Speaker 1: And good morning. Welcome to Community Connection. Here on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: June the twenty fifth, it's nineteen thirty three, eighty two degrees,
Speaker 1: and I've got a studio full of great musical students.
Speaker 1: Children's musical theater is here. Good morning, morning morning. Oh wow.
Speaker 1: We are getting ready for a big production coming up.
Speaker 1: I know we're going to talk about that. Before we
Speaker 1: do that, though, let's kind of go around the studio
Speaker 1: here and just introduce who you are and what grades
Speaker 1: you're in, and we'll talk about what roles you'll be
Speaker 1: playing here in just a little bit, all right, So
Speaker 1: we're gonna start right here with somebody who has a
Speaker 1: great first name.
Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Vanoy and I'm in tenth.
Speaker 1: Grade, all right, Nathan Vanoy, a tenth grade at Bartolsville, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, good good. And who's next to you.
Speaker 3: My name is Annie Patton and I'm going into tenth.
Speaker 1: Grade very good at Bartleshill as well. Yes, all right,
Speaker 1: And my.
Speaker 4: Name is Eli Swanson. I'm going into eleventh grade and
Speaker 4: I'm at Bartleswell.
Speaker 1: Too, very good, very good.
Speaker 4: I'm going in the twelfth grade.
Speaker 1: But it's all right, it's summer break, right, you don't
Speaker 1: have to think during summer break.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my name is Alison Sumburg. I'm also going in
Speaker 5: the twelfth grade.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good, And folks, you are in here
Speaker 1: for a big production from Children's Musical Theater and this
Speaker 1: is going to be Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Code, right, yes,
Speaker 1: great musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber, one of my favorites actually,
Speaker 1: So talk a little bit about what this production is
Speaker 1: all about, any one of you.
Speaker 4: Well, this show is about Joseph, obviously, the story of
Speaker 4: Joseph in the Bible, but it sort of mixes a
Speaker 4: bunch of genres for the musical aspect of it. There's
Speaker 4: random things like country nineties, rat So, Yes, Calypso sort
Speaker 4: of stuff, and you'd think it'd be kind of weird,
Speaker 4: but it works with our cast.
Speaker 1: Especially, it works really well.
Speaker 4: So it's it's kind of awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds awesome. And I've seen the Broadway production
Speaker 1: of it, and what is it like really? I mean
Speaker 1: because Andreloyd Webber is one of my absolute favorite composers
Speaker 1: for Broadway. I am a huge fan of fans of
Speaker 1: the opera. By the way, that is my all time
Speaker 1: favorite Wicked is up there, you know, but alw has
Speaker 1: it down pat And I can't tell you how many
Speaker 1: times I've seen Phantom anyway. So so it's a biblical
Speaker 1: story but set with some pretty modern things, right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: So what was it like to translate what you see
Speaker 1: on the professional stage versus a junior production of this
Speaker 1: great musical?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, of course, you know, with the smaller cast
Speaker 5: and younger players and all that kind of stuff, it's
Speaker 5: obviously you have to translate some stuff and you have
Speaker 5: to maybe minimize it. But we, for sure it's a
Speaker 5: huge production and we just we have so much fun
Speaker 5: with it. And you know, like he was saying, there's
Speaker 5: one hundred different genres, and there's I mean the story
Speaker 5: of this boy who I mean, he got lucky and
Speaker 5: he kept getting all these opportunities and it led him
Speaker 5: to i mean, become something great and like a big
Speaker 5: yeah Egyptian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. So I guess the big question is
Speaker 1: when is the show time. It's July tenth through thirteenth.
Speaker 5: Y Yes, four shows on Yeah, first tour in the
Speaker 5: evening and then the second two are in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: There you got so two unique performances to matine performances
Speaker 1: during those time frames. And where are the performances going
Speaker 1: to be at.
Speaker 3: The Center Community Center?
Speaker 1: Yes, at the Barblesville Center. Man, what a great facility.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of folks, if you've grown up
Speaker 1: here in Barblesville, I mean you've known the center. But
Speaker 1: for a community our size to have that level of
Speaker 1: a facility for performing arts, it's just absolutely incredible. So
Speaker 1: we'll go around the room here again. So Nathan, tell
Speaker 1: me who you are playing. I'm playing the brother Judah
Speaker 1: Judah okay. And then Annie, who are you playing?
Speaker 3: I am playing missus potterphar.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go? And Eli, who are you?
Speaker 4: I'm playing Joseph.
Speaker 1: Oh you you get the big one. You get to
Speaker 1: where that's technical? Yeah? And Alison, who are you on
Speaker 1: the count?
Speaker 5: I'm playing one of three of our narrators.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, good, good. So for tickets for the performance,
Speaker 1: where can folks get that? And how much are the tickets?
Speaker 1: All of that good sound?
Speaker 5: You can get tickets on the CMT Bartlesville website or
Speaker 5: if you go to any of our social media's we
Speaker 5: are very posting on that, they give you a link
Speaker 5: so you can buy tickets I'm not sure how much
Speaker 5: tickets are, but I mean, if you click the link,
Speaker 5: it'll pop up right there.
Speaker 4: It's real easy to.
Speaker 1: Look at that. The radio guy asked you a question
Speaker 1: you didn't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's all right, that's all right. Well, performing arts,
Speaker 1: you know, let's let's kind of talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about that as to why you are involved in community
Speaker 1: Children's Community Theater. So, Nathan, tell me a little bit
Speaker 1: about what attracts you to performative arts. Like the family
Speaker 1: that we make here.
Speaker 2: It's always there's always so much connection that you make
Speaker 2: in shows that you are in, and especially in this
Speaker 2: show because there's like there's twelve brothers and you are
Speaker 2: always with each other and it's a great time to
Speaker 2: spend with each other. Also, I just love to sing
Speaker 2: and dance. It's just awesome.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. So Anny, when movies
Speaker 1: bacaphone over a little bit for you as well. So
Speaker 1: what is it they attracted you to the performing arts?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, I have loved musicals ever since I was Indy biddy,
Speaker 3: and I knew that I always wanted to be a
Speaker 3: part of CMT. And now that I am a part
Speaker 3: of it. It's like the community that we have. And
Speaker 3: I love singing and dancing and music, and it really
Speaker 3: is just like the best time in the summer. It's
Speaker 3: a really good time.
Speaker 4: And what about you, Eli, I love dancing and moving
Speaker 4: and singing for years, ever since I was really young.
Speaker 4: And now here I am. I've been doing this for
Speaker 4: ten years now and it's just a really great experience.
Speaker 4: And no matter how the demographic of children that come
Speaker 4: into the program are, it's always a really fun and
Speaker 4: exciting experience that you can enjoy during the summer. And
Speaker 4: I look forward to it every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it keeps you in shape too, yes, for sure.
Speaker 1: So Alison, what about you? What has attracted you to
Speaker 1: be a children's musical theater performer?
Speaker 5: Well, this is also my tenth year in the program.
Speaker 5: I mean, me and Eli, we've been here since we're seven,
Speaker 5: and my family has always been really involved in children
Speaker 5: musical theater since the very beginning. And I mean it
Speaker 5: was more of those things that I was just brought
Speaker 5: up in it. And I mean, singing is my passion
Speaker 5: and dancing I'm ast with.
Speaker 1: Good app That's okay, neither of that's all right.
Speaker 5: It's definitely. You make lifelong friends and it's just something
Speaker 5: that you look forward to every year and you can
Speaker 5: always come back and there's your people are always going
Speaker 5: to be there for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Again, we're talking with the performers, the
Speaker 1: artists of Children's Musical Theater of Barlosil Joseph and the
Speaker 1: Amazing Technic Technicolor dream Coat, the Andro Alloyd Lloyd Web
Speaker 1: production coming to the Center here within the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. So one last question I have for you
Speaker 1: and will kind of go around again, but this time
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Alison. Alison, what is your favorite
Speaker 1: scene in Joseph in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Speaker 5: My favorite scene would probably have to be Eli's close
Speaker 5: every Door. It's so emotional. I tear up every time
Speaker 5: he sings it. It's there won't be a dry eye
Speaker 5: in the audience. It's so captivating. He's such an amazing
Speaker 5: performer and it's just amazing to watch every time.
Speaker 1: Look at that Eli, Man, you gotta follow that.
Speaker 4: What is what is your favorite My favorite is so
Speaker 4: if you didn't know, the play is set, it's all
Speaker 4: sung through, so it's all songs. My favorite song is
Speaker 4: Jacob and Son's. It's the beginning of the show and
Speaker 4: it's really exciting and it's really fun and we all
Speaker 4: just sort of hop around and dance and.
Speaker 1: You know, hopping around dancing and singing at the same time.
Speaker 1: That takes a very special skill. I'm lucky if I
Speaker 1: put one foot in front of my other. So I
Speaker 1: almost tripped yesterday. But what that's me anyway, right, any
Speaker 1: what is your favorite scene in the play?
Speaker 4: I would have to say.
Speaker 3: My favorite scene is Canaan Days. It's where we have
Speaker 3: a brother singing a song and he's singing kind of
Speaker 3: in a French accent, and there's three dancers and I'm
Speaker 3: one of them and we get to dance on top
Speaker 3: of tables and it's just really really exciting and it's
Speaker 3: really fun.
Speaker 1: Well it sounds fun and dangerous.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's very scary, but we get through it.
Speaker 1: Who's doing the French accent? Even Ortiz? All right, well
Speaker 1: that'll be great. So Nathan, for you, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite scene in this production?
Speaker 2: I might be a little selfish with this answer, but
Speaker 2: I have a song. It's I just have one song
Speaker 2: and it is so hilarious to me. I mean, we
Speaker 2: haven't actually like blocked it yet, so I don't know
Speaker 2: how fun it'll be. Yes, song is awesome, I rechoose
Speaker 2: my answer.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Do the hodown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so fun. It's so fun country dances. We're
Speaker 1: swinging each other around.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it sounds again hilarious and dangerous for
Speaker 1: somebody my age. Well again, tell us where and when
Speaker 1: these performances will be for Joseph in the Amazing Tent
Speaker 1: The Color Dream Code.
Speaker 5: You want to you you can see our production of
Speaker 5: Chilsreen Musical Theater at the Center Bartlesville July tenth of
Speaker 5: the thirteenth, The tenth and the eleventh are matinees, and
Speaker 5: then the twelfth and thirteenth our afternoons.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's going to be a great time again Children's
Speaker 1: Musical Theater at Barrosol. We're so lucky to have such
Speaker 1: an incredible organization here that trains young musicians, young performers
Speaker 1: to take those next steps and is paid off well
Speaker 1: for a lot of our alumni of that. I mean
Speaker 1: Kaylen Kyle. Kaylyn Kyle, it's the new executive director of
Speaker 1: the Center. She is an alum and she's got on
Speaker 1: and done great things. I mean, gosh, she did Wicked, Yes,
Speaker 1: she did Wicked. Anyway, hopefully that's a I'm assuming that's
Speaker 1: probably some of your goals as well, to get into
Speaker 1: Broadway performances on Broadway. What do you know? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: Nathan Vanoy, Ellison, Sunberg, Andy Patten, and Eli Swatson, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for spending part of your morning on
Speaker 1: a on a summer morning here with us today talking
Speaker 1: about Joseph in the amazing Technicolor Drinker. Of course, absolutely absolutely,
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