Good morning, good morning, morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in
its time now for our community connection. I'm Tom Davis, Idiots nine forty
four, and boy, oh boy, oh boy, do we have a
housefall here. We have the theater department and I think most of it from
Bartonville High School. High Miss Roddy, how are you doing? I'm doing
great. Now. We've got a performance coming up. It's The Two Gentlemen
from Verona and it's written by a guy named Bill. Yeah. Yeah,
Shakespeare. But tell us a little bit about this, because this is kind
of cool. It's a cool tank. So my kids love Shakespeare, and
I've learned the audiences love Shakespeare, but it needs to be modernized a little
bit to help people who are not used to Shakespeare. Yeah that thing,
yeah, and then these and thous and all that stuff. So I've taken
we're calling it two gents, because it's modern. We've said it in the
eighties and nineties, very very loosely. In the eighties and nineties. You
threw me off and he said, two gents, I'm sit there thinking about
it. I'm gonna come at that old out. Okay, here we go.
We made a modern and we completely modernized the text and included some fun
slang from those eras. Now I have seen some of the attire with the
puppy shell coats and everything. This is really set in the eighties pop callers
in the whole deal and don't ask me how I know about that got now,
I got ways. But this is what it gonna be. A different
tank. It tell us a little bit about how might go. I wanted
it to be super colorful, high energy. It's a comedy. We're laughing
the whole time. All of these actors here are just naturally very funny people,
and it's so easy just to throw them on stage and then the last
just keep rolling. Well, you know, I've seen many of these youngsters
in various characters over the years, and they never disappoint. In fact,
they always surprised me. It's like, well that one took it up a
notch. There you go. Let's start with you. Introduce yourself. Hi.
My name is Kenbiers, and I'm playing Julia in the show Julia.
And tell me a little bit about Julia. She is an ignorant girl and
she's in love with Proteus, and when he leaves to Milan, she goes
and follows them as a man. Oh so she's she chased anymo, Yeah,
she's obsessed. You're dangerous, lady. Go ahead. Hi. My
name is Marissa Wells, and I play Sylvia and tell us a little bit
about Sylvia. She knows what she wants in a man, and she falls
in love with Valentine and she Valantine has finished and she goes after him.
Oh okay, all right, so so far, so good. This sounds
pretty eighties, like I remember the triangles. Oh yeah, a lot lots
of weird. I'm Benjamin Ralphson. I'm playing Valentine. Hello, Valentine,
Valentine. I think he tries to do the right thing, but he's a
little stupid. He gets banished me. You know, this is kind of
very typical of the eighties, because you know, I was in my twenties
in the eighties. People were acting stupid in the eighties, and so this
is really a good idea to tie this into the eighties. Young man,
I'm no Argo, and I'm playing Proteus. He's a bit of a entitled
man and he believes himself to be a womanizer, but he's not much of
that. And first he's in love with Julia, but then he switches flick
over to Sylvia. So so this is pretty eighties. One of the lines
we added is it feels like a real life John Hughes movie. Well,
there you go, because John Hughes kind of ruled the eighties as far as
movies are concerned. I've never seen anybody produces many of that fast, I
know, so it was pretty incredible. So how do you like going back
to a time that maybe your grandparents were kind of hip and having cool times.
I think it's it's funny. My my my parents were in high school
in the eighties, and before I auditioned, I went to them and I
was like, what do I what do I do? And and first you
get a pet rock then put lead in the gasoline. Yeah, but yeah,
no, it's been tons of fun. I I don't know, I
get to wear a pop collar. I'm happy. But you learn from about
the eighties, and well, I've always been I've I've really I actually love
the eighties. It's like an era other the music, other the movies that
love the style, and so really, what I've been learning about any of
it, it's probably just like the terminology they use. I didn't. I
didn't pay much attention to that because, man, some of the stuff they
say is, what's what's your one line about? I don't know. It's
bogus? A what a word? That's so bogus? Man, this is
like so bogus. Yeah, that's how you got to say. It gives
you that little Hollywood you know, like you like you've been somewhere like Laurel
Canyon. It never got out. What did you like about the eighties that
you learned? So I have always loved the eighties as well. I've watched
so many shows from the eighties and movies from the eighties. My mom loved
showing you that stuff. And I already knew a ton of references and a
ton of stuff already, so I didn't have to do very much research.
But I loved doing it because I love stuff like that. Oh cool,
and your your references to the eighties and how you're kind of putting it all
together. What were you picking up there? Yeah, there's again there's a
lot of funny words in there. We changed the script a lot to have
some of the slang used. And although I'm not really familiar with the eighties,
because I wasn't born. I was not alive. I my parents grew
up in the eighties and they've shown they've forced me to watch movies and we
do. Where were parents were their job? I love middle, I'm the
middle. No sign metal? Oh old music? Okay, well, very
good. I played a little of that. I meant, yeah, this
is really gonna be a cool thing to see how this all coalesces with the
classic Shakespeare moved up to the eighties with people who weren't even alive in the
eighties. Technically, I wasn't alive either. I was gonna say, you're
you're kind of on the border there, so you know, so this is
really gonna be a lot of fun. Now, now, what's the date
of the performance? So opening night is Thursday the twenty eighth, and then
closing night is Saturday the thirtieth. Both shows are at seven pm at the
Barswell High School fac Okay, and I gotta tell your Fine Arts Center is
really something else. I seen a lot of productions everything from you know,
the three minute of Aby at this No no, it wasn't yeah, no,
no, no, it was the one with the abba Mamma Mia.
Well there were three men and there is a baby, so I gotta mixed
up a little ladies thing going on there. It's okay, I'll be fine.
Uh. And then we had to you know, Shrek. Now,
I don't even gotta figure out how that dragon worked, but that was really
something else. You've done some really fantastic things with what you have. Very
clever and very thought out, you know, ways of presenting on stage,
So you really make the most of that. No, no spaces wasted.
What if my kids, she likes to bring up. Does it sound crazy,
Yes, Roddy's going to do it like that. And so every year
I try to think of more fun, bigger ways. A lot of things
we're doing tech wise, set wise, some of it is just because we
could. We didn't have to do it this way, but we thought it'd
be fun, so we're doing it. I hope you're getting a life lesson
in this. Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it should always
be that way moving forward. Challenge yourself reach a little further each and every
time, especially where the creativity is concerned, because if you don't grow,
you die. Just saying that, this is from a guy who's been doing
this show business thing for nearly fifty years. Okay, you thanking seventy five
exactly. So it's a it's a you've got a good teacher. You've got
a really great set of teachers, I might say. And we're not saying
this for brownie points, Okay, but but I like the challenge. I
like the reach. That's really good. Now, how long have you been
with the year school? So? I started teaching twenty seventeen, year of
the walk out. I was emergency certified, and I've only taught at Barswell
High School and I will stay at Barswell High School because it is just a
little piece of heaven on earth. Oh, I would agree, it's been
a great I'm going into my seventh year here. Oh wow. Yeah,
what's your favorite performance that you were involved in? My favorite performance is this
performance? Of course it is. It's all the tickets here. I always
like what I'm in at the moment than the moment, rather than think about
the past. I guess you know, that's really pretty cool because you really
do have to be prepared for the task at hand. You wait till you
get old like me, and then you get to remember it way back.
So what's your your favorite I think my favorite one was the play that we
did last year, Arsenic and Old Lace. That one. I loved that
production in that movie ever since I was a little because my mom showed it
to me and then we got to do it on stage and I got to
be a part of it and I really loved it. Well, my daughter
liked it because she got to play a dead guy. The reason she liked
it. Uh, this is only my second performance, get out of here.
So the last one I was in was probably my favorite so far,
which is Shrek the Musical Love What did you play in? I played the
bishop at the end that married, well attempted to marry far Quad and Fiona
and I got to do this ridiculous lisp and it was amazing. Yeah,
it was. As a matter of fact, what about you young man?
I probably my favorite performance so far, just because of the liberty I had
with it. Was we did the production of the Hobbits, Yes you were
I was gone them. I had to play the little creature on the stage.
What the heck were you saying? I? You know a lot of
people ask that same question, and I kind of look back on it.
I wish I had none seated more because then you guys would have heard what
I was saying. But it was cool. Yeah, yeah, I mean
I don't know how the henglay moved like that. I would have been interaction.
But you know, but you really sold the part really well. And
you know the thing is, I got a little hearing issues, so I
wasn't trying to, you know, say anything. You know, it's okay.
Yeah, brock and Roll from the seventies and eighties, a man,
you know what I'm saying. It's too loud, you're too old, you
got it. Yeah, she picked up on something back then. So once
again, we've got this coming up in October September. All right, good,
and we take the Friday off because any of different things. And you
don't want to share that crowd, you know. So you know, so
we've got to the the find Arts Center, which beautiful. And how much
are tickets by the way, so if you they start next Monday, you
can buy them from any student or directly from me for five dollars or ten
dollars at the door. That's good and it's all for a good cause too.
And once again, there's not a bad seat in the house. How
did you get so blast that is didn't you didn't you walk into that?
Hey, I like that. No, wonder You're not going nowhere? No,
And we just keep improving and improving. I'm very grateful to have just
a team of every teach in the Fine Arts Center that is just constantly looking
on ways to improve and us as a group provide a very cohesive program for
all the students to be involved as much of the Fine Arts as they can
and make sure we had that top tier facility available for them. Well tell
you what, it looks good and it really sounds good too. The audio
is incredible, it really is. And alas is not a bad seat,
nouse. Now, I've not been up there on the upper deck, but
you know, maybe one of these days. Uh. You know, Mama
likes this it in the front because my hearing is going and her visions going,
so so we usually sit pretty close to the stage and really enjoy everything
that you put forward here. What do you want to do when you get
out of school? Oh, I'm probably gonna completely change years and I'm going
to be an engineer of some sort. Oh, there you go, that's
where the money is. Yeah, what about you? I'm thinking of serving
a religious mission and I'm studying chemistry. Well, there you go. You
know that's that's a combination. I'm not heard, but you know, I
gotta tell you. I think it's gonna work for you. What about you?
I plan on going to study theater and become a theater teacher, just
like right, well, there you go. You gotta proprechiate right there.
What about you? I'm thinking of becoming a teacher, but I'm not exactly
sure. You're not exactly sure. What other thing you got out there?
Floating photographer, ace officer, theater actor, lots of things. I take
it from an old man. Don't grow up to pass. You got a
lot of time. You still got to, like five or five years to
figure it out and take a time, be meticulous, way your options.
Not everything's about money. It works though, but I mean not everything's about
money. But I want to thank you all for coming in once again.
It's two gents and offshoot of two gentlemen from Verona. William Shakespeare, we
call him Bill, and these fine students are going to be starring in the
presentation and once again coming up here at the end of the month, and
it is really going to be great. Five dollars in advanced ten dollars at
the door. Don't worry if you have to spend ten dollars because you forgot.
It's all going to go to a good place. It's not gonna hurt,
and of course it's just gonna be tons of fun. I want to
thank you all for coming in here. I know that it's tough to pull
you out of a classroom and get you away from school on a school day.
It's just horrifying. I mean, I know the separation anxiety has got
to be overwhelming. But you know, it's always good to have our students
in here with us. And we appreciate you being with us here today.
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