Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

They built a Broadway show for sports fans.

29 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines the comprehensive approach The Bananas take to ensure their performers are ready for the rigors of touring. They emphasize the importance of mental, physical, and spiritual fitness, noting that these dimensions must be monitored to keep the troupe road‑ready. The discussion highlights the logistical challenge of scheduling back‑to‑back performances, especially when staffing resources are limited, and how the company strives to avoid such stretches but sometimes must accept them. Additionally, the speaker reflects on the troupe’s public image: while audiences expect the “goofy”, banana‑themed fun, the reality involves a serious commitment to delivering consistent, high‑energy shows wherever they travel, ensuring that each performance lives up to the reputation built by past audiences.

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It's a very serious thing that we look at mental fitness, physical fitness, spiritual fitness at times, right? Making sure that people are ready to be on the road. And sometimes we try not to do back to back to back, but sometimes it's back to back to back because there is just nobody else to do the job. That's one of the struggles that we have right now is as we grow is what kind of human resources can we put in place? It's funny, people say, well, you know, working at The Bananas, it must be crazy. It must be bananas, right? It's goofiness. But also it comes with a lot of seriousness because wherever we go, we need to bring that same type of energy and influence. And anybody that's ever seen a show in the past, they've all told their friends, this is what you should expect.