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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It's time now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. And guess
what, we've got a kind of a

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magical little group here. It's the
Children's Musical Theater. And we're gonna talk

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about Wizard of Oz. How are
we doing, young lady? Doing good?

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You are you? Send you a
little bit early early for us,

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we've been practicing late nights every night. Well, Christi Huit is here with

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us, and of course she's the
executive director of Children's Miracle Theater. I

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called Miracle because it appears that this
time we're gonna have a few miracles because

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we've got people flying on the stage. Yes, so it was a kind

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of a Freudian slip there. She's
a children's musical theater. Maybe one of

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us can say right today, yes, um, yeah. We've been practicing

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for about four weeks now. We've
got a show coming up next next week.

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While it's terrifying for us, we've
been the kids have been practicing every

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morning from about nine to four every
day, and then we've been having flying

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rehearsal for the last four or five
days at the BCC at night, so

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long, long days, but we're
very excited about this show coming up.

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Now, we've got some cast members
here, and if you've seen any of

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the CMT productions or any of the
BHS productions, you know these youngsters and

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they played the roles so big.
I mean absolutely yeah. You swear to

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goodness that year Broadway because these youngsters
really taken a lot of time, a

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lot of effort. They learn a
lot with the Children's Musical Theater and they

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roll that experience into their characters and
it really comes through. Now, these

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guys are great. Now we've got
We've got Sophia, who is going to

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be Glinda. You gotta have fun
with this part, now, don't you.

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I'm going to you're going to.
I thought you're having fun already,

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I am, I am promise.
That was a little bit bit of a

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character. Um. Well, she's
a good witch. She's from the north.

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I don't know what norrises, but
it's good. And she wears big

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pink dresses and she flies in her
bubble and she helps Dorothy along the way

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through oz like in little ways,
like making sure she makes it out alive.

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There is kind of that going on
here. You know it's a family

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production, but there's a lot of
way what's going on here now Jackson Miller

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is with this You are the cowardly
Lion. How you like this role?

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Um, it's one of my favorites. It's you get to do a lot

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of different things with it because obviously
cowardly lion, but there's also moments where

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he's the brake was a brave lion. But it's fun to just kind of

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surprises himself when it happens too,
doesn't. Yeah, that's really fun to

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do on stage. She doesn't do
those two different things. And it's fun

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to be with Dorothy and Timan and
Scarecrow as like the friend group. It's

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fun to be part of that.
Oh my god. You know, if

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there was one character that I think
anybody would just stay a blast doing,

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if you can carry it off,
it would be that run. Yeah.

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So he's got he's got it,
He's made for it. He's great.

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That's fantastic. Catherine, you're gonna
be the wicked witch. How how did

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you get that? You're so nice? I don't know. I guess they

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just saw some evil in me.
You're gonna have to really work on the

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evil part. Because everybody she has
the best you've ever heard? Oh,

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really, give us a sample,
You're right, I have to. I'm

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gonna go around the horn fair with
you. How fun is this? It

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is so incredibly fun. I've been
doing this since I was eight, and

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it's just never failed to fill my
summer with like fun memories and fun friends.

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And specifically this year, it's my
last year, so I'm going out

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with the best and I get all
the crazy flying and pierrotechnics. So for

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me, this is going to be
amazing. This is gonna be the best.

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It's gonna be um. I this
is the biggest role I've ever done,

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so it's a lot more responsibility,
but it's also a lot more fun.

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Means you're gonna do more. Like
my costume is absolutely insane. It's

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very very warm. I was gonna
guess it was, yes, But it's

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also this character. It's just really
fun for me. But he's like I

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got to do a lot with it, Like I get to have a full

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on voice and do all that kind
of stuff. So it's just this this

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specific show is really fun for me. And it's super fun because well Glinda

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obviously she flies down from the sky, and her big pink bubble and doing

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that like every night, like practicing
is really fun because you're just like,

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I'm in the air. This is
crazy. Um. But also just you

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know, every summer, just getting
to spend time your friends who don't really

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see all the time, just like
being there every day is just really nice

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to get to have that quality time
together. And I love that. And

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Christie, this for you is something
else because well, you know, you

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got kids involved with this too.
I do have kids involved. In fact,

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I've had my son's graduated and he's
now going and studying theater in college.

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My daughter this is she's been doing
this for about five or six years

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now and it's been part of our
life and part of our summers every year.

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But the thing that we one of
the things we love so much is

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it's not just these guys love hanging
out together, but we have kids ages

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seven to seventeen in this production,
so they get to hang out with each

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other across the age groups, and
they really make friends in elementary school and

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middle school that they know kids that
they wouldn't normally get to hang out with.

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So it's a really awesome experience across
the board. Now I have a

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youngster that's in the production as well, and at first she was nervous having

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youngsters around. She says, she's
baby the family, and she says,

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so adorable. I'm like, oh, good God. Really they kind of

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make a little family groups and stuff, so it's it's a lot of fun.

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Everybody really gets along really well with
each other. About family groups,

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our director Morgan, she's fantastic.
But on the first day of rehearsal she

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had us get into groups. It's
there's like seven or eight of us in

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each group, and they're family groups
and they're based off of Wicked the musical.

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There's like family group and there's like
groups in there, and she took

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those names and she gave them to
us. So we have little groups we

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get with every morning and we do
some of our warm ups with them,

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and it's a really good like like
we get to and they're all ages and

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all different characters, so we get
to interact with all these people that we

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wouldn't really get to interact with.
Wow. So otherwise you all bought into

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this pretty good. Yeah, oh
you really like it? Uh, I

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get the feeling this is gonna something
you're gonna take with them. Though all

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way through college and everything else.
Yeah, Now, tell everybody a little

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bit about the Children's it's a it's
an organization. It's been around a bit.

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Yeah. Actually, this is our
twenty fourth main stage production. So

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next year it's a big anniversary for
us. We're going to have a special

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announcement on the first day of the
show of what our show is next year.

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It's going to be an awesome celebration. We're hoping to bring back a

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lot of alumni to maybe help be
our artistic staff, and we're kind of

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kind of make it a special year. I mean, it's a huge anniversary

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for a children's nonprofit theater to make
it twenty five years, So we're very

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grateful to the community of Bartlesville.
We have a big summer every summer doing

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our main stage. We do camps
as well, and then in the school

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year we do classes for music,
dancing, and acting classes and those classes

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will be up on our website soon. So if your kids interested in trying

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this out, the classes are a
great way to start. That's what all

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these guys have done classes with us, and they've done you know, other

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productions throughout the year and stuff.
So it's a it's a fantastic organization and

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we hope people will come see our
show this summer. And now we go

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about getting ticket so they'll let us
in. So shows at the Bartlesville Community

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Center July twentieth to the twenty third. We have two. The first two

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shows on Thursday and Friday night are
at seven pm. The Saturday and Sunday

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shows at two pm. And you
can buy tickets at the at the center

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at the Bartlesville Center dot com or
at their at their box office. We

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have to remember the center. That's
right, the center is. Can't miss

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it. You can't miss it.
I want to thank you wal Ford coming

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in and we should good luck.
I guess we say break a leg,

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but to really break