Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, Welcome Maltham. It's
time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you
dry. So I'm Tom Davis and we've got a cast of well half a
dozen or so and we're here at the Bartonsville Theater. MS Roddy, how
you doing today? I'm doing great. And it's a beautiful day too,
so it's just even better. Well, yeah, I tell you what,
idiots, and we've got to the youngsters all ready to go for another great
presentation. Tell us a little bit about this black Box theater. So the
black Box Theater is actually my classroom that's transformed into a performance space, so
it's really close. And the play check please is about blind dates gone bad.
Oh that never happens. Yeah, I feel I want to know who
these friends are dates. But what's really fun about it, we're making it
dessert theater. So not only do we have the actors on stage performing,
we have performers singing, and we'll have a staff of a maydr D and
waiters who will be in character interacting with the audience as well, making it
a very immersive experience. This reminds me of a restaurant called ed Bevis up
in Chicago where everybody's singing, they're doing something. But this is really gonna
be good. So blind Date's gone bad? And where what, errand does
this come from? It's modern day, it's been the play has been around
a while. Fun fact, I actually did this when I was in high
school, which wasn't very long ago by the way, fular record, like
about four years ago. I played the characters Pearl and Melinda. Yeah,
so it's really fun to kind of like come back to it. And I
think the kids are so much funnier than I ever was. So yeah,
it's mostly modern day. Well, it's taken around the horn and young lady
introduced yourself and tell us what character are you gonna play. My name is
Sophia Hewittt, and I am playing Linda. She is crazy. That's the
best description. Oh well, I tell you what you're gonna be one to
watch. Come up to the microphone there, I'm Rye Ryle and I'm playing
girl and I'm going on half of the blind Dates. Half of the Blind
Dates. Okay, let's say get the microphones over the gentlemen here, and
I'm guy and I'm the other half of the blind dates. Okay, I'm
Riker Birch, and I am Lewis and Matt. Which one is like crazy
obsessed with the girl and the other one is like not paying attention at all.
I've got a question for the cast. Any of you four ever been
on a blind date? No? No, no, no, okay,
just you know, I'm just check and see maybe they did their homework.
Now. Is this possessed any kind of challenge for you having not been on
a blind date? Or can you just kind of put yourself into it?
I can just kind of like knowing like the characters. It's kind of just
like a conversation between two people, So I just kind of like get connected
with the partner and just go as if no one else is there and just
have fun. Well that's pretty good. Now in your situation here, you're
gonna have a lot of action going around you. Is it gonna be kind
of difficult to concentrate? Yeah, it's crazy. I just I just have
to react to the best I can. He's underselling, isn't he? You
gonna have to go watch and perform what about you? Yeah, it's hard
to stay in character when everybody else is just acting so crazy and we're like
the normal people. So well, let's go to the abnormal one here,
Linda, Who's gonna play crazy here. So my character basically talks to herself
the entire time because she's actually a split personality. So there's Linda, and
then there's her imaginary friend Walter, and then Walter has a seeing eye monkey
named Dolores. Sorry I can't even remember my own character's name anyway, So
it's basically the three of them talking to each other, except Laura. She
hollers like a monkey talking to themselves, and then Guy just sits across the
table like the whole time. So it's literally just me talking to myself from
my seed. It's really funny. In my personal opinion, that's kind of
heavy. I mean, you played a lot of roles, but that's kind
of heavy. Did you give awards out for that kind of stuff? Eventually?
Oh, yeah, it's ride and grabbed the microphone up there for you.
You've been at the school for just just a couple of years, Yes,
this is I'm in the middle of my seventh year here, all right,
Yeah, seventh though. Wow, I thought it was just like two
or three or something like that. Time flies when you're having fun. Oh
you know what, these kids, these youngsters, these young people, they
have fun and this is really kind of a neat almost kind of a lifestyle
for the students. Once they get bit by the theater bug. I mean,
they're totally absorbed. We call the glue trap the glue trap. Does
it get stuck bob in your head? Yeah, I know what you're talking
about. But it's a fun one too. You learn a lot of life
skills, you know. First of all, you know, acting is a
lot of fun, it really is. Performing is a lot of fun,
it really is. But when you get into adulting, you know you're going
to have to know these things like courage, a little bit of confidence,
a little bit about how to maybe sell a message that you're trying to convey.
Depending on what kind of work you're in, you're going to need to
know teamwork. Boy Er, You're going to need to know teamwork. And
you know, when it comes to putting on a performance, unless you are
running the lights, the mic and you're the only actor on stage, you
gotta know teamwork. That's very true. One of the things I loved most
about our department is we really foster the culture of working together for better or
worse, helping someone out when they're not going to ask for help. And
a lot of kids also step up to the opportunity to try something new,
and there's always students who've done it before who are there to help them.
I'm going to ask a question to just show a hands here for the folks
I'm watching on TV. Anybody ever get put outside of their comfort zone?
Acting? Everybody unanimous right there? It's kind of like all the time.
Is it? Is it true that most people who act are kind of shy
until they get on stage. I definitely have been a very shy person all
my life, and I still am unless I am on stage because I find
that being in a character is like different from being myself, so it kind
of gives me the opportunity to become a more confident person. Has that transferred
back to your own being. I've seen that it definitely has. I Like,
the first time I came here, I definitely wasn't as I was definitely
more shy. But now I feel like I'm able to like talk about the
things that I know and whatnot, like boldly going where no actress has gone
before with his character Linda. Yeah, imagine every monkeys. Wow. Now
what about you, what's your experience been with theater. It's been a growth,
isn't it. Yeah. I was super shy, and I still am
super shy. But once you get into theater and you get the group that
you get and you just aren't shy, and you step on stage and it's
like you're somebody else and a young man that came up to the microne here
real quick. What was your aha moment when you said I got this,
I finally got this. My aha moment? Yeah, you know, kind
of thinking I want to be in theater. But oh well, my brothers
they did so much in their high school and they had like child roles and
I would fill in for their child roles in their high school, and I
just loved it so much. So you got absorbed. Yeah all right,
so you're kind of an easy one. Yeah. What about you? What
was your moment where you kind of said, this is this stuck with me.
I'm in the glue trap. So I have like not really done theater
all my life. Uh, and then I got to the high school and
I saw the Hobbit, and I'm like, that would be so cool to
be in and so I auditioned for it, and I'm like, oh,
I think my chances of getting a dwarf are pretty good. And I'm like,
Okay, I'll probably just get a dwarf and I'll be happy with it.
And then I ended up getting the lead the Hobbit, and then I
just did and I made friends with like all the seniors, and I just
loved the like environment and acting on stage. And I'm just like, I'm
stuck second the Glee trap. And my daughter was in it too, She
says, I'm ever so thankful I don't have hair on my feet. You
know, that was that was her only that was her only thing. You're
worried about that. It's Roddie. It tell us everybody about the dates and
the times and how we can get tickets for this performances. So this is
actually going to be a very exclusive performance. It's going to be Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at seven pm. But I have thirty seats for each night.
So we're currently selling tickets. Contact me, email me and I can
put one aside, but we're gonna sell out. Reservations are gonna get filled
up real fast. Are already filling up. Tickets are ten dollars, and
that's a little bit more than normal. However, it's entry, a drink
and a small plate the food that we're serving, So that gets you food
and something to drink. And then we offer different plates for two fifty each,
so you can come with a bunch of friends and each get something different
in share. Or if you're a picky person, you're like I only like
apple pie, you just get apple pie. We have options of sweet and
savory. Try to give a little bit of everything available. Just get ready.
If we were acting ever gets beyond high school, you will be doing
dinner theater. I guarantee it, and just sounds like it would be kind
of a good primeer for it. Yeah, I keep telling I refer to
the staff, the waiters, and the made I keep telling them. So
I'm gonna I like, I'm telling them how to be waiters, Like I
was one who hasn't been a waiter. Yeah, parents at a restaurant.
I was doing that at five. Yeah, so they're thirteen or fourteen,
No, they're probably all fourteen by now. Yeah, And I'm like,
okay, so this is what this section means, and this is what the
job of a server. This is the job of the hostess. This is
what you're supposed to do. It's also totally normal for the servers who go
up to the hostess and gossip the whole time instead of I was like,
instead of serving tables. However, don't do that. But it's also good
to know that if you're going to be a working actor, you'll probably be
waiting tables sometime between parts. Just so you know, I just want to
break it to you gently. Maybe all right, all right, but this
is gonna be great. And how do how do we go about getting the
tickets? Do we contact the school? Do we contact you? Do we
email them? So the most efficient way is to email me at ro d
d y aj at bpsh ok dot org. I'll put that in the little
story here when we get done, so you can just kind of linker up
right there and there you go click presto change. Oh, you got it.
And then any student who is involved in the production, production or like
just in my class, tell them what night you want to go, give
them your money, and then they can pick it up and deliver to people
as well. Sales is another thing you're going to be well acquainted and well
versed with on the Way by the feet and fortune in the Great White Way
of New York. This one I was already talking about going to New York.
So anyway, I want to thank everybody for coming in break a leg
figuratively not literally. Insurance costs money, and Miss Roddy always a pleasure.
I always look forward to you bringing in a cast every few weeks or so
so we can get reacquainted with some of our Bartlesville High School students and let's
just have some fun. Okay, all right, great, hey, thanks
for being with us today, ladies and gentlemen right here on our community connection
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