September 11, 2025 • 15 mins
We spoke with Artistic Director, Constantine Pappas and Managing Director, Craig David Rosen about upcoming shows at the theatre, including musicals, comedies, and musical comedies!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison Demurz. My guests this morning are from Seven Angels
Theater in Waterbury. That's where I was born and raised
and proud to say where I'm from. I love it
there and this is a gem of a theater. I
have artistic director Constantine pop Us and managing director Craig
(00:20):
David Rosen. We're here to talk about the upcoming season.
Very exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So where would we like to start? You want to
start at the beginning with the opening show.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're so excited for this opening show.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Lucky Stiff is a brilliant murder mystery comedy comedy musical,
and it centers around a man named Harry Witherspoon, down
on your luck, British shoe salesman, and he receives a
last will and testament from his uncle, Anthony, New Jersey.
Uncle Anthony, and he says, nephew, Harry, we never met,
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but if you would like the six million dollar inheritance,
you need to take my taxidermied body to the one
place I never got to visit, Monte Carlo.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's gonna be So there's the premise. And of course
it keeps going. It just gets even sillier from that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It really is a very silly, funny show as you
follow their antics around Monte Carlo. Because there is a woman, Annabelle,
who wants to prevent him from getting the inheritance because
if she can prevent him from getting the inheritance, it
will go to her agency to dog They work with animals,
(01:30):
and she wants the six million dollars for them, so
she's trying to prevent him from succeeding.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So it's a musical, and so you're gonna laugh and
you're gonna enjoy the music. When is opening night?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, our opening night is officially twenty seventh of September.
Fantastic got a few weeks to get your tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Folks, absolutely and you can go to seven Angelstheater dot org.
But theater is with an R instead of an E R. Okay,
what's after that?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
What is after that? That is of murder?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
A great jo did Pietro show. So art of Murder
is you already know the premise of it is a
man Jack Brooks, who has outright said he wants to
murder his art dealer, and he being a painter himself,
and of course it's a it's a four person.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Cast and it has local ties.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It actually takes place in the countryside of Connecticut, really
approximately Lichfield.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We'll look out for painters.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, so this is a four person show. But it's
not a musical.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Not a musical. This is one of those straight plays.
It is a dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When you're in something like that, you really need to
know your lines absolutely because it's the four of you
on almost all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh of course, yeah, of course, all.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right, let's keep going. What's coming up after that.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is farce of nature, and exactly as the title says.
It is a farce with slamming doors and mistaken identities,
and it takes place at the realm Inn. Yes, the
realm in. And business is not very good at the
Realm In, but they get this gentleman. He's this mousey,
(03:13):
kind of nervousy guy who is in the Witness Protection
program and is looking for quiet, peace and quiet, go
phishing and just you know, stay out of everyone's way.
And then before you know it, the entire inn is
inundated with friends and family going doing all these crazy
things and a gangster and his mall come to stay
(03:36):
at the inn.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do you just say his mom?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That is how is she referred to? Exactly, And that's
the nature of that show. And just following and again
slamming doors been taken identities, typical.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Farce, fantastic. What's after that?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
After that is Rogers and Hammerstein's Grand Night for Singing.
It is another musical. It is a a collection of
some of the greatest catalog of music ever written for
theater by Rogers and Hammerstein.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So it's a Broadway review effectively.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, you know, you get songs from The King and I,
The Sound of Music, Carousel, Cinderella, really all of those
great shows.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And their very first show, Oklahoma, which was the total
reinvention of musical theater. Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma was the
first real musical as we know it, that where the
music is an integral part of telling the story and
the dialogue interspersed. So that's was the beginning of musical
(04:39):
theater as we know it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I just had a teachable moment. Thank you for that,
because I don't think I ever knew that. I love that.
Who will be singing, hopefully people I would be locals,
like locals from Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, so like just like with our first show, we
get to have a nice marriage between you know, some
of the talent that we're able to pull from Broadway,
off Broadway stages and then be able to transplant them
here for a temporary time, you know, for a few weeks,
and also partner with some of our local community actors.
So you really have this nice marriage between the new
(05:13):
stuff and what we have currently. Perhaps one of the
most exciting ambitions we have for this show is the
reintroduction of a seven to eleven piece orchestra on stage
to back up our singers, something that we haven't seen
since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Actually at the theater.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, I just saw a sinister act for Mother's Day
Out of this world. Laugh, not a bad seat in
the house if you've never visited Seven Angels. It's just
this hidden gem right there in Waterbury, and you don't
need to go to Broadway. You can just go right
there for all of it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Absolutely, it's a place with a lot of history, you know,
in the heart of Hamilton Park, something that used to
be a big band haul in the twenties thirties, then
converted over to a roller rink and of course now
for the last thirty five years going on. It's thirty
sixth a Broadway caliber theater in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's Broadway in your backyard. And when you come to
the theater, I will give credit to Constantine for that
Broadway in your backyard. And when you come into the
theater you can see the original floor from when it
was a dance hall and a roller rink. And it's
really really awesome when you know the history of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So the two of you are new, how is it going?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So far, so good? But before we get off that,
I think we have one final show of our season. Oh, yes,
don't want to forget.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, I won't forget it, I promise.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think you're most excited for this last show. Craig,
just a little, just a little.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Are you directing this, directing, choreographing it? Yes, that's right, right,
forget I asked you how you guys are doing. We'll
get to that later. Tell me all about it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, it's it's a show I wanted to direct for
a long time. My husband actually introduced me to the
show and he heard it and he says, Craig, this
is right up your alley and it's a musical comedy.
It takes place in the fifteen nineties, and it follows
the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, who are writers
and are looking for that quintessential play that's going to
(07:07):
put them on the map because they're right now, they're
in the shadow of their colleague Bill Shakespeare, and they're
trying to get out of his shadow.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I knew that's where it was going.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And a soothsayer tells them that the future of theater
is musicals. That's the whole premise of how the show
just explodes from there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
How excited are you?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm really excited. If you love tap dancing, you must
come see this show. It is a tap field show
and tap is my favorite form of dance.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So tell me a little bit about yourself. What's your background.
Where'd you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, well, I am from New York if you couldn't
tell by my accent, and I've been performing for over
fifty years. Since i was a little kid. I've been
performing anywhere from schools to camp to off Broadway. And
then I got into directing. That was just a natural
thing for me. Got into directing, and from that I
(08:03):
also started choreographing. I you know, took dance class, you know,
pounded the pavement in New York, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Been there, walked the walk, talk exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And then I've been working in community theater for the
past twenty years since I've been here in Connecticut. I
was most recently the box office manager at the Ridgefield
Theater Barn down in Richfield, Connecticut, until I got this,
which is my ha been has been my dream job
for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, thank god Samina retired, Yes, so that both of
you could be here now you don't even Constantine look
like you're twenty years old, yet you look so young,
and here you are as artistic director. Now tell me
about you. What's your story?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
My background, I've been a professional actor for the last
just over ten years. I've been on Broadway with Barry
Manilo's Harmony, and then I toured the country and the
Phantom of the Opera, and then I've been fortunate enough
to be at and use like Carnegie Hall places in Europe.
And I'm just excited to just bring that all to
Waterbery and just to have some fun.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know, Craig and I were a great team.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You really are. I wish people could see you. I
know they must hear the chemistry, but I wish they
could see it the way that I'm seeing it now.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's funny because it really was instantaneous. We met at
a board meeting at Seven Angels when they actually hired us,
and literally from the second we met, we said hello,
and there was this chemistry. We were like the two
bad kids in the back of the classroom joking with
each other as they're doing this board meeting. But it
and it just has been amazing from there.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yea giggling the whole time.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You're going to have a blast. I'm happy for the
both of you. In my profession, I've always done morning
shows with two guys, and that's how it was. Like
I could see like we would just laugh at each
other all the time. We couldn't be serious, but we
got it done. Oh you're getting it done.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So when are we coming in? When are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But honestly, actually, there you go. So tell me about
the children's programs and how can people get involved.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we'll start with the Halo Awards.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So we have grown, uh, we are projected to have
over one hundred and ten participating high schools in the
now renamed Semina de Larentis Halo Awards as an homage
to both the founder and really the quintessential person for
that for that program, and one of the strongholds in
that is for schools, it is no cost to participate,
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other than you know, the ceremony at the end of
the year, which is just a fun evening.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It is no cost to enter.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It is the largest in Connecticut and we're so excited
to be able to serve over seven thousand high school
students and faculty across Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So hopefully soon.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We're going to have registrations going to be going out,
So that would be a wonderful opportunity.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do you want to add with education, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, just to to comment a little bit more about
the Halos. It started out with eight schools participating at
the beginning and now it's a four night event.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And just so let people know you give out these awards.
I think it's their Star trophies because my daughter has.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well we've changed the trophies.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah, because she's the lady Star trophies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We just moved to something more.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Glassy, okay, And the thing is you'll give out best Actress,
best Actor, best singer, whatever. That's what all these awards
are for.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We have over fifty awards a.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Night a night.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, it's amazing, and it's at the Palace Theater.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Correct the then you got so big right now we
needed to move it to it.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We just can't house it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm telling you. My daughter cherishes those. Okay, so we've
got the Halos.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We've also got great children's programming. We did a six
week summer workshop where the kids registered up. I think
we had upwards of twenty five kids each week, and
it's a week long program and at the end of
the week they put on a little performance, skits, maybe songs,
maybe they do a small, little junior version of a
(12:09):
show like they did Annie, and many of the kids
came back week after week. I remember after the first
week there were like three or four kids. The parents
were signing them up for the following week and kept
going on. That's how popular it was. We have our
seven Angels in the school's program, where it's an after
school program, and we have our teachers go to the
schools once or maybe twice a week and work with
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the kids on acting technique and different activities that they do.
And at the end they also put together a little
skit and they get to perform their skit. Then we
have our Bright Lights program and Young Angels program, and
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we're looking to expand our children's programming. We're looking to
maybe bring in some other workshops maybe in the fall
in the spring, where the kids can come and put
on a show.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Absolutely again, it's Seven Angels, Theater dot Org and theaters
with an R. I am who I am today and
where I am today because of theater I traveled with
Jim Brickman I opened for Betty Buckley. I was a
little girl in Waterbury. My parents bought me an organ
and then I started doing theater and whatever you believe,
I say, God opened the doors for me. And I've
(13:25):
had this career for thirty years now. But it's all
because of theater. It's just so great for kids.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We're still stuck on Betty Buckley.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Hold on, Oh yeah, okay, there's going on. This is
what we're talking about, how the two of us are together,
because I have been thinking Betty Buckley ever since you
mentioned those. I am a huge fan of Betty Buckley's
She's got one of the most amazing voices in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
She was Grizabella. For people who don't know exactly Cats.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's yeah, yeah, and she's she's done a few shows
since then. I got to see her in Sunset Boulevard,
which was I did get to see her in Cats Wow,
but I got to see her in Sunset Bovarchie's incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And I just want to say that so many of
our young children in that area have gone to Broadway,
have gone on bigger and better things.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's funny you said that because I was just at
City Hall a couple of days ago. I had to
pick up some checks that fortunately we could use. And
down in the basement of City Hall they have plaques
with pictures and little bios about all the famous people
that are from Waterbury. Samina obviously is in there. Rosalind Russell, Yes,
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some of the youngsters may not know who Rosalind Russell is,
but she was the original Meme and Sherri Lee Ralph
who is on Abbott Elementary right now, and she was
in the original cast of dream Girls. Bob Crane from Hogan's.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Hero, he was on the radio too, exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
People Dylan McDermott. Yes, Big History.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Thank you so much, the two of you for being
here today. I'm speaking with Constantine pop Us and Craig
David Rosen. They're here from Seven Angels Theater. Definitely go
check out this upcoming season. The shows are going to
be amazing. You can't beat the price, you can't beat
the seats. It's so wonderful. There again, it's seven Angelstheater
dot org. That's theater R. I'm Alison Demurz. Thank you
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both for being here and for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Thank you for having us. It's been a pleasure.
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison Demurz. My guests this morning are from Seven Angels
Theater in Waterbury. That's where I was born and raised
and proud to say where I'm from. I love it
there and this is a gem of a theater. I
have artistic director Constantine pop Us and managing director Craig
(00:20):
David Rosen. We're here to talk about the upcoming season.
Very exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So where would we like to start? You want to
start at the beginning with the opening show.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're so excited for this opening show.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Lucky Stiff is a brilliant murder mystery comedy comedy musical,
and it centers around a man named Harry Witherspoon, down
on your luck, British shoe salesman, and he receives a
last will and testament from his uncle, Anthony, New Jersey.
Uncle Anthony, and he says, nephew, Harry, we never met,
(00:52):
but if you would like the six million dollar inheritance,
you need to take my taxidermied body to the one
place I never got to visit, Monte Carlo.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's gonna be So there's the premise. And of course
it keeps going. It just gets even sillier from that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It really is a very silly, funny show as you
follow their antics around Monte Carlo. Because there is a woman, Annabelle,
who wants to prevent him from getting the inheritance because
if she can prevent him from getting the inheritance, it
will go to her agency to dog They work with animals,
(01:30):
and she wants the six million dollars for them, so
she's trying to prevent him from succeeding.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So it's a musical, and so you're gonna laugh and
you're gonna enjoy the music. When is opening night?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, our opening night is officially twenty seventh of September.
Fantastic got a few weeks to get your tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Folks, absolutely and you can go to seven Angelstheater dot org.
But theater is with an R instead of an E R. Okay,
what's after that?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
What is after that? That is of murder?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
A great jo did Pietro show. So art of Murder
is you already know the premise of it is a
man Jack Brooks, who has outright said he wants to
murder his art dealer, and he being a painter himself,
and of course it's a it's a four person.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Cast and it has local ties.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It actually takes place in the countryside of Connecticut, really
approximately Lichfield.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We'll look out for painters.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, so this is a four person show. But it's
not a musical.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Not a musical. This is one of those straight plays.
It is a dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When you're in something like that, you really need to
know your lines absolutely because it's the four of you
on almost all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Oh of course, yeah, of course, all.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right, let's keep going. What's coming up after that.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is farce of nature, and exactly as the title says.
It is a farce with slamming doors and mistaken identities,
and it takes place at the realm Inn. Yes, the
realm in. And business is not very good at the
Realm In, but they get this gentleman. He's this mousey,
(03:13):
kind of nervousy guy who is in the Witness Protection
program and is looking for quiet, peace and quiet, go
phishing and just you know, stay out of everyone's way.
And then before you know it, the entire inn is
inundated with friends and family going doing all these crazy
things and a gangster and his mall come to stay
(03:36):
at the inn.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do you just say his mom?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That is how is she referred to? Exactly, And that's
the nature of that show. And just following and again
slamming doors been taken identities, typical.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Farce, fantastic. What's after that?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
After that is Rogers and Hammerstein's Grand Night for Singing.
It is another musical. It is a a collection of
some of the greatest catalog of music ever written for
theater by Rogers and Hammerstein.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So it's a Broadway review effectively.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, you know, you get songs from The King and I,
The Sound of Music, Carousel, Cinderella, really all of those
great shows.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And their very first show, Oklahoma, which was the total
reinvention of musical theater. Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma was the
first real musical as we know it, that where the
music is an integral part of telling the story and
the dialogue interspersed. So that's was the beginning of musical
(04:39):
theater as we know it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I just had a teachable moment. Thank you for that,
because I don't think I ever knew that. I love that.
Who will be singing, hopefully people I would be locals,
like locals from Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, so like just like with our first show, we
get to have a nice marriage between you know, some
of the talent that we're able to pull from Broadway,
off Broadway stages and then be able to transplant them
here for a temporary time, you know, for a few weeks,
and also partner with some of our local community actors.
So you really have this nice marriage between the new
(05:13):
stuff and what we have currently. Perhaps one of the
most exciting ambitions we have for this show is the
reintroduction of a seven to eleven piece orchestra on stage
to back up our singers, something that we haven't seen
since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Actually at the theater.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, I just saw a sinister act for Mother's Day
Out of this world. Laugh, not a bad seat in
the house if you've never visited Seven Angels. It's just
this hidden gem right there in Waterbury, and you don't
need to go to Broadway. You can just go right
there for all of it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Absolutely, it's a place with a lot of history, you know,
in the heart of Hamilton Park, something that used to
be a big band haul in the twenties thirties, then
converted over to a roller rink and of course now
for the last thirty five years going on. It's thirty
sixth a Broadway caliber theater in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's Broadway in your backyard. And when you come to
the theater, I will give credit to Constantine for that
Broadway in your backyard. And when you come into the
theater you can see the original floor from when it
was a dance hall and a roller rink. And it's
really really awesome when you know the history of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So the two of you are new, how is it going?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So far, so good? But before we get off that,
I think we have one final show of our season. Oh, yes,
don't want to forget.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, I won't forget it, I promise.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think you're most excited for this last show. Craig,
just a little, just a little.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Are you directing this, directing, choreographing it? Yes, that's right, right,
forget I asked you how you guys are doing. We'll
get to that later. Tell me all about it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, it's it's a show I wanted to direct for
a long time. My husband actually introduced me to the
show and he heard it and he says, Craig, this
is right up your alley and it's a musical comedy.
It takes place in the fifteen nineties, and it follows
the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, who are writers
and are looking for that quintessential play that's going to
(07:07):
put them on the map because they're right now, they're
in the shadow of their colleague Bill Shakespeare, and they're
trying to get out of his shadow.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I knew that's where it was going.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And a soothsayer tells them that the future of theater
is musicals. That's the whole premise of how the show
just explodes from there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
How excited are you?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm really excited. If you love tap dancing, you must
come see this show. It is a tap field show
and tap is my favorite form of dance.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So tell me a little bit about yourself. What's your background.
Where'd you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Okay, well, I am from New York if you couldn't
tell by my accent, and I've been performing for over
fifty years. Since i was a little kid. I've been
performing anywhere from schools to camp to off Broadway. And
then I got into directing. That was just a natural
thing for me. Got into directing, and from that I
(08:03):
also started choreographing. I you know, took dance class, you know,
pounded the pavement in New York, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Been there, walked the walk, talk exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And then I've been working in community theater for the
past twenty years since I've been here in Connecticut. I
was most recently the box office manager at the Ridgefield
Theater Barn down in Richfield, Connecticut, until I got this,
which is my ha been has been my dream job
for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, thank god Samina retired, Yes, so that both of
you could be here now you don't even Constantine look
like you're twenty years old, yet you look so young,
and here you are as artistic director. Now tell me
about you. What's your story?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
My background, I've been a professional actor for the last
just over ten years. I've been on Broadway with Barry
Manilo's Harmony, and then I toured the country and the
Phantom of the Opera, and then I've been fortunate enough
to be at and use like Carnegie Hall places in Europe.
And I'm just excited to just bring that all to
Waterbery and just to have some fun.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know, Craig and I were a great team.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You really are. I wish people could see you. I
know they must hear the chemistry, but I wish they
could see it the way that I'm seeing it now.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's funny because it really was instantaneous. We met at
a board meeting at Seven Angels when they actually hired us,
and literally from the second we met, we said hello,
and there was this chemistry. We were like the two
bad kids in the back of the classroom joking with
each other as they're doing this board meeting. But it
and it just has been amazing from there.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yea giggling the whole time.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You're going to have a blast. I'm happy for the
both of you. In my profession, I've always done morning
shows with two guys, and that's how it was. Like
I could see like we would just laugh at each
other all the time. We couldn't be serious, but we
got it done. Oh you're getting it done.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So when are we coming in? When are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But honestly, actually, there you go. So tell me about
the children's programs and how can people get involved.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we'll start with the Halo Awards.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So we have grown, uh, we are projected to have
over one hundred and ten participating high schools in the
now renamed Semina de Larentis Halo Awards as an homage
to both the founder and really the quintessential person for
that for that program, and one of the strongholds in
that is for schools, it is no cost to participate,
(10:32):
other than you know, the ceremony at the end of
the year, which is just a fun evening.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It is no cost to enter.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It is the largest in Connecticut and we're so excited
to be able to serve over seven thousand high school
students and faculty across Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So hopefully soon.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We're going to have registrations going to be going out,
So that would be a wonderful opportunity.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do you want to add with education, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, just to to comment a little bit more about
the Halos. It started out with eight schools participating at
the beginning and now it's a four night event.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And just so let people know you give out these awards.
I think it's their Star trophies because my daughter has.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well we've changed the trophies.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah, because she's the lady Star trophies.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We just moved to something more.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Glassy, okay, And the thing is you'll give out best Actress,
best Actor, best singer, whatever. That's what all these awards
are for.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We have over fifty awards a.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Night a night.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, it's amazing, and it's at the Palace Theater.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Correct the then you got so big right now we
needed to move it to it.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We just can't house it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm telling you. My daughter cherishes those. Okay, so we've
got the Halos.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We've also got great children's programming. We did a six
week summer workshop where the kids registered up. I think
we had upwards of twenty five kids each week, and
it's a week long program and at the end of
the week they put on a little performance, skits, maybe songs,
maybe they do a small, little junior version of a
(12:09):
show like they did Annie, and many of the kids
came back week after week. I remember after the first
week there were like three or four kids. The parents
were signing them up for the following week and kept
going on. That's how popular it was. We have our
seven Angels in the school's program, where it's an after
school program, and we have our teachers go to the
schools once or maybe twice a week and work with
(12:33):
the kids on acting technique and different activities that they do.
And at the end they also put together a little
skit and they get to perform their skit. Then we
have our Bright Lights program and Young Angels program, and
(12:53):
we're looking to expand our children's programming. We're looking to
maybe bring in some other workshops maybe in the fall
in the spring, where the kids can come and put
on a show.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Absolutely again, it's Seven Angels, Theater dot Org and theaters
with an R. I am who I am today and
where I am today because of theater I traveled with
Jim Brickman I opened for Betty Buckley. I was a
little girl in Waterbury. My parents bought me an organ
and then I started doing theater and whatever you believe,
I say, God opened the doors for me. And I've
(13:25):
had this career for thirty years now. But it's all
because of theater. It's just so great for kids.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We're still stuck on Betty Buckley.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Hold on, Oh yeah, okay, there's going on. This is
what we're talking about, how the two of us are together,
because I have been thinking Betty Buckley ever since you
mentioned those. I am a huge fan of Betty Buckley's
She's got one of the most amazing voices in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
She was Grizabella. For people who don't know exactly Cats.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's yeah, yeah, and she's she's done a few shows
since then. I got to see her in Sunset Boulevard,
which was I did get to see her in Cats Wow,
but I got to see her in Sunset Bovarchie's incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And I just want to say that so many of
our young children in that area have gone to Broadway,
have gone on bigger and better things.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's funny you said that because I was just at
City Hall a couple of days ago. I had to
pick up some checks that fortunately we could use. And
down in the basement of City Hall they have plaques
with pictures and little bios about all the famous people
that are from Waterbury. Samina obviously is in there. Rosalind Russell, Yes,
(14:40):
some of the youngsters may not know who Rosalind Russell is,
but she was the original Meme and Sherri Lee Ralph
who is on Abbott Elementary right now, and she was
in the original cast of dream Girls. Bob Crane from Hogan's.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Hero, he was on the radio too, exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
People Dylan McDermott. Yes, Big History.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Thank you so much, the two of you for being
here today. I'm speaking with Constantine pop Us and Craig
David Rosen. They're here from Seven Angels Theater. Definitely go
check out this upcoming season. The shows are going to
be amazing. You can't beat the price, you can't beat
the seats. It's so wonderful. There again, it's seven Angelstheater
dot org. That's theater R. I'm Alison Demurz. Thank you
(15:26):
both for being here and for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Thank you for having us. It's been a pleasure.
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