Pinocchio will be at the Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury in a couple of weeks
and joining us this morning to talk about it is Scott Kelly and Eliza.
Thank you for joining us. Nice to be
here and you guys are first timers. Welcome to Fox 61.
Thank
you.
Very,
very
happy
to be. Yes. So this is a very exciting moment for
you all.
Uh Pinocchio is the latest production at the theater and this
is the latest uh stage show for the kids theater that is
so Scott, can you tell us a little bit about,
you know how the the kids theater came to be?
Yes.
Well, I, I was an actor, regional theater actor and I also taught at the theater,
but in 2018,
I came to theater on staff,
Seina
De
Laurentis, the artistic director and I both love children's theater.
We said, let's start one up.
We did a production of Goldilocks got going
and then the good thing is we've been teaching
all this time and we had this crew here of talented actors to use children's theater.
Often has lots of rules for young kids. So the two have gone together. Fantastic.
Awesome. Awesome. You know, some kids just really have the bug.
I guess we'll say they're, they're not shy at all. Is that the case for you,
Eliza?
You just seem so comfortable sitting on the couch.
I know you're, you're fine on stage.
Well,
the couch is comfy
but still. Yeah. All right. So who are you playing in the play?
Well, I'm playing Lamp Wick.
He is a delinquent who hates to sing to
his elders and he's on Pinocchio's best friends on Pleasure
Island.
Uh
And he's one of Pinocchio's best friends on Puzzle Island. So
great. Great. Now, what was the audition process?
Like, what do you think made you stand out?
Well, there isn't really an audition, Scott just casts who he sees fit for the role.
So,
thank you, Scott.
What I do.
It's kind of like I've been teaching these kids for
so long and we teach in the Waterbury public schools.
So I have this really very large pool of kids to draw
very talented pool
and you're getting them at a young age and they're involved
in school so they can just kind of make that transition.
Right. Exactly. Right.
Exactly. Right. Nice. Nice.
Now you're wearing mini hats, Scott with this whole thing.
Tell me a little bit more about what you are doing to put this together.
Well, like I said, once
Seina and I had the idea we got going.
So the play is it's either pay for the rights to the play or adapt it yourself.
I think we know which way I went. So I have to.
So I write the plays, add some tunes in there, get some songs in there.
I direct the plays and then really the most fun.
One of all is that I've got these kids, I've been teaching acting with for a long time
and now I get to act with them
and they get to say, ok, you've been telling us what to do. Let's see what you got. I
think, you know, kids, they do that from time to time with their coaches.
They're like, he's always he or she's always telling me what to do. Can you do it?
You can,
you can walk the walk and talk and talk
now, Eliza, what are your hopes for the future? What's your dream job?
Um,
well, probably an actress,
an actress. Uh huh.
Yeah.
And, uh, I wanna be on some movies.
Any actors or actresses you would love to work with.
Um,
I don't know. She's like, just get me in there.
She's already been in a movie. Oh, yeah. Which one
TV? Show
can you talk about?
Yeah, it was, it came out a little bit ago.
I was the younger version of the main character.
Um, it's Evil Lives Here. Episode 807.
Each episode is about a different crime that,
or crime that happened in somebody's actual life.
So, it's like a reality
show
thing. Wow.
Awesome.
Well, we could not wait to see what's in store
for you and the future and the future of
this theater program really quickly before we head out,
go ahead and let our viewers now when the show
kicks off and how they can get their tickets.
Absolutely.
Pinocchio is going to be at Seven Angels Theater the first two weekends in February
on Saturday and Sunday. Both weekends there'll be 11 o'clock shows and then on
the last one, the 11th there'll be a two o'clock show call the theater
reserve tickets. Anyway, you can only $10 a ticket
people coming to see the show. So, same price as a movie.
That's right. Such a good deal. Well, break a leg. Thank you for joining
us.