Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for community connection right here, Ron kay one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust, and we have in here's amazingly
Speaker 1: talented young people from Bartlesville High School. We have Carter Wells,
Speaker 1: we have Sylvie Hewitt, we have Blithe Murray. Young adults.
Speaker 2: Welcome, How you doing. We're doing great.
Speaker 1: It seems like I've known these young adults since they
Speaker 1: were children just a couple of years ago. Now you're
Speaker 1: all growing up and everything. We got Bruins on Broadway
Speaker 1: coming up in just a little bit. This is a
Speaker 1: nice variety type of show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: We would describe it as like a musical theater talent show. Basically,
Speaker 3: our students sing selections from musicals, and we do group
Speaker 3: numbers and they have individual songs, and it's just a
Speaker 3: wide selection of all of our student body getting to
Speaker 3: come together and sing for the audience.
Speaker 2: N Do you get to improvise a little bit? Do
Speaker 2: you get to pick your own act? You do?
Speaker 4: So each student who wants to participate in Ruins on
Speaker 4: Broadway auditions. You can audition for your own small act
Speaker 4: or a group number, and then you can audition for
Speaker 4: an opener or if we have the cheer squad participating,
Speaker 4: it's whatever you want as long as it's within the
Speaker 4: confines of Broadway.
Speaker 2: Well okay, Garter, I guess that kind of opens it up.
Speaker 1: But you have a lot of white variety of things,
Speaker 1: everything from comedy to share this stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so US three are going to be your hosts
Speaker 5: for the evening, well great, Yes, we also are performing.
Speaker 2: We have also spent a lot.
Speaker 5: Of time recently, specifically these two on our opening number.
Speaker 5: It is all student led, so we have opening number.
Speaker 5: We have multiple additional group acts that we have kind
Speaker 5: of constructed with some of the people who auditioned, and
Speaker 5: we put them in numbers.
Speaker 3: And both four choirs are doing numbers. So we have
Speaker 3: our mixed choir is singing Seasons of Love, and then
Speaker 3: our jazz choir is singing move on down the Road
Speaker 3: from the.
Speaker 2: Wiz Oh nice.
Speaker 3: Then our orchestra will hopefully be performing, yes, and then
Speaker 3: cheers performing. So we like to really get as many
Speaker 3: groups of people and as we can.
Speaker 1: That kind of scares me when you say the orchestra
Speaker 1: hopefully have.
Speaker 2: They been notified?
Speaker 1: They you know, okay, just just curious, you know, But
Speaker 1: either you have a wonderful facility there at the Fine
Speaker 1: Arts Center.
Speaker 5: And one group Children's Musical Theater of Martinville has allowed
Speaker 5: us to use their space for some of our rehearsals.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Rachel.
Speaker 1: Nice to have a little insight help there. Now, this
Speaker 1: is going to be a fantastic show. I've seen this
Speaker 1: four or five times. You know, we moved here about
Speaker 1: six years ago and always curious to see what the
Speaker 1: young people are up to as far as the talent
Speaker 1: and presenting that talent. And it never fails. It always
Speaker 1: comes off with that a hitch and you find some
Speaker 1: hidden or I shouldn't say hitten talent To the person
Speaker 1: who's performing, they knew they already had it, but it
Speaker 1: gets revealed to the audience. You say, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that young person couldn't do that.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we were watching these kids auditions and
Speaker 3: we've known them for like a long time, and we
Speaker 3: watched them and you get emotional because you're like, these
Speaker 3: are kids that I love and they're growing up and
Speaker 3: they're so amazingly talented, and you watch them, you're like,
Speaker 3: that was amazing. Where did that come from? Nowhere exactly?
Speaker 3: And it's just it's really a beautiful experience. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're not even that old, and we're seeing these kids
Speaker 3: that we've known for a really long time.
Speaker 1: And so when you see the freshmen and sophomores start
Speaker 1: to develop and blossom, that's got to really do something
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially the freshmen. There were we had a few
Speaker 4: freshmen that came in that I've known like forever since
Speaker 4: they were really little, and I'm like, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: You could do this.
Speaker 3: They were so incredibly talented.
Speaker 1: Now, isn't it kind of odd how they look up
Speaker 1: to you like you guys are like grown up people
Speaker 1: and it's only a couple of years different.
Speaker 5: There are a few people in the high school who
Speaker 5: look up to us and it's almost it's like a
Speaker 5: persistent they watch everything you've done since you were their age,
Speaker 5: and then they come in and they're like, oh, that's
Speaker 5: what I'm gonna do with my life. Now I'm going
Speaker 5: to follow their footsteps. And it's an interesting experience from
Speaker 5: the senior perspective watching because we all had those people
Speaker 5: coming in our freshman year or younger that we've looked
Speaker 5: up to, and it's just it's a weird feeling knowing
Speaker 5: that we're leaving.
Speaker 3: It's nice to pass that mentorship the felting down, because
Speaker 3: we really do have like a series of you look
Speaker 3: up to this person and now you get to show
Speaker 3: this younger person everything that you've learned throughout high.
Speaker 2: School and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Man, it is great. It's a great way to showcase
Speaker 1: the talent of a lot of people. And it's also
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for young people to kind of break
Speaker 1: away and all of a sudden say, look, I've add
Speaker 1: at a different level to my arsenal here.
Speaker 2: You might want to take not as big music. Have
Speaker 2: people used this as the springboard I.
Speaker 5: Did say so yeah. I think some people get it
Speaker 5: as a chance to rehearse their audition piece or make
Speaker 5: sure that that's like up to standards for the musical
Speaker 5: coming up.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's really a chance to show our
Speaker 3: directors for the musical or a choir directors that we're ready,
Speaker 3: We're ready to take on this role. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know that's how I felt coming into Bruins the Broadway,
Speaker 3: like tenth grade, eleventh grade, like I'm going to sing
Speaker 3: this big song because I want you to notice me.
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's always a good chance. As
Speaker 3: like a pre audition.
Speaker 2: Maybe it can be.
Speaker 4: A little difficult sometimes to really show them what you
Speaker 4: can do and acquire just because everyone's singing all once
Speaker 4: and the goal and acquires to blend with everybody. But
Speaker 4: this is an opportunity to people, for people to be.
Speaker 2: Themselves and stand out and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Now, did all three of you participated down there the
Speaker 1: yet lighting of the Christmas tree? I recognize it.
Speaker 4: I wasn't it.
Speaker 2: You weren't able to go say, oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, great job, by the way, to do that
Speaker 1: in that kind of cold, good.
Speaker 2: Crazy Yeah. So whatever called to duty. B HS Fine
Speaker 2: Arts students are there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now we do. We kind of tipped off on
Speaker 1: this a little bit. We got the big musical coming up.
Speaker 1: Lame miss, that's that's.
Speaker 2: Not just a little no, not that that's that's kind
Speaker 2: of wow.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets apart because you gotta do this. Yeah, so, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a great show. It was a
Speaker 1: great book first, and then it became a movie, then
Speaker 1: a musical, and then a movie musical and now it's.
Speaker 2: Just all over the place everything. But how did we
Speaker 2: land this?
Speaker 5: Lots of work from miss Walker. Oh yes, yes, props
Speaker 5: to her.
Speaker 3: Thank you, miss Walker.
Speaker 2: We love you.
Speaker 4: I've been nagging since my freshman year.
Speaker 3: This is all I've wanted.
Speaker 2: So do you want to be Cashot? Is that what?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I want to be Ethaname or a fon team.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, very good. I just want to be in.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be you want to be the
Speaker 1: keeper in the end because he's funny. Sasha Cohen Barrett
Speaker 1: played that in the movie and I didn't recognize him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was that good. Anyway, this is a
Speaker 2: huge thing. How do we get tickets for this?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Are they available?
Speaker 3: Musical tickets are not available yet, but Bruns on Broadway
Speaker 3: tickets are available and is our fundraiser for the musical.
Speaker 3: So you need to come see out first.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: First, you need to come see Bruins on Broadway first
Speaker 3: so that we can get the money to put on
Speaker 3: this fantastic show. So if you want to buy tickets,
Speaker 3: you can buy them pre sale for ten dollars or
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars at the door and pre sale you can
Speaker 3: ask a student, you can ask a choir teacher, or
Speaker 3: you can ask us.
Speaker 2: Russ there we have to go in order. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I didn't keep my powder to try on that one.
Speaker 2: You'll be back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the musical, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to come in here and
Speaker 1: talk about that. But Bruin's on Broadway is another one
Speaker 1: one of those things where if you think you're going
Speaker 1: to come in to see you're a run of the
Speaker 1: middle talent show, you're sadly mistaken. It's a show and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent, but you have no idea
Speaker 1: what's going to hit you.
Speaker 2: Everything is a surprise.
Speaker 1: And I like the way the hosts through years past
Speaker 1: have just kind of woven themselves into the and stitched
Speaker 1: themselves into the whole thing and and really made it work,
Speaker 1: and really made it.
Speaker 2: You guys can be pretty funny too, like to think so, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: And the thing is is that some folks might think, well,
Speaker 1: you know, this is kind of a serious thing. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the presenter. You got to be on
Speaker 1: your toes because you don't know what you're going to
Speaker 1: be called on to do, right so, and it's it's
Speaker 1: good to see that you're going to be wearing regular
Speaker 1: clothes instead of dressing up like a squid.
Speaker 2: Or a donk dis Yes, there's always talk there you go.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I saw Carter do squid word when he was in
Speaker 1: children's theater, and you knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta tell you were hilarious. But and
Speaker 1: you played a squirrel. I was Sandy and Cinderella right
Speaker 1: over here right, Okay, See I remember this not as
Speaker 1: all as I thought. But it's amazing how many different
Speaker 1: characters the three of you have played combined. And and
Speaker 1: it's not like you three have been typecast in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, I don't think, because although some may
Speaker 1: share some similarities, but each one of the characters that
Speaker 1: you've played, you three have been clearly defined and you've
Speaker 1: individualized that and that to your talent.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a recredit to directors.
Speaker 5: Definitely have like they throw curveballs at people effects. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but every single role that I think all of us
Speaker 5: have had has been a joy perform.
Speaker 2: What was it like being a squirrel? That's a great question,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of nutty.
Speaker 3: It was fun. It was fun, that's for sure. That
Speaker 3: was That's one of the roles I missed them most,
Speaker 3: for sure. It was such a great chance and just
Speaker 3: I miss that show.
Speaker 1: That such a fun show. Now, when we did the
Speaker 1: One Blink that you were in Cinderella, we had these
Speaker 1: big led type screens that was high tech. A lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand that this was basically a wall
Speaker 1: of lights that change scenery ever so suddenly and kind
Speaker 1: of like a brushstroke. And all of the characters playing
Speaker 1: in that one that had to be awesome. And not
Speaker 1: every school, I don't think you guys know this. Not
Speaker 1: every school has what you guys have there in part.
Speaker 4: No, that was like Broadway level incredible thanks to Brad Gray,
Speaker 4: and we're very grateful for everything that. Like, we have
Speaker 4: a lot of alumni that come back and they want
Speaker 4: to help us because this is you know where they got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And speaking of that, I've never seen a show
Speaker 1: yet where some graduating seniors or people who have been
Speaker 1: a couple of years out have not come back and
Speaker 1: said how to to do the performers. Actually, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's customary. You guys gonna do that.
Speaker 3: Of course I will be there in the front road.
Speaker 2: So once again, when is the show?
Speaker 5: It is January twenty third, your next Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we got to be there at the
Speaker 1: Fine Arts Uh Center.
Speaker 2: There. I guess the doors open at six. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it starts at seven. Yeah. Mama likes to be there
Speaker 2: at six.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's only nine hundred front row seats, but
Speaker 1: we got to have the first rount.
Speaker 3: We are hoping to sell out.
Speaker 2: Oh you will.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of seats, so everyone better be there,
Speaker 3: Oh you will. We sell this the better the musical.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh gosh, yeah you gotta. Yeah, this is kind
Speaker 1: of the you know, some some insurance money, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Oh, insurance a little to put on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure to check carrys. Okay, folks, all right, I
Speaker 1: want to thank you all for being here and putting
Speaker 1: up with me for today.
Speaker 2: In good luck, break a leg.
Speaker 1: It is Bruins on Broadway on the twenty third at
Speaker 1: the Bartlesville High School Fine Arts Center, seven pm.
Speaker 2: Get your ticket. It's how you're on.
Speaker 3: The spot tickets. You can ask our teachers, you can
Speaker 3: ask a student, or you can ask miss Russ. And
Speaker 3: it's ten dollars pre sale, fifteen dollars at the door.
Speaker 1: At the door. You can get it at the door.
Speaker 1: You get it paid through the notes. So hit up
Speaker 1: somebody you know all right, Thank you. Guys and gals
Speaker 1: appreciate it as always