College Theatre with Bo Bailey

do you listen to the podcast oh yeah yeah like religion like you've listened to all the episodes not all of them but definitely like the first like eight or nine okay so almost yeah well i applaud you for that because i know these episodes are really long and it's a bunch of old women talking so like when i would do like the long drives up and back from fsu i would just turn them on and just listen especially the ones where i knew the people that were like yeah yeah that makes sense yeah we need to have some back yeah we do but we've got

a few on the list like we're gonna bring in um so nick judy in orlando and uh i think he said daryl is the guy from winter haven that i'm not familiar with but like does a bunch of this stuff over there so we're gonna have them on together i gotta figure that out from a mic standpoint oh yeah yeah but uh and then um jordan's dad wants to be on so we'll probably have him on yeah we've got we've got some people nice little lineup yeah yeah yeah it's coming um we're super excited about you being here yes you have a lot to offer

for kids in this age bracket having just gone through the audition process for theater school and going through your first year so thank you yes thank you for being on yes thank you for oh and let's do a little intro really quick so we're the drama mamas i'm kristin i'm angela i'm kathy and today we have beau bailey with us yes we're so excited like you have been in our kind of theater orbit since our beginning and before that yeah so how long have you been doing this um i did my first show when i was like 10 or 11. so it's been like eight

nine years so yeah almost like half my life which is pretty crazy to think about yeah our first experience with you is mr popper's penguins oh my gosh yeah and i always remember you you were such a leader even at that age i think you must have been eighth grade maybe for that i think i think around that yeah and just the way you like led the other kids on the stage but very gently like not in a diva way but just kind of by example and you would just gently like move people around the stage it was great i think that's the thing i

love the most about our theater experiences it's not just you but there's like a kind of a group of you that all kind of grew up together oh yeah the same age group and um like within a few years of each other and all of you have been like mentors to our kids yes and have helped them and it's just been so friendly yeah everybody's so approachable and just so nice yep it's been really cool to see y'all's kids like grow up and yeah and now they're at harrison and almost at harrison and yep all that stuff so yeah that's one thing i was just

kind of writing down some ideas that i see you all the time even though you're at florida suddenly you're always coming back to see your friends i think that is so cool i love coming back it's so fun to see you in the audience i know like at every show almost it feels like yeah i know that i can anytime that i can i always come down because i know that my family's gonna see it so i know i know there's i'll either hear about it or i'm gonna see it so yeah yeah well we love that we love it because we know you know

florida it's a good couple hours away right yeah it's like four and a half yeah that's longer than just a couple and there's like nothing between yeah yeah the drive is pretty pretty bland pretty yeah we did the drive two summers michaela went to um they have their band camp stuff over the summer and she did two years of that with her you know tuba playing and that drive whoo that drive yeah it gets easier once you do it more but yeah and when you have a good podcast to listen to that's you're true you're so right you're so right it's time flying between that

and i don't know if you listen to like crime we love crime podcasts i love a good crime podcast i know we were talking in the last podcast that we were like maybe we should start one of those yeah switch from theater stories to true crime another thing do it together yeah i got a good mystery for us though okay who ate the muddy buddies in my house oh that's easy it's somebody don't you have but nobody will claim it it's just because that's somebody the cat yeah they're gone what's a muddy buddy oh it's like the chex mix with like it's covered in like

the what is it yeah powdered sugar and like chocolate is this kind of like christmas crack i think so like okay yeah yeah but you just like buy it at like the convenience store and like that i didn't know it's pre-made pre-made done yeah oh okay so you had this at your house we had a box of it that amazon accidentally sent 10 bags oh that's right big bags oh i thought you said they said you cat food or something there's two things it was that in the you're like the cat ate it yeah that in 10 boxes of fiber one protein parts which were

not free no not at all what you ordered and they just said keep it because it was our mistake so i was all excited the other night for one of those bags of muddy buddy and they're gone all of that uh oh and nobody will own up to interesting so anyway huh yeah how was your first year it was it was amazing it was so good i got the chance to perform which is always so much fun especially at that level because the whole process is just so different from like well going from like the community theater to the high school level there's already that

change and then going from high school to college was just even crazier and it's like things that you wouldn't even think about that are different like you'll go into a rehearsal and like it's not like all right everyone go grab your chairs and like we're gonna have a music horse like you walk in and like stage management and production crew has been there for an hour everything's set up for you like it's just so much more organized in that aspect too so it's pretty crazy but it was okay a lot of fun i learned so much well talk us through like your first year so

you got there you're excited yeah and had like terrified so oh very very terrified but i knew the people in my class going into it because we have a small class there's only 10 of us which is like it's like fsu's biggest class pretty much because they're like normal is like eight so we had a little more because yeah they accept like 16 to 20 when they try to yield that like eight will accept and like okay come but last year a lot of people said yes so we had we had a bigger class um so it was nice going in and you know knowing

them and my roommate is also in my class so i knew who i was going to be living with um but before we even got to the school we had to send in self tapes for our auditions for like the season of shows and then the first day of school we had classes and then callbacks started that day and we had callbacks monday tuesday wednesday and then the cast list for the year came out on friday so literally first week you knew what you were going to be doing the rest of the year for the whole year so yeah but they just changed it back

because so now we have we auditioned fall semester for only the fall shows and then we'll audition again in january but last year like we knew our plan for the whole year within that first week so it was a busy first week but it was very nice at the end to kind of like no more stress you just kind of knew that is nice yeah that waiting like did i get away yeah that's so stressful and then typically coming in as a freshman are you you're not like guaranteed a spot in the show yeah and and especially like a college level like you can kind

of say that like seniority is a thing but even even still like there's juniors and seniors that don't get cast in the shows so you're really never guaranteed like a chance to perform um but yeah it's i just oh and here you are killing it you were in both right so you do two one yes one yeah one musical semester but the first show that we were supposed to do sweet charity uh-huh right before we got into tech week we had a hurricane come through so we got sent home and my appendix ruptured yes i had to get surgery and i couldn't be in the

show and that was just crazy so but you gotta roll with the punches yeah literally in the middle of the hurricane literally middle of the night boom and my dad had drive me to the hospital with all like the debris in the road and in the hurricane oh my gosh yeah and pray that everyone had electricity yeah and they were like signed papers at the hospital of like the electricity went out yeah during the surgery they're like you can't like blame us or whatever so that was pretty scary but wow she got through oh yeah yeah it would have been fine it's still not like

it's it's not ideal yeah i know they make it work you know like not ideal disappointing that you didn't get to be in it oh goodness it's such an understatement though okay you just weren't up to performing nope oh gosh yeah i had i had like four weeks of recovery like i couldn't dance or anything which was definitely hard but i was glad that like i had the self-control like okay i'm actually gonna take these four weeks to rest because it's hard you're in those classes like observing and all you want to do is just get up and yeah do because yeah especially like within

a musical theater major in college like you're not really taking a bunch of academics so your main classes is like getting up and doing and not being able to do that is just really hard but it is what it is made it through now i know my appendix won't rupture again so rather it happened now than later in my career absolutely that's true yeah and as disappointed as you are or you were i'm sure your director and your castmates were probably just as horribly disappointed you know i had a great support system they they knew i was struggling but we made it through oh that's

awesome what is a typical schedule you say you don't have a lot of academics what does that look like um i can actually go through my schedule for next semester i don't really remember the specifics for the classes i took last year but so monday starts out with music theory in the morning and then we have i take i'm taking two academic classes next semester one online and one in person so i have a philosophy class i'm taking in person that i have on mondays and then i have acting and then a dance workshop class with the head of our program which is just our

sophomore class and then tuesday i have tap in the morning and then i have movement which is also with like the acting majors and then we have ballet and then monday wednesday friday is like the same and then tuesday and thursday is the same so it's really just like go go go all day and then we have a studio class once a week where you sign up like in little slots to present like some of your repertoire that you've been working on and you get feedback from the head of the program and your peers and things like that so that's nice we have that yeah

and i think they're adding like a underclassmen studio class next semester i don't really have a lot of details on that so i think we might have like two studios which will be nice because we'll get more opportunities to get up and perform but yeah especially with these small classes you get so much time to get up and yeah like individual attention and things like that so how does that how does the academia side of this work like you're only taking like one or two it's basically like just the prerequisites to like graduate um it's a lot of just like the standard level like first

level of like english courses and like the only like the only requirement for math like they don't want you taking any extras and you can't really fit any extras into your schedule unless you have like an academic minor or something like that um but even then you wouldn't really take those classes until like your junior and senior year so like coming into the school they try to like limit with like limit how many academic classes you're taking because they know that like college is a huge transition so i only took one my first semester and then one my second semester um and first semester it

was online it was just a math class and it's just it was just really simple to get through because a lot of my classmates were also taking the same class so we would kind of like help each other with homework and oh yeah all that group class um oh yeah and there's like not many like not much homework for like your dance and like acting classes outside other than like preparing like pieces and stuff to present or like working on monologues things like that so the homework load really only comes from the academic classes and since that's so minimal it doesn't really conflict with like

all the rehearsal time that you're doing so like all the homework that you're not getting from the artistic classes you've got those rehearsals that are taking up that time and things like that that makes sense so rehearsals are all outside of class hours yeah we have classes usually from like depending on whenever you start like 8 or 9 a.m to around like 5 or 6 p.m and then rehearsals are seven to eleven monday tuesday thursday friday and then on sundays it's six to ten holy cow wow yes there really isn't much time to do i know yeah and like i wanted to like maybe get

a part-time job in college and that's just like not a thing that you can really do is it no you have a job yeah yeah yeah right you're busy yeah so true yeah and you have classes that are physically demanding so it's not like you just sit and zone out in an english class i know it's funny that you mentioned that because i was talking to someone about it the other day it's like if if you're a regular like in a regular academic major you wake up in the morning you're like all right i gotta go to this big lecture class you can kind of

sit in the back and just like zone out like yeah whatever but you've got to get up in the morning and go to this acting class and you have to be fully present and it's it can be very exhausting because you just there's no rest yeah but it's so much fun your smile just says yeah it does yeah it does you're definitely where you belong you know is it fairly competitive within the department or is everybody pretty supportive everyone's really supportive i mean there's always going to be like a competitive nature like we're human like you're always going to have that little like okay like

i'm kind of like gunning for this role against someone else and like in callbacks you'll be placed against other people and that's just natural but it's never like uh there's no tanya harding going on no no everyone's very supportive and if they're not they kind of keep it to themselves i'm impressed that he knows who tanya harding is oh of course i know who tanya harding is i wish i would have seen that movie too oh it's so good i need to i need to watch it yeah but oh yeah we were huge we were huge olympics fans so my my parents told me all

about that little scandal so scandalous about oh yeah yeah i didn't live through it some of us lived it yeah it's like live tv or whatever poor nancy oh her dreams it's just sugar just all you need it's just sugar sugar and fumes yeah so fsu is a extreme high reach school for musical theater so congratulations thank you yeah that's just huge yeah thank you was that were your eyes always kind of set on that or you know go it's funny you ask that because going into college i was like i'm going out of state that was my one thing i'm like i'm not staying

in state at all um and then i did the summer program at fsu before my senior year and i just fell in love with it you know like you get you spend so much time with the faculty and you it was like three weeks living in the dorm on campus like it was just so like immersive and i was like this is i just felt like at home there um and then going into college applications and everything i think i applied to like 24 schools and fsu was the only one that was in state and i ended up that's where you ended up fsu so

you know it's still four hours away yeah so like it's a good it's not like you're in the backyard oh for sure you'll have some independence yeah but it's nice that i can come home if i need to yes yeah but absolutely i am glad that i stayed in state looking back so tell us about that process with applying for school applying for 24 schools crazy so started out i was like i want to get all the academic stuff done because all those essays and stuff it just builds up so fast that i knew i had to focus on the artistic side of stuff like

come like october november i was like i need to get this done so um doing it through like common app is like where you do all the college applications and that made it a lot easier because you kind of like fill in all the stuff and then it does it for all the schools so you don't have to do it like 20 times or however many colleges you're applying to um and then i did all those supplemental essays and things like that and then i got with my vocal teacher and we filmed our pre-screens um and then i started submitting those to the schools you

know as like the deadlines were coming in and they always suggest that you send them in earlier because you they like view them in the order that they come in a lot of times it's on a rolling basis so the earlier you submit you have a better chance of moving on to that next stage um and every college was different like some schools didn't even offer like a pre-screen it was just like a live audition that you had um and then fsu had like a weird like three stage audition um and so for them i since i did the summer program i automatically passed the

pre-screens from that nice and then i had a zoom live audition with them and then the in-person audition so for every school it was a little different but so film the pre-screens got those all in and then the colleges will reach back out and give you a decision whether or not you moving on or if you're not and then you schedule the actual audition and so i went to chicago and did the chicago unifies thing which i'm sure you all have heard about that is now oh yeah so oh yeah and it's a huge like money saver time saver because you just get to knock

them all out there and so um they like send you all the dates and whatever that you can choose for the auditions and they'll say like chicago unifieds new york unifieds whatever and um one thing that i like pride myself on i'm really good at scheduling things and so i scheduled kind of all my auditions on my own and just kind of nice made that whole thing work and i just kind of told my mom i'm like all right this is where we need to be at this time and she's like okay let's go and so we had a very busy week um in like

february for auditions we went to belmont and had an audition then flew to chicago and was there for a week and did i think i did like probably like 13 auditions there because i had a bunch that were scheduled but then i also did walk-in auditions where you can just kind of go up and ask if they have any time slots and a lot of times i would use those for like warm-ups in the morning like if i had an audition at like 11 i would like go up at like 9 to another school and i'd be like hey do you have any like slots

left and i would just go in and sing and just get my adrenaline pumping and just use that as a warm-up because i don't know warming up in a hotel room is just i don't know you can like hear everyone around you and it's just not the best environment but um so yeah i did that and then i flew to elon right after that and did an audition in north carolina for elon and then flew home and so that week was very busy but i bet and did you start your junior year um i didn't really start doing anything like college related applications wise until

my senior year okay so october november of senior year yeah so junior year was mainly i applied to three different summer intensives for uh musical theater uh mpulse at university michigan uh state at penn state and then mti at fsu and then um i did state at penn state which was online and then mpulse was also online and it was the same time as fsu and so i had to choose between those and i didn't want to spend three additional weeks in front of a computer over summer i needed some hands-on training yeah and i think everything happens for a reason and i chose to

go to mti at fsu and i just fell in love so yeah well that's a great lesson to keep an open mind because i know kids do get like i don't want this i do want this and do not then lose out on experiences they might oh yeah for sure yeah to not be afraid to try different things yeah it's you never know if something's gonna work for you until you try it or until you go there and that's why i think like visiting a college or like going there in person is always so important because you'll know when you step onto the campus or

when you go into the buildings and like meet the faculty if it's gonna be like a right fit for you and i just knew that with fsu yeah i like their campus actually it's so pretty yeah it is and everything's tucked in trees yes so like when you get up high and you like look out over to all of tallahassee it's beautiful yeah it's gorgeous you can't even tell that there's buildings really it's just trees it's gorgeous never been there can you believe that i've never been there either yeah i've lived in florida my whole life we're gonna have to make it that's all right

road trip yeah yeah y'all should come up and see a show why don't we do you know what your fall show is yeah we're doing nine to five in the fall oh how fun and then in the spring we're doing natasha pierre and the great comment of 1812 which it's a newer show a little less well known um but yeah they're gonna be fun yeah all right we might have to come up and do some nine to five yeah i'll have to for sure keep y'all updated about that yeah please do do you well so you have callbacks right like your first day okay yeah

wow okay we'll be watching to see what you get yeah stalk you on facebook oh yeah i'll make sure to let you all know okay so this summer you did some stuff too though right yes what did you do because so i spent my summer at wagon wheel center for the arts in warsaw indiana middle of nowhere um but yeah i we were supposed to do four shows we were supposed to do little mermaid escape to margaritaville kiss me kate and jesus christ superstar we ended up only doing three because we all got sick and had to postpone escape to margaritaville for two weeks and

it was a crazy time and yeah and the calendars got backed up yeah it was it was definitely a bump in the road but you know we we made it work and it that process is crazy because you're doing a show in two weeks yes i saw that yeah and perform within two weeks and the stage is cool it's yeah it's a theater in the round so it's like 800 seats all around and there's only like 10 rows in the theater so you're always like close to the stage which i think is cool um and there's like different sections and so when my parents would

come and see the shows they would see it like multiple times and i would make sure that they were sitting in like different sections because you see so many different things right depending on where you're sitting i i think it's so cool that i got the opportunity to perform in the round because it's so different because you can't hide there's nothing you can't hide anywhere like you're always seen from all sides at all times and it's also different like bringing on set pieces and like quick changes and like it's a there's so many things that you don't even think about like the orchestra is under

the stage and there's no like monitors or anything so it's not like you're watching a like a conductor or anything like it's really like a lot of rehearsals put in to like keep in time with the orchestra and a lot of that that we had to like put in place um so it was really cool and that was your first time doing a in the round type okay it's it's so cool i would love to see a performance in the theater are you always on the stage or you do you uh no we we exit yeah there's um there's like i mean you can go

up any of the four aisles one goes to the lobby to go to the side and then one goes to like the backstage area and then it's like connected all around so no matter where you exit you can like make your way backstage or go in wherever else you need to enter but yeah but it was also kind of hard because sometimes people would be like getting up out of their seats to like use the bathroom because they're trying to like bring on like a ship and we're like oh my gosh it was very stressful it's like either get on the ship yes or move

quickly you can be later yeah literally and they would say they're like they're like please stay in your seats we're like the entire production like use the bathroom now because it would just cause a lot of like traffic jams but thankfully we didn't really have to deal with that too much but live theater live theater gotta love that so did you know going into the summer what roles you would have they go ahead and cast it for the whole summer so when i got the call for my contract they told me then what the roles i would be so i was ensemble for all the

shows and then i was the scuttle understudy for a little mermaid and being the scuttle understudy since scuttle flies and since i was under say i got to go through flight training so um yeah and now and that's cool because flying in the round is crazy because it's like right in the center of everyone and there was like a track that rent like ran across the stage but it's like it's a lot more intimate because you can kind of like see the mechanism and things like that but that was a cool experience because i got to flip while flying which flying at lct i didn't

i never got to like do flips and anything like that but just up and down that was good just just up and down but um so yeah that was a really cool experience they like they sent me an email um like a few weeks after i got the call and they like asking for harness measurements and i was like oh no way it's like i know what this means i want to get back to flying because i saw something crazy you did this summer but let's continue to talk about this first because i'll get off track um so they like send you the scripts you

have to know everything going into that two-week process like so they tell us not to work on a show that we're not like currently working on so they kind of don't allow you to look at the script for another show until you start rehearsals for it which can seem kind of stressful you know you're like you're going in you're like oh my gosh i only have two weeks to learn this show and i don't have the materials yet but they really prepare you and drill it in your brain and a lot of times for like some of the people that are like playing leads in

multiple shows and they just have a lot to balance if they like ask a few days before if they can get a hold of the script then they will but they kind of want you to focus on the one show because they're like before we because oh i'm losing my train of thought here um margaritaville rehearsals started the day after opening for mermaid okay and so then that would be like when we got the scripts for it so they wanted the show like the first show to open before we got the scripts for the next one and they didn't want us to be sidetracked or

be like distracted with another piece of like another story really because it gets very confusing yeah it's very very much keep in your brain you're potentially then you know at night performing whatever so and during the day you're rehearsing for something else that's yeah wow yeah okay you're just not rehearsing for both at the same time correct so when you're doing the show in two weeks like how long is your day um it really depends on what role you had so for mermaid when we got there we would start rehearsals around like 10 a.m um and the latest we would go was around like six

but a lot of times like i wouldn't be called until like two or it just depends on like what they're working on but a lot of times they would have like some of the leads doing this and then like the ensemble would have a costume fitting over like in the other building and there was always like things going on but um those first two weeks were really nice because we knew that like once we got into like double duty is what we called it it would be just like super hectic super crazy and we would not have any free time so it was nice for

those first two weeks to like be able to sleep in some mornings and not have to wake up for those early rehearsals because once we got into doing both shows rehearsals were like nine to four and then we would have a show at like seven so it was just like all day crazy it's crazy now did fsu um like expose you to this were they like hey go audition so yeah how did you land there yeah so wagon wheel comes to fsu every year to audition so um yeah they came for like a two-day audition thing so we sent in self-tapes and then uh we

got callbacks and oh well we sent in self-tapes and we had a dance call in person and then that night some people got emailed about a callback and then the next day we had like a dance workshop with everyone in the morning and then callbacks at night um and then about a month later i got the call so yeah fsu definitely helped me with that and there were five of us from fsu that ended up booking oh that's nice too so you knew people out of like the 25 people that were in the cast five were from fsu which was crazy that's incredible yeah a

girl in my class and i went and oh she's like my best friend now i'm so glad that i got to go together nice that just speaks to the quality of the program you're in oh yeah fsu is i'm very fortunate to be at a program that has those connections and that can bring those people in and i'm excited to audition for them again next year because yeah they come every year which is great yeah what a great experience and then those connections that you meet there like while you're there not just even with the wagon wheel folks but with the people that you're actually

doing the show with yeah you know yeah i met so many amazing people because like they're the people that i lived with i lived in a house there was seven of us and um four of them had just graduated college and then three were going or two were going into their senior year so i now have all these super close friends that are like about to start in the industry and like they're moved to new york now and they they're doing all these cool things so i'm excited because like my next new york trip i'll like maybe get to see one of them in like

a show or something so yeah those connections are just crazy yeah and it's such a small world it's scary how small it is yeah yeah it's pretty it's pretty funny it's like one of the things that i really love about the community though it's like you start making those connections really fast and you're like oh yeah well i know so and so and you guys are like you know friends and then they're like oh yeah and now you've got this common ground and now you're bfs oh yeah every time it just kind of happens like that every time i meet someone new i like whenever

i like follow them on instagram there's always like some mutual friends that i have with them always how did it feel to get paid to do something you love oh my gosh it was the best feeling i ever it was the best feeling ever because you're like i can do this yes of course you probably i'm like holding up a paycheck but then it's also like yeah it's probably yeah let down yeah but um he's heard about them yeah i've heard of a check before my parents showed it to me um but it's it's sad because then i now like i want to get paid

for every time i do a show like i understand now i have to go back to doing theater for free it's cool but terrible no it's it was it was it was a great it was a great thing to get paid and to do it but and then it but then it's like all right now i gotta like now i have to get paid to do it because i like doing it when i'm not getting paid it's like now i'm out of a job so now it's now it's like all right this is real now i have to actually start looking for these theaters to

work out and all that it makes it all a lot more real yeah so how many are those summer stocks do you think there are like they're all over in the nation oh there's yeah there's hundreds like around the country there's because like there's just so many professional theaters in like every single state and a lot of them it may not be like a summer stock where they do like a bunch of shows in the summer but a lot of them do their season where they have a show that like rehearses and performs in the summer because they know that like if there's students or

people that are like free in that summer slot um but yeah there's so many places that you can audition for which makes it nice because you're like i can submit to all these places like i'm bound to book one of them but um but then it's also it can be stressful because it's like all right now there's so many places that i want to work on that i want to apply to right but now i have to look at like what they're paying if they like if they cover housing and transportation and if they do this if they do that um and so it was

nice getting to work at wagon wheel because it kind of like set the standard from like okay like this is what i want for the future like this is something that i want to look for um and like auditioning for professional theaters and stuff this past year i was like i just want to book something like i don't care what shows they're doing i don't i don't care like i just i just want to get paid and do some theater because if i wasn't if i wasn't doing that i'd come back home and work go back to publix and work which nothing wrong with publix

but it's not performing it's not performing so yeah now i know i'm like i know what shows that i'm going to be looking out for because we just did jesus christ superstar which is my favorite show i've ever done i think yeah which it's crazy there's something about the choreography that we did and that music is just so powerful i and so i i told my parents i was like i'm gonna look for theaters that are doing that show because i would so do that show again i would do that show for the rest of my life i think and i think all of us

when we were performing it after every show be like i could just do this for like years maybe not in warsaw indiana but in like new york or something we're traveling or traveling yeah to get on a tour love to do a tour yeah when you're such a strong dancer did you do a lot of dance training or is it just natural for you i before high school the dance training that i got was strictly just from the shows that i did um and then once i got into harrison i started you know taking the dance classes through there but i never took anything like

outside of school so yeah i was very i think i did a lot of shows when i was younger and i think just constantly moving around and like exploring like what my body could do definitely just helped open up and like free my movement and things like that and i think that definitely helped wow so you're clearly a natural yes do you remember what i just totally do you remember what your first show was ramona quimby there you go yes ramona quimby at lct miss maureen mcgowan was the director and she directed my last show at lct so it was like a full circle moment

for that but yeah that's the the only play i've ever done too was ramona quimby really yeah i think that was like one of the last times that they did like a play in the theater for youth slot yeah it's always music now yeah yeah which i i love because i love the music yeah my first musical because i did ramona quimby and then i did jingle arg the way which i don't know if y'all were around the lct jingle arg the way yeah a pirate christmas show oh that sounds fun it was crazy i don't remember a single thing from it backstage but ask

them how that went yeah jingle arc the way yeah who knows what that show's about i don't i don't remember i was 10 i don't remember a single thing from that show but that's okay i don't remember a single thing from last year so it's fine well i forgot you were in descendants oh i mean how could i forget that that show was so much that was a fun show it was a really fun show yeah i mean he's done so much my so before our kids were even like old enough to go and like sit in a theater you know so pj and i

would start to go to theaters you know to lct or whatever and we would watch and we saw rock of age we just saw so many cool shows anyway but we remember seeing you in christmas story perhaps yeah okay you were ralphie in that right i was yeah that's such a perfect role for you i didn't get to see that one but laura every time she tells us theater stories your mic change always comes up in that show yeah because there was so the set was like a two-story house and i'm like upstairs and i see laura off stage waving me down she's like you're

mike because literally first song i start singing boom mike cuts out and i'm like well i don't leave the stage for like the first eight numbers so what am i gonna do so during one of i think it was stephen jones one of his like solos um i had to walk down the stairs leave the house and change my mic sneak it out mid song sneak out of the house and then i walked back in and they didn't realize that i left the house and so he was like exiting the door and i'm like walking in and walks back upstairs shoot your eye out that

was funny oh my gosh oh gosh that is funny and then um what else do you remember and i think we may have brought the kids to see that but maybe charlie in the chocolate factory where did you fly was that peter pan peter pan and willie wonka were the two that i flew in that's pretty cool i would have loved to see willie wonka whenever charlie and grandpa joe have the scene they like drink the oh yeah and then they fly up towards the fans and everybody always talks about that um elevator too that elevator was so cool that was really cool me grandpa

joe and wonka were in this like metal like cube type thing and robbie's back there like pushing down this thing and it just starts floating in the air and it looked really cool oh gosh were you terrified we were gripping onto those handrails yeah no doubt it's like the sounds of matilda oh my gosh it sounds like he pushed on a lever and it raised it right they did the same thing for um the sleigh for santa's sleigh and elf oh i wonder if they like reused that probably could have been they've used a lot of probably in the shop yeah like let's bring it

back yeah it's tucked away in there blow some dust off of it yeah of it well that's i mean that's only a couple years yeah for the sleigh yeah probably but yeah it has been your favorite role other than jesus christ superstar oh and you can categorize it you can say like yeah kid uh okay high school i would say crutchy oh yes oh my god oh yeah absolutely child role at lct i would say probably charlie and willy wonka i would say it's a really close it's really close between that one and ralphie and christmas story something about christmas story was just that something

about that music and the costumes i wore in that show the the pink onesie the bunny the bunny the bungee the bunny onesie that i wore was iconic yeah i like it all right what tips do you have for kids oh my gosh start early like be like not like don't worry about like the future and stuff but i'm just like be be present in class like don't be like oh like i'm young like i don't i don't have to worry about this yeah just always have it like kind of in your mind um think about you know how let me think of how to

word this um hmm we don't ever think before there's no wrong answer here i know let me just ramble and it'll it'll come out how i want it to um i would always just listen to your mentors listen to your teachers um because you may not think that what they're saying is right but they they always have your best interests in mind they always know what they're talking about they've especially if they've like worked in the industry or if they have if they're in a position of power like if they're your teacher like they they know what they know what's best for you they know

what's best for the cast of a show as a whole they know that if you're cast in this role you may not feel that it's the right fit for you but when the show opens you're gonna realize you know what this is exactly where i need to be and that person's where they need to be and everything fits perfectly because they know they know they always have a vision they always have a vision by that how it all at the end you're like oh duh of course this person should be here in this yeah yeah because every time i audition for a show i'm always

like all right who do i think is going to be in what roles and it's never right because i never know what the vision is but the vision is always right our kids like to do that too they like to cast the show oh yeah make this fake cast list it's always fun it's always fun yeah you kind of can't help but do that i think yeah especially when it's like all your friends that like audition you like get on that like group face time you're like all right let's figure this out like it's gonna go down yeah but yeah i'd always say just listen

to your teachers and your mentors pay attention in class take notes on everything that was one thing that i told gabby i was like take notes when you get up there for that intensive um and just soak in all that wisdom because it's gonna pay back right 10 times in the future you're gonna use all that information so much and there's so many little things that i've like caught on from different people or like my my little motto everything happens for a reason i i forget where i heard that first but i was like okay you know what everything happens for a reason everything happens

for a reason and everything does happen for a reason i think it does and you can't always see in the moment no once you get on the other side of it yes and one thing that i think about is because back to my appendix if i was at a different school i wouldn't have had a reason to come home and then my appendix would have oh yeah i would have been alone or like without my family or at school and like that's something i never would have thought about that like choosing a college would yeah and then my appendix would rupture and i would be

home because there was a hurt like it so many things that you would never think about it's just all gonna yeah everything's gonna go your way and you're gonna be right where you're meant to be when the time comes yeah that's great advice that is awesome advice adults can listen to that as well no for sure i mean be a sponge and take it all in and be flexible and and just know that there's a reason right there's your futures out there i think one thing that we've always kind of admired too about you not like you but is your family and they've always so

involved like every time we see your parents you know your mom is right there with you you know we've seen your brother come to shows and like that's such a big piece yeah has that helped kind of hold you for sure and like one thing that my parents said like when i was going through like college auditions they're like if you they're like if you get into a school and you are you want to go there they're like we're going to help you make it happen because they're they're just so supportive of everything that i want to do in life and i think they like

they they were more excited about the whole college audition process more than me like my dad was like he's like all right i researched this school and this school and like sending me all this stuff oh my gosh i'm like thanks for all this but like you don't have to do all this and he's like but i want to so they're just my biggest supporters and my biggest fans and i'm so grateful for them i love them so much and i'm glad that they are that supportive and that they do want to come to my shows and that they like were able to make it

up this summer to indiana to see me in the shows and i think it was nice because like my mom's a teacher so she's off for the summer so she had that break and my brother's still in school so he was off for the summer and my dad works for himself so he had that flexibility it's nice so i think everything just worked out that's perfect you have such a glow about you like i know just the biggest smile it's like that little it thing you know you just can't help but like smile when you're when yeah with you thank you for being a positive

force in the universe when there's so much negative out there tell us about jumping off the building in las vegas my gosh okay so that was my second time that i had done it yes so first time i did it was like four years ago so if you didn't know so it's the stratosphere hotel in las vegas it's like over a thousand feet high and they have this thing called the sky jump where it's basically like it's not like a bungee jump because you don't like come back up but it's like a controlled free fall down the side of the building yeah world guinness yeah

tallest and so i did that a few weeks ago but then i i did it when i first went to vegas um because i'm just like an adrenaline junkie i'll do anything that's like scary i've always been obsessed with like roller coasters and like okay how high i could get and no fear of heights oh no okay yeah we like went and visited the grand canyon when we first went and like my mom and i walked on like the glass bridge so like when i was like my dad and my brother are like so that's gonna break no yeah they when the first time right

before i jumped at like breakfast my dad like got like he like felt sick and had like go back to the hotel and like we had to postpone it to like the next day because he was like i don't even think i can watch you do it because yeah he's really afraid of heights and all that stuff but i have no fear so and i was like i want to do it again and they have a deal if you do it once you get to do it half off for the rest of your life so now every time that i go back i'm gonna do

it and i only have to pay half price so wow so obviously they put a harness on you yeah yeah harness and multiple like backup ropes and all that stuff and you're connected to like the no parachute i don't even know if you could like if a parachute would do anything it's like you don't have enough time to pull it it's not that high once you get up there i don't know maybe eight hundred and eighty seven feet oh you looked it up you have the numbers i do because i was like why would you choose to do that it's yeah they like you're connected

on the side so it like so you're not like spinning or anything when you're going down and then you're connected to the top or whatever so you go down feet first okay and you literally you're like standing on the edge and they're like three two one go and you just jump off and oh my no one gives you like a little nudge like go ahead and go no three two right before right before i did it i just need you to push me the girl before we backed out she was holding on and like whenever they say three two one go they kind of like

release like whatever's like on the sides because it's got to like follow you and going down so she was like holding on they released the things and she's like i'm not going i'm not going and so she got out and she didn't end up doing it she probably didn't get her money back either i don't think so i think it's in like i think it's in like the waiver or something that like you don't get your money back yeah once you get oh that just sounds like point of no return once you get a harness on you go in like a special elevator that like

goes like super fast and your ears are like your ears pop like up through the elevator and then they pop like on the way down because it's like that high but it's so much fun and then you go fast like does it drop you fast yeah it's like i don't know the exact miles per hour i feel i feel like it said 40. 40. there you go oh my god and then it like slows you down right at the end yeah it's like so you sort of you sort of free fall then so you reach whatever speed you are so yeah i might go faster for the 40.

yeah we might we might call it pretty quickly thanks caffy i said we we i think it's somewhat controlled but we could go try like 80 on the way down i think y'all should y'all should do it whenever you're gonna make it i think i'm good yeah yeah so training to fly was no big deal for you oh yeah no it was so yeah i'm i'm used to i'm used to being up in the air but it that wagon wheel you're not really like because the way the stage is like it's it's a small theater but it's like it's like it's big but it's not

very like tall so you're not really flying super high off the ground but it's it's you're still up there still flying oh yeah your feet are not on the ground there you go yeah it's pretty cool have you ever jumped out of a plane no but that's what that's what i want to do no i want to i want to go skydiving so bad they have that like simulation thing in orlando oh yeah i did that once you did it's pretty cool yeah they had um when i used to work out at sea world you know years and years ago uh they used to like

have a week an employee appreciation week and they would like have all of these different events that you could go to for free and that was one of them and so me and a bunch of my co-workers just all went you get the jumpsuit and a little helmet and then they bring you into the you know where the fan is blowing you up right basically and you go in there one at a time with like a guy that helps you or girl i guess but it was a guy at the time and they like show you what to do ahead of time and then you

get in there and they just help position your body and keep you from like spinning out of control or like flying yeah i've seen the videos where they're like yeah up all the things because it's like tiny movements tiny movements like little adjustments yeah and yeah and it doesn't take much like you just lean a little bit and you'll spin oh my gosh so they they get in there and they'll help and then they back up so you can actually do stuff but yeah that's cool it's pretty cool yeah because once you start spinning that vomit's coming yeah oh yeah that would yeah it's a

glass tube so like when you're not in the tube you're in these seats around watching that person's that would be horrible although it might blow up oh yeah that's very true it might or might like go out and up you know oh my gosh and then just spin like a blender oh caught in the like a bubble state in the air it's so gross can you imagine they gotta turn the fan off at some point oh my gosh because you gotta come down like catch it wait a minute speaking of buckets wasn't there a show was it you that got really sick or was that

ronnie am i making up i it might have been oh there was some show where they had like a puke bucket off oh my gosh i know exact well yeah this is ringing a bell it's ringing i've heard the story maybe it was ronnie it might have been or maybe it was both of them maybe maybe oh it i think okay this it's it's coming back to me now peter pan i remember there was a performance where we were flying and ronnie had to come down and i think he ended up like getting sick okay i think that's what it was yeah and then he

laid on that iconic green room couch for however long he needed the couch oh poor i don't know how y'all do that when you're not feeling well yeah i go out there and perform and make the world the audience would never know no never know well that's why they work so hard at like taking care of themselves you know well that's a question i had about the intensives not the intensive the um unified is it hard to like take care of your voice and your body when you're doing that much oh that's it can be um one thing that i would do i'd kind of

like go on vocal rest if i wasn't like singing like i would i would warm up go to the auditions whatever but then i wouldn't try to like do anything extra with my voice like i would still like talk you know but i i wouldn't like i wouldn't recommend like going to a concert mid audition season and like screaming and all that stuff um it's really just about knowing your instrument and just knowing if things feel off and stuff and like i have a vocal steamer that i use that kind of like hydrates the the cords and the throat and all that um lots of

cough drops lots of um just lots of stretching like your body because it's very easy to pull a muscle if you don't stretch before like a dance call especially those college dance calls are like no joke you know they're trying to see they're trying to find the best of the best so they're gonna push you to your limits and it can be exhausting but it's just knowing that you have to warm up not only your body but your voice and you have to also warm up mentally and that's why i make sure to wake up a few hours before my audition just so i can

have that like those times that time in the morning to not so i'm not rushing through anything i can slowly like get in the mindset of like okay like i'm calm i can do this um but it's really just about warming up not overusing anything um and it was hard in chicago because it was like super cold and snowing and so yeah going outside because one of my auditions was at a hotel take your breath away there yeah we i like bundled up because and i tried to get over there i think like as early as i could so that i wasn't going right from

like the 15 degree weather to having to sing because that just freezes everything up because it just it's so cold so that was definitely something we had to adapt to but being in chicago was nice because besides that one audition everything else was in the same hotel so we didn't have to leave or anything um but like new york unified's everything's all over the place and that's also in the winter time so that's why i know a lot of people and i think chicago is like the most popular one to go to because it's easier to navigate because everything is is in the same hotel

and also you're not having to deal with the cold and having to go outside all the time yeah um but yeah just keeping everything warm is really the best thing um i got a vocal steamer recently and i've already noticed like how it just improves my warming up process and it just makes my voice feel like i'll wake up i go steam and then my voice is already like from right when i woke up to not even doing any like vocal exercises or anything it's already feeling better this is like part of your daily routine now okay yeah um i'm sensing a theme have you

noticed between you jania hannah who we um interviewed you guys are all very self-motivated self-driven yes yes like talking about your scheduling and taking care of like that's a theme that we're seeing with you're going to be super successful i have no doubt whatsoever yeah with you guys that are really succeeding as you take it very seriously and you're proactive and thinking through things and i'm just very impressed with you thank you wise beyond their years yes yeah yeah yeah it's all that soaking up the information and doing those intensives and learning from all the people that are doing or already have done big things

in the industry because they have a lot of wisdom and i i try to stay on top of things and like um i told myself going into college i was like all right i want to finish college but i want to go ahead and start auditioning for things because one so that these places can like see my face and get to know me i may not be ready for whatever they're putting on wherever i may be auditioning but i just want to get in the room with them and so they can know who beau bailey is and so that was one thing that i told

myself going back to like the self-motivation like i started filming self-tapes and submitting them first semester of college even though i was like i'm not expecting anything but just to get in that habit because the habits that you make in your younger years it's what's gonna help you in the long run and so that's why i try to yeah start good habits that's a good tip um and i think that the new teacher at harrison is gonna definitely help with that a lot i've heard some good stories about him um already like talking to kids about like filming the filming like everything so that they'll

have like nice reels by the time they graduate and i i'm very happy that they're gonna be able to yeah we were just talking about that song sheet that he gave to all the kids like you said 35 songs and all the different genres oh is that that's good yeah to give them help with like their repertoire and stuff yeah that's awesome yeah something they'll have multiple somethings for like every genre that's good it's pretty cool really good yeah do you have an ultimate goal are you kind of leaving it open to what fits i think ultimate goal if someone was like we're gonna let

you do anything right now what do you want to do i'd be like broadway show because as much as like touring's amazing it's nice to be able to settle down in the place and you know have that like space of home and you know just have have your own space but also be able to perform in new york which is a crazy magical beautiful hectic city um and i'm a very much a night owl and so i definitely want to be in a place that never sleeps and new york never sleeps and neither do i so that is i would say that's the ultimate goal

is new york you will be there yeah i have no doubt thank you yeah no doubt in my mind that we will be going to see you oh yeah we'll be waiting outside the stage door yeah and he'll be waiting for us because we would have already and that's one thing i'm so because i being on the side of the stage door like meeting the performers that's one thing that i hope i get to experience is like being able to like give that to the people that came to see the show or like the people that i've known for so long that come and see

the shows that's one thing i love about like doing theaters after the show being able to see everyone yeah yeah that was okay no sorry we're like we just have so much um do you have like a favorite broadway actor like i don't know jackman or like do you have somebody or like i really don't oh god it's a tough question that is a tough question yeah there's so many there's so many people that i want to meet yeah i just i feel like especially now there's so many like new people that are like starting to rise to like big fame like on broadway right

now um so i think i think in a few years i'll definitely have an answer because i there's like i feel like there's a shift right now because there's um there they had like a bunch of old broadway legends come in for like music man um into the woods you know they had all those people and now we have like all these new shows that are coming um like and juliette here lies love they have all these new people that they're bringing in so um i think in a few years i'll definitely have my few little favorites but um yeah i can't really think of

anyone right now that's okay you don't have to you saw um and juliette when we were up there really what's it again i still need to see it oh put it on your list yeah i know we got to go back yes we do there's so many good ones so many that's the problem it's like how to fit it all in i know there's never enough time when you go up there and we went up this last time for a week really yeah and there's still just not enough time to see as much as you want to see oh yeah there's so many options yeah

makes it hard but we got a list that's right and we have to see back to the future yeah yes i can't wait to see hannah in that every time a promotional thing comes out i'm like i'm looking i'm like oh there's hannah two of the people that i worked with at wagon wheel were in hannah's class at elon and so i uh was telling them because i knew that hannah was in their class i was like i was like i have some theater mom friends that that run a podcast back at home and they had hannah on as a guest and they were like

oh my gosh no way so that's just a small world right there it really is yeah it totally is we were so excited to have her she's fantastic yes all right i've asked all my questions that was your whole your whole thing my whole thing i know you got a lot of notes on there i know there's a lot to talk about i know i know i feel like we could talk to beau forever i know yeah okay so college you're doing that now you're gonna do this is your your sophomore year okay uh anything else happening during your sophomore year that's kind of cool

theater related there's a few things that are in the works that i can't necessarily talk about yet okay but there may be some cool things coming up in the future um there's there's also stuff i don't want to jinx it by talking about it no but they respect that yes there there might be some exciting things in the near future we'll have to see but i'll make sure to keep you updated stay tuned everyone do you have like a manager or an agent or anybody are you just doing it yourself i don't um what the kind of like timeline of how this kind of works

so you'll go through college and then the senior showcase that we have is in new york city and um agents and casting directors and stuff come to that okay and um if everything works out for you you'll get interviews from there and then you'll get signed with an agency from that so that's kind of how it'll fit into the puzzle is because you don't really i mean you it's having an agent college can be amazing but um you're kind of limited with the stuff that you can do because you're tied down to school right so i do so much exactly gotcha so because you know

agents are getting their clients jobs for any time of the year so um that makes it hard yeah that's kind of um hannah's journey was the same she didn't really she's like i didn't get anybody until i actually was like offered yeah and she was in progress when we had her own yeah and then she was like oh crap i think i need to get somebody to like help me with this contract like i don't you know and elon helped her same type of situation like they went through the senior showcase and so she had already had some contacts do they offer like when you

get accepted to these programs are they making like financial offers to the kids too or are they just like hey you're in figure out the money side good luck with that it depends on the school um because a lot of times their scholarships are like talent based but also like academic based um so it really just depends on how good your grades are how good you performed in the audition um i think for the most part most schools gave out some type of scholarship because um they realize that students are coming from out of state for musical theater programs and so that tuition is already

super expensive so they'll get in touch with the academic side and they'll send out scholarships and um the academic acceptance for most schools academic acceptance is separate from the artistic so you would get like the academic acceptance with any scholarships from that yes and then you'll get the artistic with any additional if they have any or not if they don't but some schools are like 80 grand a year and they're like we have this great scholarship for you but you still have to pay 40 grand a year and you're like that's still so much money yeah it's a lot yeah it really uh it's that's

difficult it's different for every school but staying in state has definitely helped with that let me tell you get the bright future steps they cover like eight or ninety percent yeah bright futures covered 100 of my tuition nice and then my scholarships have covered the rest so amazing yay for you good for you yeah yeah thank you i like that we need to talk about bright futures because i'm not all up on that information i i had it that's what i went to the college on i well i had a combination because i was there's like this i don't know that colleges seem to do

this anymore but like i was recruited oh yeah i didn't i didn't apply like i just okay they came down and got me um yeah so like i went to fccj and dormed at unf in jacksonville and uh the jazz the guy that was over their jazz program he had come to our our high school a lot and played with us and he was he just recruited me so i was like yeah sure it was a full ride i didn't have to worry about anything dorms were covered then i had bright futures uh so i had money in pocket to live on like i didn't

have to worry about anything it was all covered so my experience is weird which is why i always ask a lot of questions about this stuff because i don't know how it's supposed to go and i know things are definitely different yeah yeah staying in state because like bright futures if you don't know it's just like grade based test score based and it's all like automatic it's not really like any like i mean you have to like say that like you're interested in like that little application but it's no like other work that you have to do it's just kind of like whatever your gpa

test scores are whatever you qualify for and community service hours which doing stuff at lct kind of gets that out of the way yeah and that starts in high school if you log your hours which yeah if you log your hours which michaela has not logged so many hours she only has 100 hours which i'm like she pretty much got all of that when she logged spongebob oh my goodness 406 yeah from lct yeah michaela should have like a thousand right now for all the stuff that she's done i bet you could figure it out if you had a calendar yeah i probably could go

back and look in my email for like whenever the rehearsal schedule was sent out and i'm like all right let me figure out how many hours but um yeah so bright futures covered tuition and then i was fortunate to get academic and artistic scholarships from fsu so i'm also getting money in pocket yeah it's great it helps you you can focus that's why i say staying in state was one of the best decisions ever yeah it was great well and getting good grades you know musical theater you may not have a lot of academics but it's still important to do well in high school focus

on the academic especially if you're going to musical theater focus on the academics in high school take those ap courses take those honors courses because one it'll help get your gpa up and then you'll get more money from these schools and then you'll have to take even less academics in college and you can get to just doing did you have in college or in high school i mean i took nine ap classes so that explains a lot right there you lightened your load immensely yeah yeah that makes so much now things click in my brain because i'm like there are requirements taking those ap classes

and getting that college credit yeah not so many gen eds out of the way so after next semester i think i only have to take like two or three more academic classes and then i'm done that's amazing so yeah that's that's the secret right there that's the secret my whole like junior and senior year will just be mt stuff which is so much fun because then you're you like that's all you're just focusing on yeah yeah doing what you love yeah your future wow yeah yeah that's that's the ticket oh college is so much fun isn't it i always tell kids i'm like why are

you rushing through college yeah like the college is so such a fun time best time ever yeah well you're fabulous we love you we can't wait to see you become yeah thank you for coming on today thanks for having me yeah we're so excited that you said yes i was never gonna say no i was just saying and schedules lined up and yeah yeah and you were here for the summer yes well part of it part of the summer yeah part of the summer we're here for this part of this yes we made it work yeah yeah yeah we did well best of luck to

you yeah safe travels back up thank you good luck in your new town home that's i know thank you get to decorate i know i gotta get everything up there and start putting together my bed and all that stuff it's gonna be a lot but how many roommates do you have two that's not too bad that's not bad at all but they're both already up there so i'm like yes yeah i bet yeah yeah yeah because they're already making themselves at home oh yeah i know i picked out the best ones i have a good bedroom though i have a balcony with my room so

i know i know so bougie yeah that's very bougie with a gorgeous view because it's tallahazzy oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah that's awesome well thank you again for being on thank you we'll have to catch you like next summer oh yeah oh my gosh can you share with us the dates too for when your show is for nine to five oh my god do you have them now you don't have i can't know we can share it later but we just want to make sure we i can get them locked in right now i'm guessing it's right after hurricane season based on last year

let's see we're at the tail end of it yeah and the tropics are warming up right now let me tell you to california oh hillary hello five storms in the kind of the pipeline from africa to us right now it's crazy yes and i think the first time or possibles um was that uh that california is having a hurricane like crazy it is historical no all right nine to five is performing from october 13th through october 22nd and natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 was performing february 23rd through march 3rd okay perfect nice awesome we're gonna set our road trip road trip yes

although we don't have a party bus no we don't have a party bus anymore her big giant i did i got rid of the party bus in favor of an evie so we have a electric uh mustang the maqui that white one yeah yeah i love it it's kind of nice that's cool but it's not i don't know that it's the great road trip and vehicle so because we'd have to stop and charge and charge yeah we're not doing that i didn't think so but we could rent a party bus that would be just as good all right we'll figure it out all right everybody

yeah bye everybody catch us on the next one bye everyone be good humans oh gosh i see a lot of videos of that be a good all right i'm hitting stop okay