Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome, idiot.
Speaker 1: Is time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the One You Trust A thirty three. We
Speaker 1: have some students here from Bartlesville High School and we've
Speaker 1: got a big production coming up, probably one of the
Speaker 1: biggest in all of your careers combined. Carter will start
Speaker 1: with you name that show.
Speaker 2: Lame miss as the French people would say.
Speaker 1: There you go. And this is pretty intense, isn't it,
Speaker 1: Miss Schewett.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's a very like this show is very different
Speaker 3: from what we've done at the high school before because I've,
Speaker 3: as we've all been in high school, we've only ever
Speaker 3: done comedies and this is the first like big drama
Speaker 3: that we've done, and it's it's very intense.
Speaker 1: For all of us. Eli, how intense is it for you?
Speaker 4: It's really intense. I go through a roller coaster emotions
Speaker 4: and I'm just I don't know what to do with myself.
Speaker 4: It's difficult.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're gonna be kind of like the audience
Speaker 1: members because they go on a little bit of a
Speaker 1: roller coaster too, don't they. Yeah, Jackson, you get to
Speaker 1: play the heavy in this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I played Javert who he's he's the antagonist of it.
Speaker 5: He comes in and out throughout the entire musical. He's
Speaker 5: one of the few characters that's there almost the whole time,
Speaker 5: and he has this rivalry with Jean Valjean. It's Carter,
Speaker 5: and so it's it's a pretty intense whole.
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot. Now, this is set back just
Speaker 1: prior to the French Revolution.
Speaker 6: Right, it is actually set I did a lot of research.
Speaker 3: It's actually set during the June Rebellion, the end of.
Speaker 6: The Second French Revolution. There was three, so it's like.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get it right the first two times go ahead?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, so but basically everything goes wrong and then
Speaker 3: the second Rebellion ends, and then the third one happens
Speaker 3: years years later.
Speaker 6: The French went through a lot of turmoil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. They did an awful lot too. Now, Carter,
Speaker 1: you play Jean Ville Joel and your character goes through
Speaker 1: a lot of transformation.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's been trying.
Speaker 2: Once they had sent out the cast list and I
Speaker 2: figured this out and I got my script, I was
Speaker 2: sitting there like dumbfounded because I was like, how am
Speaker 2: I going to go through? I mean, so many different
Speaker 2: emotions and almost characters.
Speaker 1: I guess, well he is.
Speaker 2: And I mean he goes through so many different epiphanies
Speaker 2: and like just all sorts of crazy stuff. And it's
Speaker 2: been difficult to get everything to portray the way I
Speaker 2: wanted to, if that makes sense. But it's definitely been
Speaker 2: It's going to be good, it will be great, but
Speaker 2: it's definitely been a struggle getting there.
Speaker 1: Now, the book was one thing, and it's an incredible read,
Speaker 1: it really is. And then there have been two or
Speaker 1: three different stage adaptations that I remember in a couple
Speaker 1: of movies too, And the last one I saw was
Speaker 1: with Hugh Jackman playing that character. And you want to
Speaker 1: talk about unrecognizable throughout the you know, he turns in
Speaker 1: like three different guys, just really incredible. Sophie, tell me
Speaker 1: about your character.
Speaker 3: So, Epanine is the daughter of Thenadier and he's the
Speaker 3: innkeeper who there's so much everyone is so interconnected, you
Speaker 3: have to kind of give a little backstory. He keeps Cosette,
Speaker 3: which is becomes Beljean's daughter basically, so that's Epanine's his daughter.
Speaker 3: And Epanine is in love with Marius, and Marius is
Speaker 3: in love with cosette.
Speaker 6: So they kind of have that love triangle.
Speaker 1: In the midst of all of this.
Speaker 3: In the midst of all the war that's happened, and
Speaker 3: you know, but he never loves her back, and that's
Speaker 3: kind of her main conundrum is that she will never
Speaker 3: get to be loved, but she still will do anything
Speaker 3: to protect him and to help him basically, and that's
Speaker 3: her whole That.
Speaker 1: Makes you feel conflicting, I imagine it is. I mean
Speaker 1: that you're playing a wide range of emotions too.
Speaker 6: Yes, I there's that love triangle.
Speaker 4: We were talking the other day about what we lead
Speaker 4: with as characters, and I feel like Marius that's his name,
Speaker 4: leads with his heart most of the time. There's a
Speaker 4: song called heart full of Love you want to come watch,
Speaker 4: and he's very passionate about things, and he's caught up
Speaker 4: in this decision between going to war with his friends
Speaker 4: and all of his comrades, or going and pursuing his
Speaker 4: true love and rejecting this girl.
Speaker 1: Now, Jackson Miller, you're kind of an easy going guy
Speaker 1: for the most part. You're playing this okayated that, but
Speaker 1: you're playing this really heavy, hard knuckle I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: knock your block off type of fella the whole time.
Speaker 1: This is going to be kind of kind of a challenge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's one thing in comedy musicals you can
Speaker 5: your character.
Speaker 6: It's it's over the top and it's easy to do.
Speaker 5: But then whenever it comes to a drama, it's so
Speaker 5: to play someone so different from yourself, it's so it's
Speaker 5: very it's it's a lot. I mean, if you go
Speaker 5: in and just sing it, sing it, you can sing
Speaker 5: through just the notes and it's fine, but you have
Speaker 5: to to actually have a good performance. You have to
Speaker 5: go in and see that guy. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 5: live feel how the character is feeling. There's this one
Speaker 5: song towards the end, which is the most intense song
Speaker 5: that I sing personally, which it.
Speaker 1: Ends with me dying.
Speaker 5: But uh that after I come off of that song,
Speaker 5: it's it takes me like a minute before I can
Speaker 5: like talk to anyone again because it's just I'm you're
Speaker 5: so into the emotion of it, and it's it's it's intense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can believe that I can.
Speaker 3: I feel the exact same way after I die too,
Speaker 3: Like I will walk away.
Speaker 1: A whole lot of people.
Speaker 6: I just have to stand there.
Speaker 3: And just like think about it and be like Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I'm gonna live.
Speaker 6: Like it's like it gets really intense.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, you know, stuff kind of gets real, you know
Speaker 1: when when you're in theater and you take it seriously,
Speaker 1: you become those characters for a while. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's go paint the barn and put on a show.
Speaker 1: You actually become these people and you tell the story
Speaker 1: as those people. And it's very very hard, very very
Speaker 1: interesting work too. Show dates.
Speaker 6: Our show is April twenty fifth to the twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: And what are the tickets costs? Target?
Speaker 2: The tickets for students are fifteen dollars and for adults
Speaker 2: are twenty dollars and you can.
Speaker 6: Buy those at www dot Bartlesville Choir.
Speaker 2: Dot com now, yeah, or you can buy him an
Speaker 2: hour before each show.
Speaker 1: Okay. And because this is basically a full art experience,
Speaker 1: we have a little something special here.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So we have a very cool thing happening
Speaker 3: right now where there is a beautiful painting by John
Speaker 3: Lynn Bloom and we are doing a raffle for it.
Speaker 3: So it's painting of basically like what the poster is,
Speaker 3: but it's it's little, it's baby cosette with like the
Speaker 3: French flag. It's gorgeous. So it's five dollars for one
Speaker 3: ticket or twenty for five. And then at the last
Speaker 3: show they're gonna pull a winner and then they'll get
Speaker 3: to take their painting home.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 6: Very cool.
Speaker 3: So buy your raffle tickets and those can also be
Speaker 3: bought at the choir.
Speaker 6: Yes, it'll be before the show. Before the shows, you
Speaker 6: can buy before the show.
Speaker 1: Well, this is great. I know this is an expensive production,
Speaker 1: and I know that you've done some bingo nights and
Speaker 1: other fundraisers just in order to pay to get the
Speaker 1: rights the sets and the costumes and everything like this.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see full houses, folks standing room only,
Speaker 1: if you would, that would be great. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: my tickets as fast as i can because I know somebody,
Speaker 1: and then hope to see everybody there. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a great performance. Now, you two guys, you're junior, right,
Speaker 1: Eli and Jackson your junior's well for the two seniors
Speaker 1: to have this as your final show on stage at
Speaker 1: the Performing Arts Center, how's that working for you?
Speaker 2: As the pinnacle of my music theater career. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is NonStop on every scene except for like two
Speaker 2: for me, go go go seeing as high and as
Speaker 2: low and as loud and quiet as I can.
Speaker 6: And it is a.
Speaker 2: Test of art, a bill I would say, And it's
Speaker 2: gonna be I don't want to brag, but it's gonna
Speaker 2: be really good.
Speaker 1: You can go, you can go ahead and brag as
Speaker 1: long as you're telling the truth. Son, It's all right.
Speaker 1: So and I believe it's going to be very very good.
Speaker 1: Back to I think it's going to be excellent, Sophie.
Speaker 1: And you've played so many wide range of carriers.
Speaker 3: Well, this isn't the biggest role I've ever had, but
Speaker 3: it's it's one of my dream roles. I've always wanted
Speaker 3: to play Epanine for a really long time, and I
Speaker 3: came into this show being like, I want to play Eponine,
Speaker 3: Like this is, this is what I want and I
Speaker 3: got it, and I am very very happy.
Speaker 6: And to just like have this experience with.
Speaker 3: My best friends, all of them, and just with my wonderful,
Speaker 3: amazing choir teachers whom I love so much, like this
Speaker 3: is it's just a true honor to be able to
Speaker 3: do this with all the people that I love and
Speaker 3: this amazing show, like so fantastic.
Speaker 1: No Eli, you got another year left. I mean, what
Speaker 1: are you taking away from seniors?
Speaker 4: They have so much, so much, they have so much
Speaker 4: experience in this and they're having I can tell they're
Speaker 4: having a good time and I am too, And it's
Speaker 4: really exciting getting to have this legacy of a show
Speaker 4: passed on to us.
Speaker 6: It makes me worried for next year.
Speaker 1: But it does. It's like, how are you going to
Speaker 1: top this? Yeah? Yeah? And Jackson, not only have you
Speaker 1: had a great bunch of seniors, your sister was also
Speaker 1: a very tallended still is a talented performer. Uh and
Speaker 1: and Ac Chris and singer. What do you what do
Speaker 1: you take from all this that you've learned at the
Speaker 1: feed of the Masters, as they.
Speaker 5: Say, I mean, I've just for a few years, I've
Speaker 5: been I've been waiting for to see like people like
Speaker 5: Carter to leave so I can start getting so I
Speaker 5: can start getting some bigger roles.
Speaker 1: We're getting on this here now Christmas Now it's TMG
Speaker 1: folks with them, that's what we got going on here.
Speaker 5: You get to see people with such artistry and perfection
Speaker 5: of a craft. I mean it's it's it inspires you
Speaker 5: to work to be better. Just seeing people like my sister,
Speaker 5: who I thought she was like the best performer in
Speaker 5: the world, and then she she went to college and
Speaker 5: it turns out she's like she's the bottom of that.
Speaker 5: It goes so much higher than what I could have
Speaker 5: even possibly imagined, like just how deep you can get
Speaker 5: into into perfection or craft. It's it just inspires me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is something else, It truly is. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see the show. It's gonna be April twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Tickets you can get them now fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: from students, twenty dollars for students to twenty dollars for
Speaker 1: the adults. Say don't forget the raffle for the John
Speaker 1: Limb Bloom painting. And he never disappoints.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Well, it's been sitting in miss Walker's office
Speaker 2: for a while. Oh it is, and so I get
Speaker 2: to see it every day and I'm like half the
Speaker 2: room it is.
Speaker 1: It is that big.
Speaker 2: I mean, we almost brought it today, but I was
Speaker 2: not trusted with not transporting.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's hard as street. No, you're probably best
Speaker 1: to keep a lid on it. You know, there we go, Well,
Speaker 1: break a leg and good luck to everybody. And this
Speaker 1: is going to be one whale of the show. And
Speaker 1: once again it's Lema's a Rob and it will be
Speaker 1: at Bartletoo High School Fine Arts Center, April twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Thank you for being with us today.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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