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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in. It is time now for
our community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. We've got
young people in here, and that's

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because they're part of the Children's Musical
Theater. We've got a part of what

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we call a double cast. It
is the twenty fifth anniversary of CMT and

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we're going back to the beginning with
the Cinderella, so we have also here

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with this year, we've got the
two Cinderella's Life, Marie and Saphia Hewitt.

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Also to for Jackson Miller and Carter
Wells. How are we doing there?

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Kids? First of all, we've
got to stop the presses. We've

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got an important announcement. We have
an important announcement. Today is in fact

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one of our costume mistress's birthdays,
one of our my Grandma, all of

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our Grandma. Happy birthday, Tammy
Buyer. Great. Now, we've got

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the show that's coming up at the
Center and I like it because I just

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called it the Center so really cool, Yeah, very cool. It is

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coming up on July eleventh through the
fourteenth and Children's at Musical Theater. You

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better get your tickets early because there
are not many left if you are waiting

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around too long. I found this
out when we first moved to town about

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five years ago. Oklahoma went like
that, and then we figured out that

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that's kind of what happens. Just
like that, they disappear. It's like

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imagic yack. So get your tickets
now and get yourself a great saint.

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I want to talk to the ella's
first life. What's it like being in

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a big production like this? And
you've been in similar ones, haven't you.

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Yeah, it's really amazing. My
first show was actually Oklahoma, but

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this is my first lead during your
main stage. It's a lot of fun

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because I get to work with all
my friends all day, like a full

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school day, actually more we say
really late. But it's a lot of

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fun. And I get to work
with all my favorite people. And which

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fella is Ella's fella that is part
of So tell us what you like about

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this. This is a different role
for you. You never really play the

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same type of I'm always playing the
like silly, goofy animals or the all

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the just crazy stuff. But now
I get to play something that is serious

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and more human and has deeper emotions
than just being funny. The whole time.

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So it's I really enjoy the like
the challenge of trying to master the

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role. Well, this is going
to be great. We have the other

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Ella, Sophia. How you doing? This is going to be fun.

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I'm doing great. It's it's a
lot of fun. And I keep thinking,

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like when we're in rehearsal, I'm
like, oh, blocking is my

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favorite part. But then we go
to dance and I'm like, oh my

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gosh, waltzing is so much fun. And then we go to music and

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I'm like, I love singing.
So it's really just like such a well

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rounded experience that we get to do
all these things, and I'm just like

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so happy all the time. I'm
just like, this is the best effort.

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Well, it sounds like the best
medicine for just about anyone who's interested

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in being in Oh for sure.
And uh and who's Ella's fella here?

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Jackson? Hey Jackson? How you
doing? I'm good. I'm ready to

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be having a like this. It's
it's different. I I've never had to

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deal with like the whole like being
in love thing in a musical. The

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last show I did, I fell
in love, but the woman only wanted

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me for my money, So I
know the feeling. I've been there,

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brother, you can trust me,
okay, But it's it's a really fun

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experience. I love the waltzing is
probably one of my favorite things. Really

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do we do pretty impressive lists?
I would say, yeah, it is.

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When you get it right, man, you're just like so happy.

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You're like, oh my gosh,
I was the best lift ever. I

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didn't hit the ground. Those are
the best lifts really. So Cinderella,

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it's a it's a story as old
as time. I'm almost and we've got

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so many characters, how many?
How many I'm gonna say, kids.

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How many participants do we have in
this We have sixty sixty four kids?

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Sixty four that's well he had a
double cast. Uh yeah, oh yeah

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for sure. Now I understand some
folks from twenty five years ago in this

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first place are now directing and steering
and choreographing and coaching and everything else.

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Our director Caitlyn Coggle, she played
Cinderella in the show twenty five years ago.

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And then our music director ROBERTA.
Eberhard, she played one of the

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stepsisters. Yes, and then our
dance team is Eric Ibel and Lily McGhee

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and they I don't know they're they're
just cmt alum and they've done shows Lily

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has and stuff. So Jackson,
what's it like being a young fella and

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having all this experience around you gaining
a lot of insight. Yes, it's

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I'm talking to Caitlin who she's done, she's worked on Broadway stuff. And

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Eric he went he was on the
Cinerella National tour a few years ago,

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and so he tells us these stories
about what it's like to work in the

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industry, and it's really insightful and
blankly getting back to you, you know

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you you've grown into so many different
roles here, describe this one. How

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is it different from the ones you've
had before? This one's definitely different because

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you know, it's my first lead, but it's a lot more responsibility and

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I have a lot more lines to
learn. But with Cinderella, what's really

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different about this version in particular is
she's not just like this really kind person,

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but she's also really smart and she
cares a lot about her people,

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and she wants to make a difference, and I think that matters a lot.

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That matters. It sounds like a
lot of young people, very idealistic

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in wanting to get that across,
and of course, you know kind of

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being pushed aside all the time,
you know, like that's a common feeling

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with young people too. Nobody takes
it seriously, but you get to be

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kind of like the shoe guy,
don't you. Yeah, it's it's a

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lot of fun with this version.
Like By said, it's a lot different

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from the original story because we're all
just we have human emotions, like,

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we have different things we have to
go through. So the whole point with

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Tofer is that he doesn't know who
he is yet and he doesn't know what

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he wants. But every time he
sees Ella, he's like, this is

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what I want and this I know
who I am when I'm I'm with her.

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And I think another thing that Caitlin
is really like drilled into us is

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not being the same. So like
my Ella is going to be different from

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Blyce Ella, and his Toef is
gonna be different from Carter's Taufer because we

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are different people, so we're gonna
play it different ways. And I think

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that's really important for young actors like
us to be able to develop our own

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characters and do something different and not
just should be the same show every night.

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It makes it special, which is
why you should buy two tickets.

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I'm buying four. I'm seeing every
I'm seeing everybody. By golly, this

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is a big treat to our community. And it's been that way for about

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twenty five years and it never fails. It's always, uh, it's always

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something a little bit different. But
you know, I I gotta I gotta

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tell you here, Sophie, You're
not flying in this one. That's all.

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That's a last year you killed it. But are there going to be

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any kind of special effects? I
know you said you were riding a horse.

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I am riding a giant, classical
plastic horse. Okay, you are

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gonna know that. And one of
the really cool things is that there are

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a couple of transformations in this show, so costuming wise, there is in

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the rack and then there's some theater
magic and she's in a ball countin.

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Yeah, to come and see it. Well, that's why I'm buying four

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tickets. Yeah, I miss something
the first time. This is gonna be

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great. This is fun for the
whole family. I want to parents,

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grandparents, uh and uh, you
know, even if you don't have children

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who are in the theater, anymore
or haven't had children yet, especially,

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go see this because once you see
how this comes together and you see the

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teamwork that goes in, when you
finally get around to, you know,

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making your parents grandparents, this will
be something for your kids to get involved

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in. Just just planning to seed
there. That's all I'm saying. That's

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all I'm saying. But this is
great. Where do you rehearse I rehearsed

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at Madison Middle School? Okay,
they got a big, beautiful stage up

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there, and then we don't use
any of that use We use their cafeteria,

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their gym, and the gym.
And their comments are, oh,

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okay, we have all of that
area to work with and their music rooms.

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So we divide it up pretty evenly. Well, sixty four kids,

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you've gotta have to have more somewhere, Oh my goodness sake. Well,

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when this gets pulled together, this
is going to be great. I know

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you're well on your way. I
know that a lot of different groups kind

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of doing group things and what have
you, and the pieces are starting to

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come together. This is really going
to be a site for everyone. Now,

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what are the costs of the tickets? Do we know? I guess

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I'll find out what I get.
I think they're about thirty dollars, but

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I think there's some a little bit
cheaper, a little bit more expense.

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Okay, you can go to bartosol
cinder dot com. They'll tell you everything

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out for yourself. Yeah, there
you go, and then you can read

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up on the synopsis because they always
do a little paragraph they're saying, this

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is a bit different than maybe what
you read in very tale books. They're

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singing and dancing and this thing.
There's a little bit of a story change

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as well. Yeah, okay,
well that's the fun part that you have

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to figure out. You got to
watch that part. Okay, So now

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everybody's all excited. Everybody's going to
get the tickets. And uh, Jackson,

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you're you're coming in in your junior
year or sophomore years. Oh yes,

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I'm coming. Okay, I'm the
youngest one here. You are.

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That's why I'm picking on you a
little bit. So you know, you

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got all these girls. But anyway, you're gonna have a lot of fun

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and it's gonna be great to watch
each and every one of you. Some

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of you this will be your last
performance. For you, Oh my gosh.

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Kind of bittersweet. No, we
won't go there. Just focus on

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We'll just focus on the positive.
This is gonna be a lot of fun.

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You're gonna be a part of this
history forever by being in this show,

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and you got to remember that.
So folks, get your tickets,

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watch the show, keep your ticket. It's gonna be a big souvenir because

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all these kids gonna be fabulous stars
when you get older. Oh yeah,

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there you go, we can do
that too. I want to thank you

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all for coming in and good luck. Break a leg figuratively, not really,

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because I don't want to be getting
hurt. I don't know why the

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that ever came up, as is
saying, do you ever explain that to

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you? Okay, I had.
There's like a billion explanations. But apparently

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in the olden days, when they
had wooden chairs, whenever they would applause,

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they would hit bang the chairs and
as like applause, so they would

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say break a leg because you would
bang the chair so hard that the legs

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would break. That's one explanation.
There's like a billion other, which yours

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which one you did you hear?
Mine's not as cool as that one,

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but that was pretty cool. Break
your leg because they want you to end

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up in a cast. I see
what you did there. There you go.

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You learn something new and different every
time you tune into our program at

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Children's Musical Theater once again July eleventh
through the fourteenth at the Center. Tickets

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available at the Bartlesville Center box office. It's Bartlesville Center dot com. It's

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two different casts for the shows,
so make sure you see everybody, so

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get tickets through different nights. And
once again, I want to thank all

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the actors and everybody who's making it
possible, your coaches, the parents,

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because I know the parents are working
hard to Bengo nights and everything else,

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working behind the scenes, sweating and
fretting. Uh So, let's make this

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a big community turnout. Really make
this the best night we've ever had.

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Thank you very much for being with
us today. Thank you all right,

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folks that you have been watching and
listening to our community connection on K one,

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the one you try to