it and then we'll be talking to the cast and to find out more about the program in why did you decide to begin this story ok well this all started grades seven through twelve for more performance experience and to learn along the way about different types of theatre singing dance acting all types of you know aspects of the arts is that how you started was to get them interested in the arts yes so started as a group and then along with that group we wanted to give outlets for performance so performing joseph is our first musical and along the way we'd like to do other shows as well but for right know when i started we met each other through the middle school musical so we were there with co directors and we saw what talent we had here and township and we wanted to give the youth another outlet to perform and to learn about does is our first year so we're where we started off you know first off small and we did a little coffeehouse a christmas time and now we've undertaken a full musical and we have such a talented   in our community that we decided that we're going to do a full musical and it'll be in two weeks what was your first production and we actually did a christmas coffeehouse it was more of a fundraiser where a bunch of  students chose christmas carols and things that they would like to perform for their families and the parishioners of st benedict's it was advertised at st benedict's as well and they performed that it was an evening of music and dance and dance in there too and  maybe have them all come together as one as a group that was our first production so to speak we've actually been i guess it would be october but we started are october november that we started with them and we meet every other sunday at the church and we're in different rooms all the time sometimes we have a pope benedict center which is the stage so we have an opportunity to do things like stage combat which i believe warrants work with them on and some dance things and then we're hoping as rooms clear up that we'll be able to get into rooms that have piano so that i can work with them in voice and so that's my expertise and of course in doing joseph and we've been using the stage for you know the acting and putting together all of the blocking and the singing and dancing so it's taking all three aspects and putting them know all these musicals to choose from we thought that maybe we would do one that would appeal to the church audience so there are there's a few out there there's there's god and there's some children of the tin and then there's joseph and we looked at our timing and joseph is a also shorter musical it's so full musical but little in the shorter side and it's entirely a song musical there's no real dialogue it's more of almost like an opera didn't know but it's not often music right you know modern music but it's entirely song so we decided that we thought that that would be a good a good the burgeoning book good beginning exactly so very familiar a lot of people know the show and have heard it's a little bit more coverage so you know you see it's a musical now who is supplying the music we will have a live band and i'm going to conduct the band and it will be on stage with  parents and friends of parents and friends of ours and things like that that we found from the community reaching out and getting a little bit of everybody which is good which we really like to continue to do that's another that's another thing we'd like ivy players to really branch out and be open to the community as well so even if you don't belong to same church you're still able to be a part of the troop right so it's good that you're bringing in a lot of people like that because i itself how many acts of the b two acts with one intermission so both of those acts are not very long surprisingly or probably only looking at really it's about maybe an hour and a half of them also have an intermission that will make it a little bit longer is completely song various no spoken dialogue in the entire show so that makes it more as she was saying closer to the style of an opera or an operatic with updated music it's music of today with drum sets classical side of things you know it's still is very interesting and engaging for the kids because it's opted in that the tunes just get stuck in your head i sing in my sleep and i'm sure everybody else whom  church he and father michael who's a procul vicar and they are going to be a part of the show as well and they are going to play the kind of the smaller bit rules of the ishmael lights and the guards all so they will be they will have some interesting costumes and  perhaps no we should maybe take a break before we talk about the cast and  is your t v ready for digital hello i'm chairman kevin martin of the federal communications commission but february seventeenth t v stations will stop broadcasting analog and broadcast only in digital your t v needs to be ready so you can keep 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humans a little bit of mystery to him still we haven't revealed them for me just to show you that it will be very bright and sequenced and glittery the cast we cast about thirty and then we also have a children's chorus also that it's a part of the show great is written into the score so we do have kids in grades three two through six that play play a part in the children's chorus so overall i'd say there's between thirty five and forty five students wonder if you're a rough number it sounds like you got quite a group to handle they're easy to handle so far you are very good and you sold approximately an hour and a half before the show so people can come and get their tickets and then possibly go out to dinner or wait around and then the doors will open at about seven thirty each night so half an hour before the show ok can you get to tickets were hoping that the community comes out and sees the show and everybody you know looks out you know what what talented kids we have and how quickly we put the song we are putting the show on in a month's time which most people think is a crazy idea to put on a musical mom but we have such a strong talented base of children or young adults that we knew we could pull it off and so like i said i hope to see everybody on the eighteenth or nineteenth when i know that i  playing the part of the narrator i'm in mcintyre and i'm playing justin and i'm british joe and i'm playing the pharaoh and then we have our two directors and they are