We're up on the stage today with The DeBartolo performing arts center.

My friends Ricky and Sean, thank you guys for joining me.

A great lineup today, but I want to point out an event is happening tonight.

Tonight.

So I know you guys are watching the show right now at 7:00, but it's happening at 730.

If you could still see me guys go ahead and do that.

So let's start with that.

Exactly.

It can't be Notre Dame in March without some Irish.

We have.

Happy Saint Patrick's day week.

Exactly.

So we have Martin Hayes is the preeminent Irish fiddler.

And he's put together a wonderful, group to perform.

It's mainly music, but we do have some Irish dancing as well.

And in fact, before the performance in the lobby, we have some local Irish musicians playing.

Give me a little appetizer of what's to come.

Well, hopefully we'll get this on our website and on our Facebook page ahead of time so people have time to get over that.

But it is really a great, unique.

Are they coming over from Ireland?

Oh yeah.

They are 100% Irish.

In fact, a couple of the musicians will be meeting with our Irish language studies folks, to sort of, they know each other.

So, you know, to bring them all together to chit chat a little bit more about Ireland before the performance.

That's wonderful.

Awesome.

Okay.

And then what do we have coming up next?

We have at the end of March, we have a Jacques Schwarz-Bart, and, Carl-Henri Morisset, so Jacques plays a saxophone and, Carl-Henri plays to the piano.

It's, sort of.

It's a jazz duo.

And this is in conjunction with a French conference that's taking place on campus.

Yes.

And we were talking about that last time, too.

Okay.

So this is all part of exactly, exactly.

And that's a free performance open to the public because as part of this conference, they've decided to open it up for free.

That's wonderful.

And I know you were telling me ahead of time, but the the gentleman who's the saxophone is has quite accomplished Yeah, yeah.

So he, he was voted best saxophone player in France.

You know, it's incredible.

And, Carl-Henri Morisset, the pianist, won a number of awards.

So it's a really a treat for some, an afternoon of jazz music and once again, free.

So come on, stop on by.

When is that one happening?

That is March 28th at 4 p.m.. So in the afternoon.

Okay.

Perfect.

All right, Ricky, tell us what you got on your lineup.

We're going to start.

Well, we got some new movies and movie magic.

We're recording this before the Oscars, but it's airing after the Oscars, so maybe some of these will win Oscars.

I don't know, but at this point, as of recording their nominees.

Okay.

So in the foreign language category, we have Serrat, which is coming out of Morocco, has some great rave scenes in the desert, people dancing in the desert, among other things.

And also a documentary, called, Mr.. Nobody Against Putin, which is about a school teachers efforts to undermine Vladimir Putin's regime.

Oh, very.

It's a documentary following.

Okay, following that course of action, and then we have some concert films.

We have three that are clustered.

We have moonage Daydream, which is from a couple years ago about David Bowie.

The classic talking heads.

Stop making sense.

And then this new one from Baz Luhrmann, who directed Elvis.

In the course of that, he found all of this unaired, unseen Elvis Elvis footage and compiled it into a concert film of itself.

So what exactly is a concert film?

Basically recording a wave, band performing and putting it together and making something cinematic out of it.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

Is that kind of like what they did with Taylor Swift recently?

Very similar.

Okay.

Very similar.

Now, some of this footage wasn't intended for kind of film.

So it's kind of a different pathway there as opposed to Taylor who's, you know, planning it.

But it's great.

And it's his latter days and residency and you get to see Elvis, really like literally sweating.

And it's an amazing film.

I know our Elvis lovers are going to be here for that one, for sure.

I would hope so.

I would hope so, for sure.

And then lastly, with Michiana Veg Fest, we do an annual screening and we're doing a film out of Argentina called Collective Monologue that looks at, people who work in, dressed animal rescuers and people who work in zoos and their relationships with animals.

And it's probably just a film that really makes us think how we are really connected to animals and what it takes for us to give them comfortable lives.

I love that, and it's so important to us.

So yeah, it's good to hear.

And that's also free and a precursor for the big Michiana Veg Fest.

Wonderful.

What is it happening that is happening at the end of April?

End of April okay.

Perfect.

All right.

But the film is the end of March okay.

Good.

And we also have some special events too.

As we mentioned, Ice America, will be here offering a keynote address to that French conference.

Perfect.

Just a superstar, intellectual, actor, director, activist, everything.

And she'll be talking about her career, in the Latin concert hall.

This will be a big event.

It's open to the public.

It will be in English.

I was in French for a while, but they made it in English.

So, those of us who are, French speaking can can join in and understand everything that's happening.

With the new industry dance.

We have a screening of their shorts.

Called field as part of their field works program.

We do short dance films and performances, and they'll be on hand to also discuss those.

Okay.

We also have, something that night already.

Sneak peak, this film called The Magic Lantern, which is directed by Eli Brown, a local or he doesn't live here now, but from South Bend.

About his mother, Marika Brown, who is a Holocaust survivor.

So it and, the Jewish Federation and others, will be coming together, to honor Holocaust remembrance, to screen the film and discuss it and unpack all, the wisdom that, is in her experiences.

It's truly a striking film.

It is.

And what a great partnership of that.

It's great.

Yeah.

And then lastly, as for special events, we have the was going to say it like 14th annual, but it's much less than that.

I think we're up to eighth annual, Jesus Christ Superstar singalong every year along sing along every Holy Thursday.

All right.

And that's a range of notes you got to go from, like Caiaphas to Judas or Jesus even, and, and it's great.

We do it every year and people come and, sing or just listen to me sing and laugh and have a good time.

This is a great one because my husband, if I ever I want to sing and in a musical, he's like, you can't, you can't write because you want to watch the performance.

This is your opportunity to shine, folks.

Yeah.

I love it.

Now you have more events coming up too.

Yeah.

And we're talking through, like, the end of the spring summer.

Correct.

Right.

Exactly.

The next one's coming up on my birthday.

Your birthday in April, April 17th.

And this is Ali Stroker.

She's a Broadway star.

She won a Tony for her role in Oklahoma.

Okay.

And she was the first wheelchair user to win a Tony, which is exciting.

Amazing.

And so with that, we we plan, you know, all of our venues are accessible.

We expect some folks to come out, who relate with her with being wheelchair users.

We have, dear patron, one of ours who is hard of hearing.

So we'll have ASL interpretation at the event.

Oh, and of course, we have a assistive listening devices.

So, you know, all of our events are accessible.

But when the artist, you know, has, some, you know, specific accessibility needs, we know that we want to sort of amp it up on those performers.

Yes, absolutely.

I love that.

It's an accessible area here across the entire performing.

Absolutely, absolutely.

All the venues fully accessible.

So she's going to be singing.

She has it's a sort of a cabaret evening of a mix of Broadway tunes and Broadway hits.

So her in a piano and she's it's going to be great.

Awesome.

Okay, then what's coming up next?

And then, sort of ending the, live performance part of the season with Michelle Keegan, who is a classical pianist.

She will be performing, across the parking lot in the, O'Neill Hall of Music recital Hall over there.

So.

Which is perfect for a solo pianist.

The size is super intimate and beautiful.

So, on your website, do you guys have maps so people know where to get and how and where to park and all that kind of stuff too.

And luckily, it's right in front of the stadium, so plenty of parking over there.

Good to know, good to know.

All right, now we we end the season with the children's performance of Treasure Island.

So each each year we bring in all the first graders from South Bend to see a performance high school.

And then we make the, the weekend performances open to the public.

And so this is the classic Treasure Island tale, sort of re-envisioned for a younger audience because we're targeting those first graders.

Yeah.

So it's just, they'll be four actors playing.

All the characters will be going from on the ship to the treasure Island, all over the all over the world, on stage here.

And this one has a local connection to.

Exactly.

So the directors, Cassie Moskovitz, she grew up in South Bend.

She went to Notre Dame, got her master's in children's theater, and is coming back from Arkansas and bringing her, theater company was incredible.

Awesome.

That'll be good to have her here.

All right.

We have just a little bit more time.

Tell me what else you have.

Because I know we are coming to the end of the semester.

We want to get all these things right.

So we have, a couple more things, in terms of we are talking about concert films.

We have these live performances that are captured, and then, we're able to replay.

Okay.

So if you're interested in opera, we have a performance from the Met of Tristan and Isolde, which is, I mean, a solid 5.5 hours.

So you get your money's worth, like, bring a canteen, wear your comfy clothes.

Yeah, exactly.

All the above.

But that's a Met performance.

And then from National Theater Live, we have a performance of hamlet.

So for those of you who saw hamlet recently here.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sold out performances, you can come and see, the show that is the show within the show.

And this is a more it's kind of cliche to our modern take on, but it is a modern take on hamlet.

Okay?

And I think people will find it very winsome.

And then lastly, our Sunday family films, dollar to get in dollar for pop dollar for popcorn.

Professor Pfinklepfunder has some that are getting made.

Hoosiers, to align with March Madness.

We got that up and going.

Yeah, we went from the Olympics over to March Madness.

All right, keep it go.

Sports all semester.

And then, Million Dollar Mermaid, which is a swimming picture from back in the day when they would do, you know, big, big aqua numbers.

And then we have the, the Eagle Huntress, which is a documentary, about a Mongolian girl who is striving to become the, first, certified eagle, eagle huntress, of, of her country.

Wonderful.

Well, thank you guys so much for giving us the lineup.

These are your chances to come see everything that you have here to offer to the end of the spring.

So thank you, guys.

So much.

It's been a great year with you guys.

You as well.

And remind everyone where they can find out more information about tickets, parking and all that.

Absolutely.

So on our website at Performing Arts that indeed you perfect.

Thank you guys.