Dressed in a blazing red Bucky Badger baseball cap and a neck-to-toe purple jump suit, Andre De Shields is the thinking man’s cheerleader.
“When in Rome do as the Romans do,” he quips. Pivoting smartly, he leads a reporter into the Concourse Hotel’s darkened jazz bar and you detect the dancer in his stride.
But what many people can’t see under the hat is the philosopher in his brain. That’s what he counts on revealing in the next few months — the Bucky hat will fly off to reveal the universal mind of the Stage Manager, the omniscient narrator in Madison-native Thornton Wilder’s famous 1937 play, “Our Town.”