April 14, 2025 • 13 mins
Mikaela and Maria speak with Christy Farnbauch, Executive Director, Contemporary Theater and give away tickets!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Every conversation off there with Maria Durant is as good
as an on air conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We get a catch up while we're in the break
and so.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good hearing about your son and all that he's doing
and is going to do, Mama, And you know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We all should be proud of our kids.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We all should be.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I think it's so important for their worlds. This next
subject is near and dear to one of my kids heart.
He's really started to get into theater and we have
such great Yeah, we have such great theater companies in
central Ohio and.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We don't even realize it. Yeah, we don't. I was
just telling you, you know, a little earlier we went
to shadow Box just shower Bocks Live, I think is
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You know, everybody there are so talented.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So talented.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We're surrounded by it, and you really can draw yourself
in to the culture. We're so appreciative to have the
Contemporary Theaters Executive director of Christy Farnbach on with us
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Christie, Hi, Hi, MICHAELA, Hi, Maria.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi, Christy. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You guys have great shows and definitely have this niche
in the theater community, and we always appreciate being able
to talk about your shows. Maria was asking me early,
She's like, is this formerly cat Co And I said yes,
they rebranded a couple of years ago as the Contemporary
Theater And you guys do a certain type of performance. Christy,
(01:22):
I don't know if you could share a little bit
about that, just to kind of reacclimate the audience.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But what kind of shows do you all do?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, for sure. So we're really about telling stores that
are rooted in the current moment to build empathy, and
we perform at the Rice Center in a couple of black,
black spaces, So our largest theater only has two hundred seats.
So folks are really you just really get to see
stories in a new way in a very intimate space,
and you feel like you're part of the action. Sometimes
(01:50):
when a show, you know, breaks the fourth wall and
brings the audience in, you're right there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Wow. So, now, now what do you guys have I
guess running right now for folks.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, so we just started rehearsals for a show called
The Last Five Years. You had first rehearsal this past Thursday,
and it's the story it's a musical. It's a two
person musical, and it's the story of a couple's relationship
from the first date to their divorce from both perspectives.
So Kathy is a struggling actress, she tells her half
(02:24):
of the story starting at the end of the relationship,
and Jamie as a successful novelist and he tells his
side of the story from the beginning. And they meet
in the middle on their wedding day, which is the
only time during the show they're on stage together. And
so you just sort of see the excitement of a
new relationship blossoming, right, and then the cracks start to form,
(02:45):
and then devastation in the end.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow, it's the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Full circle, full full circle.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'd heard that this has developed a pretty strong following
the show, especially among millennials. What's the reason it resonates
so much? Do you think with that group?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, it has, you know, I think it's because it
really millennials, yes, and I speak. I think it speaks
to any every generation.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's a beautiful story about misconnections, how hard it is
for people to meet in the middle, how fleeting and flat,
fragile communications right and connection can be between loved Ones.
The show premiered in two thousand and one, so it
was it's a little older. The show's a little older
than a lot of shows we do. A lot of
things we do are written in the last ten years.
(03:36):
But it's got such a strong following up, such a
universal story, right, you know, like any breakup. There there
are people on you know, team Kathy and people on
team Jamie. And actually what you sort of see is
they're both They're both flawed people, right, who have both
made mistakes, like like any relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Like human, Yeah, human, exactly, right, We're just human.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And the lyrics Jason Robert Brown is the poser, and
the lyrics are stunning. The music is beautiful. The lyrics
we might talk about some specific lines, but people have
lyrics from this show tattooed on their bodies and engraved
in their wedding rings, which we talk about is such
an interesting choice given how the story ends.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
People just love this soundtrack. And I think if you
were I wasn't, but if you were a theater kid.
I was a musician, But if you were a theater
kid in the two thousands, right, you just knew every
word of this of this musical.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now, you had mentioned, you know something about people having
quotes engraved in their wedding rings.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What kind of quotes?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Tell me a little bit more about this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Sure. Well, there's a couple that really struck me, and
I've read the script and I heard it again the
other night at first rehearsal. So in the song that
Kathy sings about their first date is a line about
opening herself up, and she says she's opening herself quote
one stitch at a time, which feels like a really
amazing way to describe the feeling right of opening yourself
(05:07):
up to a new person, a new relationship, kind of
one stitch at a time. And then in the middle
where they meet, the song is called the Next ten Minutes,
and it's their wedding song. It's gorgeous, and Jamie asks Kathy, quote,
will you share your life with me for the next
ten minutes? And they sing in harmony about being together,
and then this is the one that gets me, quote
(05:29):
till there's no one left who has ever known us apart. Yeah,
it's great, right, And coincidentally, ladies, today's my thirty fourth
wedding anniversary. I've been thinking about this quote and thinking
about this interview, right, it's so apropos.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, congratulations and a happy.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Anniversary, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And her husband is such a wonderful guy, Eric, And
that till no one what was it till no one
knows you apart?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What was that line of.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, till there's no one left who has ever known
us apart?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, and that's and that's the beauty of a marriage
of thirty four years, right, and those that last that
test of time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So I am really now going to have to see
this because and you you mentioned too, you know that
all these lines and all these quotes resonate with so
many people, but they end up divorcing at the.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
End, right at the end, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, So so they're quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, there must be a major complication that they cannot
recover from, is my guess.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, you don't go it all the way right.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, I won't give away, but it's it's misconnections, right,
It's just you know, I hope people will just sort
of see get a little nudge to slow down and
pay attention.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think it's it's in all of relationships, not just
not just your romantic partner. But it's easy, right to
just get caught up in the data day and you
just believe, we just believe they're always going to be there, right.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Do you think this will get people talking more about that?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Christy, I'm sorry say that, Mkaela.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Do you think this will get people talking more about
that that we we take we don't take advantage of
the days.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I hope so that we just are a little more mindful,
right about our relationships in any situation at work, in
our personal lives, with our children, any any of those. Really,
you know, humans are messy, I say all the time.
They're messy, right, And I do think we get so
caught up in the busyness of our days that sometimes
(07:38):
we don't pay enough attention. I think that's often what happens.
I think when couples do have troubles in their right,
it's not easy, right, You gotta you're working at it.
I mean you do, ye, right for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, let's talk a little bit about the company. What
this is part of your fortieth anniversary. You guys are
closing in on your fortieth anniversary season with this production.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
We so this is our fortiest students and last production
in our fortiest sason. We were founded in January of
nineteen eighty five. We just had a big party last
Saturday night to celebrate forty Congress Thank you. Yeah, well,
it's not breaking in my life. That's a milestone, whether
(08:23):
you're a company or an organization. Right, forty years is
a long time, and like our relationship, there have been
up and ups and downs in the company, and you know,
most recently the COVID nineteenth pandemic, and I often say
we're really we functioned like a five year old startup
coming out of that pandemic, but we had this wonderful
thirty five year foundation to rebuild on, right, and I
(08:47):
think in reflecting, going to preparing for that event and
going back to our history, we're really the company We've
always been cat COO and now the contemporary has always
been about telling stories, contemporary stories for current moment, and
we hope again building empathy and sparking conversation. And that's
really what this company's always been about.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You know, as we were introducing you, were getting ready
to introduce you, Maria was talking about, you know, not
everybody knows what we're surrounded by here in Central Ohio
when it comes to the theater community.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What would you say to someone who thinks that they
have to.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Go to New York or a big touring show to
experience great theater.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh I love that question, Thank you, MICHAELA. That's a
great question. I would say yes and right. So, of course,
going to New York City or any other big city
and seeing theater is exciting and meaningful, and yes, you
should do it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Do that.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
And what a lot of people don't realize is that
those shows in New York City or Chicago or wherever
likely started in a small regional professional theater like the contemporary.
That's where they all get their start. That's where the
new work and the new playwrights are nurtured and supported.
And a lot of people don't know. We employ more
than one hundred artists every year who have chosen to
(10:06):
make Central Ohio their home. They live and work here,
they're your neighbors.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's what I was gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
The here is phenomenal, it's amazing we have We have
wonderful talent in this town. And you know, last five
years is a great example of this. So last five
years it's actually on Broadway right now. We are super
fortunate to have the rights to produce it, because that
doesn't always happen if it's in New York, we sometimes
can't get the rights to do it. But we are
(10:33):
and I are our lead male role. Jamie is Hunter minor,
and honestly, I thought Hunter up against Nick Jonas any
day that week. I mean, you know they can be
playing their role in New York. And again Hunters living
here and teaching here, in a part of our community
and has an amazing voice. So I think we need
it all right. We I want people to see theater
(10:55):
anywhere here in town and nationally they can to build
the whole ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
If someone hasn't experienced the contemporary night before, is this
a good one to start with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Christy? What would you say?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I think it's a great show to start with. It's
very accessible. Again, the stories universal, right, we all have
relationships in all kinds of ways. And it's a musical.
People love musicals. Tend to love musicals, and it's going
to run ninety minutes with no intermission, so you can
have dinner see the show. I'm be home by ten.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh, I mean totally speaking right my language. I mean
I've been to see your shows before.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But man, totally speaking my language, when does the.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Show start Friday night? You know, I like, I gotta
go home and go to bed now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
When is opening night?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Opening night is April twenty hell.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Jeezy day, I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Right, I know that right off my head. Well here's
what I will saying. We preview on Thursday, April twenty fourth. Okay,
we do two previews, which all that means is the
direct can keep tweaking the show a little bit. After
those two performances, it's done and ready to roll. And
then official opening night is Saturday to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So when you do a preview, is that for a
live audience as well?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Or it is? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, previews are. Our first
official performance is Thursday the twenty fourth, And like I said,
it's the show is ready to roll. It's just a
lot because we are a professional theater company. It allows
the director to keep making little tweaks, and then after Saturday,
after opening night, the director goes away. The tweaking is
(12:33):
tweaking is done.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So we're going to give away two tickets to a
performance of the Caller's choice six one four two nine
eight eight six six one four eight two one WTVN.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I will take the third caller, Christy.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For those who don't win and are interested in going,
where can they go get tickets for sure?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Visit our website, the Contemporary Ohio dot org for all
the detail show dates. We run for three weeks, so
we'll close May eleventh. All those details out there. We
just we'd love to have you come check us out.
You know Marie said at the top of the top
of the show about just not knowing right. We're in
the right pature, which is a you know, government building
(13:14):
and a little hidden and not a great marquee, but
once you're in there, the spaces are really amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I love it. We're going to get you there right now.
We're going to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think this sounds fantastic. I am so looking forward
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Christy. Best of luck with the show.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Run again caller six one four eighty six.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And it was so good to have you on today, Christy.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Thank you, good to talk to you both. Appreciate all
your support.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Mikayla all right, thanks Christy, and don't forget to call in.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, this is what matters.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Let's let's give those tickets away.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's give you away. This is What Matters on Sixten
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Every conversation off there with Maria Durant is as good
as an on air conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We get a catch up while we're in the break
and so.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good hearing about your son and all that he's doing
and is going to do, Mama, And you know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
We all should be proud of our kids.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We all should be.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I think it's so important for their worlds. This next
subject is near and dear to one of my kids heart.
He's really started to get into theater and we have
such great Yeah, we have such great theater companies in
central Ohio and.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We don't even realize it. Yeah, we don't. I was
just telling you, you know, a little earlier we went
to shadow Box just shower Bocks Live, I think is
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You know, everybody there are so talented.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So talented.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We're surrounded by it, and you really can draw yourself
in to the culture. We're so appreciative to have the
Contemporary Theaters Executive director of Christy Farnbach on with us
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Christie, Hi, Hi, MICHAELA, Hi, Maria.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi, Christy. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You guys have great shows and definitely have this niche
in the theater community, and we always appreciate being able
to talk about your shows. Maria was asking me early,
She's like, is this formerly cat Co And I said yes,
they rebranded a couple of years ago as the Contemporary
Theater And you guys do a certain type of performance. Christy,
(01:22):
I don't know if you could share a little bit
about that, just to kind of reacclimate the audience.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
But what kind of shows do you all do?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, for sure. So we're really about telling stores that
are rooted in the current moment to build empathy, and
we perform at the Rice Center in a couple of black,
black spaces, So our largest theater only has two hundred seats.
So folks are really you just really get to see
stories in a new way in a very intimate space,
and you feel like you're part of the action. Sometimes
(01:50):
when a show, you know, breaks the fourth wall and
brings the audience in, you're right there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Wow. So, now, now what do you guys have I
guess running right now for folks.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, so we just started rehearsals for a show called
The Last Five Years. You had first rehearsal this past Thursday,
and it's the story it's a musical. It's a two
person musical, and it's the story of a couple's relationship
from the first date to their divorce from both perspectives.
So Kathy is a struggling actress, she tells her half
(02:24):
of the story starting at the end of the relationship,
and Jamie as a successful novelist and he tells his
side of the story from the beginning. And they meet
in the middle on their wedding day, which is the
only time during the show they're on stage together. And
so you just sort of see the excitement of a
new relationship blossoming, right, and then the cracks start to form,
(02:45):
and then devastation in the end.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow, it's the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Full circle, full full circle.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'd heard that this has developed a pretty strong following
the show, especially among millennials. What's the reason it resonates
so much? Do you think with that group?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, it has, you know, I think it's because it
really millennials, yes, and I speak. I think it speaks
to any every generation.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's a beautiful story about misconnections, how hard it is
for people to meet in the middle, how fleeting and flat,
fragile communications right and connection can be between loved Ones.
The show premiered in two thousand and one, so it
was it's a little older. The show's a little older
than a lot of shows we do. A lot of
things we do are written in the last ten years.
(03:36):
But it's got such a strong following up, such a
universal story, right, you know, like any breakup. There there
are people on you know, team Kathy and people on
team Jamie. And actually what you sort of see is
they're both They're both flawed people, right, who have both
made mistakes, like like any relationship.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Like human, Yeah, human, exactly, right, We're just human.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And the lyrics Jason Robert Brown is the poser, and
the lyrics are stunning. The music is beautiful. The lyrics
we might talk about some specific lines, but people have
lyrics from this show tattooed on their bodies and engraved
in their wedding rings, which we talk about is such
an interesting choice given how the story ends.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
People just love this soundtrack. And I think if you
were I wasn't, but if you were a theater kid.
I was a musician, But if you were a theater
kid in the two thousands, right, you just knew every
word of this of this musical.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now, you had mentioned, you know something about people having
quotes engraved in their wedding rings.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What kind of quotes?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Tell me a little bit more about this.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Sure. Well, there's a couple that really struck me, and
I've read the script and I heard it again the
other night at first rehearsal. So in the song that
Kathy sings about their first date is a line about
opening herself up, and she says she's opening herself quote
one stitch at a time, which feels like a really
amazing way to describe the feeling right of opening yourself
(05:07):
up to a new person, a new relationship, kind of
one stitch at a time. And then in the middle
where they meet, the song is called the Next ten Minutes,
and it's their wedding song. It's gorgeous, and Jamie asks Kathy, quote,
will you share your life with me for the next
ten minutes? And they sing in harmony about being together,
and then this is the one that gets me, quote
(05:29):
till there's no one left who has ever known us apart. Yeah,
it's great, right, And coincidentally, ladies, today's my thirty fourth
wedding anniversary. I've been thinking about this quote and thinking
about this interview, right, it's so apropos.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, congratulations and a happy.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Anniversary, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And her husband is such a wonderful guy, Eric, And
that till no one what was it till no one
knows you apart?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What was that line of.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, till there's no one left who has ever known
us apart?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, and that's and that's the beauty of a marriage
of thirty four years, right, and those that last that
test of time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So I am really now going to have to see
this because and you you mentioned too, you know that
all these lines and all these quotes resonate with so
many people, but they end up divorcing at the.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
End, right at the end, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, So so they're quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, there must be a major complication that they cannot
recover from, is my guess.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, you don't go it all the way right.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, I won't give away, but it's it's misconnections, right,
It's just you know, I hope people will just sort
of see get a little nudge to slow down and
pay attention.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I think it's it's in all of relationships, not just
not just your romantic partner. But it's easy, right to
just get caught up in the data day and you
just believe, we just believe they're always going to be there, right.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Do you think this will get people talking more about that?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Christy, I'm sorry say that, Mkaela.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Do you think this will get people talking more about
that that we we take we don't take advantage of
the days.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I hope so that we just are a little more mindful,
right about our relationships in any situation at work, in
our personal lives, with our children, any any of those. Really,
you know, humans are messy, I say all the time.
They're messy, right, And I do think we get so
caught up in the busyness of our days that sometimes
(07:38):
we don't pay enough attention. I think that's often what happens.
I think when couples do have troubles in their right,
it's not easy, right, You gotta you're working at it.
I mean you do, ye, right for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, let's talk a little bit about the company. What
this is part of your fortieth anniversary. You guys are
closing in on your fortieth anniversary season with this production.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
We so this is our fortiest students and last production
in our fortiest sason. We were founded in January of
nineteen eighty five. We just had a big party last
Saturday night to celebrate forty Congress Thank you. Yeah, well,
it's not breaking in my life. That's a milestone, whether
(08:23):
you're a company or an organization. Right, forty years is
a long time, and like our relationship, there have been
up and ups and downs in the company, and you know,
most recently the COVID nineteenth pandemic, and I often say
we're really we functioned like a five year old startup
coming out of that pandemic, but we had this wonderful
thirty five year foundation to rebuild on, right, and I
(08:47):
think in reflecting, going to preparing for that event and
going back to our history, we're really the company We've
always been cat COO and now the contemporary has always
been about telling stories, contemporary stories for current moment, and
we hope again building empathy and sparking conversation. And that's
really what this company's always been about.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You know, as we were introducing you, were getting ready
to introduce you, Maria was talking about, you know, not
everybody knows what we're surrounded by here in Central Ohio
when it comes to the theater community.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What would you say to someone who thinks that they
have to.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Go to New York or a big touring show to
experience great theater.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh I love that question, Thank you, MICHAELA. That's a
great question. I would say yes and right. So, of course,
going to New York City or any other big city
and seeing theater is exciting and meaningful, and yes, you
should do it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Do that.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
And what a lot of people don't realize is that
those shows in New York City or Chicago or wherever
likely started in a small regional professional theater like the contemporary.
That's where they all get their start. That's where the
new work and the new playwrights are nurtured and supported.
And a lot of people don't know. We employ more
than one hundred artists every year who have chosen to
(10:06):
make Central Ohio their home. They live and work here,
they're your neighbors.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's what I was gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
The here is phenomenal, it's amazing we have We have
wonderful talent in this town. And you know, last five
years is a great example of this. So last five
years it's actually on Broadway right now. We are super
fortunate to have the rights to produce it, because that
doesn't always happen if it's in New York, we sometimes
can't get the rights to do it. But we are
(10:33):
and I are our lead male role. Jamie is Hunter minor,
and honestly, I thought Hunter up against Nick Jonas any
day that week. I mean, you know they can be
playing their role in New York. And again Hunters living
here and teaching here, in a part of our community
and has an amazing voice. So I think we need
it all right. We I want people to see theater
(10:55):
anywhere here in town and nationally they can to build
the whole ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
If someone hasn't experienced the contemporary night before, is this
a good one to start with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Christy? What would you say?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I think it's a great show to start with. It's
very accessible. Again, the stories universal, right, we all have
relationships in all kinds of ways. And it's a musical.
People love musicals. Tend to love musicals, and it's going
to run ninety minutes with no intermission, so you can
have dinner see the show. I'm be home by ten.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh, I mean totally speaking right my language. I mean
I've been to see your shows before.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
But man, totally speaking my language, when does the.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Show start Friday night? You know, I like, I gotta
go home and go to bed now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
When is opening night?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Opening night is April twenty hell.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Jeezy day, I'm.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Right, I know that right off my head. Well here's
what I will saying. We preview on Thursday, April twenty fourth. Okay,
we do two previews, which all that means is the
direct can keep tweaking the show a little bit. After
those two performances, it's done and ready to roll. And
then official opening night is Saturday to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So when you do a preview, is that for a
live audience as well?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Or it is? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, previews are. Our first
official performance is Thursday the twenty fourth, And like I said,
it's the show is ready to roll. It's just a
lot because we are a professional theater company. It allows
the director to keep making little tweaks, and then after Saturday,
after opening night, the director goes away. The tweaking is
(12:33):
tweaking is done.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So we're going to give away two tickets to a
performance of the Caller's choice six one four two nine
eight eight six six one four eight two one WTVN.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I will take the third caller, Christy.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For those who don't win and are interested in going,
where can they go get tickets for sure?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Visit our website, the Contemporary Ohio dot org for all
the detail show dates. We run for three weeks, so
we'll close May eleventh. All those details out there. We
just we'd love to have you come check us out.
You know Marie said at the top of the top
of the show about just not knowing right. We're in
the right pature, which is a you know, government building
(13:14):
and a little hidden and not a great marquee, but
once you're in there, the spaces are really amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I love it. We're going to get you there right now.
We're going to do that.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think this sounds fantastic. I am so looking forward
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Christy. Best of luck with the show.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Run again caller six one four eighty six.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And it was so good to have you on today, Christy.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Thank you, good to talk to you both. Appreciate all
your support.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Mikayla all right, thanks Christy, and don't forget to call in.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, this is what matters.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Let's let's give those tickets away.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's give you away. This is What Matters on Sixten
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