High School Musical Awards Pre Show 2016

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It is 645 on the east coast. It is 345 on the west coast. It is the 14th of April in the year
of our Lord, 2016. It is season 6. We're in the episode 30 some things in there somewhere.
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feedback. We'll talk to you. We are tonight for the first seat of the future. Live, music
called at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. It is the fifth annual. Dallas Summer Musical,
High School Musical Theatre Awards. This is a big deal. I'm very excited. Welcome. My name
is Rob. I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and take a picture because you
don't get me in a jacket real often. But I'm not alone for this particular episode joining me
to my right as he does when we're live on location is a man that knows a thing or two about
musicals. He is my co-host. He is Chad. Go. I'm not alone in that respect. You know about as
much as I do. You've been in them. That's true. I've watched a few. Also joining us across the
desk from him is the official fact checker of this show and a man that will sing everyone
to the wild. But we will not require that this evening. You may know him as Fondongo. But his
mom and name him Don Ford. I'm going to call him Don Ford. Welcome sir. Where are you? They are
over here. Wait a minute. I can't keep it. There you go. First you are here. Yeah. First time
I'm a senior in the jacket. Sing in it. Well, it's not the first time you've gone. Okay. Maybe live.
But you want my tears. We're just working on it. See you later. Goodbye. I'm on the way.
Siving right into the deep end of the pool. There you guys. Normally we talk a little bit. We
get used to what's going on. Don's already got us a guest. I'm going to let you introduce yourself
sir. Talk right in that microphone as large as can. We're not as large as can. But loud enough.
I'm Jess Westman. I am from Ableen, High and Cooper's show musical. It was a combined musical.
And it was really fun. So Ableen, the farthest West that this goes. It was about a three and a half
hour drive from Ableen to here. With the nice bus you guys pulled in right in front of me. So I was
like wow Ableen's representing today. As far west as Ableen today, as far east as Paris, Texas,
as far south as Waco, all being represented today. Sucical. I saw the cast picture. Could you just
have a whole city involved? We had both crossed down rivalry originally. But then we kind of
we just came together because Cooper's stage was being renovated at the time. So we just decided to
combine and it was yeah it was basically the entire city. So you come all the way here. They get you
in a suit. Describe what you're feeling right now because we can hear the cheering from outside
through the window. We're in the lobby right now. Tell me what you're feeling right now.
Well it was kind of surreal in a way. I was expecting so many people to cheer and clap.
Because I just did what I love in a show and you know, I don't care about necessarily
like winning an award. I just had fun doing it. And see and that's why you do it. Yeah exactly.
But a trophy in a better idea. It's pretty cool. But it's a nice piece of hardware.
It would look great on your trophy case. So the show starts tonight at 730 or 7 o'clock.
7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. And talk about coming all the way from
abling. This is probably assuming your first time in this building. That's last year we had
been nominated. Okay. You're in town. I've been here a couple of times before.
Gorgeous building. Is it not? Yeah. It's awesome here. Dallas is a step up from abling.
But Dallas summer musical sponsors this thing. They are some of our favorite people in the world.
They allow us to come and review a lot of the musicals that they put through 76 years. Dallas
summer musicals has been doing this. This is the fifth annual. And this thing's growing every year.
So let me ask the question. How you feeling about your chances?
I feel like I have a good chance. That's not what I'm here for. Of course. But in the back of
your head. There's that little voice. It's like you know you really want to win. It would be nice.
But to be in the room with some insanely talented people. People that have more talent and
their pinky finger than I have had in my being for the last 20 years are here. People are
piling in. There's a red carpet outside. I don't know if you've got to see the whole word
carpets are not did you? Oh, no. I'm sorry. I'm I'm social media network that he's he
and there's a lot of our social media when we do live shows. But it's a huge red carpet. They're
bringing some of the nominees in class at Cadillacs. Which we say classic probably we were kids.
But yeah, it's a whole different shading. We got somebody else joining us. Don just handed me
a K. Let's see. And I'm going to hit this button right here. She can put her head phones on.
Feel free if you need to put them around the back because I don't want you to mess up your
hair if you don't have to. Talk right loud into that thing. Tell us who you are. I'm Ali Roberts.
I'm from Gyer High School's Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins is very popular right now on multiple
front serve because we're getting another version of it coming soon. This is true. We just came
off the anniversary. We did. And to both of you, how much prep does goes like because we have a
lot of people but listen around the world. Talk to our audience about the prep time. Like when
let's go from the first time that you decide, okay, this is what we're doing until the curtain
goes up on opening night. How much prep time for us? We started we auditioned before school got
out actually last year. And so it's cast by the time school got out and then we picked up in the
middle of August with a we do a summer camp every year and we kind of started prepping, you know,
singing and dancing, getting our skills prepared for it. So we worked middle of August to middle
of November when our show went up. So quite a long time. Good Lord. We actually started in October.
We did auditions at the beginning about October and we got we got the show together by the middle
of October. We announced all the parts and everything. And we went up January 20th around that area
the last the second last weekend in January. It was it was a long process but it was it was worth
it definitely. So it shows because I've actually attended a couple of musicals this year not only
here but a couple of high school musicals because I happen to have a friend whose daughter is involved.
I can't even like it blows my mind when I look back on you know when the Stone Age when we were
in high school and you do it because we're old, face it. The production value then to now.
Oh gosh. It's it's it's a gap 50 miles wide. You know it goes from the typical sitcom thing
that you watch on TV and you can you sit in these musicals and you go I couldn't do half of this.
No. And I like to say there's a modicum of talent in my body. I could not do this.
The technical department has stepped up their game in every every sense of the word and talk about
your technical cruise because we we talk a lot about the people on stage but the people off stage
they're just as important. Is there is there that sense of community or do you kind of
guys kind of do your thing and they kind of do their thing? Well with with musical it was it was
everyone was it wasn't just like the actors that were combined it was really everyone that was
just with each other and it didn't matter if you were doing the lights or on the stage or
backstage pulling ropes or anything. We're all a family and that's that's what we tend to do
and I believe it shows we just kind of get together and get to know each other and become friends
and it didn't really matter for us but but we did acknowledge them. We we had this awards thing
that we did at the end of the show like seniors gave out awards and tech people were involved
with that actors. Nice. It was pretty awesome. Yeah definitely at Gyer Theatre we're really
big on the whole family aspect making sure everyone feels included and definitely the tech is
definitely just as important as the actors. They do so much off stage so get seen on stage and
they're so vital to our performances on stage and with Mary Poppins we had flying going on because
we had to fly Mary and then we flew bird upside down on the ceiling during the step-in-time number.
I have a free up-of-year of heights that would scare me up. I have a fear of falling down.
It's not the falling. It's the sudden stop at the end. That's the problem. The falling is fine.
So you know for those of the people I don't know where is Gyer High School? It's actually in
Denton. There you go that's what people because you know we assume that it's all local but we have
people from insane countries I've never even heard of that listen to this show so we want to
make sure people are dead on the north side of Dallas kind of closer you know you can throw a
stick and hit Oklahoma which some may maybe do that I'm not here to judge outwardly but that's
and dead in that whole area is blowing up in high schools. There's a new one opening I believe next year.
Yeah Brad's well high school. Yep. See I know I know stop. We do our homework at least we're trying a
bit a little bit so when the final curtain closes on the productions that you guys are doing
we know there are some high schools and I will wrap up these these two young people on this.
Do you exhale or are you already working on the next thing? We're already working on the next thing
usually when we do our we finish our musical we go into the UIL side of theater but it's definitely
it's definitely a very like nostalgic feel at the end of a show because you know you had a lot of
fun or never and there has to become a time when it closes but you're you're gonna miss it a lot it's
so much fun doing shows but do you get that time or is it we got the next thing we got to
move it now. We usually take Christmas break off to kind of like de-stress kind of just chill out
and then come back up the next semester. That's that's consistent with how it was with being in high school.
Well with what we did we wait about two weeks or so to start the audition process for UIL
one act and then we have senior directs at the end of the year so there's always constant things going
musical at the beginning of the year musical in the middle of the year and so on and so forth. It's
it's a it's a it's fun process. We're gonna let you guys go get settled a little bit because this
thing starts and a little over an hour. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Thank you. That's
a lot to both to you and we're gonna be back in the green room so maybe we'll see you there.
You never know. Guys go go enjoy your evening and down's got some more people to bring us.
All right thank you. Take care guys. John's gonna direct traffic a thing here. One more stop to go.
So all right let us keep moving. We are live.
First time we've ever done a show at Music College Fair Park. I love this facility. We've been dying
for this. I know. I know joining this week. We have got. I got Don's just got us backed up over here.
I'm going to let you guys introduce yourself. It's like right in that microphone. Give me give it
something nice and loud. If you would. I'm Josh Felson from T.C. High School. T.C. is where?
And about an hour east of Waco. Okay. So kind of southeast of where we are because we got people
all over the world listening. I'm Hannah Anderson and I'm from T.C. also and we did the show All
Chick Up. Now for those people that are unfamiliar with the production of All Chick Up and I'm
gonna act like that's not me. Explain to our audience about the musical itself. It's kind of like
Footloose and Greece where they're in a town where the mayor is very strict and won't let them
dance or sing or show any affection and public. Kind of like where you grow up. More or less. Yeah.
Pretty much. Yeah and a rouse about comes to town and changes everything. Yeah. All the songs in the
musical are Elvis songs. Okay so that's where kind of sets it apart. And I like this thing that we're
doing now where we're taking some of these things and turning like Billy Joel's musical of
moving up. Moving out. Moving out. I should have had these things written down. We've had the
Korean musical. We've had Abba. We just recently saw a million dollar quartet which was amazing.
I like what we're doing now because it's not about necessarily I'm gonna go watch these songs
that I've never heard before by but by using songs that people know do you find that that makes
it easier to connect with an audience or is it kind of six or one a half a dozen of the other?
Definitely and in the small town where we live there's a bunch of baby boomers and so they know
all these old Elvis songs so it's nice to see them out the songs. This is gonna be the theme
with an X4 and a half hours of my life. Just hearing a guy this young called referred to baby
boomers that just makes me die out. Are you technically one? Because I'm more gen X. I guess I'm more
gen X. I was born in 69. Okay fair enough. No but what does it do for you? Because
for you guys as these young kids today with the clothes in the hair that I have to get off my lawn.
Does he say that? How does it for you are you are you getting exposed to different kind of
music like the music from all shook up or is this stuff that you knew that just kind of
incorporated into what you're doing? I do some of Elvis but it really showed me all the songs and just
how much he actually did. I knew some of the songs that maybe appreciate his music a lot more.
It was really nice to get up there and sing some of the songs. Well and let me ask it to you this way.
Knowing the songs that you did because it's not always a direct translation. Yeah. Was there any
roadblocks for you there learning different types of versions of songs you already knew or did
that give you kind of a leg up learning the different arrangements? It was since you all
already knew the words and the music's written so well that it flows like any learned it really
so yeah I thought it worked really well. Oh yeah the way that they're written it's very similar
to the original arrangements it's not much different so it's it's it's it's pretty easy. It's similar
enough that it keeps you where you need to be but different enough that it kind of brings
something fresh to it. It brings new life to it and it's it's cool to see all the Elvis songs
told into a new story and stuff like that. Have you guys is this your first time in your
have you been here before? Yes it's our first time. Okay so let's ask the off-the-wall question.
How hard do you crash when you get back on the bus after this because I'm sure it's been a long day.
There may be a little bit of adrenaline flowing maybe a little bit. I can feel my heart
everybody's yelling and screaming on the bus and then you get on the bus to go home and about
five minutes in it you could you could just drop a pin on the road and hear it through the bus.
Yeah. What's what's next? I mean what is the next one you guys are going to be working on?
Well we're actually working on a comedy called 39 steps it's just more for fun for us for the
end of the year. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah it's kind of a slap sticky making fun of Alfred
Hitchcock kind of films stuff like that. Okay I was going to say 39 steps I know okay that's what
we're doing fair enough is now where are you guys in your high school careers? I'm a junior.
I'm a senior. Okay so for you this is the ballgate. Yeah. This is this is it for you.
You got a little bit of breathing room. Yeah I've got another year. It's nice.
It's okay I was only. I'll then have to have discounted insurance when you're bored it's fine.
I'm not seeing a word. Yeah yeah yeah he's older than me. Yeah. Uh so describe the atmosphere for
you guys because again first time here what is the atmosphere like when you got off the bus
we were talking to our previous guests we heard people screaming through the window right before we
went on air like they buckled a little bit. A little bit how is it feeling for you guys as you were
walking in as you're getting ready to go into music hall which by the way is a gorgeous room.
Today in the on the right car absolutely insane there's so many people. It's been kind of like a
controlled chaos. It described just looking out as you're walking down the red car because there's a
lot of people that don't understand you know we've covered red carpet so it's a little bit
different from our side of the rope but there's still that atmosphere. Do you freeze up? Do you
is it more relaxed once you get there because okay now I'm here I can just do this thing or is it
a little bit more tense for you? I don't know I'm really scared so I was gonna ask me to sing. I'm like
there's just so many faces. So you just bring your MP3 per go here's the recording. Yeah exactly.
I think when you're walking down the red carpet there's all this pressure on you not to screw up so
you don't you don't want to look like a fool in front of everyone. And you're really afraid there's
something in your teeth. I'd be the guy that tripped thinking about it don't screw up and I'm done.
All right so we're gonna let you guys go get settled because we got some more people we don't
want to back up too far best of luck to you thank you for joining us guys. Thank you. All right
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people joining us that we are going to let we got up. Denton has returned sir. We're gonna be seeing
you right up on that thing tell everybody who you are where you're from and what you represent.
Hi I'm Ashlyn Stewart I'm from Gyer High School and we're representing Mary Poppin.
And you sir. I'm Tanner Gorman I'm also from Gyer and I was also in their Mary Poppin today.
You know I'm feeling I feel a little dressed up. Tanner's putting me out. Yeah he is.
This kid is dressed as sharp as a tack. I thought I was representing well and this kid comes out and
kills me. He shows us all of. Yeah that's true. How are you guys feeling right now?
It's it's really exciting. I'm feeling great. It's yeah first time here.
Yes. Very overwhelming but very exciting and amazing. Yeah we've come to the show before
but we've never been a part of it as and we don't nominate it for anything. It's very exciting.
You know and that's a great thing to talk about talk about the difference between just
coming in and supporting your friends being a nominee how different does that feel?
A big part of it really honestly is going in there and you're looking at the stage from the
audience perspective that thing is huge. It's a really big stage from the audience but when you
get on stage it's about 20 feet long super tiny and you think you're going to fit 40 kids on there
and it turns out you can't and so that's really fun to try and heal. Yeah that vantage point though from
that stage how huge does that house look from up? Oh just massive it's it's amazing to look
out over just to see all these seats that are going to be filled. I mean because there's so much
history in this building. I think this building is actually older than at least three people at
stable put together. This is their 76th season. Yeah. You know and some great productions have come
through here. You guys are in striking distance if you ever came down. Have you had a chance to
come down and see any shows here besides the ones for the high school music award? Yeah I came
and saw a wicked a few years ago which will be here next Thursday. Next Wednesday next Tuesday. Yes.
Getting ahead of myself. I want to come and try and see it again. The show came and saw it last time
it was here and we also came and saw a Pippin when it came through. We were at Pippin last year.
What? What a great show. Yeah because we did that at our high school last year which was an
amazing experience so we came and also that just to look at it and it was comparing and contrasting.
It was insane. It was a great show. Okay so you did Mary Poppins. We spoke earlier people
are being hung from the ceiling. Oh yeah upside down. I'm going to put you on the spot.
You get to choose a one musical to do. What do you what do you choose? Just one.
One musical because this is the high school musical awards. We got to keep it in contact.
Yeah. I would do one of the woods in a second. Fair enough. Me too honestly. I would love to
say a little red. Okay so let's flip the script in. One musical that's at the top of the list for
you to see. To me to see Hamilton. Just to be really useful. Hamilton. Hamilton. I can see that opening
number on the Grammys. I was like okay you have my attention. Yeah me too. I think it'd be really
hard for me not to sing along with all the songs. Just kind of them so well but great show. I really
want to see it. All right we're done. Did we miss him? Did we miss him? Did we see if he got
the venting? Does I want to make sure that we're keeping on time? Here he comes. All right.
Are we moving on, Don? Are we good? We are moving on. Okay you guys go get settled.
I don't want to keep us. Thank you for being on and best of luck to you. Thank you so much.
I'm going to have a home watch Mary Poppins now. I know you can't leave yet can I?
We're going to be here now. Stick around. We're doing the live pre show. We're going to be off
air here in about 40 minutes but stick by the channel. Stick by our social media. We're going to be
broadcasting live a little bit later tonight from the green room. We're going to talk to the winners
right after they come on stage. You know why? Because that's how we roll. All right. Oh we're
going to the east side sir. We're crossing the lake. We're familiar with this. We are one of us
is very familiar with this. But I'm going to let this young man introduce himself because I've seen
him before. Hi I'm Travis Baumcam. I'm from Rockwell High School. No this Rockwell High School
cast pretty well. I've seen a twice this year. Earlier this year got to see the Adams family.
I'm not saying I have a bias but I'm also saying I don't have a bias. And then spam a lot.
When I first heard you guys were doing spam a lot. I just went question. This is this is not
exactly what my brain would say is a high school musical because if you've seen the film that
it's based on and it's been here at Dallas summer musicals. My wife brought me here to see spam a lot
a few years ago. Talk about how you guys approached that because there's certain things you
go, I might be walking a couple of lines here. Well we approached it kind of like back. We tried to
like see what was appropriate enough and what wasn't. And so there were certain things that we did
end up having to cut out. But most of it we were like okay can we get away with it? And yes of course
we could get away with it because. And you guys did it very very well. And I'm not saying that because
I might know somebody who was in it whose father might be a good friend of mine. But I
went into this thing going like I need to see how this works because honestly I was a little nervous
but you guys did it so well and you found you knew where that line was and you got close enough
to it that I went all right I'll give you that you know but you didn't get to the point where I was like
I need to go outside for a minute you know like it was really really well done. I never got
awkward or uncomfortable. It never did and I they did a great job how are you feeling right now
because this was what I mean closing day was two three months ago was right for the Super Bowl and
yeah it was yeah right now I'm feeling like I'm feeling accomplished because I mean we put a lot of
a work and effort into that show with the set with rehearsals with the dance and I just feel like
all that work just paid off. Did you watch the source material for any reason before going into it
or did you just go into like we're just going to go just straight into this thing and
we're going to do it ourselves. Well we we started off with the director telling us that we
needed to go ahead and go watch the movie because most times when people do spam a lot they try to
base it off of the Broadway show which is a lot of American comedy but we wanted to base it off
more than movie as God intended it for the people that like love the movie more than they love the
American humor and we try to make it as British as we could and we just watched the movie over and
over again we practiced our British accents we I had to use the coconuts too much
which to me is part of the brilliance of that entire production.
At what point did you did you go you know what I think we've hit our stride?
Our first show because before the show we thought we didn't have it together we thought we were
it was going to be like a blood shed the audience might you know die in the audience we didn't
really want that to happen so when we got on stage for that first number it occurred to me that we
didn't our confidence was up and it just boosted the rest of the show and after we did that first
number the rest of the show just fell into place and it was just it was wonderful. Where are you
in your high school career? I'm a junior and I've got you got a year to go do you know what and
do you know and can you talk about what the next production is going to be? I do not know but I
really hope it's something that has a good strong male lead like you go ahead and put it out there
anything that you would prefer like if you had your preference? I know that someone did it this year but
young Frankenstein I've seen them look at these kids today doing the classics.
Well that's the majority of what they were. I've never seen them musical of young Frankenstein
but I've seen them movie more times than I can count so I would love to see that. I would too
we missed it when they came here but if it comes back I'd be looking for you you can come watch that's right
you're like down the street from us we're about that far away so is this your first time here
have you been here before? Yes this is my first time. So got you served me sir. I can see you because
we're the same age always. So describe how you're feeling right now as you walk in. Right now I'm
it's a bit overwhelming because it all seems like a dream like you actually got nominated and
you're like well there were times that I didn't do perfect and maybe they saw that maybe they didn't
so I'm like I'm nervous and I'm very overwhelmed. God to be here. I'm gonna sleep solid tonight
when it's all said and done. Yes. Taking tomorrow off. All right go enjoy the rest of the evening
so you're getting get settled. We're gonna keep moving we got a lot of people to get through here this
is awesome this place is filling up quickly we are live music hall at Fair Park it is the fifth
out annual Dallas summer musicals high school musical theater awards 2016 I think that's isn't that
did I get the whole thing and I think so okay just making sure we want to thank Dallas summer
musicals and all the people having us out here tonight were having a blast. I've got I'm almost
done with my first diet mountain do the second one's coming very soon I got three bottles of water
I am set to go. How are you doing over there sir? I'm I'm hanging in there. I'm Rob this is Chad
I'm continuing all of our social media tonight normally he's a little more chatty but
when we're on when we're live he has to handle social media because I can only do 13 things at one time
more people introduce yourself where what you're representing and what show you represent
Hello my name is Josie Moyer. I was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for my role as
Paula Abigail and catch me if you can great fine-heist production. Okay my name is Ryland Kaiser
and I am from Colorado Heritage High School I was nominated for Best Actor as the role of Henry Higgins
in my fair lady. All right so catch me if you can. Absolutely. I'm assuming the same as the film
of the same name. We'll be in our decaprios. Yes absolutely. Okay good and my fair lady I mean I
think we can all know five fair ladies my my fair lady's a thing. You guys are both Dallas area
based. So Collieville great vine talk about any interactions that you've been having from
people from other areas have you had the time to really talk to anyone from schools from other
areas and comparing and contrasting or has it just been kind of laser focus I've got to get
in I've got to get seated I'm freaking out right now. Well what what the amazing part about
of the Dallas summer musicals is is that it combines so many different types of people and so
from so many different backgrounds and programs so when we come to these rehearsals you know all
the nominees are there and I'm getting to meet people from way far out like West Texas all the way to
people who are about 20 minutes away from my school and so just getting to meet and kind of
get to know the different sort of cultures based on the different areas is always fascinating and
67 high school to represent. Absolutely and the thing is this is my second year coming back and so
you'll see people that you never would run into at a you know at a Tom film we right
and I live very near each other so we could see each other around town but other people you
only get to see at this event and so I'm recognizing faces and getting to see people that we
had seen before. Does that also this is a social media help that as well because the people that
maybe you meet here that maybe they live on the other side of the universe that maybe you want to
keep up with because college is coming. Oh absolutely yeah I mean you get to follow everyone on Twitter
and Instagram and Snapchat so it becomes a thing like Twitter following parties all get together
and they're like oh everyone come follow me on Twitter follow me on all of these different things and you
make group messages so I mean you stay in touch definitely. Where are you in your college your
high school careers. We're both seniors. Okay so closing it up. Absolutely. Close it up shop
where you're going. The University of Texas at Austin. Oh hey all right. I didn't know that he was
going to that school. I love that school. And I'm spending a year doing what I love most. I'm doing
theater in the Dallas Fort Worth areas since I have the time of connections and no people I'm just
doing as much. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. Are you at the point now
are you just it's time for me just kind of settle down and coast this thing into its final or
are you still doing things that are going to carry you all the way through the rest of the year.
I'm doing another show at starting April 16th we go into rehearsals for the white rose. It's
going to be a small black box production. Very nice. It's the true story of these kids during
World War II who protested Adolf Hitler in Germany and it didn't work out very well for them. Oh wow.
Fair enough. I'm also in a black box production but ours is noise is off which is a comedy.
Indeed it certainly does not have the same heavy tone. So not even resting a little bit.
Like you know what I got to keep moving. I keep going if I tried. I love it too much. It's almost
like a muscle. If you let it relax too long it starts to fade a little bit so you've got to keep
working it out so that it stays fresh and it stays where it's supposed to be because the next
things come in. Speaking of the next thing I think your seats are probably waiting for you because
we're halfway through our pre-show. Wow. I know it's been crazy. I look down and we've
run in the air a half an hour already. Guys are you serious? Wow. I did do I did go to public school
but I can do math. Guys go enjoy the evening. Thank you very much Rob and Jeff. All right.
Clubhouse podcast is on the air. We want to remind you guys we're not going to do a Sunday
show this week because we're doing two shows in the next 24 hours. Technically three. But
everything available on iTunes. Look up the Clubhouse podcast. Look for the little star logo
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If you look up the Clubhouse podcast on Instagram that is happening. All right. Put your headphones on
so you can hear yourself my friend. Hi. All right. Tell us who you are. Where you're from?
What you represent? My name is Kate and Mayans and I'm from Moxatchi High School and we did a
production of Spam Lot and I'm up for Best Lady Actress for the role of the Lady of Blake.
I love that role in this musical because it's you don't get it in the film but the way they
work her into the musical it's it's brilliant and I love Spam Lot and I'm partial because
this is Monty Python and being a man of a certain age you grew up with certain things.
Exactly. We we also had some people from Rockwell High School here earlier that also did this
musical. Talk about your approach to it. Did you go to the source material or did you kind of
take it at face value? I did a lot of research. I've always loved Spam Lot and I've always loved
the role of the Lady of Blake. It's always been one of my dream roles I guess you could say and I
found out over the summer that we were going to be actually doing the musical and so right then
it was all YouTube videos watching different Lady of the Lakes and Sarah Mira's won the Tony
for it and of course that's great inspiration that you have such brilliance to watch and so I
definitely took some of their stuff because no idea is original. Exactly. But I definitely added
my own stuff into it. Well you know you know the technique right the first time you do it
just say oh I saw this thing the second time you do it you go I heard about this thing the
third time you do it you go I did this thing see there's there's an evolution there exactly
when you look at this the actual musical itself the Broadway musical is there because of course you
can't cover everything that the musical does because there are certain things that you kind of go
right. Do you edit that or is that edited before it gets to the theater group? Now we
when you buy the the rights there are options to make alterations we actually didn't make many alterations
really okay kept the lands a lot song and we kept you won't succeed on Broadway we kept all that and
and you know I think we're we're all pretty mature enough to handle that and it and it just made it
that much that much more fun and it was just it's the most fun musical I've ever done and I absolutely
love it. First time here second time here. First time being nominated myself but my school we
were nominated my freshman year for Kiss Me Kate for Best Musical and my sophomore year for
Best Musical with the Drowsy Shaperone. So this is my first year doing what I saw
done as a freshman and sophomore you know now it's my turn and to be on stage and to sing my song
and so I'm very excited. And talk about this room. Music College Fair Parkly. It is amazing and I
and I love to come here and watch actual shows that go on tour. Oh absolutely. Because I can say hey
I was on that stage and I know where they are backstage I know where all the dressing rooms are like
I'm a pro at this no but um but I love it and I love getting to see it and and I just love it here.
What's next for you? I'm going to college at Oklahoma City University and I'm so excited I
feel like Oklahoma City University is the best place for me to grow and to get to Broadway because
that is the ultimate goal. And not about city to be any either. I'm a fan of okay. It's not
it's not too far away from home but um but you know the ultimate goal is Broadway and I really do
believe that Oklahoma City will help me get there. All right so I'm gonna go let you enjoy your evening.
Thank you so much. Thank you for having me on with us. Speaking of Broadway and we do want to talk
about this April the 30th which is two weeks from Saturday that I do my math right there.
I believe so Disney on Broadway is going to be doing auditions in the Dallas area for the
Lion King on Broadway and Atlanta and Aladdin. Okay so go to Dallas server musicals.org
get all the information you want in there that is the official website for Dallas server musicals.
Okay this is going to be interesting. I feel like there's the sharing is caring people.
Sharing is caring because we've got four people and two microphones to work with.
We're going to let you guys introduce yourselves. We're at your representant and the stage
production therein and we'll start. I'm going to go the other way. I'm going to start in front of
Chad this time and work our way down towards me. Go ahead sir. I'm Vincent where there's
soon I'm from Northwest High School and I did the production of music and along with these guys.
All right. My name is Elijah where there's being. I am part of the quartet that did the music
man at Northwest High School in Justin Texas. All right. My name is Jonathan Sneed and I was a
ten or one in the quartet. Okay. I'll give you some terrain I was the base two in the quartet.
So Northwest High School Justin Northwest corrects. Didn't area. See you look at me doing geography.
Never never took a class. You used Google Maps. I know I just oh okay fair enough Don
Don giving us an interesting little bit here but I want to talk to these guys just for a minute
before we get to that because this is you guys this night. I mean people are flowing in here.
You swear there's going to be 18,000 people. They're going to fill the American Airlines Center
in here tonight. Tell me how you guys are feeling right now as all these people are pouring in.
Is it kind of freaking you out? Are you ready for this deal? I mean well I mean we're just taking
it one step at a time. It's a really big opportunity and we're just enjoying it as much as we can.
I mean it's just so amazing that we get to be with all these talents and people and be on the
same stage as them and perform and it's just amazing to show what we have and how and all
of our abilities to do it. No but you're listening. Someone ask a question.
Nobody's listening. I want them to feel bad about okay. How many other productions have you
guys seen this year? Have you had a chance to go see productions of other schools that your
friends may be of been in? Yes. How many? I've gone to C3. Okay.
Okay. So since you've been to other productions, taking your taking your bias out of it because
of course you want to be the ones to win. Well it was the favorite one you've seen that you weren't.
Tatan. Oh fair enough. I like South Pacific. I see I love it when kids like the classics.
Because you like the new stuff but sometimes you want to hear things like South Pacific. You want to hear
fan of the opera. You want to hear a bit side gone. So I want to take up too much you guys
is time but I am told that I get to sit back for a minute because you guys are going to do a
little singing. So make sure you're splitting these are unidirectional microphones so you're going
to kind of have to get fairly close to them. So we're ready to do this. So are you ready for this?
I am ready. All right. I'm going to sit back and let you guys do what you do.
Up there's on my love to be so dear so dear. There's a picture that's in fancy
off the peering brings back the time long when you were new. It is then I wonder where you are my darling
and if you're hard to me it's till the same. For the same wind and night and gale of singing
are breathing only on sweetly sweet at a love sweet at a love I had a love
I had night dear heart for you I pine in all my dream. In all my dreams your
peppers me your peppers me your the flower of my heart sweet at a love
five and a half years very first barbershop quartets on we've had on this shot.
And there's nothing wrong with that gentleman. We have unlocked so much on this show. We're going to
go let you guys get settled because it's got a pump of four too much longer it's on. Thank you guys so
much for being here Northwest High School in Justin. And this thing's getting full.
We are 35 minutes away from showtime sir and it's also important to understand that there's
going to be performances tonight and not only just like people representing their high schools
but you're going to have like cross cultural things going on indeed which I think is one of
the coolest things about this deal. Just let me know what's going on don't you think we're just
going to keep moving okay fair enough I'm easy like Sunday morning so it's all gravy to me.
We've got more people here we're going to let you guys introduce yourself so let's who you are
where you're representing and a production you are representing and go. My name is Joshua Riddick
from the Grand Prix Fine Arts Academy and we did a big fish. Okay. My name is Tisha Wilson
from Grand Prix Fine Arts Academy and I'm representing big fish. All right. My name is Nicholas Riddick
from Grand Prix Fine Arts Academy and we did a big fish. My name is Samuel Vongor from the Grand Prix
Fine Arts Academy. We did a big fish hit orchestra. Big fish. I'm Samantha and Drango. I am from
big fish. We were in the Peter Orchestra. Big fish. I'm assuming based on the film.
One of honestly and this is no bull because you're sitting here. One of my favorite movies
of the last 20 years. Absolutely. So I'm setting the bar pretty high here because this is one of
those films that if it does not especially I'm sure that the musical is the same way. If this
does not affect you on an emotional level by the time the curtain comes up you probably need to check
your pulse. So that being said let me ask you the question how long did it take you before you
could get through it at a point where you didn't have to be like okay hold on just a minute.
Because this is a very emotional tale that's being told did you have that problem or was it
we just jumped into the deep end of the pool and we made this thing happen. I mean talk right into
that thing. I mean for us since we're in the Peter Orchestra we did we did for her so
and opening night it was like a little rough just because it's opening night like we had a lot of
nerves but by the second show I think everything just flowed and we just kind of like played with
our hearts and everybody was just having fun and sort of worrying about getting line dried or singing
in the right song. How many performances were there? Okay one, two, three, four, five.
How much did you know about this story going into it? Did you did you any re-research it off
being in the Peter Orchestra is it the same is the score based on the dating of the score
at all or is there? Yeah there's the score is somewhat based on that but then again like
was she was saying coming into it at first it seemed kind of rough but as we began to inquire about
that actual story of big fish we all kind of bond it together even those in the pit that
weren't a part of the on-stage on-samble became when it's higher on-samble to make the production
talking to a bandie so I'm with you I'm right there with you kind of like being down there a
little bit more because for me I would think there'd be a little less pressure on me being somewhere
where somebody can't see me then somebody that's right there and front of God and everybody doing what
they do. Is this you guys this first time here? Yeah this is the first time. What do you feel
right now? I'm really high. You mean you're warm. It's very warm in here. I feel like we could
actually sit down and have a discussion about musicals and theater in a different level than
and we could talk about just in school even though we go to a finance academy everybody knows
the arts but here everybody does the same thing and we all have the same love and appreciation
for everybody's up there game a little bit or less. Have you had a chance to interact with
anybody from some of the other schools because again we talked about this earlier there's people
here as far west as Abelene as far east as Paris as far south as Waco. There are what do we say
oh they took my thing from the thing there. We're talking over 60 different high schools here
and on 70 different productions. I mean have you had that chance or are you going to try to do
that later or are you just trying to get to the point where I'm going to sit down and enjoy the night?
It's like crowd. It is yes I'm glad we're behind the table because I have a little bit of
claustrophobia and I think I might freak out a little bit if I was out there. Which guys have a
chance to check out the right carpet? Yeah so it's really yeah. Is that not amazing?
Yeah it's really it's really surreal because like I this is like my first time like going to
this type of thing and to be able to like experience it like I've never experienced this before so
it's kind of like whoa it's like the like the Oscars just like that. I know it really is. I mean
this is this thing gets bigger and bigger every year and when you look around the all the people
when you realize this is only the fifth time they've done this and there's I mean it's jam packed
and it's going to be jam packed inside the music hall here in just a few minutes. Have you guys
had a chance? Have you been in the room yet? No. It's one of those rooms that when you walk in
you you feel history because it's 76 years this place has been around you know and it's housed
everything you know we've seen quite a few musicals here it's a gorgeous room it sounds amazing
and for I come kind of jealous that this is the first time you guys get to be in there because
just to see that through your eyes you're going to be amazed. Go have a great time and joy this
is the night for you guys. We're here to help you guys out. So go enjoy the night because you're
going to be talking about you may be sleeping tomorrow but you're going to be talking about it
after tonight all right. Thank you guys. All right we're going to take a breather because Don says
those were our last guests. We are 29 minutes away from this thing kicking off Don has sat back down.
He's putting his headphones on. How you feeling brother? Yeah. Oh it's been fun and we're just
we're just getting started. I know we are just getting started. I'm kind of jealous of these guys
get to coups. We're not going to be in the in the room to watch the show. We're going to be back
stage here in just a little while in the green room. Yeah we're going to be in the green room after
we go after we go off air here in just a few minutes stick around stick with our social media.
Actually no you're sitting down sir. You are sitting down. No you're sitting down
because we've been doing this show it'll be six years come July. I was just about to send him a message.
There is a list of people that I have been trying to get on this show for almost six years.
There are very few people on that list ahead of the man who I'm about to introduce.
I'm going to punch this button right here. One of my favorite people in the world who just
happens to be the father of two more of my favorite people in the world as long as they're in front
of me I will say that. John Kottern. Welcome to the show sir. You have to talk to the microphone.
Don't act like you've never used one before. Well thank you for having me. A friend of mine
for the better part of two decades. I have known him longer than his daughters have been alive.
This is true. Ouch. I have actually had the opportunity to see one of them do two different
productions in the last six months. Which is where my bias comes from. It's a slight bias.
Girls you get to introduce yourselves. Hi I'm Mallory Coffrey and I'm with Rockwell High School
and this is my sister Madison. There's no video it's an audio show.
So two productions. Both of them I'll let you call me sir. You're allowed because I know you're a
old man. Both of them in the programs tonight. Very exciting. How are you feeling?
A little nervous. We've been nominated for costume design with the Avis family and our friend Travis
Bob Camp has been nominated for best supporting actors. He was just here. He would just sat down
with us a few moments ago. He had that with his few moments ago. Saw both of these productions.
Again, bias. Not afraid to say it. Love them both. You guys worked really hard and you just
killed it both times. You've seen the red carpet. You've seen the madness that is this lobby.
How does it feel right now? Right now, pretty nervous. Getting ready to go into the awards ceremony
and it's just kind of crazy like being here with all these people and kind of realize like you're
surrounded by so much talent just like you and we're all very hungry for the same kind of thing.
So yeah, we're very excited for that to be here. How was it from a networking standpoint? Are you
having a chance to really meet people from other areas and kind of comparing contrasts and
outs? Well, I personally recently just got here, but yes, I have. I started talking to some of the
other schools outside and it's just like crazy to get to know them like some of the things they're
here for and then like things I've seen through the DSM network or the Facebook page and
just kind of like these are the people that I've been looking out to and thinking like man,
they're super talented and all that stuff. Now, we also get a very interesting perspective that we
haven't had on the show yet tonight. We have a parent sitting here. Indeed. Allegedly.
When ever said you were, when ever said he was a response to a parent, I'm a parent.
Talk about it from a father standpoint because we talked about it from all the kids coming through
their standpoint as a father. What is this for you? It's somewhat overwhelming and it's, you know,
obviously it's a moment of pride for a dad to know that his children are part of such a great
eye. You've got one coming towards the end and then you got another one getting ready to come in.
Absolutely and it's not just, you know, these two that I feel like I'm a dad to, I feel like I'm
kind of the dad over the whole group. And I was going to say that. You're not just a dad because
I've been with you when we've gone to these productions. You're like the dad. Yeah, that's
you know, growing up. I mean, I grew up in a completely different section of the country and
you didn't talk to somebody. It wasn't like a Mr. Kothrin or what it was dad Kothrin. Like that,
that's what that was. And you have that because I watched it happen. Like I can bear witness to the fact that
when you, when you're as active as you are with your kids and what they do,
how does that sit on your nerves knowing that your daughter is basically is involved with a
nominee? You know, I just feel like it's an extension of my own family with all these other
kids. You know, with their nominations and hard work that they put in. And that's the thing that a
lot of folks don't see that goes into all these productions is just the amount of work that these
kids put in to each one of these productions. And it shows. And it's long nights, it's long days,
it's rehearsals, it's costuming, it's blocking, it's everything. And then when you come in and see
the production, you're like, oh, that was really good, but you have no idea really the time that
they've spent putting to work on these productions. And hopefully it does show. But, you know,
high school productions today are nothing like it wants when I was a kid. It's rather you a lion.
So it's, you know, you obviously get somewhat broadway quality productions at these high school
productions. It's most of when we were in high school and it was just a bunch of people running
around, trying to remember our lines. I can barely remember when you get from the store,
a very clearly constructed set. Okay, so for both of you, because both of you are involved in
productions, I know Madison just did a little bit of lion king. If I'm not mistaken, if I remember correctly
from the last time I saw you kiddo. Okay. So tomorrow, after this is all over,
do you just take some decompress time or are we just onto the next thing? Absolutely not. We're actually
in the middle of our student written show this week. We had a performance last night. We go to
performances for the weekend. So there is absolutely no downtime and then we start it with our children
show. So we're pretty busy until school bell rings on the last day. And then you've got summers.
And we got camps over the summer and things of that nature. It doesn't stop it. And then
but see that's that's why the arts are so important. Because they teach, they hate to call them kids,
because some of them are more adult than me. But you learn that work ethic. You learn those
responsibilities. And being a kid that came from the arts, it crushes my soul to hear stories about
arts programs getting cut. And if you want to understand how important the arts are, be in this room
tonight. So absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind. There is not an empty seat in music hall
in the next 20 minutes. Because I've seen so many people rifleing through here, you'd think it was
opening night for a wicket, which by the way is next Tuesday. And it's going to be here for over a month.
You get after that, you're going to have ragtime. Then you're going to have bullets over Broadway.
And then the 76 seasons for Dallas Summer Musicals wraps up with 40 seconds street.
But you would swear that it's opening night for a huge production, which really kind of is,
yeah, it should be treated that way. It is. It's, I mean, not just the the skills that you get,
but the camaraderie that you walk away from at the end of your high school career. I mean, I was
in both theater and choir all through high school. And my closest friends that I still associate with
are all from that group of people. So they stick with you for the rest of your life.
And, you know, and something that I've noticed with being involved with these programs for,
you know, a number of years now, the children that you see the children. Look at me.
Oh, man. I believe the children are a future. And they are. Teach them well. The young ladies
let them leave the way. Show them all the beauty they possess in South. Okay, Whitney.
I prefer for Randy Watson. Thank you.
The police don't drop my microphone.
But the young adults that have graduated and they've gone on to, you know, further in their studies
in college or getting jobs, they're all exceptional young men in young ladies. I'm so lucky.
You know, absolutely. You don't worry about their future. You don't worry about them making
the right choices. And I believe that all stems from this work ethic that they get while they're
doing theater and choir productions. Because it is the dedication and it shows them early on
hard work pays off. And knowing you as long as I have as far back as our friendship goes,
there's no doubt on my mind the pride that I see in you because of the work that both of your
kids do. No matter what it is, whether they're on stage, you're playing a tately
wings in the bathroom, you know. And they are awesome at that. Yeah, you know what?
Everybody's got skills. That's all I'm saying. If we can just monetize that.
Last question for you. Why does he have a cooler time than you? That's all, that's what I'm asking.
It was a regular moment. How was he got a star worst high and you don't?
Because I will never be as cool as Matt Pellettier. Wow.
He's like, can I get there and write it? It's actually recorded. You can play it back to him anytime
you want. You download it right from iTunes. I got to find that this thing right here. Where did
that come from? I got it for Christmas from my parents. Don't it? I got to find this thing.
But www.let me google that for you.com. Okay. All right guys go get seated.
We'll see you soon. All right. Now we're really going to start wrapping things up because it's really
getting close to time. All of you in the chat room listening live be aware that we're going to go off
the air for a little while probably somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes. So stick by the channel
because we're going to be backstage at the green room at about five Instagram upstate updates
on the thing. Oh good. Good. Don is upstate our Instagram. If you are on Instagram,
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Although our Twitter is Clubhouse Show. There's a little difference there. And we're also
a periscope. We have that available as well. I don't know if we're going to try to periscope tonight.
I don't know if we're going to have time to do it or not. Don how you're feeling.
I love this stuff. You know it. You know it. I love this whole atmosphere is amazing.
Friends are here. I love it when people we know walk in. You know what I mean?
And you know it's just as cliche as this is going to sound. Events like this really do
restore my faith in humanity. Yes. What are we doing? Oh, oh no. He's okay.
Say he's Francisco. He's not need enough. You know. And by the way, we do want to send it
to the very special. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Like I admit to do it. A special
thing to Dallas summer musicals. Everybody involved. Not only putting this event on,
but for allowing us to be here. This is the fifth annual one of these things. It grows every year.
It's my job to start to fake off. So we got to think. Friends, just go DSM.
Call fair park. We love those guys. Let us come and do this thing. And they're thinking of us
wanting to do the show twice. I mean, we love this guy. We love these guys. 67 schools represented
70 different productions. And we're going to take a couple of minutes and we're going to tell you
kind of how this works. Dallas summer musicals has a crew of people. And they go and they see
all of these musicals. They go to these high schools. Again, as far west as Abelene, as far south
as Waco is far east as Paris, Texas. And they go see these musicals. And the really neat thing is
they don't do it ninja style. Like the productions know they're coming. They know what
performance they're going to be at because that way it kind of lets them know. Okay. We know you're
here. It's what the best game on. But the beauty of it is for these kids, it's just another show.
Yeah. They don't really feel like they're putting their best for for because they're doing that
each and every time they get the stage. Wonderful. All these ladies and their beautiful gowns,
the gentleman and their beautiful suits and tuxedos, people of all ages, all walks of life,
supporting each other. And that's the important thing. So as we're getting to wrap up, again,
stay by our social media. We're going to be off air for just a little while. We're going to be
because if for no other reason, we are moving locations currently. We're in the lobby. As you
come in, when you get your ticket scan, we are actually facing the ticket takers. We're going to
take down the rig. We're going to move the rig back backstage to the green room because what's
going to happen is as these awards are handed out, they're going to come back. They're going to have
a little photos taken of them. They're going to sit down. We're going to talk to all the winners.
So we may recycle some of the people that we talked to with that. That's Danny, because they'll be in a
different way. Yeah. It's going to be an exhale on a celebration at the same time.
Anything else that we need to cover before we do the plugs gentleman. Well, you're as we're talking
ties earlier. I love Tats tie. I love that tie. Thank you. He brings his tie game is strong. Yeah. Thank
you, gentlemen. Not as strong as my personal tie game right now. Just my tie game is pretty strong.
Right. I've ever seen you with a tie. It's a bit more exactly. Well, no, it's from the visible
man's out closet. Okay. It's from the Mr. Fantastic collection. The Phantom of the Opera Collective.
Yeah. All right, gentlemen. Plugs. Let us do the plugs.
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