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Behind the Scenes with the Cast of The Sound of Music · Bearcat Chat - A Podcast about all things Scottsbluff Schools

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  Welcome to the Bearcat chat, a podcast for everything
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  Scottsbluff School. Hi everyone, I'm Melissa price
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  and welcome to the Bearcat chat, the podcast about everything
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  Scottsbluff schools. I'm here at Scottsville high
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  school and it's that magical time that we all look forward to
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  here at the high school. Each year.
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  It's musical time. And this year should be, no
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  exception is the high school is preparing a production that will
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  not disappoint. This year's musical will be the
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  tony-winning classic, The Sound of Music and I'm very pleased to
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  have some of our cast members as my I guess for this episode.
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  So we'll the three of you, please introduce yourselves, and
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  let me know what grade you're in.
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  I am Grandpa nay. I am a senior.
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  My name is Liz Foose. I am also a senior.
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  My name is Lauren Johnson and I'm a junior.
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  No, he will. I'm really glad to have you.
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  So each of you is a different member of the cast, why don't
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  each of you? Tell me a little bit about what
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  character you're going to be playing.
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  Um so I play Uncle, Maximilian Detweiler first, Secretary of
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  the Ministry of Education and culture, that's a line from the
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  show but I play Uncle. He's in the movie, and he
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  actually has less of a role in the movie than he does in the
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  stage version, which I think is really interesting.
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  That is really interesting. What about you?
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  I play baroness also Schrader. She also has a larger role in
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  the musical than she does in the movie her and Max kind of
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  conspire together. It's really fun.
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  Oh, I play the mother abbess, and I kind of feel like the
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  amount of screen or stage time is pretty consistent between the
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  movie and the stage version, but I'm well, the like the
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  religious. I preside over everybody in the
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  Abbey, basically, and I kind of Mentor Maria through her journey
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  in The Sound of Music. Okay.
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  So it sounds like what I'm hearing from all of you is that
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  for people who are familiar with the movie, The Stage production
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  is going to be a little different and they're going to
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  see something a little bit different.
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  Yeah yeah yeah totally. There's like some flip-flops
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  songs like goatherd happens after favorite things when
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  Favorite Things is the favorite things in the movie, is saying
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  in the bedroom during the thunderstorm, but they sing the
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  lonely goatherd there in the stage version.
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  And Favorite Things is actually a duet between the mother abbess
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  and Maria before she leaves to go to the Von Trapp house.
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  Okay, well that ought to keep things exciting for the audience
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  so they get to see something a little bit different.
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  I understand that in the addition to the high school cast
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  that we have put together. We also have some Elementary
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  Three students on the cast or playing the Von Trapp children,
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  right? Younger ones.
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  So tell me what working with the elementary school students has
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  been. Like, they are so much fun and
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  they're doing so good with their roles.
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  They're really confident with their lines.
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  They're just so fun to be around and they really connect with the
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  cast, which is awesome. Yeah, can I share a story?
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  Sure, no worries. I was there was this one scene
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  that I had in practice the lines for like at home all that much.
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  And then I went out to save my lines and I blanked on one of
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  them, and then one of the kids was like, oh, you're next line
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  is this, and I was like, you know, my lines as well as your
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  own and I don't even have mine down yet.
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  Oh my dick, you always loved that so much.
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  I love this venue your lines, that's great.
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  And I don't think people realize, I mean, unless you've
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  been in the musical which I know, you know, a lot of our
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  community members that come sometimes their alumni and
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  they've done. On those things but I don't
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  think unless you've been in it, people realize how much work
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  just goes into the production so many long hours of practice and
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  it's not just the cast. There's a lot of crew members
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  that it's just as well. So tell me about some of the
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  jobs that other students who aren't cast members are working
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  on right now for the production. So there's a variety of cruise,
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  we have our like more techie Cruise like lights and sound,
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  and there's a set crew. And then you Some of them more
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  like there, they work more with the actors themselves with like,
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  makeup and costume and I know with makeup, they have to be
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  there as early, if not earlier than the cast on production days
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  because they have to get the stations set up.
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  And I'm kind of just talking about makeup crew with the most.
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  Because that's one that I have personal experience with my
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  freshman year, freshman were not allowed in the cast because we
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  had just come out of And so Roni was trying to cut down the cast
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  and so he didn't love freshman. And so I did makeup crew.
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  And I'm kind of just stuck with that for last year as a
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  sophomore and this year as a Junior, I've still been doing
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  that in addition to being in the cast so I can kind of talk about
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  that one in a little bit more depth than the others.
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  Yeah, that's a lot of work. I know I went to a smaller high
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  school and I didn't we didn't have a big production like this.
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  We did one act competition play. But for whatever reason, when I
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  was in high school, which I see you mrs.
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  Hurt. She was our, she was my Drama
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  teacher. I always seem to get Typecast
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  into an older person which meant I had to come before everyone
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  else and have like the extra hour of makeup put on and it
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  just adds so much time. People have no idea.
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  The, you know, that every every dress rehearsal, every time you
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  compete, every public performance, you got to go and
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  you know, get 10 pounds of makeup put on your face.
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  So I'm it just sounds like there's a whole lot of different
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  jobs that says you guys have a really great Cruise supporting
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  you. So that's really awesome.
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  Something else that I always really enjoy with all the
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  Productions throughout the years, or the sets how much work
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  has gone into creating the sets this year.
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  Here the we normally have the Ohio's, do our sets and I think
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  a massive amount of work has gone into it because I did set
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  crew my freshman year. So I know kind of especially
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  with like bricks. There's a specific way that you
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  have to do bricks where you have like a chalk string and you have
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  to snap it against the like plywood sheet, and then you have
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  them like, trim it down and Paint it and then that's just
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  one wall. and like, I know the awhi owes spend so long after
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  school, Like, I don't even know the hours either of, you know,
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  like the amount of hours they wouldn't like, throughout their
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  whole experience working with the high school, they've made
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  some amazing sets. Yeah, I would completely agree.
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  We're really fortunate, you know, to have them partner with
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  us to be able to, you know, bring these beautiful sets.
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  It really make the Productions kind of comes alive.
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  So this year, your, we chose a musical here in shs.
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  That's really a classic. And I think Ink it comes to
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  embody what people come to expect when they watch a
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  musical. When you think of a musical, the
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  sound of music is one of the first ones that pops in your
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  head. And I don't think it's possible
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  to talk about the sound of music without talking.
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  Of course, about the music. I feel like people have never
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  watched the play or aren't familiar with the story will
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  recognize some of the musical numbers.
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  So, tell me each of you, what's your favorite musical number in
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  the show? Starting from me.
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  So I think one of my favorite, Physical numbers is no way to
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  stop it. That one doesn't appear in the
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  movie because it's a kind of Trio.
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  Song between Captain, Von Trapp. Me and Elsa and it's in Act 2.
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  So it's like Elsa and I trying to tell the captain to put aside
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  his differences and try to work. And tried and not be ousted by
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  the Nazi regime. So it's like kind of a bad guy
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  moment for Elsa and I, but it's also a really fun song, and I
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  think people are really going to enjoy it.
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  I definitely agree with Grant. It's so much fun.
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  We get a little Tango moment. We we it's it's really fun.
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  Oh, I'd say that's probably definitely the most fun song in
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  that show. I think the favorite one that I
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  saying is probably Climb Every Mountain.
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  I mean, it's a classic. It's just kind of fun to really
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  bring out the technique and you sing that last out really great.
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  High notes. Are the Ender.
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  Really fun. Well, I love these answers.
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  I love that you didn't hit me with like maybe what I was
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  expecting to hear what your maybe the more common ones, you
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  know, like my favorite things or whatever, you know, but you hear
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  a lot of that even outside of the production.
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  So and I will be looking forward to the Tango moment.
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  So is there anything about this year's production that you think
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  maybe sets it apart from other musicals?
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  Maybe other musicals you guys have done while you've been here
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  in shs? Or other times we've done this
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  story, I guess what I'm asking you is what about your talents
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  as a cast, you think, is going to make this unique and special.
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  So this musical doesn't have as much dancing as the last two
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  that we've done. Since our grant nice freshman
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  year. West Side Story got canceled but
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  Oklahoma was so much fun and big fish was so much fun, and this
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  one is just amazing. So much fun.
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  But I think the biggest difference is definitely the
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  dancing, it's more of a serious story because it's like it's
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  real things that have happened. Compared to big fish and
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  Oklahoma. Yeah, I feel like this
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  performance is going to be different from other ones and I
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  mean the similarities between all the performances we've done
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  is most of our years. We've done classic musicals all
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  except for big fish, which was more recently written musical.
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  So we've done like West Side Story and Oklahoma and now Sound
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  of Music which are all like super well-known older
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  Performances. But this is my first year
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  playing a like lead role because last year during Big Fish, I was
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  just Ensemble and supporting cast members.
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  So Red Fang, the poisonous address.
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  And hot-headed shotgun toder. Well, do you think you that
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  there's any dual I'm going to give you a little bit of a
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  chance here. You think there's anyone that's
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  on the cast or whatever? That's going to surprise.
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  Anyone is there anyone just out there just killing it at their
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  role that, you know, you want to say, I think you should come
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  because you really just have to see this Riley Riley.
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  Definitely, Riley. I Barrow.
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  He plays Captain Von Trapp and he came straight from sound.
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  Like he was in the booth in the back, just operating
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  microphones. For all the other years that
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  he's been in choir and apart of the musical.
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  And now he's the lead role like in the show.
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  I mean, other than Maria but yeah, like he's like the second
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  biggest character than this entire Musical and he came
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  straight from like just a tech crew which is amazing and he's
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  been doing so well and I love seeing him when he gets the
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  moments where he's acting because he's really talented.
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  I'd say like before like Kid kids in the cast there are so
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  amazing. I've worked with a few of them
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  before three of them have been and toffee with me theater
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  opportunities for you. Through Theater West, two of
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  them were my toffee dancers. And one of them who also Downey,
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  she was one of my dancers that I worked with, she like was so
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  quiet during the summer. And then once we got to Sound of
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  Music, He just really came out of her shell and was like, so
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  sassy. And I did not expect that.
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  From her. But they've really grown and
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  they've been doing a really good job of projecting and not
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  upstaging themselves and Ava, the one who plays our Gretel,
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  she is so loud, but it's so good.
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  Like she could, I'd say out project.
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  Anybody in the cast? Yeah she has a really big voice
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  for such a little little girl. Yes.
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  Well, the these are amazing Stories and I'm so glad that I
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  had the opportunity for you to share them with me.
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  I think these are the, these are the things that will make the
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  production memorable for all of you, even when it's all over.
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  And, you know, and a lot of you are seniors, you kind of, you
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  know, you get to the end of the school year kind of dispersed
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  after this, but I think it's those kind of things that are
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  going to you know really make this special and something that
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  you'll remember for a long time. So there you have it.
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  Can I get one last reminder about when the show is and how
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  people can get tickets. So the matinees for the
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  elementary middle schools will be on the 12th of April.
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  And I'm show will be on the 13th through 15th at 7 o'clock in the
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  evening. Yeah.
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  And that it when you add in those Elementary matinees, I'm
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  assuming you're still doing them to a day like they bring
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  traditionally done in the past that can be kind of, kind of a
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  grueling schedule. So, you know, you're gonna have
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  a big week ahead of you. So how how can people buy
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  tickets if they want you Roni.com if they want to order
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  them online? Don't they also sell tickets at
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  the door if spot. Yeah tickets.
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  I believe are generally sold at the box office if you don't sell
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  out, but they are, you guys are running a discount to buy them
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  online through April first ever Oni.com.
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  So that would be my recommendation.
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  For those of you out there to just hop on there, you can kind
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  of choose your seeds, get, you know, get the night and get the
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  one that you want. But there should be some
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  available at the box office as long as we don't sell out.
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  So one last thing before we wrap up, if you Listen to my podcast.
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  You know that I usually try to hit everyone with a little bit
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  of a wild card question, when you're not, yeah, when you're
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  not expecting, don't worry. It's not too bad.
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  But prior to auditioning for this production, had you seen
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  The Sound of Music? Have you watched the movie or I
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  had you watched a production of it?
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  Should we go from me? Yeah, I don't know, I had
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  watched the movie but I had never seen a Stage production so
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  I did not know how different it was.
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  Yeah. And I mean I was the only one to
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  audition for Max and I did that even though I only knew the
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  movie where he had such a little roll of but then I was really
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  surprised to know that he was so much bigger but character in the
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  stage version so I kind of lucked out I had also seen the
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  movie, Never the stage version, which we watched it during
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  class. And once I got my role and we
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  watched it, I was like, wow, I'm so excited to play this role.
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  I can't wait. And now that it's here, I'm so
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  excited. Oh my goodness.
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  It's it's gonna be so much fun. Seems like our stories are kind
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  of all the same because I also had watched the movie, but not
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  the stage version. I kind of grew up on the movie,
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  but I I haven't seen it all the way through since I was probably
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  like 10 so it's been a minute. But yeah, I just love the story
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  and Julie Andrews, really brings like this really cool light to
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  Maria. Well I guess this is the part
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  where I have to confess something to all of you.
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  I have not seen this Stage production that I have watched
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  the movie, but not all of it. I've never watched it all the
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  way through. So I'm really glad that we
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  didn't really talk about anything where there's a need.
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  Whalers involved. I'm pretty sure I watched it
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  sort of the way you guys did like maybe in class, but then
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  we, you know, it was right before a vacation or you like
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  school break and we never got through it.
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  So I never got to see how it ended.
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  So I really need to come and watch the Stage production and
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  maybe see how it ends, but I think one thing we can agree is
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  not a spoiler is that it's going to be a terrific show.
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  So thank you to everyone for listening.
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  Thank you so much for being my guest today and I will see
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  everyone next episode. Code.