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BHS THEATER FRANKENSTEIN · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now for our Community Connection right here on K1.
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  Speaker 1: The one you trust.
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  Speaker 2: We have the Bartlesville High School Theater students in here today.
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  Not all of them, but three of them. And we
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  have Gracie, we have Reed, and we also have Daniel today.
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  And we've got a special Halloween presentation coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so we're going to be putting on Frankenstein October 8th, 9th,
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  and 11th.
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  Speaker 1: And who wrote Frankenstein?
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  Speaker 3: Mary Shelley.
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  Speaker 1: And who do you play?
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  Speaker 3: I play Mary Shelley.
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  Speaker 2: See how we did that? It's the magic of theater,
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  the magic of radio. Now, this is going to be
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  kind of fun. Where are we doing this production? Right
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  there on the stage?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's right up on the big stage at Bartlesville
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  High School in the main auditorium.
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  Speaker 1: And your name?
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  Speaker 4: My name is Reed Ryle, and I'm actually playing Frankenstein's monster.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: How do you like that? Yeah, you know, it's kind
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  of fun putting that stuff on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Kind of like getting geared up for a football game,
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  but with makeup, huh? Yeah, just a little bit. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel, you are playing Byron.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about Byron's role.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he's a British poet from the 18th century, 17th century.
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  He was born with a twisted foot.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And he inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. They had
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  a bunch of writers. He said, let's write a ghost story.
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  And she came up with the best one, Frankenstein.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're not seeing is the recreation of the
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  1930s movie. We're seeing something from a different perspective, are
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  we not? Tell us a little bit about that, Gracie.
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  Speaker 6: So this adaptation, it's as true to the book as
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  we could find, except Mary herself and Byron, they're actual
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  characters in the play.
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  Speaker 3: And the beginning talks about.
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  Speaker 6: How Byron had inspired her to write this story and
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  it goes along. And like the first scene is me
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  and Victor Frankenstein, the one who makes the creature, um,
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  we're actually talking through it.
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  Speaker 3: And later on throughout.
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  Speaker 6: The show, um, as he develops, he even, as he's
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  starting to recognize what he's done, he's like, like, do
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  I have to keep doing this?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, you do. Cause I wrote this
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  story and you got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And, um, So you're talking to the characters?
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking to the characters, yes.
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  Speaker 6: And I think it's really cool because you can get, like,
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  real deep with it. Because, you know, Mary Shelley made Victor,
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  and then the Victor makes the creature. So it's like
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  a long pattern of creation, and you can see how
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  different people react to what they've made.
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  Speaker 2: Now, tell us how you fit into this, because as
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  being Frankenstein's monster... Do you convey any thought of what
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  it's like to have been a creation of this sort?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think that's one of the really cool
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  parts about the creature as a character. We see in
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  the entire play, he kind of starts off as almost childlike.
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  He's whimsical. He doesn't understand what's kind of going on
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  around him. But as he gets more and more experience
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  in life... he interacts with people and instead of trying
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  to listen to him on kind of what he feels
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  or what it's like to exist in this world where
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  he didn't even ask to be created, he's only met
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  with detestation. I mean, he's kind of persecuted off the
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  way he looks. And I think that it gives a
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  really interesting point of view for an antagonist to have
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  when he's supposed to be really sympathetic.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Now as Byron, you're, you're, You're kind of like the
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  stirring the pot the whole time, aren't you?
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  Speaker 1: Byron's just here. Now, Byron is stirring the pot a
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  little bit, isn't he?
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  Speaker 5: He's a sassy little son of a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: He's very mouthy.
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  Speaker 6: He argues with Victor. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How does that work?
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  Speaker 5: It gets meta to a certain degree, but not to
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  where it becomes convoluted in its metaness.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So you have this little trail of conversations between real
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  people and characters yes and you're all in the same
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  sphere to create this thing putting ink on paper this
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  is this is right now just kind of stirring me
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  up on the intellectual side on how this all.
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  Speaker 1: Works so i guess i have to get a ticket
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  and see the.
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  Speaker 5: Play speaking of tickets on the friday night showing are
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  one dollar One dollar. One dollar tickets.
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  Speaker 3: So October 9th. It'll be, it's after the football game
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  is when it's going to start. It's going to be
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  30 minutes after the football game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hoping 10, 1030. As long as the football
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  game doesn't run late.
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  Speaker 6: And tickets are going to be a dollar because it's
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  spooky night showing. We are doing this because Saturday it
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  was going to be like a band concert. And we didn't,
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  we would have to share the auditorium.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like a band competition. So there's been
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  too many people.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It would have been a zoo.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we're like, you know what? Frankenstein, late night showing.
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  It's October. Might as well make it spooky.
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  Speaker 1: It works.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're already at the football game and you
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  have an extra dollar.
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  Speaker 1: You might as well.
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  Speaker 3: You might as well.
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  Speaker 1: You're already there. You're already there.
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  Speaker 3: You're already there.
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  Speaker 1: Save yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: But October 8th, it'll be at doors will open at
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  630 and it'll be $ 5 for students and staff.
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  Speaker 3: And $ 10 for general admission.
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  Speaker 6: Same thing for October 11th, but doors will open at 1.30
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  because it's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a matinee.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, this is going to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: So is the set kind of dark and creepy, or
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  are we kind of making it look kind of semi-dark,
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  kind of like the way authors prefer to do their thing?
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  Speaker 4: So right now we still have rainbow stairs from Grease.
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  We plan on painting those darker.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a little bit, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I think the... I think the set should be
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  pretty dark, pretty gray.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of neutrals, grays and browns. Yeah, a lot
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  of neutrals. Hopefully not rainbow stairs.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully we can get that changed.
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  Speaker 2: We'd hate to have the kids feel like a false
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  sense of safety there.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a monster, okay?
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  Speaker 6: One of the cool things with this set is if
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  anyone came and saw our production of Les Miserables, we
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  had two eight-foot-tall towers, and we essentially have miniature versions
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  of those.
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  Speaker 3: Where they're four feet tall and, like, they're little towers
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  that people are going to be moved on.
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  Speaker 6: Like, people are going to be sitting on them when
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  they're being rolled on and off. So that's part of
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  the set as well.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody got a fall from those like they did with
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  Les Miserables?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: That was like a classic death scene at BHS, I
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  want to tell you. I was a little worried.
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  Speaker 2: That the young person might not have been walking right
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  when they got done. But anyway, this is going to
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  be great. By the way, do you get to use
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  the moves of Karloff? When you do the monster?
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  Speaker 4: So we kind of had some... We've actually mapped out
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  some interesting stage combat. I don't want to spoil too much.
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  Speaker 1: Show up after the football game, you'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I don't want to spoil too much.
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  Speaker 3: Come watch the show. You'll get to see some amazing combat.
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  Speaker 4: People may.
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  Speaker 1: Get hit a few times. Okay, wow.
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  Speaker 2: So we have theater, presentation of Frankenstein, October 8th, right
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  after the football game, around.
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  Speaker 1: 10, 30 years.
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  Speaker 5: October 9th.
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  Speaker 1: 9th, okay. 8th is a 7. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got the 9th after the football game,
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  we've got the matinee on the 11th.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic three days, kids. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for being here and being a
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  part of our community connection right here on K1, the
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  one you trust.