(bright music) Tanner Humanities Center is partnering with National Theater Live to bring Dr. Strangelove to the big screen.

Our guest today, Scott Black, will tell us all about the film performance.

Hi, Scott.

Okay I have to tell you, I was so excited about this, I already got tickets.

(laughs) - [Scott] Excellent.

- And I'm sure you're gonna sell out, so people better hurry, yeah.

- [Scott] I think so, yeah.

- Yeah, so I know in the National Theater Live, you bring the best of British theater to our own Broadway theater, and tell us all about the Dr. Strangelove.

- So Dr. Strangelove is a production from the Noel Coward Theater that was running last fall and this past winter.

It stars Steve Coogan, as you said.

It's an adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's hilarious 1964 film starring Peter Sellers.

One of the truly black comedies, one of the great Cold War Satires and I think, as you know, Peter Sellers stars in three different roles in that film, and Steve Coogan is either crazy enough or brave enough to try to do the same thing, he stars in multiple roles in this production.

Should be really terrific.

- It will be great because he's one of my favorite actors.

- Mm-hmm (affirmative).

- Great comic actor, and so for people who might not know about him, tell us more about Steve Coogan.

- Steve Coogan is huge in Britain, but he's a very British kind of humor.

Very dry, he plays sort of incompetent, hapless characters who just do embarrassing things.

You don't even know if you should be laughing at them, but you do.

It's very, very dry British humor.

Sort of like The Office, at least the original Office.

- Ah, it's great.

I know he was just in a film, Penguin Lessons, an excellent, excellent job he did.

- I'm gonna have to see that, I have not seen it yet, but I've heard great things about it, yeah.

He should be really great in this performance, and it should be different from Peter Sellers, it's a very different kind of humor.

- Yeah.

Well, I can't wait, and people better hurry and get tickets.

So thank you so much for bringing it and thanks for being here.

- Thank you, Mary.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming performance, it's from the Tanner Humanities Center's National Theater Live.

Dr. Strangelove, April 19th at 12:00 at the Broadway Center Theaters.

Get tickets at tanner.utah.edu, tanner.utah.edu.

(gentle music) I'm Mary Dickson, thanks for watching Contact.