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Welcome to the Morning Show Studios and WRCO.

We have a very studious, very exuberant group in here.

We have part two of the Mamma Mia Morning Show here as we put the spotlight on Mamma Mia, which is the Richland Center High School Musical Production this year.

It's going on

next weekend.

So we're giving him plenty of time to all of next week to rest.

We asked him to come on the morning show this week, but joining us in the studio, we will have Harrison Carpenter and Max Woodman, also Maddie Crossenberg and Sydney Kepler and Ellie Boyarski is here as well.

So Ellie, I think you drew the short straw.

We'll talk to you first.

How you doing?

I'm doing good.

We talked to you last summer when you, when you just,

kind of took the roll over.

Doesn't seem that long ago, but you guys have been putting in some long hours, haven't you?

Yes.

We've had some five hour practices recently, um, all week.

So for like two weeks so far, um, which I think our director has grown some confidence in us throughout that.

So that's good.

Good.

I asked you before we went on the air, but what are you, are you confident you could put it down tonight if you had to?

Um, yeah.

I mean, we've,

actually tried to do full run through the other day and ran out of time, but picked it right back up yesterday and made it through pretty well.

So.

Good.

Well, tell us about the character that you play Sophie.

So I play Sophie and she, she is this very naive 20 year old girl who thinks that she will somehow magically find her father just by inviting the guys that her mother was with when she was.

younger to her wedding, um, which is extremely bold just because she wants her father to give her way.

And it, it does not go well, which shocker.

So it makes for some hoot and high jinks there along the way.

Um, so, and, and only 20 years old and, and, and thinking about marriage too, that's, that's a little bold too, isn't it?

Uh, yeah, which is commented on quite a bit throughout the show because, uh, that was,

Yeah, there's actually a direct quote that's like, we didn't get married back in our day at all, especially not at 20.

Right.

So in terms of the songs that you sing, are you in a number of the numbers?

I get to be part of the really big cast numbers, which is really fun.

And then I have a lot of solos and duets, which is also extremely fun.

Have you watched the movie or the play before?

I've seen clips of the plays, and I've seen the movie a number of times now, but never seen it in person.

And I know some people who have seen it in person, which I'm pretty jealous of.

The high school version is a little bit different than both of those, isn't it?

So there's no high school version of the script, though we have had to change some words to make it a bit more.

appropriate that way we don't upset anyone but it's pretty pretty similar to the movie and the Broadway productions.

Wonderful.

What are some other things you're involved in at Richland Center High School?

I'm involved in the Fine Arts Club as well as Art Club and I've done some art competitions with the school as well as

I've done some sports in the past, but mostly just focusing on academics and going to college.

And what grade are you?

I didn't ask you that.

I'm in 12th grade, so I'm a senior.

Senior, yeah.

Have you thought about next year or you'd like to be?

We're looking at a few different colleges and working on scholarships for that, because there's a list of ones I've been accepted to that we have to sort through and make the pros and cons for.

Acting, is that something you've always enjoyed and being in plays and musicals?

Yeah, I didn't really do any of it until my freshman year when I was part of the ensemble and I was like this is really fun and just kind of kept going throughout up until my senior year.

Were you in Greece a couple of years

back?

I was.

I played a very small part though.

I had a few lines to kind of

introduce and set the scenes, and that was the extent to my role, but that was really fun.

Yeah, that was a fun experience as well.

Now you kind of step into the more starring role, so to speak, so there's a little bit more pressure on, isn't there?

A lot more pressure on, yeah.

I get to start out the prologue for Act One, and then I also have the first scenes in Act Two, so it's a little bit nerve-wracking getting to set the scene for both acts.

Are you the first actor that we see then when the

show starts?

I would be the first actor that you see.

I start in my little bedroom and emerge and sing my songs.

No pressure

then.

Have you made new friends being in the play?

I've made a lot of new friends with scene partners and just even our ensemble is extremely involved and extremely fun to be around which I love because in past performances we have not had very involved ensemble and it's really fun getting to be the star but still getting to have fun with people who are just goofing off in the background and doing

whatever shenanigans they can go and solve them to.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

We look forward to it.

Let's switch over to Maddie.

Maddie Krossenberg.

Good to see you again.

You're

here last summer as well and talked a lot about it very enthusiastically.

Are you still enthusiastic about Mamma Mia?

Yeah, I really like this show and I'm so glad to see it finally pull together like seeing each seeing going to the next especially this week Just seeing everything like fit like little puzzle pieces almost it was really fun to see this week So

when you guys were practicing do you do like different groups?

You know different nights and things like that or do you kind of practice all the scenes as

one?

At the start, we kind of just didn't, like, by scene, like, little groups.

So then, like, people wouldn't have to wait too long.

But this week, we started putting it together in, like, full act run-throughs.

So we finally got to see everything get together.

Tell me about the character of Lisa.

Um, Lisa is one of Sophie's best friends.

She's one of her bridesmaids.

We come to the island and it's been a while since we've seen Sophie, so we're really, really excited to see her.

And we're just me and the other friend Allie, which you'll hear more about later.

Um, we just kind of bring life to the party.

Maybe not the brightest of ways, but we're there.

That's what friends are for, right?

So that's a fun storyline, I think, as you guys get together.

And do you do some songs together?

Actually, right after the prologue is the first scene, and that's when we get to see Sophie for the first time.

So it's just us three seeing each other and setting kind of like the whole plot for the story.

What about the wardrobe?

What do you wear?

It's very, like, casual wear, almost.

We're just like in shorts and tank tops or like a cute little puffy or short sleeve shirt.

Um, which I really enjoy.

Sometimes like the bigger costumes is like uncomfortable.

You have to make a lot of wardrobe changes during the night.

Um, I think I have like five or six, but they're pretty spread out except for the very last one.

So

good.

And it sounds like it's coming together.

quite well.

How do you feel about it right now, at this point, a week out?

A week out, I think it's going to be great.

I'm really excited to see full costume makeup, mics up, everything singing on Monday.

And then we'll be especially ready for our first performance on Tuesday for our parents.

Oh, for the parents then?

And then you do it for all the school too, don't you?

Yes.

On Thursday afternoon, we'll do a student performance, which every once in a while, we'll switch it up and do something funnier to make the students laugh a little bit more.

Because some of the jokes in the story, sometimes not very many people will get, so then we'll switch it up, maybe switch around partners a little bit.

just to make everybody in our school laugh.

Is it nerve-wracking to put it on for the student body or is that a fun performance?

I really enjoy the student performances.

I remember my very first one.

I was a little nervous because it's like everybody I know.

But to be honest, we can't see anybody on the stage.

So it's just like performing for any other group.

Yeah, good point.

What are some other things you're involved in?

I know Student Council is one of them, right?

Student Council is a really big one.

We just finished up Homecoming, which went really, really well.

I'm in band and choir.

I'm in SkillsUSA, which kind of focuses on the more niche skills that we get to learn.

So I'll get to go to a leadership conference this weekend, actually, for that.

We're starting up FBLA again, which is Future Business Leaders of America.

So just try to stay involved as much as possible.

There are competitions with FBLA as well.

Correct.

I don't know if we're going to get too far into the competitions this year, but it kind of, the club kind of stopped for a couple of years.

So just getting a backup and started and see what people are interested in it so that we can start fresh next year, setting up a good thing for them.

Tell us about the conference that you'll be involved in this weekend.

This week is our fall leadership conference with SkillsUSA.

We'll go up to Steven's point Sunday morning, and it's all day Sunday, and most of the day Monday.

We will be back for play practice.

Don't worry, Ms.

Boyer.

But we'll get to learn what's the best way to lead our chapter is what it's called, our group at the school, to success in fundraising other service projects.

and just in the meetings itself just kind of see how it's supposed to be run so then we can make everybody else as much successful as possible.

What year are you in school?

I am a senior this year.

You are a senior as well.

All right, so what are you looking at about the future?

Are you nervous for the future?

I mean a little bit especially because money is always a big issue but

I think I'm going to go to UW Stout next fall for interior design for sure.

Not sure what else I'm going to do.

Last week I just came back from a dance recruitment thing, which was really, really fun.

So I'm thinking about joining the dance team as well.

Wonderful.

Dance team in college then.

Wonderful, good luck with that.

And let's slide the microphone over there to another one of your buddies who will be in the play.

That is Allie, played by Sydney Kepler.

Sydney, good morning.

Good morning.

Tell us about Allie.

Well, she is one of the bridesmaids as well, one of Sophie's best friends.

Honestly, reading into her character, you don't really know much about the best friends.

So I feel like me and Maddie have had

a lot of freedom with their characters like I kind of like making Ali a little bit more sarcastic sometimes maybe a little sassy just like just a little bit um and I just feel like overall like with us just being able to be in the background of some of the scenes but then also like we kind of just randomly appear in some of the scenes like one second we're in this scene and then you don't see us for a little bit and then we just pop up again and I just feel like it's

so fun being able to just like be throughout the entire musical and just not in just like one or two parts.

So

yeah, I understand that to give you that freedom to add live a little bit as long as you don't don't go too far for Mrs. Boyarski, right?

Oh, yeah, of course.

Something like

that.

So you're you're playing like 20 year olds and things like so it's a stretch a little bit, but they put yourself in the role of a 20 year old and you know, you're all giddy and everything or how does

that?

Well,

we try our best to

still be age-appropriate so we're not you know because we are 20 that's it's a little bit hard or like our characters are 20 um but I think it's like since we're 20 but we're like still kind of childlike

or

like at least like when we're like interacting with Sophie and some of the other characters like because we're still young adults in the um musical so you know

What about wardrobe?

Do you wear bridesmaids dresses?

Yes.

Um, we have, they're kind of like a dusty pink.

Um, and we wear that.

And then the guys, they wear tan suits.

So very good color scheme.

Really?

Yeah.

Are you impressed with the wardrobe from the seventies?

Um, I'd say yes.

I honestly think it's, it's kind of fun cause there's like a lot of bright colors, lots of glitter.

in a lot of our costumes.

And I just think that's like so fun and kind of gives like an energetic vibe.

And I just think it's really awesome.

Are you in any scenes without Maddie's character

or not?

No, we kind of just like, whenever you see one of us, the other one's always around.

Joined at the hip then a little

bit.

Yeah, pretty much.

What are some other things you're doing at Richland Center High School this

year?

I'm in HOSA, NHS, Key Club, Youth for Change.

band inquire, I also dance, and then I possibly might play soccer this spring, I'm sure though.

Okay, well good luck with that decision too.

You gotta find the time to fit this all in, and right now Mamma Mia's number one thing, isn't

it?

Yeah, for

sure.

The other organizations have to kind of take a bag seat until what, a week from Monday, I guess it

is.

Yeah, pretty

much.

Are you getting nervous?

a little bit I've never been in a show before the past two years I've done backstage so I've been like in or like I've helped with the show but I've never been in a show before so a little bit nervous but I think we'll be just fine

what's your favorite song that you're a part of in the ensemble

um I really like does your mother know I think that seeing is just really fun um very energetic I think the dance part

is really cool with all the lifts we do and the different jumps.

I just think it's really fun.

And you're involved in dance regularly, so the choreography probably isn't too tough for you, is it?

Not really, but I think it's good because it's not difficult enough where we have trouble singing, but it still looks like it'd be difficult.

Just from the stage perspective, it just looks really cool all together.

Yeah.

Well, when you're normally dancing, you're not necessarily always singing.

So, I mean, you got to work your air so you aren't out of breath when you're trying to sing, right?

Oh, yeah, for sure.

It's definitely different just dancing and then like dancing and singing.

Very different breathing methods and just like how you dance.

Because usually when you dance, it doesn't matter what direction your like face is facing.

But then like when you're singing and dancing,

you kind of have to like turn your face or turn your body out towards the audience so they can still hear you sing and it like doesn't get covered up by when you turn around.

Yeah well said what about next year?

You thought about that?

Yeah well um I was just admitted to UW La Crosse for Radiologic Sciences so that's where I plan on going next fall um very excited about that um I've been waiting for that letter to come and it came like

two weeks ago.

Oh, good news.

Very, very excited.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Good luck with your next endeavor, but Mama Mia first, right?

Yes, of

course.

Good luck next weekend.

Let's turn it over to the gentleman on the other side of the room over here.

Max Woodman has been waiting patiently.

Good morning, Max.

Good

morning,

Phil.

Good to have you in here with us.

I want to ask you, first of all, as a football player, as an athlete, how did you find time to get your practices in?

So after football practice, like immediately, I would have to get all my stuff off all the pads and go straight up to practice all sweating stuff.

I made sure to put deodorant and clone on so the girls won't be scared of that.

Well that's a good idea.

Oh, that's that

was nice of you.

It was a kind of a yeah, absolutely Tell me about the part that you play pepper

pepper is a island worker that works for Donna He's also a friend of Skyn and groomsman who is a 20 year old and once when a Donna's friends tiny comes out of the set He is in love with her and she's also 40.

So

what?

Wow, okay

The older woman thing then.

Yeah.

Okay.

Is it a stretch for your character to play the

part of a 20 year old?

No, not really.

It's pretty easy and then I guess he likes older women.

I guess so.

Have we been involved in musicals or plays before?

Last year was my first time helping on the backstage crew of last year's play and then this is my first year trying out for a part in which I like it and I hope it will do good in which it will.

Good.

And then

are you in band and choir?

I have band, choir, just got done with football and basketball starting soon right after the musical.

And then I'm also involved in 4-H, NHS and student council.

Well, you stay busy.

Yes.

There's not a lot of time for socializing for Max, I guess, is there?

No.

What's been the most enjoyable thing about being a part of the cast of Mamma Mia

so far?

Getting to meet new friends, getting to know the part and trying out a new thing I've never done before.

Yeah,

what about the songs that you're a part of?

Does your mother know it's my fair song?

Because that's a duet between me and Tiny, which is Amelia Shannon.

And I think I like that.

And then another scene is when, after the Bachelet party, Bachelors party, excuse me.

We need to come on acting all drunk and that's going to be a fun scene.

That's interesting how you have to put it all together and play it and play it, play it for comedy purposes too,

right?

Yes.

Sure.

I'm guessing you're looking forward to having that audience and hearing those first laughs.

Oh yes, it's going to be really fun.

We need to act stumbling all that stuff.

Sure.

Yeah.

And what I've learned over the years is parts that you don't think are funny.

The audience laughs at you're like, oh, I guess that is funny.

Yeah, people have different sense of

humor.

Right.

Yeah, absolutely.

So the solos, learning the words, was that hard for you Max?

Oh, that wasn't pretty hard.

I think it was just you get the dance while singing, which is the hardest part.

So you get the focus on your dance moves while looking at the audience and seeing at them at the same time.

Some of that conditioning that Coach Trox will put you through, probably prepared you, didn't

it?

Yeah, that was fun the first week.

Yeah, that made me ready, though.

You weren't singing too much at that time.

No, I was more just huffing and puffing and running.

You talked about some of the other things you're involved in.

What about other interests and maybe looking ahead toward next

year?

Towards college, I have two colleges I'm looking at.

It's Iowa State or Minnesota.

More leading towards Iowa State, and I want to go for sports statistics.

Great!

Sports stats in any particular sport or not.

Mainly their football, basketball, or baseball, because I actually like watching those.

Absolutely.

And the Brewers, of course, World Series, you know, baseball is the best sport for stats, I think.

Yeah, it's actually kind of fun to watch, too, so.

So catching on with a team, let's say, you know, maybe a minor league team or eventually a major league team in stats, that would be maybe one of your ultimate goals.

Yeah, that's my ultimate goal.

And it'd be just fun to be able to watch a sport I grew up loving while doing math, which I really like.

Do you find yourself singing the songs of Abba from Mamma Mia when you're walking down the halls at Rich in Center?

Sometimes I do, yes.

Do you keep it to yourself?

Yeah, I keep it to myself.

We talked the other day about flash mobs too, you know, just about breaking out and singing, you know, you guys should do that one of the days during lunch or something.

Oh yeah, it'll

be so fun.

Give people a sneak preview for free.

Well, good to have you in here, Max.

And then Harrison Carpenter, tell us about the part of

Eddie, if you would, Harrison.

Eddie's one of the Taverner workers.

He's a bartender, and he's also best friends with Sky and Pepper.

He's a pretty fun laid-back guy.

Yeah, it's fun to play him.

I don't think... It's definitely like a step out there for me to play him, but it's been fun.

So in other words, he's not necessarily like your character in real life,

right?

Yeah.

He's, he's definitely more outgoing and.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Sure.

So what prompted you to be a part of this, to join up with the Mamma Mia cast?

Um, well, Max and AJ definitely wanted me to, um, I figured, you know, it's my senior year, uh, changed it up a little bit.

Yeah.

And you were

involved

in soccer,

right?

Yep.

Soccer and track.

And how did you, again, like Max, you had to kind of manage the time right from practice, right?

Yeah, I'd have to head up to practice pretty quick after soccer.

I actually missed a lot of, like, choreography practices because of soccer games.

So I had to do a lot of catching up on my own.

Did you borrow Max's deodorant and stuff like that?

I had my own.

Yeah, to freshen up for practice.

Soccer, you know, obviously you do a lot of running there.

So, you know, conditioning wise, you're pretty good for singing and dancing.

Yeah, it's not too, it's tiring, but like, I'm not exhausted.

Sure.

And you're a part of the same ensemble songs as Max is?

Yep.

I'm always unseen with him.

Okay.

You're kind of like these two ladies over here too.

You're kind of

on the

stage all together all the time then.

Sure.

Were you aware of the music of ABBA or any of those songs before the play?

Yeah.

Um, I grew up with two older sisters that loved Mamma Mia.

So I've probably seen it hundreds of times.

Right.

Okay.

Well, so then are they going to be like your biggest fans in the, in the seats?

Hopefully.

Okay.

Oh, it'll be fun.

Sorry.

Are you nervous at this point, or is it a?

Yeah, I'm definitely pretty nervous.

Past two years, I've just been stage crew helping out.

So it'll be fun to actually be on stage, you know?

Definitely.

All right.

What about some other things at Richland Center High School that you're active in?

Band and choir.

and soccer, obviously, and then track.

And track, you mentioned you're going to be going out for track as well.

What about next year?

Have you thought about that?

I've been looking at colleges, definitely after the musicals overall, diving into that a lot more.

But I've applied.

I've been accepted to a couple of places.

Good.

Well, congratulations on that.

Going out and maybe this is out of your comfort zone a little bit, going out for the play, but how do you think that's going to help you possibly later in life?

Um,

it's definitely helped me like be more social.

Um, it's easier to talk to people.

Yeah.

Um, right.

Well, they say that number one fear is getting up in front of people and talking.

So

yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

Not necessarily getting up and singing and dancing, but, but the nice thing about it is you're playing somebody that's, that's not Harrison, right?

Yeah.

It's,

It's definitely hard to like, it was hard at first to like step into the character, but now it's like flipping a switch.

It's pretty fun.

Great.

We

look forward to

it.

We'll come back after the break and wrap up our conversation about Mamma Mia, which is going to be presented next week and at Richland Center High School.

Our morning show get together focuses on Mama Mia.

We're excited about that coming up next weekend.

Richland School District Foundation helping to present that in our area for our listening and our maybe even our dancing pleasure.

We can get up in the in the aisles and dance Ellie at the at the end.

The big finale is really kind of an encore performance, isn't it?

Yes, it's exciting and a little stressful.

We've got some quick changes right before we come up for the finale, but

Hey, we all made it during our run-throughs, so.

And your closing number, I believe, is Waterloo, which is my personal favorite Abisan.

The Waterloo choreography is some of my favorite choreography.

That and Villevue are just the biggest numbers and the most fun numbers to do with the entire cast, because it's just one second and you're on this side of the stage, and the next you're being completely spun on the other side, but in the most

fun way rather than the whiplashy way

so.

And that's a big stage to be spun across there too.

Yes and there have been a few times where it's almost felt a little small because every now and then I'll be like oh I just hit that person in the face.

Luckily we have worked out that situation.

There have been a few dance numbers where someone's been like, oh, I elbowed you.

And we're just like moving on.

Work that out.

Yeah, exactly.

With that many people on stage, I'm not surprised.

Maddie, you want to talk a little bit about some of the behind the scenes folks that are helping you out.

um yeah we have two main classes that have helped build our set especially right away in the morning every day mr morrowick will bring his theater production class and they'll come help paint set and make sure that everything is looking up to like standard and then we have mr blair bringing his workshop kiddos into our honor set and they'll help build like we have stairs and

like buildings in a bar and they help build like all of that in a little platform just to make sure everything is safe and sturdy enough for us to be on.

Now what does the set look like by the way?

Um it's I really like our set I love how it turned out I was there when we were like looking at the very first like drafts of it but now there's um

There's windows that can open and close which you'll see in one of our scenes the ensemble get to use it to peek it and out.

There's a big platform in the back with an arch in it where you can just come in from the side as a stage and walk to the front.

We have a bar because we're always partying.

So it's just kind of fun to bring that into the set.

I think it's going to look really

nice.

It's

very grease.

So good thing we follow the theme.

It's a lot of white and blues.

I think the color we picked with ath and blue, right?

So it was kind of on point.

It was like meant to be.

Is

it all ready to go?

Is everything all painted and set

now?

I

think we're really, really close.

There's like just a couple extra touch-up spots we need, but other than that, it's really good.

Good deal.

Anybody else you wanted to thank there?

Over here, maybe Allie as well.

Could give us a little bit.

Sydney, I mean, also known as Allie.

We would also like to thank Trent and Makayla.

They're our choreographers.

They've been doing an amazing job since August, helping us all learn the dances and choreographing everything and helping us with blocking.

You know, they just done an awesome job.

Good.

And lots of fun.

It sounds like

it's not

like you like the dance part of it the most,

right?

Yeah, that far is the most fun part.

And then we also have Mr. Bailing and Megan, which is his fiance and then Mrs. Bailing.

They've also been helping us out.

Megan has done our costumes and then Mr. Bailing and Mrs. Bailing have just been

helping with like corrections like if they saw something that they think we could do better or we could change they've also been helping us with that and I think that's really helped us make the musical better.

So we just also want to thank them.

There's some whispering going on.

And then we also want to thank mrs. Boyarski's husband Jesse for also helping build the set He's been painting it and just making it look better from far away

Wonderful now AJ clone could not be here today.

Somebody I believe wanted to talk on his behalf.

Maybe max

Yes, so what AJ's playing is the He is the lover of Sophie

which is Skye.

Skye is trying to make Donna's Island, trying to be update to date.

So they're trying to get him online in which then he is trying to help benefit their Island and make money.

AJ also is involved in football.

He was an FBLA.

He helps out student council.

He's in band inquire.

So yeah, he's a really nice guy.

He's really talkative and he does things I can now say.

He's not here.

We can talk about him.

I guess right.

Yeah, that's good.

Yeah AJ clone playing the part of sky in in Mamma Mia So have you have you learned Harrison anything about the 70s?

um definitely more about like the dancing culture and like All the costumes and not costumes, but like dress dresses.

Yeah,

have you been inspired to wear anything like that?

You know

Maybe not day-to-day Well

Halloween is tomorrow night, you know, yeah, maybe I'll pull out my disco costume.

There you go.

That would be awesome What about you max anything from the 70s that that you'd like to go back to?

I'd love the rocket afro.

Oh, there you go The

hairstyles in the 70s, okay Maddie anything that you would add

Um, I really like the music from that 70s era.

I think it's just really fun.

I really like following the beat of certain musics.

And I feel like I can just always like turn on some music from the 70s and just get ready just to have some fun.

There you go.

Sounds like fun.

What about you, Sydney?

Um, honestly, I really like the fashion.

As I said earlier, I like love the bright colors and like the glitter.

I really like glitter.

Yeah.

Um, I just think it like,

Honestly makes every outfit better as long as it doesn't get everywhere.

That's kind of annoying, but Overall, I think like the fashion or like the boots that they

wore.

Oh my gosh.

I love those like I love wearing them on set or like when we're like Practicing it's just really fun to wear them because they're like really cool.

Good.

Maybe they'll make a comeback.

I don't know What about you?

So, I'm going to join in on the fashion and the music.

However, the go-go boots and me have not always agreed, but they are really fun to dance in, and a little painful as well, but that's a side note.

But music-wise, it's like...

Abba's music is extremely interesting especially in the musical because you know the movie plays it up to be all soft and really and then in the musical it's much more 70s funky beats and some of them were even cut from the movie and it's just like what this is such a fun song actually two of my songs were not in the movie at least two and I was just like this is such a fun song though and partly because the beat is so fun to like

sing with and they don't have well under attack has a lot of dancing or not dancing but a lot of weird blocking but it's it's very surreal and very fun which you don't get with a lot of other musicals because they just don't have that like unique beat to them which so I guess I'm a fan of Ava's music

yeah well said what about tickets how can people get tickets to this fine production if they'd like

to

I believe they're both online and in person.

If you go around town you'll see some of our posters up and they will have a QR code which you can just pull up your phone camera and like hover over and click on the link and you can go buy them there but we will also have them in person so if you just spontaneously decide you know what I want to go watch some teenagers look stupid on stage you can

pull up at the high school and buy tickets in person as well.

And maybe you'll be premeditated and be like, I know I want to go see them.

Sure.

Escape, just escape for a couple of hours,

right?

Which hopefully you'll premeditate so we can be like, yes, we, if people want to see us because we are very excited to see the people in the audience, even if we can't really see your face because we want everyone to be there because it makes us have more fun when we know that.

We're doing it for a reason outside of just general goofiness.

though, because we've had months to be goofy and have that fun.

So now we're ready to be goofy with the audience feeding into our energy,

playing off the part of the audience and their, and their enthusiasm.

So yeah, that's good.

Should be a good show next weekend.

We look forward to it.

Um, thanks for joining us in the studio.

Ellie Boyarsky, Batty Crosenberg, Sydney Kepler, along with Max Whitman, Harrison Carpenter.

We talked about AJ clone and good luck to the cast and crew.

And in fact, uh, Mrs. Boyarsky,

He told us the other day, LA that they're like nearly 84 students involved in this.

So it's really a whole high school endeavor, isn't it?

Uh, yeah.

I think this year for mom and me and last year for night under stars, it has been our like biggest pride to say that it's, I think.

I think both are going to be student productions, for the most part, with a very little oversight of adults just to make sure worse comes to worse.

We do have an adult there, but backstage for our stage crew, it's all teenagers.

And even our tech people is mostly teenagers.

Obviously, we've got G4 back there making sure no one's breaking anything.

And same with our lighting people, just in case.

But for the most part, it's full student production with student fundraising and stuff like that.

And I think that's kind of one of the things we're most proud of is to say that not just the actors,

And ensemble are talented, but also the people who are building our set.

Because I think one of the people, I don't know if they've been shout out yet, but Riley Blair's classes, they come in.

I think he's brought in almost all of his classes throughout the days to also build majority of the set, stairs, walls.

Putting doors on the hinges and putting them into the walls and stuff like that.

So even our set is mostly built by students outside of the help from Jesse and Morrowick.

So I really like that about our show is that it's almost entirely students outside of very little like guidance.

Oh well said.

Well get some rest everybody.

Take your vitamin C as we said drink plenty of liquids and we'll see you next weekend.

Mama Mia the cast is in today for a second show this weekend and we look forward to seeing it next weekend at the Richland Center High School Auditorium.