D.J. Interview

Tell me about Back to the 80s
"It's your basic typical cheesy 80s movie plotline""all of the music is popular 80s music"
What's it like learning songs from the 80s
"Me personally I've known the songs as long as i can remember because my dad and i used to listen to these songs all the time, they're a little bit different because they're cut down for the show, so getting the original versions out of my head is a little bit challenging, otherwise I'm pretty familiar with them"
"Since it's a jukebox show, there's at least some kind of a  familiarity with at least some of the music from the show"
What was it like going the whole summer without rehearsing?
"Once the school year started it hit me "wow I haven't done this in a while' but we didn't do any rehearsing because we knew that some people who were lead roles last year had dropped the class to take other things, so we had to recast some of the roles with people who are in the class this year. I think we decided not to do rehearsals because there was just a different group of people and we didn't know who would be what roles"
Are you happy that you got the oppertunity to do it again?
"Mr. Bazan decided that he would take suggestions from the class for what musical we are doing. And I had seen this musical just a few years ago in Witchita Falls, and I found it on the MTI website and i brought it up to the class and they all liked the idea, so Mr. Bazan got the rights and paid for it. So I really like the show, it's a big show I've wanted to do. especially the character corey, I'm really glad I get to play Corey because, it's the first show I can really remember seeing,so it's always been a big dream role of mine considering it''s my first expereince with theatre.
How does it feel that you made it happen esesially?
"we wouldnt really be doing right now even if i hadnt brought it up bc we are doing it now mainly bc it didn't come together like we had hoped to back in the spring, so we just ended up doing the music as a preview for what's coming this year"
What's it like doing an in-class musical?
"It's very different, there's not as much time commitment considering we're doing all of the rehearsals in class" " i can focus my after school time on homework or other shows that I'm in." "It's also different since it's not every day, it's A Day B Day schedule, so it's only every other day." "Yes so i can focus on hw and everything else but no because it feels like theres always less time to do it bc we can't have any extended rehearsals if we wanted to."