With a final design to be unveiled Friday, Scheuerman hopes to use the stage for all kinds of outdoor performances, like comedy, theater, small orchestral pieces, poetry and more.

Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason has already contracted with Partners for Livable Omaha to use the stage once it’s complete.

“I love it, because it’s kind of one of those old school ideas that, yeah, you see in movies where a wagon pulls into a town and drops a stage and people do a play,” Mason said. “I kind of love that idea.” 

Jessica Scheuerman hopes the stage will be a sort-of spiritual successor of another mobile stage that traveled the city from the early 1950s until 2011, the Goodfellows Show Wagon.

“If you ask someone from the boomer generation, they not only will remember it, they’ll remember it. They’ll remember it as the beloved part of neighborhood life,” she said. “Whether they performed on it or had a sibling that performed honor, or a friend, it was a point of social cohesion.”

Scheuerman will focus the stage’s first season of performance on performing at Title One schools, but eventually, would like to take the stage anywhere in Nebraska -but only if the stage permits it.

“According to my drivers, the truck goes about 65 (mph), 72 (mph) if you’re pointed downhill,” Scheuerman said.