Category: Spring 2024 Newsletter

In the early 1940s, a young Aldo Santaga lived as a refugee with his mother and brother in fascist Italy. He started playing soccer by kicking around a makeshift ball of scrunched-up rags. By the 60s, he was teaching his sons how to play and introducing the Green Bay community to the sport. By the…

If you mention The Weidner to someone who lived in Green Bay in the ‘90s, they will probably bring up “Phantom of The Opera.” That’s no surprise—the hit musical’s 4-week run in 1997 remains one of the biggest entertainment events in city history. Altogether, 76,054 theatre-goers visited UW-Green Bay’s campus for the show. Among them…