Sunday Matinee

[00:31] This free Northside Planning Council along with the Willie Street Co-op bring you the

[00:36] third annual Northside Festival on Saturday, September 12th, from 11am to 3pm at the Madison

[00:43] Mallard Stadium in Warner Park.

[00:45] This free, family-friendly celebration of the Northside has something for everyone.

[00:50] Enjoy a day in community at the ballpark with music, free kids activities that include a

[00:55] bouncy house, base painting, balloon twisting, a dunk tank and more.

[00:59] There will be over 80 local table vendors bringing information and resources.

[01:04] Local food businesses including over a dozen from feed kitchens will be selling diverse

[01:08] menu items.

[01:10] For those on a tight budget, the River Food Pantry will be offering free food so the whole

[01:14] community can have a great time together at no cost.

[01:17] It's the Northside Festival, Saturday, September 12th at the Duck Pond in Warner Park, from

[01:22] 11am to 3pm.

[01:24] This is WORT89.9 FM Madison and WORTFM.org.

[02:17] The scene she was already lying in bed.

[02:55] The paramedics said that her heart gave out, I mean that's basically what they said.

[03:03] They said a combination of the stress and the heat.

[03:07] Why she never took her medicine, I'll never understand.

[03:12] To think she went out in peace, with pieces of breadcrumbs in her hand.

[03:20] Abuela Claudia had simple pleasures, she sang the praises of things we ignore.

[03:26] Glass coke bottles, breadcrumbs, a sky full of stars, she cherished these things.

[03:32] She'd say, a la banza, a la banza means to raise this thing to God's face and to

[03:39] sing, quite literally, praise to this.

[03:43] She was here, the path was clear, she was just here, she was just here.

[04:25] And

[06:05] happy Sunday!

[06:06] We are listening to Better Living Through Showtoons here on WORT89.9 FM Madison.

[06:13] I'm your host for this week, Allison Ward, and we kicked off today's show with technically

[06:18] two numbers, attention from In the Heights and a la banza, also from In the Heights.

[06:28] Man it was a heavy week for the arts.

[06:36] We said goodbye to Dolly Parton, to Tim Curry, to Anna Luizos, who was the scenic designer

[06:48] for In the Heights, along with others.

[06:53] I think she, Avenue Q, School of Rock, trying to think what others, I think she just did

[07:06] something else recently, but she was nominated three times for a Tony, for High Fidelity in

[07:15] 2007, for In the Heights in 2008, and for Mystery of Edwin Drude in 2013.

[07:27] So I just got back from some time in the Northwoods with my family, and I swore every

[07:33] time I opened my phone, which was rare, I was like, wait, who?

[07:40] Wait, this person?

[07:43] That person?

[07:44] I was like, nah, this can't all be real, but here we are.

[07:49] So today I'm going to play a couple songs to honor those who we've said goodbye to this

[07:55] week, but then also look ahead to things to celebrate as well.

[08:01] So up next, it felt just, it felt right to play I'm Going Home from the Rocky Horror

[08:07] Picture Show.

[11:43] Might find love in strangers' faces, waiting just around the corner for all you know.

[11:55] Love can grow where you least expect it, take a chance and don't reject it.

[12:03] Love will grow if one just lets it, let love grow.

[12:23] That you're afraid also would let you, love is out there for the make, and find it in

[12:53] the eyes of someone that you know, of fashion, there is no denying, there's always everlast

[13:08] in, let love end up broken, our soul, mind signs, oh, not me, let it find you, let's

[13:51] it.

[14:34] No, no, no, I can't take no judge, it's not enough, I can't win this battle, don't put

[14:58] me, your promises, resurrect your word cuz I can't win this battle on my no, I can't

[15:06] win this battle, oh you'll prove this fear, you'll win this battle, I can't win this

[16:36] battle on this is my

[18:24] Hayden Panettieri singing For Your Glory from the TV show Nashville, another

[18:33] actress we lost too soon. Before that we heard Let Love Grow from the musical 9 to

[18:43] 5 and again I'm going home from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Another voice from

[18:52] my childhood and that has now become a part of my kiddos childhood as well.

[19:02] Peter Cullen also passed away this week and wanted to share a little bit from

[19:13] just a clip that I had seen online if it wants to work. Gotta love technology when

[19:31] it decides it wants to work when it wants to work. Okay now let's try again.

[19:35] Not much of a tale but I'm sort of attached to it. Not much of a house just

[19:54] right for not much of a donkey. End of the road nothing to do. All the things

[20:08] getting better. Sounds like Saturday night at my house. I feel like there are

[20:20] just so many different eeyore quotes that my kiddos will go and just say not

[20:29] much of a tale and I like I had shared before we were up north and we were

[20:38] playing out on one of the at one of the parks and one of my daughters had

[20:47] started to put up some sticks and was like pretending to make herself a little hut

[20:54] and then she also said that line of not much of a house but it'll do. I forget

[21:03] what that literally just we'd literally just listen to it but or for not much of

[21:07] an eeyore is what he says but it's just it's these moments where you just kind

[21:15] of look back and you're like oh my goodness like these voices of my

[21:20] childhood these songs these stories just all of these things and the impact that

[21:27] they make and it just really challenges a person to think about like okay what is

[21:32] the legacy what is the story that I want to leave behind what is the impact

[21:36] and how do I want folks to remember me and I fully recognize yes you know

[21:48] there many of our greats are getting up there in age as some people have said

[21:54] they're like well it shouldn't be that surprising but it still it's I think one

[21:58] of the things a friend of mine and I were talking about this past week was

[22:01] you know these are the voices the actors storytellers who bring light in

[22:09] some of the darkest times who take a stand without you know being overly

[22:18] political as folks might say but just being true to themselves and teaching each

[22:25] and every one of us to be true to ourselves as well in the process I also

[22:31] just think of the impact Dolly's imagination library has had on my kiddos

[22:37] I mean my daughters have this massive love of books and I recognize that my

[22:45] husband and I also have a love of books and storytelling but the access that

[22:52] they have had in the stories we get each month in the mail but the care that

[23:00] is also put into that to be able to have books that represent them a book

[23:10] that I recently gave to my sister-in-law because she's expecting a

[23:14] baby in the next few months is a story that we got from the imagination library

[23:20] that the girls absolutely fell in love with and it has been one of those books

[23:24] that I've continued to pass on but it's called ice cream face and it

[23:28] features a little black boy who is going to the ice cream shop and it's really

[23:33] hard to wait but as we went through the book not the first time but maybe the

[23:41] first time when they had more of that you know awareness or recollection there

[23:47] are two twin girls who are mixed in the book and my girls every time that we

[23:54] read that book they go it's us it's us and there are other books that they've

[24:00] been like mama this person looks like you data this person looks like you oh

[24:04] oh this looks like uncle calent and like this looks like our friend this like

[24:12] those are things that I didn't get the chance to say as a child growing up in

[24:17] the books that I read and to nobody's fault but knowing that Dolly's love of

[24:26] books has now passed on to my children and through her incredible work just it

[24:34] means a lot all right now I'll get off my soapbox um sorry for that we are gonna

[24:42] now transition a little bit we had two shows well Moulin Rouge announced its

[24:51] closing a while back but today is their last day is their closing night and I

[24:58] love the show so much there is just so much truth beauty and love freedom in the

[25:08] care that they put into building that set and that show in New York and being

[25:14] able to translate it to touring across the country as well but I had a really hard

[25:20] time picking so I'm sorry we're gonna listen to two songs from the Moulin Rouge

[25:25] it felt natural to say more more more but this the song and the choreography

[25:33] and the set design and the costuming and everything that lives rent-free in my brain

[25:39] and that I will be picturing the entire time that we're listening to it is also

[25:43] backstage romance so we're gonna kick it off with more more more and then we will go into

[25:49] backstage romance

[40:09] WORT turned 50 in 2025 and we've been hard at work digging through our archives we've gone through

[40:16] photos flyers documents and hundreds of hours of taped shows that go all the way back to our first

[40:21] days on the air we have a major announcement coming soon about how you our beloved listeners

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[41:52] a receptionist for your favorite show you know you want to um before a couple of our ads here

[42:05] we heard six from six the musical which also this week announced it's closing it'll be closing

[42:13] on January 3rd of 2027 um it'll have 2178 regular performances um which is amazing um

[42:32] sorry i i muted myself when i was trying to click some other buttons um and then before that we heard

[42:40] like i said my favorite but this number lives rent free in my brain bad romance from um the

[42:47] moonlawn rouge which is closing today i can't lie though i have been loving seeing all of the

[42:55] backstage pieces though of performers sharing their memories the workshops the goofy antics

[43:06] that happened backstage as well um this weekend as they prepared to say goodbye to this beautiful show

[43:13] on broadway um even though six is closing on broadway in january you can also see six again

[43:21] at overture center in january and so i thought it would be fun to spend our last little bit of time

[43:28] together um listening to some of the shows that are going to be coming to overture this season

[43:33] and so we just heard six from six and now ease on down from the whiz which will be here in october

[44:23] goodbye's yet we'll be living with james from now on so take one last look

[46:23] every part of you your concrete and wood the faded patch of carpet where i stood

[46:32] bright busy mornings and long afternoons in your warm embrace you were my room

[46:45] goodbye my room i my room musty room you would die or fix you won't believe here's your excuse

[48:34] invitation and once you're in you'll never leave and show don't be scared don't ask

[48:50] take my body as you see is what with science for those what would you sack

[50:33] repent is shining was kaleidoscope from hell's kitchen uh alicia keys is musical which i think

[55:25] is probably the one that i am most excited to see because i have yet to see that one um before

[55:32] that we heard if you want perfection from death becomes her and then goodbye my room from maybe

[55:39] happy ending which also like really this season i'm so excited for all of the things that we have

[55:46] coming to overture um so many different shows that touch on so many different stories um two other

[55:54] shows that we'll have coming that um i'm not playing any songs from today but we'll definitely

[55:59] hit some up um in the coming weeks uh is the outsiders which my mom was shocked to know that

[56:08] i hadn't read that book um when i was in school but then i was equally shocked when i took her to see

[56:13] the great gatsby a few weeks ago and she told me that she had never read that book and i was like

[56:17] okay now we're even but we also have jersey boys coming as well so uh a big hitting um season

[56:26] ahead and so i hope that you can join me at overture at some point in time this season

[56:32] thank you so much for listening to better living through show tunes here on wort 89.9 fm madison

[56:38] again my name is allison ward and it is always my pleasure to be your host um we are going

[56:43] to close out today's show with the incredible dolly parton singing i will always love you from

[56:49] the best little whorehouse in texas have an incredible rest of your sunday and a great

[56:54] start to the new school year this week ladies and gentlemen do not uh adjust your dial do not

[61:35] attempt to adjust your dial yes that is mathar from the dave pike set off the album noisy

[61:41] silence gentle noise from 1969 and that means you are listening to on the horizon here on

[61:49] wort 89.9 fm in madison wisconsin

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