Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Which time now for our community connection right here. I'm kay One, the one you trust, and we have some of our students here from Bartlesville High School, Fine Arts, and we've got the Anatomy of Gray. I said it correctly, did I not look the microphone? There? Gray? There you go? All right. First of all, let's introduce everyone. Hi. I'm Conor Hart. I'm a senior Bartifel High School and my character is
Pastor Phineas s Wingfields. Hi. I'm Katie Parks. I'm a junior at Bartlesville High School and my part is Rebecca Muldoon. Hello. My name is Noah Argo. I'm a senior Bartiel High School as well, and I play doctor Gray. Okay, this sets it up here right here. First of all, is a little bit of confusion because I got confused. I keep thinking of a Grey's Anatomy, the book, Gray's Anatomy the TV. But this is the Anatomy of Gray. There's a little story behind that, right,
Yes, what's the story? Well, the two aren't related at all. In fact, that's what I thought. There is a doctor. The play was actually originally going to be named Gray's Anatomy, but the playwright decided to change it through the making of the play, and then about ten years afterwards, the show Gray's Anatomy came out and now we can't find any stuff for our play. Got to give us a little bit of a synopsis of
what's going on here, all right. So in the play, June Wildon, who is Rebecca's daughter and another one of the main characters in the play, her father dies and after that she wishes for a doctor to come to town so nothing bad will happen to anybody else. And so mysteriously a doctor comes into town and sickness follows him, and that's kind of the show. Now, Katie, you play a pretty substantial role in here, because there are people dying around you, but you're fine, well for a while.
Anyway, a while I'm fine, and then I get sick and people are suspecting that it's the doctor causing the sickness. Oh really, and so all heck breaks loose, and yeah, the show's really heavy on seems of like finding found family and like who can you trust in? Who can you not? And there's a really this is a small cast. There's only about eleven is people in it, and it's really interesting seeing how the cast splits apart and how bonds form and stuff throughout the show. Not only do you play
a woman, but you play a woman with a child. Yes, it's funny. Funnily enough, my daughter is older than me, and she's older than me, and it turns out Rebecca is pregnant. Do you need a doctor? So great, tell us a little bit about what you do. You kind of appear on the scene mysteriously. Well, I appear and I start to help some of the folks around the town. But then these weird marks start to show up, and they start to suspect it's me because I'm
different from them. And yeah, it's also the like eighteen hundreds, so you know, it's always a new guy in the eighteen hundred. Yeah, of course, and so here are you. Nope, and then they try to exile me just again. Yeah. All you try to do is help, right, Yep, I'm just trying to help them. You're not an evil. No, I'm doing fine. I'm a I'm a I'm no nare dweller. He's just a guy, yeah, doctor Grey practice meds. Oh wow, well this sounds like this is gonna kind of keep people hanging on
between scenes, and it's really got a lot of glue. As they say, they'll pull it all itself together here towards the towards the end. Don't spoil it for me, because I'm gonna go see it. But I need to know. When is the play? February twenty ninth, March second that Thursday and Saturday, and it's at the Fine Arts Cutter at Bartlesville High School and they're both at seven pm. Yeah, what's price price? I think
what five dollars per ticket? Five dollars a ticket for right now? If you buy in pre sale and then at the door at the show, they will be ten dollars. And doors should open at six thirty, so you can show up a little bit early to buy your tickets and settle in and stuff. We always show up early. Katie's got a fan who has to sit in the front row, so it worked out pretty good. But anyway, this is great. I've seen you all in a variety of different characters.
Now, Carter, i've seen you is an old man a lot. Oh, and you're about the youngest looking person. I thank you, bet, I mean, the only kind of Peggy is an old guy. Yeah. Actually, my sophomore year of high school, I did all the plays and stuff, and so I was casted as the three I was casting it as an old man three times in a row, for every main for every play that we did. It wasn't until the musical that I was able to
play somebody my age, which is really interesting. Since I do have a young face, it's easier to make me either really old or really young, and not usually in the middle. But I'm glad that this time I'm kind of playing a middle ish character. That's good. That's good because you know, I thought for a while there, you're going to start getting social Security before you graduated. Katie, You've done a lot of different characters, a
lot of sometimes as many as three or four in the same production. In plays, we tend to keep it, try to keep it like one character per person. As soon as the musical comes in, it's as many characters as you can fit. Pretty much, and with CMT like they cast you as multiple things. But this is my first time at the high school playing such a big role. Well, you had a pretty good sized couple of roles in a Shakespeare even played King Lear Yeah, I got to die,
so that was pretty that was a big deal. You played, and you played, you played several really interesting I never know what you're gonna come out, That's what I love. But it's a it's a real uh flowing the fastballs, the curveballs. Man, they never know what's coming next. They don't they don't know what was What's your favorite man? Honestly, probably gone I. I only it was one scene all I was in, but I loved getting to crawl around on the stage. It was just it was just
so it was just so fun. Well, people couldn't take your their eyes off you. They're like, going, this is really freaky b good. Yeah. What other characters have you played? Well? I played in the previous play. I was one of the leads, uh to the tune gentlemen of Arona and King Lear. I was one of I would kind of a main villain almost, and then most of my other roles have been very small or like an ensemble kind of thing. So those songs rolls are kind of
fun, aren't they. Yeah, the musicals especially, you kind of just get to jam out and do whatever you want. And as someone who's done both leads and ensemble and both they both kind of come with their caveats and stuff, But especially in musicals, like you'd expect that you would want to be the lead all the time, but leads sometimes just kind of are away from everybody else and you don't get to like join in and have that kind
of found family as easily. So being ensemble in those is awesome. Now, Katie, this is your first big lead since you have played the part of Robinson Crusoe and then children's theater production, so this is kind of kind of circling back. You started off as a lead, then you've played many different characters, and now you're a lead role again. This is definitely, I would have to say, one of my favorite parts, except of course Peter Pam always number one. So once again we got the show coming up
the twenty ninth and the second and it's at seven o'clock. Buying our it's auditorium, Bartletviille High School. Tickets in advance are five dollars, ten dollars at the door. How do we get the advanced ticket? It's going to go to you. Usually you can find a student you know, or you can go to the director and then you can buy the tickets from them. I believe that we will have the ticket box open. I don't know if it's open right now, but it should, like the week leading up to
the show. It should be open and you can walk in through the f A C And get some tickets that way. Well, that's great. You know, you've got great support there, You've got great instructors and that that seth beell. I don't know what he doesn't do because he seems like he's like the quietest guy. He just kind of smiles and it's like, got it, okay, you can ask him to do almost anything. Yeah, And I miss Roddy is an excellent teacher from what everybody's in in here,
especially when they're with her. Yes, But you know, but the whole Fine Arts department, it seems like there's a lot of different commingling that that happens there, whether it's choir, whether it's theater, whether it's work distract and there's just a lot of intersections of the students. Oh yeah, for sure, And especially since we've had gotten our new band directors, there's been a lot of intermingling, especially with band, choir and theater. Yeah,
and it's just really awesome to see how everything works together. It's really cool. I'm going to ask Katie this question because not only have you been on stage, but you've done a lot of behind the scenes. You even built sets on occasion. Yeah, somebody's shoulder to use a hammer. Ye, thanks mom for teaching me how to use a hammer. Yes. I have been backstage for all the plays this year except this one, so I was thinking, hm, let's change it up. So now, what's your favorite
when you're behind the scenes. You've done everything from costume to set design to everything else. Right, pretty much, I would definitely have to say for tech tech wise, cautioning is one of the more fun ones. You guys are looking like, I gotta change my clothes. I gotta disagree. Personally, I love building the sets like it's just it's so it's so fun because I put it together and I'm like, man, I really shouldn't be putting all of my weight on this piece of wood. I know who did this?
Yeah, I know exactly who did this? What about you? Just back and forth too. I've just done acting. Actually, I just never got into the tech scene. I thought I would do that some this year, but Marching Band kind of got in the way, they'll do that, so uh so. Yeah, but acting has always been super super fun and the techies are always like super nice, and it's it's just really interesting. Now most of you are going to be leaving the school pretty soon, Katie.
Do you plan on doing any acting post high school? Oh? Absolutely, I mean I would love to be a theater teacher, just like it's because she really taught us well, and so I'll probably do some stuff in college. I'm going to o s U Go Pokes. I'm going for vocal music education. Uh so I'll be pretty busy, especially my freshman actually just all my years. But yeah, and so I'll definitely be busy. But the theater program at OSU is pretty good, so I'll probably stop by for
a couple of shows. No, oh, I plan on completely dropping all this. Actually after high school, I'm going to be an engineer, So don't I won't have a lot of time for all this. As much as I love it, but I think this is probably my last year of doing all this kind of stuff. Well, after you get that degree, there's plenty of community theaters people. Okay, I thought about it. Don't don't ditch it completely. Just kind of put it on the shelves. Then I
want to thank you all for coming in here today. Thank you. I want to thank you very much for being a part of our program. And once again it's the twenty ninth and the second Bartlesville Fine Arts Auditorium, Bartlesville High School. It's the Anatomy of Gray and the tickets are five dollars in advance, ten dollars day out. Thank you very much. Take your curtain call. Think a bad