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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tail. It is so much easier than I could have
ever ever imagined. I'm such an ease piece of mind.
And I just could kick myself that I didn't have
a tattletale earlier. But hey, it's going to be too complicated,
but it's not. Plug it in, baby. We love it
because the tattletale is good.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is another little bit of good news for
you this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Absolutely because the weather's getting colder and people look for
things to do, and then you hear people stupid people
say there's nothing to do in Columbus's nothing to do.
There is plenty to do in Columbus.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Jamen, Jim Fisher with Kapa is in with us and
especially Jim. We're like heading into the holiday season, so
we need to find pockets and things to do, and
you all just have quite the list.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Always pockets more than pockets.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You know what, I don't think we have your microphone
on Hold on, there we go. Now we've got your
microphone on slacker. Chris A just kidding, you know.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
What, Chris secretly smarter, It's like, do we have to
have that guy on the ah exactly?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
He was afraid you were going to say something.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Lindy and Mikayla Hello, Yeah, yeah, it's good to see
you guys too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I mean, look, every Christmas season, generally we have stuff
going on, and this.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Season is no exception.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
And so you're gonna want to come down in late
November and December and hang out at one of our
downtown theaters, one of our historic, beautiful refurbished down to
historic downtown theaters.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How many do you have? We obviously know the Ohio
Theater in the Palace.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We own and operate the Ohio the Palace and the
Southern and we operate the Lincoln Theater, also the McCoy
Center out in New Albany, and all of the Rife
Center theaters. There are four spaces inside the Rife Center
that's the State Office tower downtown. There's a Davidson Theater
in there, and then there are three studio theaters as well.
(01:56):
So yeah, like I said, there's plenty of stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
How do we even begin to unearth all that you
have available in the next couple of months in all
those theaters? Like, can you do you want to take
us through the highlights because I have a feeling people
will want to take note and then look at their
calendar and then get online and then book.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So do you want to start with the holiday stuff
or do you want to work our way to.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The holiday stuff?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What do you want to do?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I'm good either way.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Let's talk about what's coming first.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Well, I tell you there's some really cool in the
coming week.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Right. We've got two female comics, two woman comics who
started out as content creators YouTube and book.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You so what are their names?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So both are on the thirteenth, and you'd have to
tell me what day of the week that is?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Is that Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Thursday? Thursday, Thursday the thirteenth. We have Chelsea Lynn back.
We had Chelsea Lynn a couple of years ago and
she's fantastic. Trailer trailer trash Tammy is her alter ego
tube and she is an Oklahoma born and bred content
creator slash comedian. This is her second live tour. She's
(03:16):
been doing the online social media content creation for some time,
but she's added the live show thing to her repertoire
and we are excited to have her back. And that's Thursday,
so you can check her out. She's all over YouTube
and the stuff is just it's absolutely hysterical and I
got a chance the last time she was in town
(03:36):
to hang out with her for a little bit and
it was a real treat. So I'm looking forward to
having her back. She sounds like a who on the
same night. So if that's not your deal, but you
do like the idea of a woman content creator turned
comic Grace Helbig, we have Grace Helbig and this is
her first live tour. She started creating content online after
(03:57):
she was diagnosed with breast cancer as a way to
sort of lighting her own mood and maybe give other
people something to smile about in the midst of their
struggles and bad situations as well. And so yeah, Grace
Helbig and Chelsea Lynn both we have coming up this week.
So yeah, you got a couple of different takes on
(04:18):
a on a theme, and I think that one or
the other of those should probably suit just about anybody
as we.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Look towards Thanksgiving, What are some of the things that
are coming on deck.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Next after that?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, so we were talking a little bit off air
about some Like It Hot, So of course we host
the Broadway touring Broadway shows, and our next show in
our Broadway season is some Like It Hot that opens
on Tuesday, the eighteenth of November, and is here the
rest of that week eight shows between Tuesday and Sunday.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Which when we were talking about it, automatically start singing
the rubber plant. Was it right? Some like it hot,
some like it hot, and you're like, no, not that.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
It's a re make a mount reimagination maybe of the
movie from the maybe fifties, so movies of the fifties,
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I really know what I'm talking You do, really know
where you're talking about. What it is that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Is awesome?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What's it about?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Though?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So a couple of musicians in Chicago are trying to
break into the business.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So there's two things that happen.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
One is, in order to break into the business, they
dress as women. Okay, so there's two guys musicians, and
they dress as women because they're trying to get into
an all girl band. Then they witness a mob hit.
This is Chicago Prohibition era of Chicago. So they so
(05:49):
they witness a mob hit and then they have to
go on the run to escape being you know oft correct, Yeah,
that's so what what what happens is there's lots of music.
It's really kind of zany, slapdash comedy and great dancing.
So if those things appeal to you, and why wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They Broadway Series a bad show with the Broadway Series.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We're fortunate to be the Broadway Across America's partner for Columbus,
absolutely because it's just a treat to be able to
get that bring these shows into the Ohio and sometimes
into the Palace Theater.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So big show coming, some like it hot, and so
then after that we really are guering up into the holidays.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We were getting right into the holiday season hot and
heavy after that, if you will, so we about This
will be the third year now since we relaunched a
Christmas Carol, which was a long standing tradition at the
Ohio Theater Thanksgiving weekend. So we opened Friday and then
(06:57):
we have shows on Saturday and Sunday. And we had
a touring company that routed through Columbus for like forty years.
I might be making that number up. It's a long time, right,
and so we were fortunate enough to be on their
tour schedule on Thanksgiving weekend every year, and then COVID
hit and that company never began touring again after COVID,
(07:20):
so we created produced our own version of Christmas Carol
with our partners at short Nor Stage. And if you
guys have been down to the Garden Theater to see
anything that shorten Orse Stage, does you know that they
do first rate work. It's a local company. They might
be some equity actors, so they are local, but they
(07:43):
bring people in from out of town as well, but
it's produced locally. So they were a great partner for
us to relaunch this tradition. And this is the third
year now of our new production of a Christmas Carol
that is kapa's own Productions.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're talking with Kappa's Jim Fisher, and you know, why
do you think think the arts are so big here
in central Ohio?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think a lot of reasons we have probably and
it's one of the things I think that we've seen
over the years through KAPPA is that a lot of
our audiences are people who do art in some way,
shape or form, or have done art in some way,
shape or form.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So we were just talking about the Hilliard.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Schools, Yes, absolutely having a really cool theater.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Program throughout the district.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And Hilliard is not the only organ the only school
district in Central Ohio that has great arts and great theater.
So we train our kids up from an early age
in Central Ohio to not only appreciate, but understand what
it takes to be in the arts. So that's the
thing then, that we want to continue doing as adults,
(08:53):
even if we're not doing art ourselves, is we want
to still participate in it. And if that means buying
a ticket and go into a show, then that's what
it means.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But you know what, I've been to several performances, several
Broadway shows where someone in that cast is from here
and they're living the live, traveling the country, doing whatever.
But they all get to come back and be on
stage at the Ohio or the Palace.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Absolutely, And we talked about Some Like It Hot, and
I'm glad you mentioned this because I had almost forgot.
But we have a Westernville native in the cast of
Some Like It Hot. Her name is Darien Crago and
she is in the cast of Some Like It Hot.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So do you know she went to South North or
Central by chance?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I'm not I'm gonna say South, but I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
She went to otterbeinne because Otterburn's big for performing arts.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It is as I would know, as that is my
alma mater. Yes, and I study. I participated in the
performing arts there, although it is obviously not my profession.
And I have not appeared on the Ohio Theater stage.
Are times I appear sometimes on the Ohio Theater state
just during work.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
But don't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I mean, I can't get over your calendar from the
beginning of November. I'm looking at it right now. If
you guys get on capa dot com and go to
their event calendar, Jim could come and we could give
him a full hour based on this list.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I mean, we've gotten Jim's gonna start paying Chicago.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The teen edition is new Apity High School.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You guys must be involved that the McCoy.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Is it the McCoy and.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
So we, like I said earlier, that we help operate
the McCoy.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So yeah, the Messiah if you've never if you've never
heard the Messiah during the holiday season, the Columbus sympheis.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The symphony program one of our great partners, and they
do a holiday program to holiday pops. So if you
don't get the Messiah in November, then make sure to
check out Holiday Pops in December.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Go back to him for Scrooge. Oh yeah, mister Scrooge. Cool,
where was that?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You know what you made an assistant. I can't believe
you're in charge of all of this.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Okay, So here's just a quick peak just to explain, right, Yes,
just a quick peek behind the scenes. That's really not
that interesting, but helps explain how we can be so busy.
Is that we're all I mean, we own and operate
these theaters, so we don't necessarily put on all of
these shows ourselves. A lot of them are rentals, so
(11:20):
we have local partners. Bally met Columbus rents the Ohio
Theater to do the Nutcracker. They're a great local.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Contemporary who we have in absolutely rent. Yes, roommate is
out right now from you guys.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, yes, absolutely. Did you have Lena or Lida or Christian?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
We know Christy, but we had one of the directors
of the call awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sometimes we'll have one of the actors and actresses.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's very good.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So where can people get more information like Michayla's doing right.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Now on tappa dot com?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And that has all of our shows, shows that we're presenting,
shows that are by our local partners, and touring acts
that we re as well.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So c A p A Tellers Exact dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
KAPPA is Columbus Association for the Performing.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Arts, Columbus Association of the Performing Art. You guys, just go.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
There's even a free screening of the Polar Express at
one of their locations, the.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
McCoy Center as well.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You could just like put little pockets of you know,
entertainment in your holiday calendar.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
How fun, and then you can make little early gifts
as stocking stuffers. Just let them open it up going
as a gift, right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So great, Jim, Always so good to have you in
Thank you for a highlight or two.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Absolutely always happy to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
It is good to have you in studio. Boy, it's
been a while since you've been here.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Has it been? I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's good. It's an inside joke, but we're so happy
you're here today.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, we love you, Jim, Thank you for everything.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And we'll see you at Some like It Hot, Some
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