ACT Fest and School Auditions

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Hey, welcome to the Drama Mamas. Exactly. Yeah. I remembered. I'm Angela. I'm Kristen. I'm Kathy. We're at it again. Yeah, we are the Drama Mama show. Yeah, and I added a camera this time. That obviously is not gonna have me in it. I put the light in the way. Now I can see. All right, so how was your week there? Go.

We're good. Yeah. We have lots of, you had a busy week with everybody. Had a busy week. Yeah. And I feel like that's every podcast, right? Know? Like, we come back in and we're like, holy shit. This week. Yeah. Um, it was a hurricane. It, yeah, it was definitely a busy one. Um, so Harrison auditions were this week for musical theater.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Let's talk about that. And so, Pinky's audition. It could have been on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Mm-hmm. and hers was on Thursday. They just had three days of auditions. And so, um, I guess I had two groups, a group A, group B, group A, um, sang first and group B danced first. Mm-hmm. . And she was a, so she got to sing first, which she was very thrilled about.

And I couldn't understand that, you know, If you dance Yes. And then you gotta get yourself all pretty up, right? Yeah. You're sweat sweaty and breathe hard. You're worrying the whole time about it. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I know she was pleased about that, but I know there was other kids that were kind of following along and seeing how they do because Wow.

You know, they're, they're in our group of. All these kids are kind of growing up together. Mm-hmm. . And so some of them had to dance first. I felt bad for 'em, but mm-hmm. . Yeah. It is what it is. So how did that go real quick? So she didn't get to pick which day, right? Like they just assigned? Right. They just assign a day.

Okay. And that's kind of how it is for all of these auditions. Okay. When Mikayla did her audition a couple of years ago, For orchestra. Um, it was the same kind of thing. So, um, yeah, she, you, you, you just get, well, when Mikayla did it, you had a letter and we were waiting mm-hmm. , you know, on bated breath for the letter.

Um, but this time it was an email, so they've, you know, changed a little bit in their few years. Yeah. Yeah. Which, that makes sense. That's all Covid changes. Um, so yeah, we, we got the email said you're going on this date. Um, she's group a go read. Information, uh, you know, at this URL about what that means.

Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . So, and then they tell you on there like what you have to bring with you. Of course, at this point, we have already submitted her, her resume and Right. Um, grade she and all of that. One more time. So we did the application process. You could, you could start in November and it went all the way until like the beginning of January.

Yeah. Was like January 9th maybe. Okay, gotcha. Okay. So, but we did it sometime in December. The beginning of December. Okay. And her application, like you were just saying, resume all that? Yeah. Letters of you reference and have two letters of reference. Yep. Mm-hmm. . Okay. So, um, we asked, uh, Ms. Neff mm-hmm. to do it.

And then we asked, um, Ms. Moe from Lakeland Community Theater to do it. Mm-hmm. Perfect. And, um, . Then when they, whatever it is they submit is done now electronically. They used to have to, um, write a letter and then seal it in an envelope, and then you had to deliver that sealed envelope. That's what happened with McKayla's.

Okay. You had to deliver that with all of your paper submission, you know, application stuff and then, and your grades and all of that all had to be sealed. So like you didn't get to know what was written for you and you still don't mm-hmm. . Um, but now it's done electronically. And so once they submit, It just, it's just a blanket url.

And then they get a code back and they have to tell you when they submit what that code is, and then you tell in your packet of submission information, the codes for your referral letters, and they just kind of marry up later. Gotcha. Okay. So that was kind of interesting. Yeah, that was interesting. Um, so then you wait And so we had done, you know, an early December submission and then we waited and waited and waited.

um, just a couple of weeks ago now. Mm-hmm. and then we got, you're on this date, this group. Okay. So anyway, she goes in on Thursday. Chris had to take her. Um, I had into the woods rehearsal and so I couldn't just, you know, I wanted to be there, but it's not like you get to stay Anyway, they pretty much dropped out.

Yeah. Chris sent that text to our little group text and was like, God, they took my baby . Yeah. She's gone . Yeah. Oh, it sounded a little like, uh, old woman, but, uh, . Yeah, . This, it's dingo distracting in my brain. Me? Yeah. Um, my did go ate me baby.

Yeah. So, oh goodness. Anyway, it's like two, two and a half hours. Okay. And she went back and sang and then, um, they did some interview questions with her, and then they danced. And, um, I think that was it. But that, but the interesting thing is, like one of the other moms was telling me on Tuesday when her daughter went, excuse me.

They had um, they had an essay. They had like an essay question they had to write. Oh yeah, we had to do that. I think you never said anything about having to do it next. Doesn't mean it didn't happen. Cuz she sometimes she's a little like me in a very high stress situ. She blacks out. There is, there's literally no memory.

I vividly remember this because a deadline was like a certain date and we all had covid. It was after one of our shows where we all got covid and I missed the deadline. I like that morning, opened up this email that said, submit this essay about this prompt. And I was like, oh, they didn't have, did they have in-person.

um, auditions, you know, auditions when you did that? No, we had to do it. Okay. Virtually, because we literally had covid at the time. Yeah. So they wrote the essay there at the, they were there. Oh, okay. Yeah. So maybe she did. And she's just blacked, blocked out . I understand. Mm-hmm. totally get it, you know? Yeah.

She gets that. That's in the jeans. Yeah. It just is what it is. It kind of sucks actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's good and bad, right? Sure. So it's traumatic, so what? You don't need to remember that. Yeah, no. She'll just bury it deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. It'll bury. One day I was like, the brain is like erase du.

It didn't even recur rec record in the first place. Like it's fine. It did. So she has like zero recollection of writing an essay. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. I mean, she didn't tell me hell. Well, did you ask her? I did ask her, asked her all kinds of shit. . I don't know. That's what I got. That's, oh no, that's her response.

Oh no. Okay. Well, anyway, well, we're not gonna worry about it. There's nothing we can do about it. Now keep an eye on your email in case you get a little thing that says, Hey, pinky was supposed to do an essay. Please do this. Uh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, um, but yeah, I mean it, okay. The singing part went great.

Um, the interview question. From what she remembers, she thinks it was okay, but they asked her if she remembered any of her, um, Charlie in the box lines, which girl? Like, no, it was three shows ago. Yeah. No. Well, no, it was just the last show. I know, but she's done so much since then. Yeah. Yeah. With everything else that's gone on.

Honestly, though, like you, you do it and you get it all in your head. You do the performance and then erase, deletes it. Like you don't have to keep that. Mm-hmm. , I mean, . She's on limited space. Are we right? She's in nano. I think I got a terabyte like that's it. . I don't even have that one. Poor thing, . That sounds like a lot.

It, it sounds, no, it's not. Oh yeah. Not at all. Okay. Y'all have laptops that have more than that. Well, nano that nano feels small. That's what I've said. That's what I said. Like a nano, but brain. No, it's like, uh, it's, it's just been, it's been kind of interesting. So she, she felt like, huh? She did write an essay.

Oh, well there you go. Okay, perfect. Great. Yeah. Problem solve, wonder what it was on. That's asking too much. That's, I don't know. Yes. Okay. Yeah, but that's, well, anyway, so. No, it's fine. There was like pen to paper, so we're good. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. She wrote some stuff down. They probably can't read. It's all spelled wrong, but it's fine.

It's okay. It's all good. You don't need to spell be an actress. No, you don't. I don't even know why we bother with the spelling now, because like Google got you. You know? Yeah. Like I can. And why even make them write an essay? Like they get their grades, they know what they do. Here's what I suspect it is, because the judges that are listening to the singers are also watching the dancers.

Okay. Not the learning part of it. Mm-hmm. . But they, you know, they're, they're performing of the, the thing they just learned. So I suspect it's to keep them quiet when they're not dancing or they're not like, it's like that in between. That's what I suspect. I remember the prompt wrong. We had, it was name a role that you've had that made you a better actor.

And why. Okay. So it was so it's more personal experience you're looking for. Yeah. Like Stella talked about being Michael and Matilda who has zero lines other than secrets, and how she had to use her body and her facial expressions and all that to convey her character because she didn't have dialogue to do that.

So that's why I remember that one. Yeah, there's something along those lines. It was something very similar from. , the other mom that went on Tuesday. Mm-hmm. , so her daughter went on Tuesday. Mm-hmm. . Okay. So, um, try not to use names. Um, but yeah, it was something similar to that kind of like Okay. You know, talk about a role that was impactful or mm-hmm.

you know, extraordinary or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, damn, if she gets that question, she should talk about, um, no, it was like an extraordinary performance. Mm-hmm. . Oh, okay. Something like that. And I was like, damn. She should talk about when she dropped the castine. When she was sue the rebellious fairy in my son Pinocchio, and she dropped it and , she kind of like started improving.

Yes. Like right then. And she bent over like ass straight out to the audience, this dress like, you know, and she's just trying to fumble and get it and she's like pointing at Yes, yes. And made it a whole thing. Uhhuh made it a whole bit. Yeah. Her whole improv of that character was amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean the whole, yeah.

Yeah. . Yeah, that was a good one. Great. Um, yeah, no, I mean that was, I thought that would, and then, you know, Jordan's tip was, well, she should talk about state. No, I mean mm-hmm. . Yeah. That's the safe answer. But yes, I think my idea, Chris' idea is good. Mm-hmm. , yes. Yes, yes. Anyway, I have no idea what she wrote, so you'll, what'll find out was March 24th.

Yeah, that's a long time. I was asking around, I'm like, did they ever like give it early? And I guess maybe they don't. I don't think sos I think they're pretty standard. That's, yeah. Are they, I wonder this like have they already sort of decided who's in and who's not in, so like, you know, surely they don't need a whole month to make that decision.

What are they waiting for? Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm wonder what the time delay is actually for. Is it, you know, something. Kids dropping or you know, like giving them a chance to drop before they send out things. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. You know, they don't wanna put kids on a wait list. Could be, could be. That's what happens if you don't get in, if you're not in the first bunch, you go on a wait list, you might get wait list or Right.

Or you're just not full on accepted. We, oh, we, uh, I think it's because of people dropping because we found out about how IB for Mikayla and had to pick first. Yeah, we did too. And then we had to drop ib. Yes. Once she got into Harrison. Yeah, that's actually a good point. I kind of forgot about the IB part of that equation.

Yeah. Because like all those other schools, so Mikayla, she applied for Harrison and then she also applied for the IB program, um, that was run out of Barto High. Yeah. And um, that's, , international Bachelorette background. Laureate, bacc laureate. Oh God, I can't fucking say that. Bachelorette. Ooh, look, it's talk.

Totally. We talk about the bachelor. . We No, . No. You got squirrel in the barn. , or wherever it, listen, he's in a barn. Anyway, let's First thing that came to mind, that squirrel, it's about and it's Nest. Oh. Whatever that, I don't know where that squirrel lives in your head. Head, but put it back there. It's everywhere.

We'll talk about it another time. It's not the best anyway. Yeah, so it's that program. It's all about, you know, getting kids further faster. And you know, the bachelor specialized degree, it's very academic. Very, yes, it is very, I think they actually graduate with a degree, a specialized degree. Degree from high school.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Super intensive. Very much so. We did the tour and it was like, yeah, you can expect to have four hours of homework a night. I'm like, Ooh, I don't, that's not a life. Yeah. I really didn't think it was the right program for Mikayla. Mm-hmm. . I mean, she talked by for it. She tested for it. I thought it was an interesting, you know, experience to kind walk through that process and.

You know. Yeah. We learned a lot about that. We had a, a coworker whose son also got into the program. Mm-hmm. , he tested the same year Mikayla did. And um, and he went, she went ahead and, and did it. Mm-hmm. . And so, I mean, they kind of come from a, like she's fi from the Philippines. Mm-hmm. , like born and raised, and she married and now she's an American citizen, but she's still kind of, it's just a different kind of culture.

Mm-hmm. that she comes from. And so, Totally on board with, you know, really being the driving force to help him Yeah. You know, be able to do that program. Mm-hmm. . But even still, it was a very difficult program. . Um, especially in the beginning. Yeah. So whenever she would talk about it, she would talk about that and she'd be like, well, you, your child has to be really self-motivated to do that program, or you are gonna be insane because Well, that's how she felt.

Yeah. She was going insane. Right. Cause you gotta sit on top of them every second of every day to get their stuff done. Yeah. It's serious. But she's that mom that like gives summer homework. Oh gosh. Like when the kids don't have it, she would do it. Yeah. That's horrible. Yeah. , I'm, uh, well, whatever. Yeah, he's, uh, anyway, so now with Harrison, they're attached to Lakeland High School.

Mm-hmm. . So they do like basic core classes over there. Mm-hmm. , correct? Mm-hmm. , yes. Yeah. And then their musical theater or whatever their specialty program is. Yeah. All the artsy stuff is Harrison. Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Gotcha. So, um, like Michaela's in, uh, band over there, she's an orchestra or whatever. Yeah. She's, uh, so she plays Cub.

And um, so she participates in all of that stuff, but she, did she apply for more than one thing, babe? Or did she just go for just orchestra? Okay, so it's the same thing with Pinky. She just applied for new school theater, but so didn't do that. But you can apply for two things. Yeah, we did. Um, Musical leader in cello.

Right. And you got him for both though, right? Mm-hmm. . Yeah. And Marcella did. So we had a, well, I kind of did too.

nice. I wanna take some ownership of that. Yeah. Well, I mean practice. Chris also. Yeah, I mean, he was really a driving force behind, you know, McKayla. With her tuba lessons and stuff and you know, and her instructor at the time. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. or Jordan from Mikayla. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So friends of ours, their daughter is auditioning next week for the dance.

Oh, nice. Okay. Mm-hmm. . So we'll see how that goes for her. But I think it's, maybe that's why they wanna send them out at one time. Right. Probably they have different, each week is different. That's probably it. . I was completely not factoring that in. Mm-hmm. . Especially if maybe they go for two. Like if you're doing dance and musical, you know, I wonder if that plays a part.

Oh, it for sure does. Yeah. I know there was like a, Chris and I talked about like, there was some kind of message or something like that about like they, the reason why they scheduled whoever for whatever day mm-hmm. in the musical theater stuff was because of the double Yeah. Most of them, most musical theater kids audition for that and theater.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah, like musical theater and. , which, gotcha. Which, you know, I don't, not everybody knows those are different things. They are different things. Mm-hmm. , they're very different things. Um, yeah, absolutely. Anyway, it's done. Okay, that's good. Check that out list and you don't have to worry about it until March 24th.

Yeah. That's what they said, right? They said you do it and then you forget that you did it in Box. Yeah. I mean, we've had a lot of guests kind of talk about that when they auditions first off, it's like, okay, I've gotta put it on. I've done everything I can do. Mm. And now we're gonna move on. Now we're gonna move on to, what'd we go on yesterday?

Access. Oh. But before we, we did the Olympics. The, we did the techum. Oh, yeah. Didn't wanna hear about it. It was very fun. They had to do. , four or five different events. They had to fold a big, huge stage curtain, you know, it was a speed thing. And then it had to fit, like it had to be nice and neat and fit into this rectangle.

So they, so like, like they spiked it out on stage. Okay. So you had to put it in there so they didn't Oh, kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. They did well with that. They had to take a leg off a table and replace it on another side of the table, like move it from one spot to another with no. , um, they had to use a drill for something.

I couldn't see that one. It was kind of far away. They had to do a quick change, which Lily Kate killed the quick change from the stinking Mad line. Yes. . She was like, I knew what to do. I could corner her back there, just two of them. And she was dressing the other person, Uhhuh , and they had a clown costume.

It was funny. It's a clown costume, a clown wig, like something that went around the neck and some. And while the person was putting on the costume, she's like literally putting the wig on her head and throwing the thing over her. Like you could tell she had done it before compared to the other kids had never done it before.

Yes. They had to hang a stage light. and there was something else now that I completely can't remember. Well, pinky told me the reason why she didn't do it, didn't sign up for it is because she had to have a partner. And she didn't have a partner to do it. No, there were no partners. It was just a group of 'em and whoever wanted to do the event, got to do the event.

Oh. It was setting a prop table. So there was one table that was all set up like a dinner place setting. Okay. For two, and they had to move it from one section to the other without making any. So like lily cake got a five point deduction or five second deduction cuz something clinked. So yeah. Yeah. And it had to be put exactly like it was.

I know , I'm having flashes of Chris bumping into the, the prop table in the back of Beauty and the Beast and all of those. It'd be like metal signs, like yes. Those metal signs, gosh, falling, just kept falling. Deduction. Deduction. They just kept ing and it kept going. I mean there was like 30 of those cuz everybody had two.

Yeah, yeah. They were like together. There was many people on the. And you thought it was done them all of and then it would clink again. Oh, that was hilarious. Oh my gosh. So anyway, they got first place in that, but they really should have because only one other team showed up and it was only one person, so

Oh wow. If they hadn't have gotten first place, that would've been embarrassing. Yeah, yeah. But they were helping, they like helped the other kid compete, which was really sweet and they helped her get a better time than them on the curtain. I'm like, wow, I haven't trained you very well, . You should have gone really slow.

It's like, mom, that's not right. Like I. So that was fun. So yes, they got, um, first place for that and then they competed in their events, um, on Saturday. Yesterday, gosh, we were for activists. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Tell us how that was. It was great. The high schoolers from Harrison, the sophomore class competed in the morning and then the middle school.

competed in the afternoon. Okay. And like when they weren't competing, there was workshops they could go to. So Harrison and killed it. They got the large group ensemble Critic's choice, the theater ensemble, critic's Choice, the duet, musical Duet, and musical solo critic's choice. So they did really well. So they all got to perform.

There was critics at for high school and critic Choice for middle school, right? Yeah. Yes. What they did, the closing is they would, um, they had like slides, all right? Uh, if you got an excellent, the excellence for. Musical solo for middle school and they'd pop up the slide and all those kids got to walk across the stage and get their ribbon.

And then they would do the superiors and then they would say, and the critic's choices. And Wait, did they get ribbons? Yes. You're getting a ribbon. Oh, it's a little blue ribbon that says superior. Nice. So our girls got superior for their um Okay. Trio Small. Yes. Which it was. So, you know, at states it was small.

uh, musical and large group. Yeah. There was only one category. Oh, okay. So the ones that got critic's choice was do Remi from Sound of Music. So they had like eight kids. Okay. Oh, I bet that was what a great, it was really cute. Yeah, they did a great job. Um, . So yeah, our kids got a superior, they got like a 29 out of 30 and then I think he was really excited about that.

I mean, both, both things. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Well, she had her solo, which she was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. She's almost perfect score, almost. She blanked, so, you know. Yeah. It was kind of, it's kind of weird sometimes the feedback that you get. Yeah. So it's like she got a perfect score of no feedback, no notes. It was excellent.

Just keep doing your craft. And that was, that was great. So 30 outta 30. . The next one was, I don't understand it, 26 out of 30. Yeah. And the only feedback that was written was about blinking that she blinked too much. Lost four points for blinking. Four points for blinking. That's crazy. It's very strange.

Mm-hmm. ? Um, I kind of wish, like sometimes that they were forced to write more notes so they could explain that because I surely Yeah, that's not four points for please. Right. Because if it. I'm fucking painting eyes on her eyelids. And so she will always look like this. She'll be like this. Glasses that are eyeballs for real.

Glasses idea. Just put 'em on her glasses. Brilliant. I'll paint 'em on there. Yes. The whole time I'm gonna do something cause it's freaking ridiculous. Four points for that, if that's what it was. Right. But they don't always give you the, like, sometimes they don't write anything at all. Yeah. Um, but you know, And there's no problem.

We had other kids in our group that had that going, same kind of disparity. So like one would have 30 and one would've 22. That was the big, huge spread I think I heard. That's wild. Yeah. And it's, that's a huge disparity. I mean, it just speaks to the, the subjective. Mm-hmm. , subjectiveness, subjective, the, anyway, that, um, yeah.

Subjectiveness yes. To this kind of judging. It's, it's it's opinion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you're in a bad mood that day, nobody's getting a good score no matter how good they are. That's very, Yeah. Or you're hungry. All of a sudden you like your sugar drops. You're like, oh, those guys sucked. . Yeah. 22.

That's when you say this girl's blinking your mouth . Right. So it's so funny. It's funny though, because this was one of the first times that I was able, I was allowed to record or mm-hmm. take pictures or, and they let you, all of that. Okay. Yes. And so I did allowed to mm-hmm. . Yes. Um, and so anyway, moving on.

we don't talk about that. No, I, okay. But, um, I, I don't have very, I like, I took a lot of photos and I didn't have that many where her eyes were closed. So I don't know what was up with this lady. Like maybe every time she looked up, pinky was blinking. Like what are the odds that maybe she's got bad eyesight?

Maybe she couldn't actually. It's possible she could have like floaters right in that little line of vision that made it look like I got some of that. I got some of that going on too. Yeah, she could have, there's no telling like there's one right here right now. , maybe she had dry eyes. It's floating her.

It's, it's kind of like here. That's my aura. It's a spirit . It's Francis has come to visit us finance. Yes. . Yeah. Anyway, that, and we have to celebrate our girls getting Elsa and Anna frozen. Yes. Yes. We can talk about And frozen. So yeah, we had Ms. Neff come on and talk about, you know, their program and mm-hmm.

Um, the fact that they were hoping they would get the rights to their play while they did get the rights to the play. Mm-hmm. and it's frozen. Present Junior to be junior specific. And they're, they've already cast, they went through the whole process and they, it was multiple days and lots and lots of decisions.

Yeah. Yeah. So I think she said on our podcast, we were just talking about this, that she hoped to cap it at 30 kids. Oh yeah. Where did she end up with 65? Oh, the grand. Yes. Anti Grinch, the green shark, anti. 65. Well, she was trying, she was like texting with us actually, and she was like, I'm just trying to get it down to 60, which would still be double.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. And um, she has a counterpart there that like, it's not just her alone. So her counterpart teachers and the well teacher and the musical director for the show. That's also like keyboarding does some other stuff at the school. Um, anyway, they all were. It's fine. It's five extras. Like you don't have to cut anymore.

Mm-hmm. , it's hard cuz they, you feel like they've all earned their spot, you know, and they double cast. So a lot of. Yes. Rolls. Maybe 10 or 12 or so. So it really is only 30 per show when you look at it that way, right? No, I think it ends up at like 40 something. Yeah. Like 45. Oh. Cause not all rules are double cast.

No. Right, right. Just the main parts. Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. True. True. It's not like they all these, all the ensemble kids. Every ensemble kid is both ensemble. Both, yeah. Both casts. Mm-hmm. . So they're gonna have, um, may. . Then May 5th is my, um, my birthday, and, and then it's the eighth grade dance. Mm-hmm. . So they, so they don't have a show that night because, Of the dance.

Mm-hmm. , it's the dance. So they're skipping, so that's like Thursday. Mm-hmm. dance on Friday. Then Saturday is double shows. Mm-hmm. . Okay. And Sunday is the matinee. Yep. Okay. I need get our tickets. Yeah. Well, as soon as they go on sale. Mm-hmm. Yeah, let me know. We're all doing, I, as far as I know, everybody's kind of like signed up that wants to come and see.

At least in our crew, like, you know, our circle of people and my family, they're all coming on Saturday. So, Saturday night show is gonna be packed. Yeah. It's gonna be very crazy. So get in there fast, get your tickets cuz we'll let you know when we go. Yeah, you'll, yes, please do. Yeah. Very limited seating. Um, but it's brand new theater and I'm excited to see Ah, yeah.

Mm-hmm. how that looks too. Yeah. I mean, we've seen some pictures online. Mm-hmm. , cause the school shares it. Mm-hmm. , but yeah. Oh, it's gonna be a great show. Definitely. I love that. Yeah. Pinky's so excited to be Elsa. Oh my gosh. I can't see. She was, Because, you know, she auditioned for when, um, L C T did it, and then there was some other thing where she had to sing something from Frozen and it, it just went really poorly.

And so she wasn't cast in, um, lc T'S production. Long story, but it just didn't happen. Mm-hmm. . And then whatever happened with the other thing, it was probably. Altogether now. Yeah, it was probably, it. One of the songs was a frozen song anyway, so she was convinced that like Frozen was cursed for her. Not anymore.

So for her to land this roll, she's breaking it. Yeah, breaking the curse, breaking that curse. So I'm, I'm very happy for it. Wait until she gets the wig and gets to do the chain. Think they're doing wigs. They said they weren't gonna do wigs. No wigs? I don't think so. Oh, that's what I heard. I could be totally wrong, but I mean, Elsa's got, The hair.

She's got the blonde hair. I pink's just gonna have to dye her hair well and grow it real. We need to get, we need to get , we're costumes or something. Help. Mm-hmm. , you know. Mm-hmm. , like, maybe we can get Heather hooked up with, uh, hopefully So with Ms. Neff. Yeah. I mean, they know Everybody knows everybody here.

They, it's such a small community. I'm sure. We just need to see if Heather's even going room at her schedule. She does so much. Yeah. All the costumes and stuff. We need to have her on the podcast. Absolutely. Yes, we do. We need to get her on asap. Yeah, and Dan always said that he remember, I know we have him on tape.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we do out, but yeah. All right girls. Cool. Okay, so we've all caught up. Okay. We're caught and we had, did we mess a thing with your. . Let's see. We had soccer, not theater related, but Max played soccer. His team did. Awesome. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Beat the other team. 15 to 15. Gabby did something this week though, didn't she?

She's a, she's the backup for Oh, well, yeah. So, yeah. So she's doing Chi. Mm-hmm. , and she's the understudy for Jemima. So she got to, they had rehearsal Thursday evening, um, and the girl who was playing Jemima came late. . So Gabby got to like get on and do the blocking and that's nice. The whole thing. So she was super excited about that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's undersized is difficult because you're learning everything and you're doing everything and you don't know if you're ever gonna get the chance to actually use it. Right. Um, but she got to actually like get up there and, and be the character. That's gonna be hard cuz you're not building that muscle memory by actually now walking through it all of a sudden it's like, right, you're on and you gotta whew.

Yeah. Hope you remember what to do. They're doing it all in the smaller space right now. Mm-hmm. . Five women an dress is on the actual stage. Right. So, I mean, who knows? We're, we're hoping that once they get on the stage and everything's loaded in and they're actually running it, that maybe she'll get to mm-hmm.

run all the blocking. Mm-hmm. . But she's taken excellent notes. She's ready to go. Like they have to be off book February 6th. Mm-hmm. , she's right. Or roll. So she's practicing. And is it a hard part? I mean, I know it's a, a major role, but it's still kid. compared to what she's done in the past? I don't think so.

Okay. That's not that bad. I mean, from what now I haven't seen it, but from what she's portraying to me and you know, and what PJ has seen mm-hmm. , it doesn't seem to be very difficult. Yeah. Well, I mean, pinky and Lily Cater are in the ens, the kid ensemble in that one, but yeah. Um, they don't have a whole lot to do.

Definitely not an act one. So they didn't get. Right, right. Mm-hmm. , um, they're just being taught the music, I guess, and the dance and stuff for what they do, and then that's all they had to do. So like, they don't have scripts. I don't have any idea about Yeah. What this one looks like. So the pages that I've reviewed with Gabby, There's a lot of like speaking in between songs, right?

Mm-hmm. , so like, she's like, that's a song. And so we skip ahead like three pages and then there's some lines, and then it's like, but it's all conversational. Okay. So there's not like a big monologue for the kids. It's all, you know, and you know, when you're memorizing lines, it's a whole lot easier when it's conversational, right?

And not just having to, you know, have this big thing to memorize. Yeah. So, I mean, she's had some challenging things, what she's had to memorize, but this isn't, this doesn't seem to be causing her any angst at the moment, so, well, good for her. But yeah, so it's going good. So she's What a great experience too.

I mean, no, yeah, in that role, that's gonna happen. So she's getting experience of how to absolutely be prepared and be on Johnny on the spot if you have to. Last minute go in. So, and she is fully, like, her brain is fully let you know that she's learning all of this and she may not get a chance to ever get on stage and do it.

And, you know, she's a ensemble child too. Yeah. So she'll get to have that role. Mm-hmm. . Um, but you know, you gotta be ready just in case. Yeah. So, Here we are. So I just got a text, Uhhuh. Oh. So I'm going to, we got 10 minutes. Oh, you're leaving early. Okay. I know, I, I'm saving this into the woods rehearsal today.

Sorry. Well, it's okay. It's exciting. Let's do it. What we got? No, we're not, we're gonna save this now, so, okay. So we'll do that. We, we can record however many times the new. if this works. Mm-hmm. , please God, let this work. Yes. Um, if this works, we can go anywhere. We can do the recordings anywhere, anytime. Okay.

Perfect. Whatever. So maybe we can find some time to do more. Yeah, yeah. And would be fun. Do little, little things. Yeah. Yeah. Because as we move into the next few weeks, it's gonna be crazy schedule. Mm-hmm. . Yes. It's gonna be like Rudolph all over again. Oh, I know. Yes. Only worse because we're in different places.

Right. So we're in two different theaters. Yeah. We're not all together. Yeah. Yeah. And you're coming with me. I'm so excited. I sat down at the counter Friday morning and I had chitty schedule into the woods schedule. There was another one. Oh, frozen. My husband's work slash travel schedule. Harrison schedule.

And I like literally had it all laid out and was just putting everything into the calendar. It took me almost three hours. Wow. Just to get it all sorted out. And who's going where, at what time and who, Ugh. Isn't mess. So logistical. It's a little bit of a nightmare. Yeah. . Yes. It's, it's like I'm a needy. Eat my Wheaties for the next few weeks.

Yes. But, um, it's gonna be very fun. Very excited. Its gonna be really fun. The show is looking so good already over at Winterhaven. I'm very excited for. The caliber of actor is just, oh my gosh. I think it's so neat though. Cause like I'm seeing all these new, I'm like meeting new people over there and then we go to at Fest mm-hmm.

and I see, you know, a few of them around mm-hmm. . And so like, I'm pretty, I'm, I'm just like, I know, I know you, I know you, hi, you know, whatever, whatever. She and I learned this through, um, Beth's role in the school system. Something about, oh, she's like, find arts director. Yeah. Yeah. Big. Something. Yeah. Um, something I learned through.

I love you. You're perfect. it. Our kids obviously weren't in that because that was a mature, very mature. Um, but mine teched it. That's true. mine did not , but, and, and Kathy's still. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Max. Max was not Gabby, you forget it was back there though. She was back then. She did. She doesn't apply to you too.

Yeah. I loved doing it for myself. Yeah. Like this is something Yeah, totally not different, but it's a different style of show. Yes. It's me hanging out with other adults where it's usually. Adults, but a whole bunch of kids as well. So that was, that's, you know, I'm looking forward to that. For, into the Woods.

Yeah. Yeah. Building those connections. Lotions. Yeah. So get involved people, make friends. I know know. Cause that's fun. It's cool. It's so fun. Yeah. But I'll, I'll give you a preview of what you can expect in case you wanna study in our probably next podcast recording. So I went to, okay, I'll be brief stage manager workshop yesterday, which was so fun.

I wanna take a class. I know. Sh nobody heard that? No. Please tell the dogs they're quiet in the other room. He's telling me like, don't say that out loud cause somebody's gonna ask you to do it. Oh, it's coming, don't worry. Um, but puppies, can we let 'em out? I will talk more about that later. One thing that kept coming up is these words, I don't know.

Like she was saying, all right, what's the difference between a libretto, a script, and a side? And I was like, I don't know. Cause I've never heard of the libretto and the side in a theater setting. Yeah. So it was another one of those. Sure. I know what that is. Smiles, you know? Yeah. And I realize they're so many things that I just Vocabulary.

Yeah. That I kind of know just from picking up what, how people have used it in a theater. Um, but I don't really know, and I often have that smile nod. Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yes. And I don't, so we gotta, we'll talk about this one more, but Yes. My, the one that I, okay. I'm so, like, I'm such a noob, um, when it comes to theater, but like, I thought every time we were getting like blocking and the kids were coming in and out of the stairs that are on the sides of the theater that come right out into the house, I thought.

Bomb. V A U m. . Okay. I didn't know what it, I don't know what it was, i's where it came from or whatever. Bomb. Okay. Yeah, so I thought it was that. It's not that. Mm-hmm. Don't commit that to memory Kathy, cuz it would be wrong racially. It's v om short for vomitorium. Yes. Auditorium. Do people like when, and there's like history with that.

Oh, right here? Yeah. Tossed their cookies when they would come down the stairs. Like it's the vibe. I mean, we don't wanna talk about, no. Okay. I'm not telling you we're gonna, next podcast, we'll dive into it, but Yes. Yeah. So I writing that. Yeah. Like all of my Rudolph blocking was b a u m. Yeah. Like I just, I didn't know.

And then we get to into the woods and Laura leans over and she's like, what the fuck are you writing? Because I was, I've done all my blocking on my iPad this time. Cause I have like an iPad script. Oh, nice. And so I've been writing it all in there and like, I like put it the PDF and good read. Mm-hmm.

something or whatever app. And I've been writing it all in there. And, uh, they, they have like nine possible entrances in this black box theater. Mm-hmm. . And so they can come through doors or they can come through center That's so cool to the house. But they can also come through the voms. . The bombs. Yeah.

Bombs. What the fuck are you writing? I don't know. I don't, what did you tell me? ? Yeah, exactly, exactly. Stuff. I don't know. It's, it's the bomb, right? But it means something. But I'll be able to tell you where the fuck it was. Yeah, exactly. When you ask me the blocking, yes. And that's what's important, even if the word is wrong.

Yes. Isn't that how language started? Exactly. Make up words for stuff. So now we know. I don't actually know that, but Seems right. Seems right. So if there's more than one vm, there's like a left bomb and a right v. Yeah. Yes, yes. All. So be prepared. Cause I'm gonna quiz you guys talk about vam more theater terminology.

I'd have tell you one funny one real quick. Cause I found this one page that had a thousand theater terms and one of them was costume parade. So I always see that on a Harrison's schedule when they have their big shows, one of the days is a costume parade. I'm like, oh, how fun. They, I'm gonna, they pray around their costume.

I'm about to announce my idiocy right now. They parade around their, yeah, I mean, elementary teacher world, we did that kind of stuff. Yes. No, that's not what they do. They don't like get in costume and let each other see each other? No, they don't like walk around the school and be like, Hey, I'm, no, well, I wasn't thinking school.

I was thinking like, no, you know, put it on and walk across the stage and everybody yaw up, down in costume. The, no, it's getting on the stage with the light so that the costume and the director knock can see how it looks of course and see if they made changes. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah, I thought they were like, Marching through Lakeland High and saying, look at us.

Come see our show, . We're in our costume. Oh man. So that's just a taste of what I don't know. Oh man. And on that note, yeah, on that note, we probably do need to be done cause I gotta put shoes on in. All right. Goodbye everybody. She wants to get food before we go. A long day is okay. You need to, it's gonna be fun.

So you're tucking into the woods, is that what I'm hearing right now? Yeah. So does that mean I will not be having you? No. For Chitty Chitty, he will not. Oh, Chris will be there. Chris will be there. Cause he's gonna go next. He needs to go get the car. Not the same as cat car. Angela, you're a good fill. It's all right.

We'll have, we'll have fun. But he's, he gets to drive, he's driving the car down. Yes. And they're gonna teach him how to use the car, which apparently is remote control. Oh crap. I would means like, like people get in it and then he drives it out on stage or not. I played Xbox, I can do this. Yeah. And then drives the people and the car off the edge of.

I don't know how this is gonna go. So I'm, I'm very nervous about, oh my goodness, what remote control car actually means, because it could, it could mean that like it's just a remote for it to elevator or not elevator, the wings to go out, or oh my gosh, whatever. But you still push it out like you normally would.

Mm-hmm. , I don't know, could you. So, yeah, I told him he needs to like flog that so then we have it and we can put it Oh, and it, yes. Yes, absolutely. Cause he's gotta go all the way up to Kalamazoo to get it and then draw. He's flying up and then driving it down. God bless next weekend. Which, you know, that's kind of why I wanted to try these mics out.

Car? No, no, no. Yeah. Like in a trailer. But yeah. So, um, I wanted to try these out when he was still here, so like we know what we're doing. Mm-hmm. and then we'll be able to record without him. Yep. Okay. So that makes sense. Alright. And hopefully this recording doesn't stay tuned for more nonsense. Yes. But you will learn something in between.

Yeah. Sorry for the extra short, but we had some hiccups with the learning this. Equipment, but it's super cool to have our little fuzzy mics. Yeah, I think I kinda like the system and it's way more portable and you know, we don't have to worry about the microphone not being pointed in front of you. Every time you talk to requests, you do a lot of this and it goes, you know,

Mm-hmm. , we'll see. Yeah. In and out. Your, your sound, but we'll figure it out. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. We're not like loyal listeners. Don't give up on us. Yes. No, we're trying to just figure shit out. Like everything is a learning experience, but we do have some very fun, amazing guests lined up, by the way. Yes, we do.

Awesome. Okay, we gotta go All. Okay. I gotta go. Bye-Bye.

I on that note, see you next time. All right. Can I just give you this and you can try to figure out how to stop it from recording? Sure. There you go. And you can stop the cameras. These are cool. Dang. We're not like, I love that drooping into your breast. No, don't have d into your, your breast. I like that. I think my cat was giving me a breast exam.

She like, yes. That's hilarious. Morning.