Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Which time now for our community connection right here. I'm kay One, the
one you trust, and we have some of our students here from Bartlesville High
School, Fine Arts, and we've got the Anatomy of Gray. I said
it correctly, did I not look the microphone? There? Gray? There
you go? All right. First of all, let's introduce everyone. Hi.
I'm Conor Hart. I'm a senior Bartifel High School and my character is
Pastor Phineas s Wingfields. Hi. I'm Katie Parks. I'm a junior at
Bartlesville High School and my part is Rebecca Muldoon. Hello. My name is
Noah Argo. I'm a senior Bartiel High School as well, and I play
doctor Gray. Okay, this sets it up here right here. First of
all, is a little bit of confusion because I got confused. I keep
thinking of a Grey's Anatomy, the book, Gray's Anatomy the TV. But
this is the Anatomy of Gray. There's a little story behind that, right,
Yes, what's the story? Well, the two aren't related at all.
In fact, that's what I thought. There is a doctor. The
play was actually originally going to be named Gray's Anatomy, but the playwright decided
to change it through the making of the play, and then about ten years
afterwards, the show Gray's Anatomy came out and now we can't find any stuff
for our play. Got to give us a little bit of a synopsis of
what's going on here, all right. So in the play, June Wildon,
who is Rebecca's daughter and another one of the main characters in the play,
her father dies and after that she wishes for a doctor to come to
town so nothing bad will happen to anybody else. And so mysteriously a doctor
comes into town and sickness follows him, and that's kind of the show.
Now, Katie, you play a pretty substantial role in here, because there
are people dying around you, but you're fine, well for a while.
Anyway, a while I'm fine, and then I get sick and people are
suspecting that it's the doctor causing the sickness. Oh really, and so all
heck breaks loose, and yeah, the show's really heavy on seems of like
finding found family and like who can you trust in? Who can you not?
And there's a really this is a small cast. There's only about eleven
is people in it, and it's really interesting seeing how the cast splits apart
and how bonds form and stuff throughout the show. Not only do you play
a woman, but you play a woman with a child. Yes, it's
funny. Funnily enough, my daughter is older than me, and she's older
than me, and it turns out Rebecca is pregnant. Do you need a
doctor? So great, tell us a little bit about what you do.
You kind of appear on the scene mysteriously. Well, I appear and I
start to help some of the folks around the town. But then these weird
marks start to show up, and they start to suspect it's me because I'm
different from them. And yeah, it's also the like eighteen hundreds, so
you know, it's always a new guy in the eighteen hundred. Yeah,
of course, and so here are you. Nope, and then they try
to exile me just again. Yeah. All you try to do is help,
right, Yep, I'm just trying to help them. You're not an
evil. No, I'm doing fine. I'm a I'm a I'm no nare
dweller. He's just a guy, yeah, doctor Grey practice meds. Oh
wow, well this sounds like this is gonna kind of keep people hanging on
between scenes, and it's really got a lot of glue. As they say,
they'll pull it all itself together here towards the towards the end. Don't
spoil it for me, because I'm gonna go see it. But I need
to know. When is the play? February twenty ninth, March second that
Thursday and Saturday, and it's at the Fine Arts Cutter at Bartlesville High School
and they're both at seven pm. Yeah, what's price price? I think
what five dollars per ticket? Five dollars a ticket for right now? If
you buy in pre sale and then at the door at the show, they
will be ten dollars. And doors should open at six thirty, so you
can show up a little bit early to buy your tickets and settle in and
stuff. We always show up early. Katie's got a fan who has to
sit in the front row, so it worked out pretty good. But anyway,
this is great. I've seen you all in a variety of different characters.
Now, Carter, i've seen you is an old man a lot.
Oh, and you're about the youngest looking person. I thank you, bet,
I mean, the only kind of Peggy is an old guy. Yeah.
Actually, my sophomore year of high school, I did all the plays
and stuff, and so I was casted as the three I was casting it
as an old man three times in a row, for every main for every
play that we did. It wasn't until the musical that I was able to
play somebody my age, which is really interesting. Since I do have a
young face, it's easier to make me either really old or really young,
and not usually in the middle. But I'm glad that this time I'm kind
of playing a middle ish character. That's good. That's good because you know,
I thought for a while there, you're going to start getting social Security
before you graduated. Katie, You've done a lot of different characters, a
lot of sometimes as many as three or four in the same production. In
plays, we tend to keep it, try to keep it like one character
per person. As soon as the musical comes in, it's as many characters
as you can fit. Pretty much, and with CMT like they cast you
as multiple things. But this is my first time at the high school playing
such a big role. Well, you had a pretty good sized couple of
roles in a Shakespeare even played King Lear Yeah, I got to die,
so that was pretty that was a big deal. You played, and you
played, you played several really interesting I never know what you're gonna come out,
That's what I love. But it's a it's a real uh flowing the
fastballs, the curveballs. Man, they never know what's coming next. They
don't they don't know what was What's your favorite man? Honestly, probably gone
I. I only it was one scene all I was in, but I
loved getting to crawl around on the stage. It was just it was just
so it was just so fun. Well, people couldn't take your their eyes
off you. They're like, going, this is really freaky b good.
Yeah. What other characters have you played? Well? I played in the
previous play. I was one of the leads, uh to the tune gentlemen
of Arona and King Lear. I was one of I would kind of a
main villain almost, and then most of my other roles have been very small
or like an ensemble kind of thing. So those songs rolls are kind of
fun, aren't they. Yeah, the musicals especially, you kind of just
get to jam out and do whatever you want. And as someone who's done
both leads and ensemble and both they both kind of come with their caveats and
stuff, But especially in musicals, like you'd expect that you would want to
be the lead all the time, but leads sometimes just kind of are away
from everybody else and you don't get to like join in and have that kind
of found family as easily. So being ensemble in those is awesome. Now,
Katie, this is your first big lead since you have played the part
of Robinson Crusoe and then children's theater production, so this is kind of kind
of circling back. You started off as a lead, then you've played many
different characters, and now you're a lead role again. This is definitely,
I would have to say, one of my favorite parts, except of course
Peter Pam always number one. So once again we got the show coming up
the twenty ninth and the second and it's at seven o'clock. Buying our it's
auditorium, Bartletviille High School. Tickets in advance are five dollars, ten dollars
at the door. How do we get the advanced ticket? It's going to
go to you. Usually you can find a student you know, or you
can go to the director and then you can buy the tickets from them.
I believe that we will have the ticket box open. I don't know if
it's open right now, but it should, like the week leading up to
the show. It should be open and you can walk in through the f
A C And get some tickets that way. Well, that's great. You
know, you've got great support there, You've got great instructors and that that
seth beell. I don't know what he doesn't do because he seems like he's
like the quietest guy. He just kind of smiles and it's like, got
it, okay, you can ask him to do almost anything. Yeah,
And I miss Roddy is an excellent teacher from what everybody's in in here,
especially when they're with her. Yes, But you know, but the whole
Fine Arts department, it seems like there's a lot of different commingling that that
happens there, whether it's choir, whether it's theater, whether it's work distract
and there's just a lot of intersections of the students. Oh yeah, for
sure, And especially since we've had gotten our new band directors, there's been
a lot of intermingling, especially with band, choir and theater. Yeah,
and it's just really awesome to see how everything works together. It's really cool.
I'm going to ask Katie this question because not only have you been on
stage, but you've done a lot of behind the scenes. You even built
sets on occasion. Yeah, somebody's shoulder to use a hammer. Ye,
thanks mom for teaching me how to use a hammer. Yes. I have
been backstage for all the plays this year except this one, so I was
thinking, hm, let's change it up. So now, what's your favorite
when you're behind the scenes. You've done everything from costume to set design to
everything else. Right, pretty much, I would definitely have to say for
tech tech wise, cautioning is one of the more fun ones. You guys
are looking like, I gotta change my clothes. I gotta disagree. Personally,
I love building the sets like it's just it's so it's so fun because
I put it together and I'm like, man, I really shouldn't be putting
all of my weight on this piece of wood. I know who did this?
Yeah, I know exactly who did this? What about you? Just
back and forth too. I've just done acting. Actually, I just never
got into the tech scene. I thought I would do that some this year,
but Marching Band kind of got in the way, they'll do that,
so uh so. Yeah, but acting has always been super super fun and
the techies are always like super nice, and it's it's just really interesting.
Now most of you are going to be leaving the school pretty soon, Katie.
Do you plan on doing any acting post high school? Oh? Absolutely,
I mean I would love to be a theater teacher, just like it's
because she really taught us well, and so I'll probably do some stuff in
college. I'm going to o s U Go Pokes. I'm going for vocal
music education. Uh so I'll be pretty busy, especially my freshman actually just
all my years. But yeah, and so I'll definitely be busy. But
the theater program at OSU is pretty good, so I'll probably stop by for
a couple of shows. No, oh, I plan on completely dropping all
this. Actually after high school, I'm going to be an engineer, So
don't I won't have a lot of time for all this. As much as
I love it, but I think this is probably my last year of doing
all this kind of stuff. Well, after you get that degree, there's
plenty of community theaters people. Okay, I thought about it. Don't don't
ditch it completely. Just kind of put it on the shelves. Then I
want to thank you all for coming in here today. Thank you. I
want to thank you very much for being a part of our program. And
once again it's the twenty ninth and the second Bartlesville Fine Arts Auditorium, Bartlesville
High School. It's the Anatomy of Gray and the tickets are five dollars in
advance, ten dollars day out. Thank you very much. Take your curtain
call. Think a bad