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They're a little bit taller than the ones we had last week, but
they've all been in Cinderella. Now some of you, all of you twice
Hi, welcome aboard, Thank you so much. We have Caitlin, we
have Eric, and we have Roberta, all in here today. Caitlin cogil
is the director. And welcome back, because it's like a welcome back to
times too, isn't it. That's right. This is my third show that
I've been directing for CMT. I was here for The Little Mermaid and twenty
eighteen and The Music Man during the Pandemic, and I'm so glad to be
back again directing Cinderella, the twenty fifth anniversary production. Now this is another
kind of a comeback too, because what happened in two thousand in was in
the very first children's musical feat of Bartlesville production was Rogers and Hammerstein, Cinderella
and Roberta and I were both in the play together. I played Cinderella at
thirteen years old, and Roberto was my beloved stepsister. Hey, tell us
a little bit about that ROBERTA going back in time and then to present day.
It's kind of a neat little trip, isn't it. It sure is.
I just have the best memories of getting to be on that CMT stage
and getting a shit with my good friend Caitlin, and now getting to come
back twenty five years Well, this is on our first one together, but
to be back together in the same show slightly different, but the same show
has been really surreal. No, Eric, kello's a little bit about yourself.
You're the choreographer, So I am also a CMT alumni. I did
four five shows somewhere in there Wow growing up, and then went out performed
for a while. I was actually in the Broadway tour of Cinderella, And
now I'm able to come back and help give it to these kids and really
have a fun time with them. One of the special things about this twenty
fifth anniversary production is that all of the creative team are all Every single one
of us is a CMT alum. So you have the three of us sitting
here today. You've also got Brad Gray, who's our lighting designer. He
is still working on Broadway every single year he's programming Broadway shows and so he
brings such exceptional expertise to this stage. And we also have christ who is
designing all of our projections. Christo is a he's a creative director here in
Oklahoma, but he's also a CMT alum and he is making the magic happen
on the stage for us. I tell us a little bit about this,
this projection thing. This is kind of new for CMT is today. This
is brand new. So we had an led wall donated for the use of
this production, and so we are able to do some things on that stage
he's never been able to do before. And we are still finding new ways
to bring the magic to life. And it really is going to be something
that is so special and not to be missed. Wow, this is going
to be cool. Now, I understand we have sixty four kids. What's
that like teaching sixty four kids to dance there, mister Eric. So they
have stepped up and absolutely killed it. So a lot of our kids aren't
classically trained dancers, and that's totally okay. We can make do with everything
that we have. But every single one of them, has showed up the
rehearsals willing to learn, bright eyed bushytailed and said, I don't know how
to do that. I'll figure it out, and they have done so they're
absolutely incredible. We have big scenes with literally the entire cast on stage,
and then we've got some smaller scenes that really feature some lovely intimate moments and
it's just awesome. Robert had this music. I heard some of it.
It's going to be in the performance when needed, A little short kind of
a presentation at a Unity Square. Tell us a little bit about it.
It really souted great. Well, thank you. So I alluded this to
earlier, but this story is a little bit different than the story that you've
heard of Cinderella in the past, maybe in the New movies or even the
original Rogers and Hammerstein. And one of the great changes about this script is
that it features an ensemble. There wasn't a whole lot of ensemble work before,
and so now they've really highlighted the ensemble, and so we've been able
to take classic songs like ten Minutes Ago and Stepsister's Laments and infuse the entire
cast into that, and so it really makes for some lush beautiful moments.
Well, golly, I found it's pretty darn cool now getting into the fact
that we have sixty four kids. We've doubled casts this year. We have.
One of the fun things about coming back every few years is that you
get to see the organization grow and you get to see the kids grow and
develop. And when we were here in February auditioning these kids, we realized
that we just had so many skilled kids that were ready for the responsibility of
having a role. And so what we've done is we have two different casts
of principal characters. So we've got one cast, the Enchanted cast is going
on Thursday and Saturday, and then we've got the ever After cast and they'll
be performing for you on Friday and Sunday. And it has been thrilling to
watch these kids create two different versions of the same play. We have really
encouraged them to find their own way to navigate the material and sitting back in
the theater this week watching these dress rehearsals, it's absolutely thrilling to see two
totally different versions of the same story on the stage. Er I was gonna
say, And they're all taking really bold risks and like having the freedom to
play off of each other, and it's really I look at these kids and
I'm going if I had done that when I was there, I would be
so much better. They're really it's amazing to watch them, and they're all
in the show every night. So the other fun thing is that these kids
who've been cast to share a role have an ensemble track. So these kids
have learned twice the material in half the rehearsal time, essentially because they've had
two roles to learn in the same six week rehearsal problems. So that's pretty
much the way who's going to a Broadway touring group and it is Yeah,
I was gonna say it's the timeline is not far off. And these kids
have stepped up yet again and said okay, cool, we'll make it happen.
And they have well. And Eric and I both swung a professional musical,
so what you do is you understudy multiple tracks. And so I was
a swing in Newsy's on Broadway and Eric was a swing and a dance captain
on the tour of Cinderellas. So one of the fun things about coming back
home after having over a decade of experience as a professional performing artist. Is
we get to share these very specific professional skills with kids. I didn't get
to understudy or swing a show until I was out of college, and now
we've got kids in high school tackling professional level responsibilities. It's really incredible.
Yeah, Roberta, I got to ask you with the singing, the kids
don't get confused with this, you know, they're switching around things. They
just kind of just go out and do it, don't they They do.
They're really incredible, and you know, I'm really proud of the way that
they've been able to handle all of it. It would be really easy to
be jealous or to try and like steal the spotlight from each other, but
they have been very gracious and very uplifting to each other and very generous with
Maybe they weren't around when a note was given, so they've been very generous
with, you know, encouraging the other person and giving them all the necessary
information to be successful. Now, when it comes to styling the songs,
are are they sticking straight through the sheet or are they getting a little expressive
too. We're trying to stick pretty close the sheet. But they I mean,
again, they're two different singers, so They're going to sing it in
two different ways. Everyone has their own individual voice, and the way that
one person might interpret a phrase or a line of music is going to be
different than another person. So you just got to see the show. That's
right. Album two tickets comes even shot twice. Yeah, tickets are available
with the show's up July eleventh through the fourteenth, and you can still get
tickets at the box office at the Center or online at their website. Now,
I'm just going to say this, I'm a man of a few years,
but two thousand and one that long ago for you guys your sake,
Well, I was like half my life. I guess it feels a lot
longer when we're around these children. Does that harken back to some of the
things that you might have remembered as a young cast member? Do you do
you kind of? Oh? I have, I mean flash back. The
best memories are dressing room memories. Yeah, so on stages on you when
you walk backstage, you go, oh, yeah, there is these shenanigans
that happened, thos that happened there. Oh man, glad we made it.
And working with a lot of the same volunteers is so satisfying to walk
into the building and see these faces that have been invested in this organization every
year for twenty five years, and there are thousands upon thousands of volunteer hours
that go into making a show like this happen, and so getting to come
back and see faces who gave us that gift as kids were when we were
kids, they were making the show happen for us, and they're still here,
invested in this organization and invested in this next generation of kids. I
mean, many of them haven't changed a bit, haven't many of them have
changed a bit. That's the great part is that you have this legacy and
you have the it's bound to go on forever. CMT is. It had
a great start in two thousand. It's been building like a snowball, and
that is because the community has embraced it so so wholeheartedly and said, we
want to make this thing for our kids to be able to experience the arts
in a way that a lot of places can't. So it's really it's such
a special environment. We're going to take a very quick break and when we
come back, we're going to give a little bit of a wrap up and
how to get tickets. Okay, all right, folks, here are watching
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eight three three three zero zero one three and welcome back. We are talking
with our crew from cmt our alums and also our creative team. At the
same time, we have Kathleen Coggiol, the director, Eric Geibel, choreographer,
and the music director Roberta Aberhart, And this is great having you back
here in town. And it's also great for the kids to see that,
yeah, you can come from a town like Bartlesville and you can go places
the sky is the limit? Is that really? Are the kids kind of
taking that to heart because it seems like they're acting all inspired and stuff.
We have kids going out and auditioning for college programs left and right. So
we actually have a good number of kids who I think maybe wouldn't have ever
considered this out having CMT, some who have used CMT as a kind of
springboard to get them off onto their career. Well, and I like to
talk about the value of arts education no matter what career path you should up
in. So you know, we have those of us who have taken the
performance route. Roberta has really invested in education. There you go, it
goes on, it does. And one of her students from her high school
teaching gig is our is our stage manager this year, which is it is
just incredible to see the impact, that long term impact. And then we
have you know, Christo who's working on our projections. Who is a creative
director, and so he's taken his understanding of story and brought it to his
work in media and design. Wow, Dell, shall we get tickets?
I want tickets to all four of them. Come see us at the Center.
Tickets are available at the box office and online. We'll be performing four
times July eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteen. Come see both casts.
You will not be disappointed, all right. I want to thank you
for coming in so early in the morning and being with us to share today
right here on K one.