want? Do people even want to be in

(37:55):
public? Yeah, yeah.
So it there was a lot of, there was a lot of success stories
that we had and there were also a lot of like, OK, so maybe that
won't work, let's try something different.
But I can say, like looking backon, you know, 22/23/24 and
certainly this year, you can definitely see an upward trend
of expansion of, of offerings, right?

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Like breadth and size. And you know, if you had told me
that we were going to book John Waters or 10,000 maniacs or Andy
Summers of the police, Roger McGuinn of Craig Ferguson, I
mean, I would have said, there'sno way you're, you're crazy.
I mean, Sun Raw Orchestra, like,and now we've done that and it's

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like it's a feather in our cap for sure, but it's also allowing
us to take more risks. I mean, I, I look at offers now
that I get in and I'm like, wow,like that's pretty cool that
they want to play here. And, and I know I feel confident
that like, yeah, if we do this, people will come.
Do you find that sort of coming out of COVID, there's like a

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desire from people to be in a communal space?
Yeah, I think, I think we're kind of, I think we're kind of
past that point of like the reason why people want to gather
now is because of the after effects of COVID.
I think like there was certainlya time where in maybe late 21

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into 22 where we would have concerts and we'd have people,
you know, distance and mask and,and you could feel the energy in
the room that were people that were just so excited to get
together and listen to music. And and I talk about music
because that's the one that I have the most experience with.
But but that was music is this really interesting piece of art

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where all these people are are participating in a performance
and they're all feeling something really powerful.
So you could see that with COVID, people, we're just so
grateful to be back together in a room, appreciating, listening,
participating in music. And now I think it's shifted to

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people. People want to get together with
their neighbors and see each other as humans and say, oh, you
like Robert John and the Wreck? I like him too.
And there's no politics and there's no, there's no red,
there's no blue. It's just people getting
together because they like JimmyBuffett tribute bands, they want

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to hear a little Led Zeppelin cover band.
They want to see Patty Griffin so that it feels it's a little
bit, it's different and it feelslike a, a safe space really is
what it feels like. I I noticed last year for the
Waldo talent show, there was this real sense of the entire

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community coming together. We're recording this before that
so we can confidently say that it went fantastic.
Absolutely, yeah. Just great time by everybody.
Amazing talent. But that was like last year.
That was a real like, that was one of the bigger community
pride moments I can remember as someone who grew up in
Walterboro. Huge, huge.
And I think that was felt from the performers and the audience

(41:16):
members. People loved that idea.
And I'll be honest, when when I first heard a Walderboro talent
show, I was like, oh, like, how's that going to go?
What's that going to look like? I mean, are we going to get two
people who show up and want to participate or like what?
Or isn't even going to want to come?
But we had so many performers and we had so many audience
members. And it just, it wound up being

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this amazing. Yeah.
Point of of pride and celebration.
And yeah, I'm really excited forfor this year's.
Yeah, it was you. Yeah, you.
I could see if that would be thefear.
You're like, what if it's like 3guys and one of them is just
juggling and he's not very good at juggling exactly.
And this could get rough. It could get really rough.

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But it was really good. There was a lot of really
talented things and and Sam did a great job hosting it.
Yeah, he's great. He's.
Great. Yeah, it was.
It was a great event. And I think it was really fun to
see, you know, the fire department show up or, or, you
know, public works people and orpeople that you just know as,
you know, the mail carrier and you don't realize he has a
hidden and talent for juggling, right?
Like I think that kind of being able to see your neighbor in a

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different way is it humanizes them is what it does.
Yeah, it humanizes them and goesto your point of not being red
or blue. It's just that this is your
neighbor. And did you know that he could
sing right? No, you did not.
No. That's amazing.
And then you take that and you, you, you move outward from that
and you realize, oh, wow, like the Waldo was doing all these
great things. And, and you look up and you

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said, well, look at, you know, the Narrows is busy and look at
Perch Cafe and, and Audio wives and the Walderboro Inn.
And you just start to see the ripple effects of, of what that
looks like in a community. And it just kind of it, it
raises it, it, it, it raises thebar, it kind of buoys the, you

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know. The boats, I mean, I was in in
downtown like 10 years ago and with the Waldo closed and after
the movie pizza shop burned downor not burned down but closed
and it was pretty, you know, it wasn't great.
Yeah, it wasn't a lot happening it.
Wasn't great. It was the Narrows and whatever
was happening at the Narrows that night.
And that was that was sort of sort of it, yeah.

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But it's it seems like a much more revitalized downtown.
Yeah, yeah. And it still feels really
authentic, like it feels, still feels very much like Walderboro.
And I, yeah, I love, I love looking around and seeing,
seeing new faces. And there are, there are so many
more people in the community that are coming out to

(43:48):
participate that I, I wouldn't have thought that they would
have done that. And they're here and they're
showing up. And that's, that's really great.
And. They're coming back, I assume.
Oh, and they're coming back, Yeah.
And they're volunteering and they're, they're, they're
participating. And I think like, they're
participating in different ways,whether that's, you know, going
to a history talk over at the Open House of History or they're

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stopping in and having a cup of coffee and talking to their
neighbor at Perch or in knittingor, you know, they're going to
play Frisbee golf over at Cider Hill.
Yeah, Yeah. What was the 1st?
I'm going to pivot a little bit here.
What was the first act that you booked because you you've been
doing this since the reopen. What was the first act you

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booked where you went? OK, I think this is going to
work. Oh that was that was Victor
Wooten. That was that was the first big
act we had come across our table.
So Victor Wooten is part of the Wooten Brothers.
He plays with Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, world renowned
bassist. The opportunity came to book him

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and it was like, boy, you know, he, it's really expensive.
Like it's really niche. You know, it's a bass player.
What is that going to look like?And we worked with the Mid Coast
Music Academy up in Rockland andwe sold out the show.
He did a workshop beforehand with maybe 40 students who came
for free to, to, to work with him.

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And I think that was the first moment where I said, Oh my God,
like it's going to work. It's like you, you, it's almost,
it's like you want to throw a party, right?
And you spend all this time likeplanning the party.
And then the big night comes andyou say, I hope people come, I
hope you just show up. And I and then I hope they have
a good time. And, and they did.

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And that for me was OK. And, and I remember thinking
too, like, well, now we can takemore risks.
Now we can, we can kind of expand and try different things.
And like I said, there have beenthere have been some things that
we did that fell flat for whatever reason.
But that I think was the first show that I said, oh, OK, like
this is this, this resonated well.

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But also we're legitimate. Like, we're not just some, you
know, podunk theatre in the middle of nowhere who's got a
couple of speakers and a microphone.
Like we're legitimate. And that that felt really good.
Cool. So you mentioned the workshop,
you guys, there's a series of workshops.
What different things? If I'm sitting at home or I'm

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driving my car and I'm like, boy, I would like, you know,
maybe what, what do they got? Like what are some of the
different things that you can sign yourself up for, sign your
kids up for to get them out of the.
House So we do a lot of workshops with our with our
education department and a lot of them our most successful
workshop shops are improv comedy.
We've actually got 1 coming up in November with Damer Scott, a
local Ryan Gall, who you might know from the the movie world as

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well, and Jeremy brothers and they're going to be doing a
improv comedy workshop and thosehave been really well attended.
We also when we can, we build a workshop into a concert.
So beforehand, after sound check, we'll invite some people
in to work with a musician abouttheory or, or just kind of like

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AQ and a session or just just bepart of the sound check thing.
So those those happen less frequently.
But the big thing with workshopswould be education.
And right now improv comedy is hot, which is really neat.
Yeah, I think. Comedy is kind of having a
moment. Comedy is having a moment and
that's been comedy is interesting.
That's so I've been booking somecomedy and I'm I'm about to book

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some more and it's been one thatI'm a little hesitant about
because I don't know, like is, is comedy subjective?
Is it objective? I don't know, like what I think
is funny or you going to like? And also, I mean, we're not a
comedy club, we're a theater, so.
Are they going to get invited tothis Riyadh festival?
And. Exactly right.
It's a problem. I mean, and there have been some

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comedians where I've heard theirmaterial and I was like, Oh no,
that's not for all sorts of reasons.
That's not going to work whetherI find it funny or not.
But comedy is but is spoken word.
Comedy is, is something that I'dlike to to grow more of.
And I, like I said, I, I think there is an appetite for it
because I really didn't think anyone was going to come to John

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Waters and boy did they show up.I thought that would sell out.
Yeah. But then that's that's the
guessing game of doing this. Like we could look at the same
thing and you go disaster and I go, I think this is going to be
great or vice versa. And nobody knows until the doors
open. Exactly, Exactly.
And I mean, and John Waters was one of the sweetest, funniest,

(48:38):
gracious people we've had in thetheatre.
He's just, is lovely to work with.
Like he is the gem of a man and is just the stories he has and
the he's just. I've never heard a bad thing
about him. He's.
Just, he's brilliant. He's just a, just a sweet man
and he's so fun. And after our last show, he, he

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didn't want to go back to his hotel room, so he went out to
Myrtle Street Tavern and I thinkdid karaoke.
Oh my gosh. Like he's just, he's just great.
Can you? I used to live across the street
from Myrtle St. Can you imagine if you're just
at Myrtle Street Tavern some night and you're had maybe one
too many drinks and then John Waters walks in?
Yeah. And starts doing karaoke.

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Well, I heard, I heard that the crowd grew like there were some
rumblings and then some people got on their phones and the next
thing you knew, like Myrtle St. was packed with people.
And there's just some Myrtle. I'm St. regular they're going.
What is going on? Yeah.
What happened? So what?
What's happening right now? That would be an amazing
evening. Yeah.
Wow. OK, So one thing people don't
know is that you can rent, you can do a rental and you can rent

(49:42):
the theatre. You could rent it to show for a
birthday party or to show. I rented it to premiere, to
premiere my film. And it went really well.
It went really well. I don't think we sold out, but
it was. It was pretty close.
It was pretty close, yeah. It definitely made money in turn
to profit. So tell people about rentals and
they could just rent it and justbring Star Wars.
Yeah, so you can, if you go to our website, there's a rental

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application form and we have different tiers of rentals,
whether you're a for profit, a non profit or it's a private
rental. And yeah, we can show films.
You can have your own comedy show.
You know, there's certain guidelines that we have as far
as what you, you know, nothing political.
And it's, it's got to fit withinour mission statement.

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But yeah, we'd, we've had a lot of really fun birthday parties
where people rented, rented classic movies.
We have a we have somebody who rents the theater every year for
the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Interesting. Yeah, Yeah.
And he just invites his friends invites.
His friends, Yep, we have a big,we have big Super Bowl party.
That's it is pretty cool. That is pretty cool.
I don't know if that's allowed, but the NFL is weird about.

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That well, it's, it's a private party, so we're not selling
tickets. Okay, interesting.
That's yeah. Now he brings he brings his
fountain of wing sauce and his wings, and he has his friends
wait. Wait, there's a fountain of wing
sauce? Yeah, it's a fountain of wing
sauce. Yeah.
Wow. I gotta become friends with this
person. I'll.
Give you his information offline.

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All right, do you have anything coming up other than we talked
about murdering the mob? Anything coming up?
I guess there's Sundance Shorts,Adam Ezra Group.
Like what's on the horizon? Coming back so in December we've
got Adam Ezra Group that's always been a sold out show.
Heather Pearson trio is coming back.
They do this really beautiful Charlie Brown Christmas where

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she plays the whole Vince Garaldi album.
Have you heard of that? I know, Charlie Brown Christmas.
This is her fourth year performing it at the Waldo.
And it's been a, it's been a sellout show, but it's a
beautiful show playing all of these classic songs that like,
you just can't help but get goosebumps to because everybody
knows them. I have a friend who's ATV critic
and she says that if in 500 years how when we've completely

(51:52):
destroyed everything, at least we'll have a Charlie Brown
Christmas and that'll be proof to future civilizations that we
weren't completely worthless. IA 100% agree.
Yeah, I encourage you if you haven't seen that show, come to
it. It's just for for children of
all ages. It's really beautiful.
We just announced the other day Sam Grisman, whose dad, Dave

(52:12):
Grisman, dog Grisman, was in theGrateful Dead.
He's coming back in January. He's a stand up bass player and
he's coming with Tim O'Brien, who is a legendary fiddle guitar
player and Victor Furtado who's a banjo player.
We've got. Let's see what else is coming up
that. Hundreds of Beavers.
Hundreds of Beavers is coming back.

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That's a great film. That's the special holiday
screening of that is happening. Great for kids.
Great for kids. Yep, Very very cool piece of
film. And you have I meant to mention
earlier Tony Curtis's son. Yeah, Ben Curtis does some
screens. He's been showing his dad's
movies and and doing a look, a little Q&A behind the scenes

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story. What we've really found works
for our film program is we do what's called like film plus.
So rather than just show a film,we'll invite a panel discussion
or we'll have, you know, more tooffer than just a screening.
We did this really great thing, I think it was maybe a year ago,
called Smoke Sister Sauna Hood, where we actually rented some

(53:16):
saunas, mobile saunas, and we had them in the back parking
lot. Oh, we did a movie about cheese
making and we had a whole bunch of cheese purveyors giving up
samples. We did a movie this summer
called The Search for General Sao, and it was a documentary
made by it. Yep.
Ian Chaney. Yep, and it's all about the
search for the original recipe for General Zhao's chicken.

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And we had different samples of local Chinese takeout
restaurants, General Zhao's chicken there, so there's.
For his other film, the one about fishing or something like
that, they had some school came in and they had like a
microscope and you could see like tadpoles swimming around.
And stuff. So it's all about just just, you
know, you've got the film, what happens on the screen.

(54:01):
But then we try to take it into the audience in a more
interactive way. Right, because you could just
watch whatever the movie is at home and if you can turn it
into, this is what they always talk about in film, you have to
figure out how to turn it into an event.
Exactly. Because then you're like, oh,
where they're doing this other thing.
OK, I'll go. Right, Yeah, something that
isn't as passive. We do a lot with film festivals

(54:24):
too, whether that's a documentary series or the fly
fishing Film Festival or the main outdoor Film Festival.
So that's there's a really good appetite for it's like you said,
the Sunday and. The Sunday and shorts, I always
like going to those I'm glad I looked at the thing because
hopefully I can go that day because a short block is great
because even if you don't like one of them, it's like 6 minutes

(54:46):
right just. Wait a few minutes and then the
next one will be up. What you don't want to do is
always bring your mother becausesome of the sudden head shorts
are very risky. Well, I will say I have a 16 and
an 18 year old and well, two years ago she, the 18 year old
was 16 and she was like, I really want to go see John

(55:07):
Waters. I was like, OK.
And yeah, I was like, oh boy, but.
And she laughed and she thought it was great.
Well, that's, you know, that's proof that you raised them
right. There you go.
That's what I thought that's. Really the big take away there,
that's at least my take away from that.
All right, so let's wrap this upbecause you have, I'm sure,
other things to do. What how, how can people get

(55:29):
involved? Like if they want to volunteer,
if they want to, you know, I don't know, get involved in any
way. Yeah, I think, you know, you
become a part of the theater when you buy a ticket, when you
volunteer, when you donate, whenyou when you show up.
And you can find all of that information at the Waldo
theater.org and, and, and to, togo back to the most obvious

(55:54):
thing that we haven't really talked about is, is the money
aspect. It's it one thing that we
struggle with a little bit is the optics of, wow, the Waldo
Theatre reopened and you've got all this programming and you
know, you're selling out all of these shows.
You must be wildly successful. You did roll up in Alexis.
I did, yes. No, I didn't.

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We pay the artists fairly. It's it's a set price, but but
we pay our artists because that's what they're worth and
that's the standard. When you take away our expenses,
whether that's the HVAC or the staff or whatever it takes to
keep that 1936 building running,there's not a lot leftover for

(56:43):
future investment. So we're always trying to
communicate to people like, yeah, we're we're we're excited
and we have this full calendar and we've got these great shows
and we're bringing Craig Ferguson and that's great.
But there's still a need to to donate and to fundraise.
And that's really hard right nowin this climate for a nonprofit

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arts organ is actually any nonprofit.
It's really hard. Funding on the federal level, on
the state level through foundations is completely
changed. And I think I think that that
private donors have changed their philanthropy as well.
And the other thing that's kind of interesting about where we
live is there are a lot of very wealthy people who live in the

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Mid Coast and this is their second home.
And some of them, I think there's a, there's this idea
that they do give to the arts and they, they do very
generously, but that's where they're from.
So they give to Boston, to New York, to Philadelphia, to
Michigan, wherever they're coming from.
And they come up here and some of them don't even engage with

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the arts because they don't leave the family compound.
They don't want to leave the beach or the water or their
boat. So we're always trying to talk
about how even if you don't likeSunrise Orchestra, there is an
it's really important to have places like the Lincoln Theatre,

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like the Waldo Theatre, like theCamden Opera House, you need to
have these places, even if you don't visit them regularly,
they're really important to have.
So we're, we're always trying toreach out and fundraise and, and
create awareness for how, how important this thing is.
Like we, we really see ourselvesas part of this hub of community

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where if we're successful, all these other branches of like I
talked about, all these other businesses are, are benefiting
and, and we're working in tandemto, you know, to grow a stronger
town. And I would imagine the more
successful you are, the easier it is for the Lincoln Theatre
and vice versa. Yeah, we have a really great
relationship with the other theatres, Boothbay, Chocolate

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Church, Vinegar Hill, the State Theatre, where we work together
and we'll share artists that we can't use because of scheduling
or, or what have you. And I think each theater is
really different and unique and they all bring something to the
table. And I don't feel like there's
really competition. You know, there's really no

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elbowing out for for things. But like I said, it's there's a
Maine has so much to offer anyhow.
And then you add in all of these, you know, things that
happen and it's, it's sometimes it's hard to make the front
page. I read somewhere the the the
landscape of just arts in general and their talk and this
was about movie studios has changed so much and has become

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so much more difficult that it used to be like in the 80s like
the studios would like. Hope the other studios film
failed and now it's more of a they're really hoping
everybody's movie does really well so the business stays
strong. Absolutely.
And people get into the habit ofgoing to a movie theatre, going
to a Waldo theatre. Absolutely.

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And it becomes part of their routine because it's really easy
to get out of that routine. Oh, 100 percent, 100%.
And, and that's we, we sing the praises of all of the other
organizations doing this. And, and also we know what it
takes, right? We know like what, what it takes
to to, to run these organizations.
And yeah, it's, it's definitely a lot of teamwork.

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Teamwork and But they say teamwork makes the dream work.
That's what it does. That's and there is no I in.
Team, there's no I in team. That's true.
All right. Thank you so much for doing
this, Carrie. OK, thanks.
And we're going to see you at a show, right?
You're going to be there in November.
You're going to buy your tickets.
November. That's so far away though.
Thanks so much. All right.
Thanks for having me, Lucas. Thank you for listening to Be on

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