MINI: Proud Parents, Roller Skates & Stage School Chaos

Patsy beams as she shares the big weekend her daughter Audie had performing in Xanadu at the beautiful St Kilda theatre. The team unpacks the joy of stage school productions: kids flying around on roller skates, stunning costumes, nerves, teamwork, and that unmistakable buzz when a child finds their thing.

Christian jumps in with his own memories of his daughters’ theatre days.. the pride, the emotional punch, and the brutal modern rules: one photo only, no hugs, no kisses, and absolutely no “making it weird.”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
So pats you over the weekend. I know it was
a big weekend for your family. Your daughter Ordi was
in this production of Xanadu and killed at that beautiful
work theaterday.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh my god, it was so good. The kids were
on roller skates and they had outfits. It was so
so good. They did a fantastic job.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
So this was a school production. This was another organization.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, it's Stage School Australia. So they're like a theater
sort of school that the kids do outside of school
and it is just brilliant. They have little little tiny
kids right up to like eighteen nineteen year olds.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
And my daughters did this in the UK and they're
not particularly sporting.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Gifted, and it's like can relate.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And they but what they found through is it it
was another way for them to get in a team
and sport isn't the only way to do that. And
they made so many great friends that Camorage where you
getting through the nerves of it all and the productions.
I'm not just saying this as a proud dad. They
were like the high end.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh this was phenomenal, so good.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You paid money for it, wouldn't you to see that?
The kids worked so hard you can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Marveling at the costumes, like there was hundreds of kids
and they all just looked phenomenal and just the beams
on their faces. It just brings you so much joy
to watch a child on stage or whether it's on
the field with sport, when they've found their thing and
it's just brilliant. But you know, she's at that age
now where she's getting a bit funny. So they have

(01:56):
like the red carpet, and I was told, very very firmly,
you get one photo, mum, one photo. So normally she'd
let me be there for four or one photo. Get
it right, because you get one. So you know, it's
like no kissing before, you know, good luck, nothing like that.
It's like you're a bit of an embarrassment.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I got some flowers once to sort of present to
one of my daughters before the show, and I didn't
get to hand it to them. It was just like
this this look and just look I was met with
and I've done what the flowers?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now, That's what it was like.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
In the weekend, Chris had a beautiful, big bunch of
pink roses for her. She came out and I said, oh,
Daddy's got some roses for Oh you're not now, Dad,
just exhausted.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
They just don't want you to make it weird. You know,
I'm still making it weird.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was like the other day I seen I hadn't
seen my daughters in a week, and I was giving
big hugs and I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like, Okay, don't make it weird. I'm sorry that my
unconditional love is weird.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Just breaks a little bit more each time.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I would have killed rog like that for my dad.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Why do you think I get up at four am
still looking for that validation.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Taken out on the world. And so what was all
his character in it was She's Anna do.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, she was Zenad. She was in the ensemble as
Zena Do and it was just it was just so fantastic.
So they did Elos I'm Alive, and they did Xena
Do and it was just it was what fun and.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
When you were how to film it all those things
when they have someone doing and they have to pay
like on hundred and twenty dollars to get a copy
of it.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
With thumb drive.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Even the photos like everything's you know, top price. No,
you can't take photos or video anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, but there's always a certain type of person. I
won't name where they're from in the world, but they
do have a nationality. There's always a certain type of
parent that turns up with that flipping gray iPad.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I don't know what's an iPad.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
But she's she reckoned. She could hear me singing back
in like we're in Rome, poor kids.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So I could hear you singing, Oh God, that's my mum.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Letre in.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
We even told like, sit in the front row, second
or third row. I might be able to see you.
God forbid. Yeah, looking proud, looking.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Proud, protocols real. I tell you, it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's but you must have you and christ must have
felt so proud afterwards. I bad you.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Felt really happy because to see her happy, that's all
you want is for your kid to be happy, regardless
of what their vocation is. So to see her like that,
it's yeah, it's beautiful. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
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