1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: The always fabulous musical Matron of Mid Canterbury, Joe Castello 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: is in and you've come with a present. What's this? 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: Oh look, I thought you might just need some browning 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: points at home. So it's a little bouquet of flowers 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: from Smithfield Flowers. Oh, we're sort of flower farm. That's 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: my other gig. 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: Oh, one of many hats that you wear. I imagine that's 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: some pretty hot demand at the moment. 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a lovely time a year and it's been 10 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: great weather for flowers. 11 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: So keeping them hydrated must be a challenge though. 12 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they'll drip tapes down. 13 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: And what drip tape? 14 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, you put it under the just along the flower 15 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: beds and just drip Tape's best thing for flowers. You 16 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 2: don't want water coming. 17 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: In this thing that you learn. Oh my gosh, we 18 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: should have a whole horticulture segment going on here, shouldn't we. 19 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: You need to get my husband Paul. 20 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: Well, thank you. This will certainly help claw me out 21 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: of the hole that I kind of dug myself with 22 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: the ham challenge. Belinda. One do I hear that we're 23 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: back with the twenty sixth edition of The Mid Canterbury 24 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: Summer Singing School. 25 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: We certainly are this year. It's called Broadway Bound and 26 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: we have a large group of seniors. There's about sixty 27 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: in the seniors and a smaller group of around forty 28 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 2: forty five in the juniors. But they're still you know, 29 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 2: room for people to enroll in the juniors. 30 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: About one hundred all up. Remind us again what this 31 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: thing's all about. 32 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: Well, Summer school is really a music theater learning week 33 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 2: and they have their music now when they enroll, and 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: they learn it over the next few weeks, and then 35 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: they spend two days with me singing, two days with 36 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: Sarah Hart during the movement and direction. Then Friday we 37 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: tech Friday night and Saturday night we have shows. So 38 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: it's a real go go, go go go. Juniors in 39 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: the morning, seniors in the afternoon. That's why they keep 40 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: coming back. At that stage of the holidays, things are 41 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: a bit quiet, and you know, they all love theater, 42 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: and boy do we them. But they you know, a 43 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: lot of the seniors have said to me, which just 44 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: makes me so happy that it's their favorite time of year. 45 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: So what was the genesis for this? How was it born? 46 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: Well as a singing teacher in the Ashburton area and 47 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: wider area. Because I used to travel a lot with 48 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 2: my teaching, I knew that there were very very talented children, 49 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: teenagers at young people out there and I wanted to 50 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 2: do something that I would have liked to have done 51 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: at that age. So you know, four part harmony in 52 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 2: the seniors, that's just how you train them and train 53 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: them to sing and move at the same time. So 54 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 2: this year, Sarah Hart's back for the second year now. 55 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: She was in the very first Summer school and politic 56 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: as that, so she's coming in from Auckland to do 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: it again. And she of course trained at NESDA and 58 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: has done a lot of work in TV and film 59 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: and so the kids were really lucky to have her 60 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: back again. 61 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: I imagine it's a big week, big hours, but big memory 62 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: and a lot of lifetime friends made. 63 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: Look they come from every year. The mix is different 64 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: and that's what I love about it. You know, we've 65 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: got quite a few people coming down from christ Church. 66 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: There's Mephin timorrow and every year it's changes and I 67 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: think that's what's lovely. On the Sunday before we start, 68 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: there's just very tiny minute solos in the show, but 69 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: they are hotly contested and they come in audition to 70 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 2: those if they want. You know, it is a big show. 71 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: It's got as many lighting cues as of ETA show. Yeah, 72 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: it's huge. And the poor Events Center did on the fly, 73 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: so's it's. 74 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: A big week Broadway bounds. So does that mean we're 75 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: going to have all familiar numbers from the big stage 76 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: shows for the seniors? 77 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 2: This older shows up to about JC that that era, 78 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 2: and a lot of those shows are making a resurgence 79 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: on Broadway. They just keep coming around because they're really 80 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: good and they're the big glamour type shows, you know. 81 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: So part of my job is to educate on the 82 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: history of shows and music. So they learn an awful 83 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: lot and the seniors have a big medley, and the 84 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 2: juniors have songs from Matilda, from Peter Pan, from Aladdin, 85 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, and from Anastasia. So there's a bit 86 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: of history learning for them as well. 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: What a coordinated efforts a cast of about one hundred 88 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: you recon. 89 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: Incredible parents that help behind the scenes and help with costuming, 90 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 2: and help with side stage and help with crowd control. 91 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 2: And it's huge and it's manic and fun. So we'd 92 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: love for it to be full on both nights because 93 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: it's at stage where of the holidays where perhaps people 94 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 2: are back again from being away and you know, something 95 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 2: to go and inspire children and after awful events Australian 96 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 2: and things, we've got to focus on the. 97 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: Good stuff absolutely. So our tickets on sale now. 98 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 2: Yes, they are brilliant early miss present. 99 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: Oh look at you planting the seed. I like that. 100 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 2: They certainly are because they're only thirty five dollars and honestly, 101 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: the value and the quality of the show I can guarantee, So. 102 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: The track record speaks for itself absolutely. And you mentioned 103 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: that we've still got a few vacancies in the cast. 104 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, and particularly in the juniors. The seniors is getting 105 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: pretty full at sixty. You know, we could take a 106 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: few more bodies, but I think we're sitting just over 107 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: forty and the juniors, so there's plenty of space in there. 108 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: How many of those are repeat offenders? 109 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 2: Oh? Look eighty percent? 110 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you must be doing it. You must be 111 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: doing something right to bring a bag at twenty six years. 112 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: Have you got to the stage with the show where 113 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: you're seeing the kids of maybe some of the parents 114 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: that started or that must be sobering. 115 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: Mark Galloway was in the first one. He lives in 116 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 2: the Wairappa and he brings his two daughters down and 117 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 2: I just love it. And I get this a phone 118 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 2: called to say the faeries not going or we're going 119 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: to be late or is it that you know? And 120 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 2: we have these hilarious classations and it's just yes, there are. 121 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,239 Speaker 2: We're in the next generation and it's fabulous. 122 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: I mean, what commitment that is to drive from a 123 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: separate island for this thing. 124 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: That's the wonder of music? 125 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: Oh, it absolutely is. Yeah. So what age range are 126 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: we talking here? 127 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 2: The little ones are from nine and you know they 128 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 2: will have been at primary school this year and the 129 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 2: seniors will have had their first year at secondary school. 130 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 2: And we go up to twenty two year olds. So 131 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 2: we've got university students that come back, master students that come, 132 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: you know, because it's it is the seniors in particulars 133 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: as a big show and they're challenged and that's why 134 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: they come neat. 135 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,239 Speaker 1: So where do we go to register on that front? 136 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: We've got a website mc SSS dot co dot nz 137 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 2: so ww of course mc s S Stockco dot ins end. 138 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: We'll bring on Broadway bounds Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School. 139 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: It is back, and Joe Castello looking forward to seeing 140 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: it all come together.