WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:03.640 Good morning, good morning, morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.559 its time now for our community connection. I'm Tom Davis, Idiots nine forty 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.839 four, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, do we have a 4 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:15.039 housefall here. We have the theater department and I think most of it from 5 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:18.719 Bartonville High School. High Miss Roddy, how are you doing? I'm doing 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:23.679 great. Now. We've got a performance coming up. It's The Two Gentlemen 7 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.879 from Verona and it's written by a guy named Bill. Yeah. Yeah, 8 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.880 Shakespeare. But tell us a little bit about this, because this is kind 9 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:38.560 of cool. It's a cool tank. So my kids love Shakespeare, and 10 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:42.200 I've learned the audiences love Shakespeare, but it needs to be modernized a little 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.439 bit to help people who are not used to Shakespeare. Yeah that thing, 12 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:49.600 yeah, and then these and thous and all that stuff. So I've taken 13 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.880 we're calling it two gents, because it's modern. We've said it in the 14 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.079 eighties and nineties, very very loosely. In the eighties and nineties. You 15 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.280 threw me off and he said, two gents, I'm sit there thinking about 16 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:00.920 it. I'm gonna come at that old out. Okay, here we go. 17 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:07.280 We made a modern and we completely modernized the text and included some fun 18 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:15.599 slang from those eras. Now I have seen some of the attire with the 19 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.959 puppy shell coats and everything. This is really set in the eighties pop callers 20 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.760 in the whole deal and don't ask me how I know about that got now, 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.519 I got ways. But this is what it gonna be. A different 22 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.159 tank. It tell us a little bit about how might go. I wanted 23 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.560 it to be super colorful, high energy. It's a comedy. We're laughing 24 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:40.599 the whole time. All of these actors here are just naturally very funny people, 25 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.120 and it's so easy just to throw them on stage and then the last 26 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.760 just keep rolling. Well, you know, I've seen many of these youngsters 27 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.840 in various characters over the years, and they never disappoint. In fact, 28 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.719 they always surprised me. It's like, well that one took it up a 29 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:00.599 notch. There you go. Let's start with you. Introduce yourself. Hi. 30 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.640 My name is Kenbiers, and I'm playing Julia in the show Julia. 31 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.719 And tell me a little bit about Julia. She is an ignorant girl and 32 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.879 she's in love with Proteus, and when he leaves to Milan, she goes 33 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.240 and follows them as a man. Oh so she's she chased anymo, Yeah, 34 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:24.719 she's obsessed. You're dangerous, lady. Go ahead. Hi. My 35 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:29.039 name is Marissa Wells, and I play Sylvia and tell us a little bit 36 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.360 about Sylvia. She knows what she wants in a man, and she falls 37 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:39.599 in love with Valentine and she Valantine has finished and she goes after him. 38 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.639 Oh okay, all right, so so far, so good. This sounds 39 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:49.039 pretty eighties, like I remember the triangles. Oh yeah, a lot lots 40 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:54.919 of weird. I'm Benjamin Ralphson. I'm playing Valentine. Hello, Valentine, 41 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.759 Valentine. I think he tries to do the right thing, but he's a 42 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:07.280 little stupid. He gets banished me. You know, this is kind of 43 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.599 very typical of the eighties, because you know, I was in my twenties 44 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.560 in the eighties. People were acting stupid in the eighties, and so this 45 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:21.400 is really a good idea to tie this into the eighties. Young man, 46 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.719 I'm no Argo, and I'm playing Proteus. He's a bit of a entitled 47 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.759 man and he believes himself to be a womanizer, but he's not much of 48 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.319 that. And first he's in love with Julia, but then he switches flick 49 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:40.840 over to Sylvia. So so this is pretty eighties. One of the lines 50 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:45.919 we added is it feels like a real life John Hughes movie. Well, 51 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.000 there you go, because John Hughes kind of ruled the eighties as far as 52 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.080 movies are concerned. I've never seen anybody produces many of that fast, I 53 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.759 know, so it was pretty incredible. So how do you like going back 54 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.439 to a time that maybe your grandparents were kind of hip and having cool times. 55 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.919 I think it's it's funny. My my my parents were in high school 56 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:10.360 in the eighties, and before I auditioned, I went to them and I 57 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.280 was like, what do I what do I do? And and first you 58 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.680 get a pet rock then put lead in the gasoline. Yeah, but yeah, 59 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:25.160 no, it's been tons of fun. I I don't know, I 60 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.319 get to wear a pop collar. I'm happy. But you learn from about 61 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.519 the eighties, and well, I've always been I've I've really I actually love 62 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:32.839 the eighties. It's like an era other the music, other the movies that 63 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:38.399 love the style, and so really, what I've been learning about any of 64 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.519 it, it's probably just like the terminology they use. I didn't. I 65 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:44.800 didn't pay much attention to that because, man, some of the stuff they 66 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.920 say is, what's what's your one line about? I don't know. It's 67 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:53.720 bogus? A what a word? That's so bogus? Man, this is 68 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:58.720 like so bogus. Yeah, that's how you got to say. It gives 69 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.360 you that little Hollywood you know, like you like you've been somewhere like Laurel 70 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.600 Canyon. It never got out. What did you like about the eighties that 71 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:10.560 you learned? So I have always loved the eighties as well. I've watched 72 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.360 so many shows from the eighties and movies from the eighties. My mom loved 73 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.800 showing you that stuff. And I already knew a ton of references and a 74 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.759 ton of stuff already, so I didn't have to do very much research. 75 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:24.680 But I loved doing it because I love stuff like that. Oh cool, 76 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.319 and your your references to the eighties and how you're kind of putting it all 77 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.319 together. What were you picking up there? Yeah, there's again there's a 78 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.759 lot of funny words in there. We changed the script a lot to have 79 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.160 some of the slang used. And although I'm not really familiar with the eighties, 80 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:46.439 because I wasn't born. I was not alive. I my parents grew 81 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.160 up in the eighties and they've shown they've forced me to watch movies and we 82 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.399 do. Where were parents were their job? I love middle, I'm the 83 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:01.600 middle. No sign metal? Oh old music? Okay, well, very 84 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.920 good. I played a little of that. I meant, yeah, this 85 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:10.800 is really gonna be a cool thing to see how this all coalesces with the 86 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:15.360 classic Shakespeare moved up to the eighties with people who weren't even alive in the 87 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.959 eighties. Technically, I wasn't alive either. I was gonna say, you're 88 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:23.920 you're kind of on the border there, so you know, so this is 89 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.240 really gonna be a lot of fun. Now, now, what's the date 90 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.720 of the performance? So opening night is Thursday the twenty eighth, and then 91 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:35.839 closing night is Saturday the thirtieth. Both shows are at seven pm at the 92 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:41.360 Barswell High School fac Okay, and I gotta tell your Fine Arts Center is 93 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:46.480 really something else. I seen a lot of productions everything from you know, 94 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:53.079 the three minute of Aby at this No no, it wasn't yeah, no, 95 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:58.240 no, no, it was the one with the abba Mamma Mia. 96 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.079 Well there were three men and there is a baby, so I gotta mixed 97 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:05.639 up a little ladies thing going on there. It's okay, I'll be fine. 98 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.720 Uh. And then we had to you know, Shrek. Now, 99 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.560 I don't even gotta figure out how that dragon worked, but that was really 100 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:21.240 something else. You've done some really fantastic things with what you have. Very 101 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:27.759 clever and very thought out, you know, ways of presenting on stage, 102 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.120 So you really make the most of that. No, no spaces wasted. 103 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.040 What if my kids, she likes to bring up. Does it sound crazy, 104 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.560 Yes, Roddy's going to do it like that. And so every year 105 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.480 I try to think of more fun, bigger ways. A lot of things 106 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.560 we're doing tech wise, set wise, some of it is just because we 107 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.600 could. We didn't have to do it this way, but we thought it'd 108 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.439 be fun, so we're doing it. I hope you're getting a life lesson 109 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:55.560 in this. Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it should always 110 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:01.680 be that way moving forward. Challenge yourself reach a little further each and every 111 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.160 time, especially where the creativity is concerned, because if you don't grow, 112 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.040 you die. Just saying that, this is from a guy who's been doing 113 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.560 this show business thing for nearly fifty years. Okay, you thanking seventy five 114 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.959 exactly. So it's a it's a you've got a good teacher. You've got 115 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.040 a really great set of teachers, I might say. And we're not saying 116 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.600 this for brownie points, Okay, but but I like the challenge. I 117 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.800 like the reach. That's really good. Now, how long have you been 118 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.039 with the year school? So? I started teaching twenty seventeen, year of 119 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.200 the walk out. I was emergency certified, and I've only taught at Barswell 120 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.840 High School and I will stay at Barswell High School because it is just a 121 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.320 little piece of heaven on earth. Oh, I would agree, it's been 122 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.639 a great I'm going into my seventh year here. Oh wow. Yeah, 123 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.039 what's your favorite performance that you were involved in? My favorite performance is this 124 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.320 performance? Of course it is. It's all the tickets here. I always 125 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.080 like what I'm in at the moment than the moment, rather than think about 126 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.519 the past. I guess you know, that's really pretty cool because you really 127 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.759 do have to be prepared for the task at hand. You wait till you 128 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.120 get old like me, and then you get to remember it way back. 129 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.840 So what's your your favorite I think my favorite one was the play that we 130 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:20.440 did last year, Arsenic and Old Lace. That one. I loved that 131 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.480 production in that movie ever since I was a little because my mom showed it 132 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.039 to me and then we got to do it on stage and I got to 133 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.240 be a part of it and I really loved it. Well, my daughter 134 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.440 liked it because she got to play a dead guy. The reason she liked 135 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.720 it. Uh, this is only my second performance, get out of here. 136 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.440 So the last one I was in was probably my favorite so far, 137 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.879 which is Shrek the Musical Love What did you play in? I played the 138 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.559 bishop at the end that married, well attempted to marry far Quad and Fiona 139 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.840 and I got to do this ridiculous lisp and it was amazing. Yeah, 140 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.960 it was. As a matter of fact, what about you young man? 141 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.200 I probably my favorite performance so far, just because of the liberty I had 142 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.759 with it. Was we did the production of the Hobbits, Yes you were 143 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.200 I was gone them. I had to play the little creature on the stage. 144 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:09.919 What the heck were you saying? I? You know a lot of 145 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.759 people ask that same question, and I kind of look back on it. 146 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.080 I wish I had none seated more because then you guys would have heard what 147 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.799 I was saying. But it was cool. Yeah, yeah, I mean 148 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.639 I don't know how the henglay moved like that. I would have been interaction. 149 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.759 But you know, but you really sold the part really well. And 150 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.879 you know the thing is, I got a little hearing issues, so I 151 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.919 wasn't trying to, you know, say anything. You know, it's okay. 152 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.720 Yeah, brock and Roll from the seventies and eighties, a man, 153 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.080 you know what I'm saying. It's too loud, you're too old, you 154 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.279 got it. Yeah, she picked up on something back then. So once 155 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:50.399 again, we've got this coming up in October September. All right, good, 156 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.399 and we take the Friday off because any of different things. And you 157 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.159 don't want to share that crowd, you know. So you know, so 158 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.759 we've got to the the find Arts Center, which beautiful. And how much 159 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:03.879 are tickets by the way, so if you they start next Monday, you 160 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:09.480 can buy them from any student or directly from me for five dollars or ten 161 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.639 dollars at the door. That's good and it's all for a good cause too. 162 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.879 And once again, there's not a bad seat in the house. How 163 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.679 did you get so blast that is didn't you didn't you walk into that? 164 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.879 Hey, I like that. No, wonder You're not going nowhere? No, 165 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:28.120 And we just keep improving and improving. I'm very grateful to have just 166 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.799 a team of every teach in the Fine Arts Center that is just constantly looking 167 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.720 on ways to improve and us as a group provide a very cohesive program for 168 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.399 all the students to be involved as much of the Fine Arts as they can 169 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.720 and make sure we had that top tier facility available for them. Well tell 170 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.519 you what, it looks good and it really sounds good too. The audio 171 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.200 is incredible, it really is. And alas is not a bad seat, 172 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.360 nouse. Now, I've not been up there on the upper deck, but 173 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:58.559 you know, maybe one of these days. Uh. You know, Mama 174 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.240 likes this it in the front because my hearing is going and her visions going, 175 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:09.559 so so we usually sit pretty close to the stage and really enjoy everything 176 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.120 that you put forward here. What do you want to do when you get 177 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.840 out of school? Oh, I'm probably gonna completely change years and I'm going 178 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.080 to be an engineer of some sort. Oh, there you go, that's 179 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.080 where the money is. Yeah, what about you? I'm thinking of serving 180 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.200 a religious mission and I'm studying chemistry. Well, there you go. You 181 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.799 know that's that's a combination. I'm not heard, but you know, I 182 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.639 gotta tell you. I think it's gonna work for you. What about you? 183 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.799 I plan on going to study theater and become a theater teacher, just 184 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.759 like right, well, there you go. You gotta proprechiate right there. 185 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.639 What about you? I'm thinking of becoming a teacher, but I'm not exactly 186 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.399 sure. You're not exactly sure. What other thing you got out there? 187 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:56.919 Floating photographer, ace officer, theater actor, lots of things. I take 188 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.480 it from an old man. Don't grow up to pass. You got a 189 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.519 lot of time. You still got to, like five or five years to 190 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.720 figure it out and take a time, be meticulous, way your options. 191 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:13.519 Not everything's about money. It works though, but I mean not everything's about 192 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.759 money. But I want to thank you all for coming in once again. 193 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:24.120 It's two gents and offshoot of two gentlemen from Verona. William Shakespeare, we 194 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.639 call him Bill, and these fine students are going to be starring in the 195 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.039 presentation and once again coming up here at the end of the month, and 196 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.759 it is really going to be great. Five dollars in advanced ten dollars at 197 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.279 the door. Don't worry if you have to spend ten dollars because you forgot. 198 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:43.039 It's all going to go to a good place. It's not gonna hurt, 199 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.360 and of course it's just gonna be tons of fun. I want to 200 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.159 thank you all for coming in here. I know that it's tough to pull 201 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.120 you out of a classroom and get you away from school on a school day. 202 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:01.799 It's just horrifying. I mean, I know the separation anxiety has got 203 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.559 to be overwhelming. But you know, it's always good to have our students 204 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.759 in here with us. And we appreciate you being with us here today. 205 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.919 And folks, you've been watching and listening to our community connection right here on 206 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.440 K one, the one you trust at AM fourteen hundred FM ninety three point 207 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:24.519 three and ninety five point one. Forecast for today, we're looking for maybe 208 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.399 another chance of rain a little bit later on this afternoon and high today of 209 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.600 eighty Then for tonight rain likely about two inches possible. 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