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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one Don't One You

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Trust, brought to you in part
by Arnold Moore and Knee Camp a funeral

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home. We have a houseful,
because we're going to make a houseful actually

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at the at the Center as they
call it now. It's a children's musical

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theater. And Rachel Miller is the
executive producer. We've got the wonderful Wizard

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of Wallace. How are we doing? We are excellent this morning, excited

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to be here. Now introduced the
whole he holl gang here too. All

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right. We have Jackson Davis who
is playing our scarecrow there Oz, and

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then Navivy Kate McDonald who is our
amazing Dorothy, and then Eli Swanson who

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is ten man this year. Well, these are great roles, all of

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them. They it's going to be
something else, yea. They worked very

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hard for their roles. Now,
now how do we go around selecting this

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for our production for this year?
You know, actually a few years ago

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and a group of producers for CMT
Pass producers Present producers, we met,

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evaluated in multiple shows and we decided
that the Wizard of Oz checked off all

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the boxes for what we felt we
needed and what we felt the community needed.

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Well, super, I want to
talk to you a maybe Kate here

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Dorothy, how are you doing,
Dad? I just checked the radar.

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Looks like we might get some rain. I hope it's not a tornado either.

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Hey, how do you feed into
those ruby slippers? I said it

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really well? Actually good style,
don't they? So tell us about the

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role and how you went about,
you know, getting ready for it.

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Getting ready for Dorothy is not really
hard because I'm it fits in the character

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pretty well. Um, but I'm
really excited for it. I think it'll

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be really fun. It's it's a
lot of hard work, but in the

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end I think it'll I think it'll
be really good. Well great, you

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know. Yeah, do you get
to world around by a tornado and you

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get carried off? Or how do
we do that on the stage? Um?

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I think we like there'll be a
few surprises production about that. In

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this production we will have theatrical flying, so there are numerous of our cast

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members who will actually be flying in
the air. Okay, well in question,

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sorry about that. Sorry, Let's
go to Eli the tin Man get

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a little closure there if you went
to the microphone. So this is a

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cool part. The tin Man has
always been a kind of you have the

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ability to steal the show, you
know that. Don't backed up for this.

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I'm I'm ready. I think I
can do it and I'll be there.

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Well you're there, man, you're
already there. So what have you

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done private previously to this? Um? I think this is going to be

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my eighth mainstage show for CMT.
Yeah, I've done some little junior camps

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and other stuff like that. But
it's it's fun. It's good work,

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but it's yeah, it's funny.
What you are you in school? I'm

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going into tenth grade? Now,
Well, there you go, there you

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go, and then we are going
to be talking not to Jackson Davis,

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who's the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow is
hilarious. Yes, a lot of fun.

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How can it not be? Right, Now, you get to do

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something and you get to do some
dancing, you get to do some acting,

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and you actually get to do a
little bit of a kind of cloud

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on a round right right? Yeah, what's your favorite part about the Scarecrow?

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Oh? I love his like movements, how he's always like kind of

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like swaying around. He has like
very big like scarecrow movements if a scarecrow

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good movie. Yeah, they do
in the wind and what happens is you

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just kind of capture that right there, because you know, with the scarecrow,

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every time the wind blows, it
looks like they try to make it

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so it looks like a human moving, so it keeps scrows away from the

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corn. But you just have the
fluidity there. Do you have a dance

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background too? Um, I haven't
really done a lot of dance, but

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I've been in a bunch of productions
previous to this. But yeah, oh

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okay, so you've done a little, but done what's been required? As

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they say, yes, um,
this is actually my first CMC production.

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Oh really? Yes? Wow?
Cool? Yes? Better now than you

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know, say, well, I
couldn't. Nobody needs to. Nobody needs

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that on their their mind's resume.
I could. Yeah, you gotta do

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it. But I think you're going
to be great. Yes, I'm very

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excited and Rachel, I think all
these kids are going to be great.

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Time. I am incredibly impressed.
Every day we're on our Today will be

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our seventh day of rehearsal, and
they have already blown me away with how

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much progress they have made and how
dedicated they are. It's amazing. You

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know, We've got a real strong
theater community here in Bartlesville, not only

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with CMT, which has been around
for years, but also with the high

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school and with others that come into
town from time to time to help out

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as well. But it's it's really
good because a community this size under forty

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thousand, usually that's kind of like
the last thing on the plate, and

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this is kind of front and center. It's an amazing thing. It makes

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Bartlesville, which is already special for
other reasons, it makes it even more.

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If you are a parent trying to
find a place to raise your kids,

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this arts environment is perfect. Oh
god, Ali, it sure is.

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Now how long have you been with
the same team? So? I

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started as a parent eight years ago
and then progressed to a volunteer producer,

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and then a year ago I started
as a full time employee. I serve

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as the executive producer for the main
stage program and I am the development director.

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Wow we yeah, Now, how
did you get your start in theater.

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I have no theatrical skills or background. I've seen your children, you

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have to Nope, you do not
want me to do any sort of performing,

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singing, dancing. It would not
be advisable to watch. Now,

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I've watched one of your sons,
Jackson, and your daughter Bella just really

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put out the lights and everything that
they've been in. I was surprised to

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find that Jackson is as young as
he is. Yes, he's the same

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age, but he plays the role
like he's much much older. Yes,

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because he looks like he's because he
looks all Yes, he is growth sports.

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He was one of the first of
his age, so I think he

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had no choice but to appear I'm
mature than he probably actually is. And

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uh, Bella, your your daughter
has been in some actually some film work

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too. She has. She was
able to work with a local producer um

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here and get to do some film
work. So that Dane Warner is a

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good friend of mine, and he
raves about her ability, says that you

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know when she's captured on camera,
you know you're you're just drawn into the

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character, whether it was the fourteenth
Floor or whether it was Kendra's song,

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which by the way, you have
a nice award there. And you know

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Bella start with children's musical Theater.
Her very first audition, she did not

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even make a callback. She stared
at the floor, she didn't look up

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um and she worked harder and through
her years with CMT, those skills have

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just grown over the years. These
three don't leave you because they've seen her

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in just about everything. For first
few years with CMT, she had a

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whole lot of growth to do,
and that's the beauty of the program.

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Each year with the main stage program, we bring in artistic staff from all

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over the country so that the cast
members are getting to experience something different every

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year, which allows continued growth for
them. When we come back, we're

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going to talk a little bit more
to the cast members. Here. We're

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talking with our friends from Children's Musical
Theater. We've got the Wonderful Wizard of

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Oz and what are the show dates
on that. We have four performances for

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the community beginning July twentieth through the
July twenty third, and we're gonna tell

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you how to get tickets here in
just a moment too. After we take

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this break, we're our more Kneecap
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the one you drives. The first
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I don't care if it's three o'clock
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morning. That first conversation is,
mister X, this is Tim how with

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Arnold Moore n Funeral Home. First
of all, sir, let me say

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I'm very sorry we're having to have
this conversation right now. And to the

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nth degree, those people always appreciate
you taking a moment to just pause and

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say I'm aware that someone you care
about very much has just left you,

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and I'm sorry that we have to
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this. And if it's three o'clock
in the morning, I try to be

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brief but concise and say do you
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for you right now before we meet
at our arrangement conference. And sometimes I

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say, you know, can you
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pastor? And I don't mind doing
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walk through this together, Arnold Moore
and me Camp Funeral Home, seven ten

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Dewey, Bartelsville. We will walk
through this together and welcome back to our

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community connection. We're talking with friends
and family here, but Children's Musical Theater

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and they have of the Wizard Wis
coming up in July twenty through the twenty

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three at the Center in downtown Bartoldsville. I want to get it into a

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little bit more with characters. We're
gonna start and go right down the line,

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Jackson. Have you ever seen the
original movie of the Wizard of Oz.

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Yes, I saw it for like
the first time a couple of months

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ago. Yeah. Yes, it
was like right after I auditioned, I

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was like, I should I should
watch the Yeah, I watched it right

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after that kind of a well,
you know, you're you're living in a

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different era. But for that time, that was crazy because color movies were

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just starting to take effect, and
that might have been one of the first,

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if not the first, So yeah, it was one of the first

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anyway. And what about you,
young lady, miss Dorothy. Yes,

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I've watched it. Before I watched
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littler, but and then after the
auditions I watched it a couple of times.

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We love the movie. It's very
all the characters are fun, like,

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yeah, are you feeling like things
you're starting to sync up a little

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bit toward that, Yeah, a
new mystery, Like, yeah, I

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have one. Actually rewatched it last
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I wanted to get into it and
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the story and then, you know, I watched a few years back,

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but I haven't watched it since.
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movie and the stage kind of transcend
a little bit differently because of what you

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can and cannot do. But many
times, actually the play kind of takes

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a little bit in a different direction
than the movie because you know, you're

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playing to really two different types of
audiences and it's really gonna be fun.

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Did you pick up any tips on
perhaps how the tin Man played his part

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and how you're doing your thing?
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and he's usually nice to all the
people. He's just really longing for.

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Oh, there you go. What
about you? Would you pick up

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from the character that you saw in
the movie and how your portraying Dorothy.

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She's very kind, she's a very
good friend, but she's a little feisty.

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She's very protective, even if it's
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Yeah, she's very Yeah, she's
a lot, but it's gonna well,

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she's from Kansas. What about you, Jackson? I feel like the

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Scarecrow is very charismatic and just like
happy and goes along with everything and just

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you know, he's along for the
ride, right, He's going down the

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yellow brick road. He hasn't gotta
care, right exactly? How are you

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seeing this sum up here? You
know when the casting came out for this

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one, there were a few surprises. But as I've watched each of them

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in the rehearsals, they are embodying
their characters. They're working so hard.

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I mean, Eli, you are
kinds like you just have kindness coming out

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of you, so you are the
perfect in man. Don't lose it.

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Okay, you know when you start
making millions of dollars on Broadway, remember

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that kind cool stuff. Okay,
it goes a long way. I'm sorry

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about no no in here, but
we will have a few surprises. If

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you've never seen the stage version,
you've only seen the movie, it expands

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it a little more. We have
a You'll Meet the Jitterbugs, which is

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not in the movie, so our
audience, if you come see you will

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get to find out what a jitterbug
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the jitterbugs, very exciting. We
also have incorporated Eli as tin Man will

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treat us to some tap. He
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tin Man Man. So we additionally
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Scarecrow in that scene, our crows
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so you get a little ensemble thing
going on there. You know, you

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get to be the lead dude,
but they get to do all the heavy

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turn in and spin tap. But
as long as they're focusing on your your

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careers, ben your star park,
they're gonna tap their little wings off.

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Yes, so this is gonna be
a lot of fun. Now, Dorothy

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is just about in every scene.
Yeah, if we had to think about

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that, didn't. Yeah. You
don't even get to go off and get

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a drink of water very often,
do you. No, But I always

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have my water with me just in
case something who's pretty much on stage the

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entire show. That's what That's what
I was thinking, you know, So

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boy, you get a get a
good meal, keep that energy gone.

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Oh my goodness. Thinks it's gotta
be fun working with the young people as

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they're discovering not only the stage itself, but also their own talents as they

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start to develop into their characters.
Absolutely watching them go through this process,

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we knew they already had talent.
That's why they get here in the roles.

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About watching them develop it and grow
it. All of the cast members,

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which we have sixty eight of them
in this production, at eight of

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them on the stage that you'll get
to see, but each one of them

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down to the even the seven year
olds, gained skills, they gained self

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sufficiency, more confidence. It's an
amazing part of the process and I love

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getting to watch it. You know, many people will focus on the primary

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characters, but once you go into
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you notice that you have the dy
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out there just having a They have
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big kids do they do you kind
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They do? Oh? No,
they have so much fun. But

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it's amazing if you watch what they
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that they are able to learn those
roles, find their marks on the

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stage, follow those instructions, and
it's five weeks of long hours and hard

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work, and it really pains off
too. Because you know, I've seen

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kids go through this development here too. They become very shall I say,

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particular in life, meticulous in life, very detail oriented in life. Boy,

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did they get detail oriented. And
you know, sometimes as a parent

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you're like, what, maybe I
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I got to catch up with that
one. It teaches them so many

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skills because they see how many different
pieces there are that have to fall in

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place. And you learn that you
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because if you don't follow your piece, the whole thing can fall apart.

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So everybody make sure they're doing their
part. So what have you learned most

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about your experience? This is your
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it? Um? I don't think
so many things right, Yes, there

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are so many things, um um. I have learned that Jackson has been

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a little bit tortured the last week. He has learned that in order to

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learn how to move like Scarecrow.
Yes, he has had to have some

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padding and kneepads and a tumbling match
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Yes, yes, flexibility. I
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physicality to his character that he is
having to figure out. Oh yeah,

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well by time it's over with,
you be able to run a marathon exactly.

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What about you, miss Dorothy.
I've learned how to be more in

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touch with my emotions and how to
be more if I need to be sad

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or if I really need to be
really angry or really sweet, And I

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think that's helped me a lot.
And character walking too, Like she's still

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human, but she still has her
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she's in charge, man, Yeah
she's she's a boss lady. What about

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you? What if you take what's
your big takeaway from your experience? Well,

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you really get to make a lot
of friends that you get to like

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characterize with other people and really get
into the work. I want to say

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workforce, but that's not really but
it is. I'm gonna tell you I've

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been an entertainment all my life.
This I've done some acting and I'm on

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a music to her on weekends and
everything else like that. It is work.

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Don't ever tell yourself that you're just
playing around. It is actually it

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is actually work. It's it's tiring, but it's good. What is it?

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The old man used to tell me. It's good for you help derul

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a character. Well, we got
the show coming up July twentieth through the

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twenty thirdieth the Center, Miss Rachel. How do we get tickets? You

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can either go to the center and
purchase them directly at the box office,

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or you can go to Bartlesville Center
dot com and purchase tickets online. How

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can we find out more about CMT? Do you have a Facebook or a

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website? We do have a Facebook
page. You can go to Children's Musical

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Theater searching on Facebook. You can
also go to our website, which is

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CMT onstage dot com and find out
more information. Not only do we have

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this amazing production right now, actually, as we are speaking, there is

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a camp getting ready to start at
our primary building. We have an Aristocats

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kids camp that has forty five kids
in it. So in addition to our

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sixty eight kids in on the Wizard
of Oz, there are forty five additional

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kids who are working on a musical
right now. Wow's that's a lot.

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That is really kind of cool too. It is. It's an amazing thing

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to watch. And each program that
we have has a different feel to it,

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different list of expectations, but all
of them have the same benefits of

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gaining self confidence, gaining those theatrical
skills, having fun, becoming we kind

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of in each of our casts,
it's always a little bit of a family

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atmosphere, and this Wizard of Us
they actually do have families. They've been

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assigned into little families, nine little
families, and so at any time,

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during warmups in the morning, or
if they're needing to take a break,

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they break into these little families where
they can kind of help take care of

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each other. I like that.
I like that a lot. Hey,

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I want to thank you all for
being here. Break a leg and we'll

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see you with the Wizard of Oz
coming up July twenty through the twenty three

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at the Center. Thank you,
thank you. Hey, it's me Ruthie

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