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Speaker 1: Joe Gasolo in studio morning, good morning, Have you recovered yet?

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Speaker 2: Just it's a Phairly big week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, big week with another edition of the Mid Canterbury

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Speaker 1: Summer Singing School. And I was lucky enough to be

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Speaker 1: at the event center on Friday night on a cute

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Speaker 1: mandate with Gret Dad Dave. And this one was a

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Speaker 1: celebration of Broadway where that scene come from, because you

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Speaker 1: essentially took us through the history of Broadway and all

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Speaker 1: these wonderful milestones.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, the process starts probably six months out where

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Speaker 2: I'm scanning music and looking for things. And because we'd

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Speaker 2: had Cabinet and Rock Siller, I wanted to change, you know,

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Speaker 2: what was happening for the audiences. So they're not singing

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Speaker 2: a similar type of thing in a row, So we'll

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Speaker 2: go back to the old Broadway. But it was the

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Speaker 2: older Broadway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for the.

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Speaker 2: Seniors, and you know, you kind of think, oh, I

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Speaker 2: wonder how they'll go with us, But generally they just

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Speaker 2: loved it, and the audience loved it because it took

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Speaker 2: them back on memory.

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Speaker 1: Lane time remind us again how all this works. You've

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Speaker 1: got students' age what not nine to twenty two. Years

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Speaker 1: old and they bring it together over the course of

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Speaker 1: a week.

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Speaker 2: It's nuts. It is crazy. I mean it's not the

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Speaker 2: fainthearted Luca, you know, and that exhausted by the end

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Speaker 2: of it, but exhilarated. I think, you know. It's the thing. Well,

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Speaker 2: the fact that they keep coming back tells you that

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Speaker 2: we do work them extremely hard. I have to say,

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Speaker 2: what sort of ours, Well, the juniors come from nine

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Speaker 2: to twelve on Monday to Thursday, and then the seniors

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Speaker 2: are from one to five. We start on the Sunday

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Speaker 2: with auditions. It's but like the voice, the competition for

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Speaker 2: those solo lines is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I can see why because there's so much talent.

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Speaker 2: We spent you know, all day Sunday and Sarah and

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Speaker 2: I spent an hour and a half trying to pack

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Speaker 2: who was doing what solos? So it's a big week. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it starts then.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, being Sarah Hart, you're offside, and that's rather parteat

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Speaker 1: it because wasn't she sort of a day one student

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Speaker 1: of yours?

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Speaker 2: What she was? She's one of my singing students and

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Speaker 2: she's also one of the first students at summer school.

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Speaker 2: So it is amazing how things turn full circle. It's

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Speaker 2: great and she's fantastic. Gosh, it's so lucky to have her.

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Speaker 2: You know, I did it with Alice Solace for twenty

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Speaker 2: years and she decided that she wanted to retire, and

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Speaker 2: then I thought, I'll use students who have been in

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Speaker 2: Summer School before and gone into that field, and so

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Speaker 2: it's been great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this sort of serves as an opportunity to enable

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Speaker 1: future stars too. I see three have been awarded scholarships,

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Speaker 1: Tams and Cartney, who we got to know is one

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Speaker 1: of the head prefects of Ashburton College, Lily Partridge and

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Speaker 1: Chloe Graham. There's another familiar name, but between them nearly

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Speaker 1: three decades of attendance in the Summer Singing School. What

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Speaker 1: does the scholarship enable for them.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a monetary reward. I set the bar that

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Speaker 2: it needs to be for a high end singing exam

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Speaker 2: or for tertiary levels sort of education and music, but

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Speaker 2: particularly singing, because you know that's my gem is singing.

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Speaker 2: So they have to have been at Summer School for

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Speaker 2: a minimum of three years. And honestly, each year we

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Speaker 2: give Paul and I give two scholarships. We just couldn't

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Speaker 2: pick the year, so we gave three, couldn't separate them.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're all got some pretty exciting stuff lined up.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes they have, and they're such talented young lady.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, quite touching. Just quickly Joe to note that

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Speaker 1: it sort of served as a bit of a tribute

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Speaker 1: to the late Margaret Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Yes it did. It was unbelievable that I had picked

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Speaker 2: that music and the Friday was the day of her funeral.

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Speaker 2: She would have loved it, and she had been the

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Speaker 2: lead in shows like Hello, Dolly, and Nancy and Oliver

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Speaker 2: and the list went on. So it was just fortuitous

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Speaker 2: and quite touching that the music hit on the same day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that she's given a lot to the

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Speaker 1: stage and to those involved Herean mcckennerry over the years.

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Speaker 1: What sort of influences she left on you.

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Speaker 2: She was just a very gracious lady who who gave

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Speaker 2: a lot behind the scenes as well as on the

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Speaker 2: stage in her day, and she was always very supportive

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Speaker 2: of projects and always had a lovely word and came

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Speaker 2: and watched and came and.

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Speaker 1: Supported late patron of Variety Theater. And I'm sure she

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Speaker 1: would have been fizzing for the next big production here

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Speaker 1: as we move on quite quickly from the Summer Singing

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Speaker 1: School to Footloose the musical. So this has lined up

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Speaker 1: for what may is it twenty second the Ashburn Events

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Speaker 1: Center with the new line ray sound system that I

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Speaker 1: see has arrived for Roger and the team. So belated

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Speaker 1: Christmas gift.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty exciting, hasn't it?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: From my angle it is.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's going to sound awesome and it's going to

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Speaker 1: look awesome. So remind us again that the story behind

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Speaker 1: I remember Kevin Bacon.

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Speaker 2: Well, Footloots is about a guy called Wren who comes

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Speaker 2: into a small towns he's sort of a bit of

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Speaker 2: a rebel as such, but of course he's got another

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Speaker 2: side from the little town that he comes into has

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Speaker 2: had a bit of grief because the reverence son has

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Speaker 2: been killed in a car accident, so the teenagers are

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Speaker 2: not allowed to sing or dance or do anything of

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Speaker 2: any fun in their town. So he brings a lot

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Speaker 2: of life to the town looking.

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Speaker 1: To make some rebellious change. You mentioned how for many

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Speaker 1: years with the Summer Singing School you worked with Alis Solas. Well,

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Speaker 1: Hello the dynamic Joe I was back together. She's the

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Speaker 1: director I know.

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Speaker 2: That's great, isn't it. Yes, I am, And you know

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Speaker 2: the team is Alice, Jesse and I So we're going

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Speaker 2: to have lots of fun and there is a wealth

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Speaker 2: of experience in that group, so we're looking forward to

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Speaker 2: working together. It would be great.

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Speaker 1: What an opportunity full of stars to capitalize on that.

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Speaker 1: So I mean that there's there's no show without the stars.

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Speaker 1: Auditions being held this coming weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're on Saturday and possibly callbacks on Sunday if

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Speaker 2: we don't, you know, make our final decision on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: So it's not too late. It's not too late at

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Speaker 2: all to join the auditions. And they need to sing

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Speaker 2: a song that they if they email VTA, they'll be

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Speaker 2: told which one. The joy of YouTube and Spotify and

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Speaker 2: things is very easy to listen to these songs very quickly, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and just sing them over and over and when you come,

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Speaker 2: it's we try to make it as easy for the

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Speaker 2: people as we can. There is no easy way to audition.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's terrifying, but it's also it's just an

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Speaker 2: indication of us of their their talent, you know, and

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Speaker 2: we try and bring out the best and the time

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Speaker 2: frame that we have.

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Speaker 1: Is there one group in particular that you find needs

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Speaker 1: a little more motivation, so they need some more lads

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Speaker 1: or younger people.

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Speaker 2: Come on always Yeah, when I'm reincarnated, I'm coming back

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Speaker 2: as a male singer.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, come on, fellas.

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Speaker 2: We've got a good lineup, but we could always do

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Speaker 2: with more. So there's you know that kind of teenage

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Speaker 2: to mid late twenty range, and then there's adults, the

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Speaker 2: towns folk, and of course this appearance the reverend and

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Speaker 2: his wife and the mother of ren So there's quite

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Speaker 2: a few roles in there for different age groups.

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Speaker 1: Here brilliant. Yeah, do get into touch VTA auditions at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. We want you in a Kevin Bacon

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Speaker 1: to shine and be part of what's going to be

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Speaker 1: another world class production Footloose the Musical by Variety Theater

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Speaker 1: Auditions this coming weekend. Thanks so much for dropping by,

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Speaker 1: Joe Castello.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,