TO THE GREEN GET OUT FOR SOME GREAT WISCONSIN GOLF Get Out & Do What You Like to do MAY 2018 PLUS! Jonny TWO LAKES SUPPER CLUB LangStill a lucky guy RENT La Bohème American Style 10,000 ManIACS Back in the House UPCOMING EVENTS: Fox Cities | Green Bay Marshfield | Oshkosh Stevens Point | Waupaca Wausau | Wisconsin Rapids - - - - - - - - - - Get Out & Do What You Like to Do MAY 2018 p.18 JONNY LANG DOING WHAT HE LOVES FOR A LIVING DEPARTMENTS P. 4 P. 6 P. 22 PUBLISHER’S Note p. 2 RENT 10,000 MANIACS GREAT WI GOLF Appleton among Finding tour travel is a Mother Nature finally lets SUPPER CLUB - May stops on 20th kick-start to inspiration you on this list of links Two Lakes anniversary tour in Almond p.12 EVents Calendar p.32 PUBLISHER’S NOTE The time to get out there has arrived MayFa mily2018, Fu Vol.n 2,Edit Issueion 5 Although we have been talking about Wisconsin. 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Two of fear, this timeless celebration of ANNIVERSARY TOUR start at $41 decades later, Jonathan Larson’s RENT friendship and creativity reminds us to and are on sale now. Tickets can be continues to speak loudly and defiantly measure our lives with the only thing purchased at the Fox Cities P.A.C. to audiences across generations and that truly matters—love. ticket office in person, or through all over the world. And now, this The show received its world Ticketmaster online or by phone at Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®- premiere off-Broadway at New York (800) 982-2787. Groups of 10 or more winning masterpiece returns to the Theatre Workshop on February 13, can purchase tickets by calling (920) stage in a vibrant 20th anniversary 1996 to ecstatic reviews and transferred 730-3786. Additional fees may apply. touring production. A re-imagining of to Broadway on April 29, 1996. RENT The Company of the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour. RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, Credit4 Carol www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com Rosegg, 2017. (L to R) Skyler Volpe, Kaleb Wells. RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, Credit Carol Rosegg, 2017. RENT is the winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is one of only five musicals to win both awards. Based on original direction by Michael Greif (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations, RENT), Evan Ensign re-stages the 20th anniversary tour. Original Broadway creatives Marlies Yearby (Choreography), Angela Wendt (Costume Design), and Tim Weil (Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements) are joined by Jonathan Spencer (Lighting Design), Keith Caggiano(Sound Design), MiRi Park (Associate Choreographer), and Matthew E. Maraffi (adapting original scenic design by Paul Clay) to make up the creative team for the tour. The RENT 20th Anniversary Tour was cast by Joy Dewing Casting with additional The Company of the casting by Wojcik | Seay Casting. th RENT 20 Anniversary Tour. th RENT 20 Anniversary Tour, The RENT 20th Anniversary Tour is produced Credit Carol Rosegg, 2017. by Work Light Productions, whose other touring productions include Cinderella, MAMMA MIA!, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Vocalosity, and Crazy For You. RENT is part of the Kimberly-Clark Broadway Across America® - Fox Cities Series, which is supported by the title sponsor, Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Additional support is provided by Miller Electric. O&A Out and About WI MAY 2018 5 10,000 MANIACS Maniacs These are great days for 10,000 Maniacs Photo credit: Alex Vitola Alex credit: Photo BY PETER LINDBLAD film a video. At least Director Nancy Chicago, Chicago artists, and we Bardawil thought so. weren’t relatively close. But there was Known as an architectural wonder That’s where they shot the surreal this place and she said, ‘We should do full of oddball delights, such as “the film accompanying their remake of this for the song “More Than This,’” world’s largest indoor carousel” Roxy Music’s “More Than This,” a hit because it kind of works with that. So, and nautical exhibits that include single off the 1997 album Love Among it came together.” a whimsical 200-foot sea creature, the Ruins, the first 10,000 Maniacs Artfully done, the video is House on a Rock is one of Wisconsin’s LP to feature new lead singer Mary memorable for its dreamy imagery. most famous tourist traps. Ramsey. Ramsey still loves it. She remembers For 10,000 Maniacs, the indie-folk “[Bardawil] directed a lot of music being told not to touch the horses on collective based in Jamestown, New videos back in those days, but she the carousel and other fragile items, York, that rose to alternative-rock came up with the idea,” said Ramsey, “… because there were things that prominence in the late 1980s and a resident of Buffalo, New York. “She looked like they were real, but they ‘90s, it seemed like a great place to was working with a lot of people from weren’t, so you had to be really careful 6 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com 10,000 MANIACS not to break stuff.” Secrets of the I Ching was the a learning experience. It was really 10,000 Maniacs’ stay was brief, but album that started it all.