And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust. And guess what, we've got a kind of a
magical little group here. It's the Children's Musical Theater. And we're gonna talk
about Wizard of Oz. How are we doing, young lady? Doing good?
You are you? Send you a little bit early early for us,
we've been practicing late nights every night. Well, Christi Huit is here with
us, and of course she's the executive director of Children's Miracle Theater. I
called Miracle because it appears that this time we're gonna have a few miracles because
we've got people flying on the stage. Yes, so it was a kind
of a Freudian slip there. She's a children's musical theater. Maybe one of
us can say right today, yes, um, yeah. We've been practicing
for about four weeks now. We've got a show coming up next next week.
While it's terrifying for us, we've been the kids have been practicing every
morning from about nine to four every day, and then we've been having flying
rehearsal for the last four or five days at the BCC at night, so
long, long days, but we're very excited about this show coming up.
Now, we've got some cast members here, and if you've seen any of
the CMT productions or any of the BHS productions, you know these youngsters and
they played the roles so big. I mean absolutely yeah. You swear to
goodness that year Broadway because these youngsters really taken a lot of time, a
lot of effort. They learn a lot with the Children's Musical Theater and they
roll that experience into their characters and it really comes through. Now, these
guys are great. Now we've got We've got Sophia, who is going to
be Glinda. You gotta have fun with this part, now, don't you.
I'm going to you're going to. I thought you're having fun already,
I am, I am promise. That was a little bit bit of a
character. Um. Well, she's a good witch. She's from the north.
I don't know what norrises, but it's good. And she wears big
pink dresses and she flies in her bubble and she helps Dorothy along the way
through oz like in little ways, like making sure she makes it out alive.
There is kind of that going on here. You know it's a family
production, but there's a lot of way what's going on here now Jackson Miller
is with this You are the cowardly Lion. How you like this role?
Um, it's one of my favorites. It's you get to do a lot
of different things with it because obviously cowardly lion, but there's also moments where
he's the brake was a brave lion. But it's fun to just kind of
surprises himself when it happens too, doesn't. Yeah, that's really fun to
do on stage. She doesn't do those two different things. And it's fun
to be with Dorothy and Timan and Scarecrow as like the friend group. It's
fun to be part of that. Oh my god. You know, if
there was one character that I think anybody would just stay a blast doing,
if you can carry it off, it would be that run. Yeah.
So he's got he's got it, He's made for it. He's great.
That's fantastic. Catherine, you're gonna be the wicked witch. How how did
you get that? You're so nice? I don't know. I guess they
just saw some evil in me. You're gonna have to really work on the
evil part. Because everybody she has the best you've ever heard? Oh,
really, give us a sample, You're right, I have to. I'm
gonna go around the horn fair with you. How fun is this? It
is so incredibly fun. I've been doing this since I was eight, and
it's just never failed to fill my summer with like fun memories and fun friends.
And specifically this year, it's my last year, so I'm going out
with the best and I get all the crazy flying and pierrotechnics. So for
me, this is going to be amazing. This is gonna be the best.
It's gonna be um. I this is the biggest role I've ever done,
so it's a lot more responsibility, but it's also a lot more fun.
Means you're gonna do more. Like my costume is absolutely insane. It's
very very warm. I was gonna guess it was, yes, But it's
also this character. It's just really fun for me. But he's like I
got to do a lot with it, Like I get to have a full
on voice and do all that kind of stuff. So it's just this this
specific show is really fun for me. And it's super fun because well Glinda
obviously she flies down from the sky, and her big pink bubble and doing
that like every night, like practicing is really fun because you're just like,
I'm in the air. This is crazy. Um. But also just you
know, every summer, just getting to spend time your friends who don't really
see all the time, just like being there every day is just really nice
to get to have that quality time together. And I love that. And
Christie, this for you is something else because well, you know, you
got kids involved with this too. I do have kids involved. In fact,
I've had my son's graduated and he's now going and studying theater in college.
My daughter this is she's been doing this for about five or six years
now and it's been part of our life and part of our summers every year.
But the thing that we one of the things we love so much is
it's not just these guys love hanging out together, but we have kids ages
seven to seventeen in this production, so they get to hang out with each
other across the age groups, and they really make friends in elementary school and
middle school that they know kids that they wouldn't normally get to hang out with.
So it's a really awesome experience across the board. Now I have a
youngster that's in the production as well, and at first she was nervous having
youngsters around. She says, she's baby the family, and she says,
so adorable. I'm like, oh, good God. Really they kind of
make a little family groups and stuff, so it's it's a lot of fun.
Everybody really gets along really well with each other. About family groups,
our director Morgan, she's fantastic. But on the first day of rehearsal she
had us get into groups. It's there's like seven or eight of us in
each group, and they're family groups and they're based off of Wicked the musical.
There's like family group and there's like groups in there, and she took
those names and she gave them to us. So we have little groups we
get with every morning and we do some of our warm ups with them,
and it's a really good like like we get to and they're all ages and
all different characters, so we get to interact with all these people that we
wouldn't really get to interact with. Wow. So otherwise you all bought into
this pretty good. Yeah, oh you really like it? Uh, I
get the feeling this is gonna something you're gonna take with them. Though all
way through college and everything else. Yeah, Now, tell everybody a little
bit about the Children's it's a it's an organization. It's been around a bit.
Yeah. Actually, this is our twenty fourth main stage production. So
next year it's a big anniversary for us. We're going to have a special
announcement on the first day of the show of what our show is next year.
It's going to be an awesome celebration. We're hoping to bring back a
lot of alumni to maybe help be our artistic staff, and we're kind of
kind of make it a special year. I mean, it's a huge anniversary
for a children's nonprofit theater to make it twenty five years, So we're very
grateful to the community of Bartlesville. We have a big summer every summer doing
our main stage. We do camps as well, and then in the school
year we do classes for music, dancing, and acting classes and those classes
will be up on our website soon. So if your kids interested in trying
this out, the classes are a great way to start. That's what all
these guys have done classes with us, and they've done you know, other
productions throughout the year and stuff. So it's a it's a fantastic organization and
we hope people will come see our show this summer. And now we go
about getting ticket so they'll let us in. So shows at the Bartlesville Community
Center July twentieth to the twenty third. We have two. The first two
shows on Thursday and Friday night are at seven pm. The Saturday and Sunday
shows at two pm. And you can buy tickets at the at the center
at the Bartlesville Center dot com or at their at their box office. We
have to remember the center. That's right, the center is. Can't miss
it. You can't miss it. I want to thank you wal Ford coming
in and we should good luck. I guess we say break a leg,
but to really break