Looking ahead: Churchill Downs names 3 Featured Milliners for Kentucky Derby 2023. The production, inspired by Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” tells the story of the dysfunctional King family as its members try to figure out if their Elvis impersonator and magician father is dead, alive or reincarnated.Ī 2018 Courier Journal article quoted Schutte’s familiar playful quip about the production: “It's like 'A Christmas Carol' if, you know, Dickens were an idiot.' The following year, his nonprofit Bard Theatre started operations at the space with a production of “Chasing Ophelia,” a Schutte-penned comedy.Īnother of Schutte’s creations, “The Kings of Christmas,” debuted in 2011 and has been staged yearly ever since. X graduate Scot Atkinson and Jon DeSalvo (both of whom left the business in subsequent years). Realizing that vision, Schutte pivoted from education and opened The Bard’s Town in 2010 with fellow St.

'They had these wonderful pub theaters there, and the idea of having a place with a theater that did new work and was very quaint like those little spaces was captivating,' he previously told The Courier Journal. Schutte’s love for theater was “reawakened” during a fellowship in 2006 as he worked at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, he wrote on his business’ website. “Not only did he coach them, he stayed in contact with them,” he said. Glaser said he’s received an outpouring of messages from former players devastated by the news of Schutte’s death. X as a teacher, Glaser quickly recruited him to join the coaching staff. He continued with student-run theater at Bellarmine University while earning a degree in English, followed by a master's degree in literature from the University of Louisville. In a 2011 Courier Journal article, Schutte recalled surprising his high school friends by trying out for the school musical in spring of his senior year. Local history: This Louisville restaurant has served fried fish with a riverfront view for 75 years Performer … And then as a football coach, he was probably as fine a coach as I ever had.” “He had the ability to do something in every area,” Glaser said. Glaser coached Schutte in his teenage years in the late 1980s and later worked alongside him when Schutte taught at the school and joined the football coaching staff. Xavier High School football coach and educator. “He was a true Renaissance man,” said Mike Glaser, longtime St.

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