December 5, 2022 • 29 mins
Send us a textOne of the greatest opportunities we have on this podcast, is bringing light to areas that many may not know about. This is definitely one of those moments. Located in Belle, West Virginia is what we think could be one of the best places to see a theatrical performance that is well played and easy on the wallet. Join us as we talk to the director Cathy Deobler about the great things happening at Mountain Roots Theater.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, It's another edition of West Virginia Talk with
James and Jerry.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm James and I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
So we're really excited about this episode because, you know,
we like the indie.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Kind of thing absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know, we're not a chain a fan of chains
or you know, things on the nationals in the National Spotlight.
We like things that are out of the way, hidden gems,
and we like to find them and then bring.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Some light to it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So today we're gonna be talking about the Mountain Roots
Community Theater and we're happy to be speaking with the
theater director of Kathy Doubler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome into West Virginia Talk.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Kathy, Well, thank you. I'm glad to be here. James
and Jerry, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We're happy that you're here too.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So tell us a little bit about your back background yourself.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, I've been in West Virginia for four years. I
came from Los Angeles and Hollywood, so I have the distinction,
I guess, and being like every other Los Angeles resident
part time actor.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Gotcha, I know, how do you make the transfer from
Los Angeles to West.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Virginia by car? But I'm Bob. Yeah, yeah, so that
the law you're writing long story short too late. I
taught public school for thirty two years in Los Angeles, and,
like I said, with an actor on the side. So
as an actor, you also then branch out and become
a director, and then you start producing, which means pay
(01:42):
for things and stuff like that. And I found that
I was able to get a lot more work doing
stage acting and directing than I was film and television
because being a teacher full time direct casting. Directors just
don't understand, and principle just don't understand. I'll leave the
kids a worksheet on their desk. I'll be back in
(02:04):
an hour when I go to this audition, Prince.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think everyone in la is an actor or actress.
You know, waiters, waitresses, secretariat.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's right everyone.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
One of my one of my fide gigs in LA
is I would drive for lift like uber.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, I think a lot of people. I've seen videos
where lawyers do that on the side.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, it's a great thing. And people get in the
car and you know, we start chatting. I said, So,
so you know, where are you from? Oh, you know,
Podunkia or something. Oh that's and you're in La now.
Oh yeah, I said, you an actor or a musician,
And they laugh because I was right ninety nine percent
of the time. So everybody moves to la like you said,
(02:53):
to be an actor, I did it backwards. I was
born there and start acting until I in my mid
thirtiescause my parents were always no, no, no, that's not
a job. Gets a real job. You don't really want
to do that. So and I had next time who said.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think it matters if it's a real job
or not, you know, because you see the ones in
Hollywood now and they're making bookoo buck.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So it doesn't really matter if it's classified as a
job or not. It's high paying.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So if you can get to that level. Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So Mountain Roots Community Theater.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's in bell, West, Virginia, which is how far from Charleston?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Is that about fifteen miles? Yeah, it's right by the well.
We're up from Charleston. I had to get that in
my in my head, my Los Angeles head. Your river
runs backwards, that's true, right, nor Yeah, So what I
would call going north is going up. You guys call
it going down.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, so we are up from Charleston, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, we're right. But We're right by a high school
at a wall, so everybody has to come over here.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, you're right near Riverside High School, so you're off
for Route sixty or Midland Trail.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
How long has the theater been open.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We have been open since June of twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Nineteen, so fairly new. How did all this get started?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, well, when I retired from teaching, I decided I
could either then do the acting thing full time and
try to make a go of that, or I could
do what I've come to love more than being an
actor myself and have my own theater company, open my
own theater set adults on stage, kids on stage, especially
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ones who've never done it, and LA has more theaters
than they have off Broadway. So I decided I need
to go somewhere else to make this happen. So I
was looking for a small town, you know, somewhere that
doesn't have a lot of theater, but also somewhere that
didn't have too much snow, too much heat, too much humidity.
(05:02):
And that's why I ended up in West Virginia. You
found the perfect checked all the maps. I checked the
maps right, and the fact that the cost of living
everyday stuff is the same price. Well, gas is about
a dollar cheaper here in La I was renting a
one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, an apartment building with
(05:23):
no amenities. We had no pool, we had no you know,
none of the things you see in the movies. It
was just a building. Sixteen fifty a month for a
one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, that's the fringe benefit of living in the mountain
state chiaf housing.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's right. I was able to buy. Yeah, I was
able to buy a three bedroom, two bath house with
a fully fenced yard and a two car garage. And
my house is five seventy five. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I shouldn't say cheap housing, it's inexpensive housing.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
No, it's reasonable, right, so reasonable.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, what about the reception of the community when you
up to now.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The reception of the community has been really great once
they realize we're here. Our biggest thing has been, you know,
getting people to realize that we're here. Right. So I
started out by going to you know, looking at the paper,
looking at all the socials and everything of the other's
theater companies around. Okay, you got the Clay Center, but
(06:22):
you know, I'm not competing with that because they're wonderful,
but way too big for me. So you've got the
Alban Theater in St. Albans, which is fifteen miles up,
no down from St Albans from Charleston, right from the
Capitol building. We are exactly the same distance as the Alban,
only in the other direction. So I would go to
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their auditions and their meetings, and also those of Canal
players because that's where I met other people in the
theater industry out here. So it's like, look, there's a
there's a new kid in town. And so I would start, Yeah,
so this is what we do, and I'm looking for
actors and blah blah blah, and start getting people onto
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my socials and following. And so I was able to
acquire a small but very dedicated group of actors to
start with, and it keeps growing from there. And I
got kids from putting put flyers out at all the schools. Hey.
We started with summer camp. Hey, this summer, which was
twenty nineteen before COVID, let's do We're doing a theater camp.
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You can have your kids essentially babysat all day long
for a very reasonable price. So I had about had
about twenty five kids the first summer and that was great,
and the majority of them then stayed to do more
shows during the year, and well, there was a show
of the Fall, which was called Tails from the Campfire.
(07:52):
We brought to life all the old spooky campfire stories.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well, bloody fingers, gold and arm all those old kind
of things. And then we wrote our own Christmas show
focusing on Missus Santa Claus. And then we were in
rehearsal Alice in Wonderland and we were one week away
from opening in March up twenty twenty. So we didn't
(08:19):
get to open Alison Wonderland, right because everything second yes,
and my adult actors were doing we're rehearsing Romeo and Juliet.
They didn't get to open either. Yeah, So then everybody
shut down for a year, year and a half and
now we're back and we're we'd got full season scheduled
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and other things for the community, because they are a
community theater, right, so we're open for things other than
place we have concerts sometimes. We brought in a heavy
metal high school band called Executionist to shine Riverside High
School and they brought you know, sixty seventy of their
(09:00):
friends who all paid, you know, five bucks to watch them,
and there you go, and we get a cut and
we get the more people to know about it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's pretty smart marketing because they could have done the
concertarrett rivers Sound of High School.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That's right, right, But they would charge you, Yeah, they
would charge you more. Awesome because we thought about it
before while we were getting our building ready to you
what about doing it at Riverside. Well, you check what
it costs to use a Cutnauk County school space, and
it was a little bit pricey. But my philosophy on
pricing is I'm not in it to make bookoo bucks.
(09:38):
I will not become a millionaire off this, and that's fine.
I said, I have my pension from you know, my
old job. I'm I'm retired as far as you know,
tax people are concerned. I don't do not make personal
money off of this, right. All the money we do
this goes in to keep it going. So my thing is,
if anybody wants to come in and use the theater,
I'll just take half your box office. If you may
(10:00):
make money, I make money. If you don't make money,
I would feel like such a jerk taking two or
three hundred dollars rental fee if nobody came to see
your show, you know, right right? So yeah, so it's
like great if you make money. I do, and yeah, yes, Well.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let me ask you about the theater troop. Is it
the same cast for every show or do you recast
for every show that you do?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We recast for every show. So every show that the
adults do is I post auditions on Tri State Theater
Talk and four State Auditions and all the other locations.
And I would love to have you know, new and
more actors, you know, find out about us and work
with us.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Tell us about the performers you have.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now, okay you want any name names or.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Just oh that's up to them. I mean, well yeah
you can.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, we'll just do it without names. But I've got
a couple who have done been acting in the Charleston
area for many, many years and are well known on
every stage in Charleston. I've got a few who have
done other acting for other theaters, and I'm getting more
and more who have never done it before. I have
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one girl who came in to be a singer in
our variety show. She was going to come in and
say one song and we thought, wow, you're you're good
at this. You should have you ever tried acting? She says, no,
I said, here read this and doing a cold read,
she had great expression and believability and all this. It's like, whoa,
(11:33):
Now she's one of my stars. So but Awesoman, she's
never done it before because she said she had social
anxiety and was too shy. That's wake it over. It
is to do it right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
See, that's why we podcast because we don't have to
worry about anybody seeing us while we're doing this.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, we don't want them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So you have because you have a face for radio.
As they said, Yeah, I don't know, yeahs my Desclimber.
I don't know that, but yeah, I'm assuming they're very
good looking guys.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I would appreciate the exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Because I've got to face the radio too. I never
get to be the romantic lead. But one of my
first directors in LA said, you don't want you don't
want to be a romantic lead. Those are boring people.
Keep being a character actor. You get more work, and
you get a bigger variety of work. I said, okay,
so actually I've done that. But yeah, but the girl
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overcame her anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm sorry, you're the boss. You can play whatever role
you want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
This is true, But I find the older I get
because I'm again a retirement age. It's harder and harder
to memorize lines. And I like bossing people around more
than I like being bossed. Now to say, I don't.
We just did the Edgar Allen Poe Afterlife radio show
for Halloween, which was live, like an old radio play,
(13:00):
but live actors on stage. But it looked like we
were broadcasting on the radio, but we weren't. And I
took a role in them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah. Last Christmas we did that for It's a Wonderful Life.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
So you have you say, yeah, so you have a
sound effects person, you know, high, empty empty shoes crunching
through cornflakes, sounds like people walking in snow. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So what does the off What does the theater have
to offer theater fans for this holiday season?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Okay, for this holiday season? Right now, we are rehearsing
and Appalachian Christmas Carol. It's an original version of the
Dickens classic Christmas Carol where the Scrooge character actually owned
a coal mine what we say, and we're using the name.
We're using his name as Samuel Dixon because when I
(13:56):
researched it, Samuel Dixon actually owned the coal mine and
one was one of the biggest mind owners back in
the day. So we're setting it present day. And the
character names, like I said, has changed. It's not Ebenezer Screwge,
it's not Bob Pratchett, but it's their character. And Tiny
Tim is a girl. Her name is Little Lily because
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I didn't have any little boys right to do it,
so we changed it. And the fact that it's an original,
I wrote it with the help of the cast. They
helped me West Virginia Isaac, so I didn't sound too
much like a California voice talking.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So yeah, there's some slight differences in the way we
say things around here.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I guess exactly exactly because I had one of the
ones was one of the ones that they talked about
the Golden Rule, and I had one of the kids
say you mean do unto others and say you would
have them do it to you, and the little girl says,
I don't understand what I'm saying, And then have you
never heard of the Golden rule. Well, yeah, but we
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say treat others like you want to be treated. Was
it good? Change the line? It's the way it works.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I think it's cool that you had the names changed,
and I'm glad you didn't over West Virginia like having
Jim Bob Cratchit instead of Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Crach No, no, James Smith. Okay, look what are the
last names in West Virginia. And amazingly they must be
related to me because I grew up in a Smith
in California, but from New England.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, so you know, okay, so it's the Appalachian Christmas Carol,
I know, I know. It's not just plays and music
and wrestling and all that stuff. You have craft events also,
do so you have one coming.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
At Yeah, well Saturday of the third, which I guess
might be after we do this, but that's a craft
that presented by homeschool children craft they have made. But Saturday,
December tenth, we're having a craft fair Saturday, December sixth,
No fight, I got I can't remember which day of
(16:10):
the weekend it is, but we're having must be Saturday
the seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
See, you know why she's directing in.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Right, Coco and Pictures with Santa. Yes, all my calendars
on it. Don't you need a wrong date?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, you have an event with crampis right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yes on eighteenth? Yees. Saturday the seventeenth is crafts, Cocoa
and Pictures with Santa, and then Sunday the eighteenth is
pictures with Crampus.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I think that's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I've never seen anybody do the cramp No.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, let's let's hop because we've had a lot of
people go back to say the same, Well, that's cool.
We've never seen Crampus. Dude, we've never seen people do
pictures with Crampus.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You might be a transitter.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I watched the movie. I love the movie. Uh you know,
I like that weird stuff. So I mean, honestly, that's
going to attract a large field of people that usually
get left out.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Right exactly, and hopefully, you know, more people come to
things like that. We'll have We'll give them flyers for
everything else that's happening next year. Hopefully they'll come back
and see a show too.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got to wonder why someone like Jerry would like
weird stuff. It's probably because he's weird himself.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I am weird. That makes sense, I love.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah. All right, Oh, I said, then you've got to
come out and see one of our weird shows. Oh,
absolutely weird so far was the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
That was our first post COVID show.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, Jerry, if you go to that, you're going to
have to dress the part.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, absolutely, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Years. Yeah, well, the actors loved it too. They're asking
me to do it as an every year thing. Started
becoming a thing to do it live.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There you go, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
They could have the Rocky Horror Festival and the play
be the like the main attraction, but they could have
a whole bunch of stuff leading up to it.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Ooh, they gotta get you to come to a board meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Keep them, thanks, James.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, So for the Appalachian Christmas Carol, what what the admission?
What's the admission on that?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Sure? It's one weekend the sixteenth through the eighteenth. Seven
dollars for adults, five dollars for children under twelve, seniors
over sixty with a two dollars discount if you bring
a can food donation.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Gotcha. I mean listeners get down there. You know they're independent.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's seven dollars. It's cheaper than a movie, but it's
live action.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We have kind of a large following. So if somebody's
traveling through West Virginia they're making a visit, where might
they go to look on the internet to see when
your shows are that way? If they're passing through, maybe
that's something they would like to do, is stop and
get some good, clean entertainment.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Sure well. Our website is Mountain Roots Theater dot org
and that also has links to our Facebook, our Twitter,
our Instagram, our TikTok. Yeah, we don't quite have my
bank account number or my grandchildren's pictures on there yet,
but everything else gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So, Kathy, after the holiday season has passed us, what
is upcoming for the theater?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
What is upcoming in January? We're gonna Rea. We're going
to be starting up again our monthly open mic variety show,
which we call Anything Goats. First Friday of every month
at eight o'clock. Anybody can come up and have their
fifteen minutes of same. If you sing, if you tell jokes,
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if you do spoken word poetry. We had one, We've
had a magician come all the way from Ohio. We
had a child once at about ten years old, bring
up a deck of cards and a dog. He did
card tricks and the dog was his magician's assistant. She
pulled the cards. Okay, we've had a self defense demonstration.
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We've had a motivational speaker, like we say, anything goes.
We had one guy to come up and do tequila.
He sat and bopped his head through all the instrumental
part and at the very end he belted out all
the lyrics there are tequila.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I thought you were I thought you drinking.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's what I was thinking too.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I was like, wow, probably he was probably doing that
before he got to us. We do not have a
liquor license, and we've been going back and forth on
whether we should or should not get one. Got because
of that. Yeah, yeah, so that starts in January. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right, So.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do you have a Facebook page that uh listener or yeah,
our listeners could could check out.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, we do Mountain Roots Community Theater. All right, it's
our Facebook name.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well, I'll tell you once again, this is Kathy Debler,
theater director of the Mountain Roots Community Theater.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, the biggest thing it takes to keep it running,
of course, is money to pay the rent. So we're
always being we are nonprofit, we're always looking for donations
stuff like that. So that's why I at ad issue
to the place. We do craft pairs, which vendors come
and you know, pay a few dollars for a space
and we get all that money, you know, corporate donations,
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sponsorships to be in our program, stuff like that. Just
and we'll take you know, donations of stuff too. You know,
if you've got old furniture, cool clothing. We don't need
all of your old ripped T shirts and blue jeans,
but if you've got any interesting, you know, costume type pieces,
that'd be cool, that kind of stuff and people. We
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need the audience to come see the shows and actors
to do the shows.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Absolutely, so the ripped T shirts and jeans that I'm
guessing that you're talking from experience.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Always we don't know about it unless we've seed it
or it's happened, right right, there's a reason we know
dint of these things.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Real quick, Kathy, how many people will your theater hold?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We seat about one hundred, but we limited that because
that's how many chairs we have, and that keeps it,
you know, a little bit socially distanced. Still if we
if we need to, we'll buy more chairs and we'll
be able to see close on one And.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Y'all have like just a large amount of parking. You're
up in a next to applauza.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Correct, correct, there is I almost want to say only
at parking, but there is plenty of parking.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So nobody will have to worry about not finding a
place to put their car.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
So so far until we start selling out one hundred
feet the show, then we might have to worry, but
then gonna have to buy you tickets in advance, which
you can do on our website Mountain Root Theater dot org.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Okay, two more thanks Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
One, if there's someone out there, because we have listeners
from around the world that some can't possibly you know,
come to the theater, is there an address that they
can send donations to?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Sure? Our street address is twenty seven hundred so two
seven zero zero East DuPont d U p O N
t Avenue, Suite three C Bell B E L L
E West, Virginia two five zero one five.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So, Kathy, uh, you know I mentioned about our listeners
and where they are is there any way that if
they can stream the shows since they can't come.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Not yet. We're working on getting that. I, like I said,
I'm old, so I'm gonna I'm gonna play the senior
citizen card of I don't know how to do that, so.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Real quick, before we sign off here, let's hear about
you and your move from LA to West Virginia. What
were you expecting when you came to the mountain state.
Did you do your homework first or did you go
into this uh with what blindfolded? Did you hear stereotypes
about our state and then find out that they were
(24:43):
wrong or were your perceptions correct?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, all right again, Like I said, I had checked
out the weather. I came down. I came up here
over here a year before I actually moved this, came
where for about a week, checked it out. Okay, the
weather is yeah, pretty much. I yeah, I see the rural.
I wasn't expecting the potholes as bad as they are
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stereo times. When I came out the first time and
I was having dinner at the little restaurant attached to
the motel where I was staying, talking to one of
the oldest that's one thing I noticed that I wasn't expecting.
Everyone is so friendly here, so much more than La. Yeah,
and we're not overly obsessed over here of offending people
(25:36):
right in LA. The cashiers at Walmart in LA cannot say, honey,
sweetie darling, have a good day. Hunh I can't say that.
Now you're getting sued for sexual harassment, right, and that's
just ridiculous. So it's nice that out here you can
still you that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right. Well, let me ask you this, And I know
I'm not trying to be the dead horse here, Jerry.
When you heard.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What Bette Midler said about our state, what did you
think of that?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was offended on behind because now I live here,
so now I consider myself West Virginia. I know I'm
not a native to him, but still now it's my state.
And it's like that was just terrible and rude. Yeah,
and probably never.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Even need it, I don't know, right, it's also very inaccurate. Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, you know when I when I first came here,
I saw talking about stereotypes. I was teaching theater at
the high school here, and one of the very first
things I asked the kids, I said, Okay, what do
you want me to know that you think maybe that
I need to know you know? And they said, well,
you know, the stereotype is that we all marry our sisters.
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That dropped true, that's Alabama.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well, Kathy Doubler, theater director of the Mountain Roots Community Theater.
You're in Bell, West, Virginia. We're gonna sign off with you.
We very much appreciate you coming on and giving us
the lowdown on the theater, the people, and everything that
you have to offer there.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
This is been a great, great opportunity to meet for
me to share our fever stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes, well thanks.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
We hope you get good results from this too, Yeah
we do.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, so, thanks so much, and good luck to you
in the cast. Hope you will have fun and bringing
lots of moola.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Really, thank you so much. Hope we do get a
chance to have to do that live stream with you here.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yes, yeah, that's something to look forward to. So thanks
againing to Kathy, and thanks to you the listener. We're
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Speaker 3 (28:01):
And we appreciate all of you out there. We've made
a couple of posts. We don't know if you've seen
them or not, but we're in the top thirty percent
on Spotify being shared worldwide.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, that's a huge honor. But we're in the top
twelve percent for something else.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I can't remember all the details up. We did
post them though on Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I think it was streamers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
We have had a like a three hundred and sixty
percent increase this past year, yep, from our first year.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's because we have people like Kathy Debler with us
and we appreciate her being here with us, and once again,
send us a message, send us an email, West Virginia
Talk at yahoo dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Thanks for listening everyone. I'm James and I'm Jerry. This
has been a West Virginia Talk, a J and J production.
Hi, everyone, It's another edition of West Virginia Talk with
James and Jerry.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm James and I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
So we're really excited about this episode because, you know,
we like the indie.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Kind of thing absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know, we're not a chain a fan of chains
or you know, things on the nationals in the National Spotlight.
We like things that are out of the way, hidden gems,
and we like to find them and then bring.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Some light to it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So today we're gonna be talking about the Mountain Roots
Community Theater and we're happy to be speaking with the
theater director of Kathy Doubler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome into West Virginia Talk.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Kathy, Well, thank you. I'm glad to be here. James
and Jerry, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We're happy that you're here too.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So tell us a little bit about your back background yourself.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Well, I've been in West Virginia for four years. I
came from Los Angeles and Hollywood, so I have the distinction,
I guess, and being like every other Los Angeles resident
part time actor.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Gotcha, I know, how do you make the transfer from
Los Angeles to West.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Virginia by car? But I'm Bob. Yeah, yeah, so that
the law you're writing long story short too late. I
taught public school for thirty two years in Los Angeles, and,
like I said, with an actor on the side. So
as an actor, you also then branch out and become
a director, and then you start producing, which means pay
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for things and stuff like that. And I found that
I was able to get a lot more work doing
stage acting and directing than I was film and television
because being a teacher full time direct casting. Directors just
don't understand, and principle just don't understand. I'll leave the
kids a worksheet on their desk. I'll be back in
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an hour when I go to this audition, Prince.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think everyone in la is an actor or actress.
You know, waiters, waitresses, secretariat.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's right everyone.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
One of my one of my fide gigs in LA
is I would drive for lift like uber.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, I think a lot of people. I've seen videos
where lawyers do that on the side.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, it's a great thing. And people get in the
car and you know, we start chatting. I said, So,
so you know, where are you from? Oh, you know,
Podunkia or something. Oh that's and you're in La now.
Oh yeah, I said, you an actor or a musician,
And they laugh because I was right ninety nine percent
of the time. So everybody moves to la like you said,
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to be an actor, I did it backwards. I was
born there and start acting until I in my mid
thirtiescause my parents were always no, no, no, that's not
a job. Gets a real job. You don't really want
to do that. So and I had next time who said.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think it matters if it's a real job
or not, you know, because you see the ones in
Hollywood now and they're making bookoo buck.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So it doesn't really matter if it's classified as a
job or not. It's high paying.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So if you can get to that level. Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So Mountain Roots Community Theater.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's in bell, West, Virginia, which is how far from Charleston?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Is that about fifteen miles? Yeah, it's right by the well.
We're up from Charleston. I had to get that in
my in my head, my Los Angeles head. Your river
runs backwards, that's true, right, nor Yeah, So what I
would call going north is going up. You guys call
it going down.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, so we are up from Charleston, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, we're right. But We're right by a high school
at a wall, so everybody has to come over here.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, you're right near Riverside High School, so you're off
for Route sixty or Midland Trail.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
How long has the theater been open.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
We have been open since June of twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Nineteen, so fairly new. How did all this get started?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, well, when I retired from teaching, I decided I
could either then do the acting thing full time and
try to make a go of that, or I could
do what I've come to love more than being an
actor myself and have my own theater company, open my
own theater set adults on stage, kids on stage, especially
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ones who've never done it, and LA has more theaters
than they have off Broadway. So I decided I need
to go somewhere else to make this happen. So I
was looking for a small town, you know, somewhere that
doesn't have a lot of theater, but also somewhere that
didn't have too much snow, too much heat, too much humidity.
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And that's why I ended up in West Virginia. You
found the perfect checked all the maps. I checked the
maps right, and the fact that the cost of living
everyday stuff is the same price. Well, gas is about
a dollar cheaper here in La I was renting a
one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, an apartment building with
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no amenities. We had no pool, we had no you know,
none of the things you see in the movies. It
was just a building. Sixteen fifty a month for a
one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, that's the fringe benefit of living in the mountain
state chiaf housing.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That's right. I was able to buy. Yeah, I was
able to buy a three bedroom, two bath house with
a fully fenced yard and a two car garage. And
my house is five seventy five. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I shouldn't say cheap housing, it's inexpensive housing.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
No, it's reasonable, right, so reasonable.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, what about the reception of the community when you
up to now.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The reception of the community has been really great once
they realize we're here. Our biggest thing has been, you know,
getting people to realize that we're here. Right. So I
started out by going to you know, looking at the paper,
looking at all the socials and everything of the other's
theater companies around. Okay, you got the Clay Center, but
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you know, I'm not competing with that because they're wonderful,
but way too big for me. So you've got the
Alban Theater in St. Albans, which is fifteen miles up,
no down from St Albans from Charleston, right from the
Capitol building. We are exactly the same distance as the Alban,
only in the other direction. So I would go to
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their auditions and their meetings, and also those of Canal
players because that's where I met other people in the
theater industry out here. So it's like, look, there's a
there's a new kid in town. And so I would start, Yeah,
so this is what we do, and I'm looking for
actors and blah blah blah, and start getting people onto
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my socials and following. And so I was able to
acquire a small but very dedicated group of actors to
start with, and it keeps growing from there. And I
got kids from putting put flyers out at all the schools. Hey.
We started with summer camp. Hey, this summer, which was
twenty nineteen before COVID, let's do We're doing a theater camp.
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You can have your kids essentially babysat all day long
for a very reasonable price. So I had about had
about twenty five kids the first summer and that was great,
and the majority of them then stayed to do more
shows during the year, and well, there was a show
of the Fall, which was called Tails from the Campfire.
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We brought to life all the old spooky campfire stories.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well, bloody fingers, gold and arm all those old kind
of things. And then we wrote our own Christmas show
focusing on Missus Santa Claus. And then we were in
rehearsal Alice in Wonderland and we were one week away
from opening in March up twenty twenty. So we didn't
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get to open Alison Wonderland, right because everything second yes,
and my adult actors were doing we're rehearsing Romeo and Juliet.
They didn't get to open either. Yeah, So then everybody
shut down for a year, year and a half and
now we're back and we're we'd got full season scheduled
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and other things for the community, because they are a
community theater, right, so we're open for things other than
place we have concerts sometimes. We brought in a heavy
metal high school band called Executionist to shine Riverside High
School and they brought you know, sixty seventy of their
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friends who all paid, you know, five bucks to watch them,
and there you go, and we get a cut and
we get the more people to know about it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's pretty smart marketing because they could have done the
concertarrett rivers Sound of High School.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That's right, right, But they would charge you, Yeah, they
would charge you more. Awesome because we thought about it
before while we were getting our building ready to you
what about doing it at Riverside. Well, you check what
it costs to use a Cutnauk County school space, and
it was a little bit pricey. But my philosophy on
pricing is I'm not in it to make bookoo bucks.
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I will not become a millionaire off this, and that's fine.
I said, I have my pension from you know, my
old job. I'm I'm retired as far as you know,
tax people are concerned. I don't do not make personal
money off of this, right. All the money we do
this goes in to keep it going. So my thing is,
if anybody wants to come in and use the theater,
I'll just take half your box office. If you may
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make money, I make money. If you don't make money,
I would feel like such a jerk taking two or
three hundred dollars rental fee if nobody came to see
your show, you know, right right? So yeah, so it's
like great if you make money. I do, and yeah, yes, Well.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let me ask you about the theater troop. Is it
the same cast for every show or do you recast
for every show that you do?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
We recast for every show. So every show that the
adults do is I post auditions on Tri State Theater
Talk and four State Auditions and all the other locations.
And I would love to have you know, new and
more actors, you know, find out about us and work
with us.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Tell us about the performers you have.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now, okay you want any name names or.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Just oh that's up to them. I mean, well yeah
you can.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, we'll just do it without names. But I've got
a couple who have done been acting in the Charleston
area for many, many years and are well known on
every stage in Charleston. I've got a few who have
done other acting for other theaters, and I'm getting more
and more who have never done it before. I have
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one girl who came in to be a singer in
our variety show. She was going to come in and
say one song and we thought, wow, you're you're good
at this. You should have you ever tried acting? She says, no,
I said, here read this and doing a cold read,
she had great expression and believability and all this. It's like, whoa,
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Now she's one of my stars. So but Awesoman, she's
never done it before because she said she had social
anxiety and was too shy. That's wake it over. It
is to do it right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
See, that's why we podcast because we don't have to
worry about anybody seeing us while we're doing this.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, we don't want them.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So you have because you have a face for radio.
As they said, Yeah, I don't know, yeahs my Desclimber.
I don't know that, but yeah, I'm assuming they're very
good looking guys.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I would appreciate the exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Because I've got to face the radio too. I never
get to be the romantic lead. But one of my
first directors in LA said, you don't want you don't
want to be a romantic lead. Those are boring people.
Keep being a character actor. You get more work, and
you get a bigger variety of work. I said, okay,
so actually I've done that. But yeah, but the girl
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overcame her anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'm sorry, you're the boss. You can play whatever role
you want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
This is true, But I find the older I get
because I'm again a retirement age. It's harder and harder
to memorize lines. And I like bossing people around more
than I like being bossed. Now to say, I don't.
We just did the Edgar Allen Poe Afterlife radio show
for Halloween, which was live, like an old radio play,
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but live actors on stage. But it looked like we
were broadcasting on the radio, but we weren't. And I
took a role in them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah. Last Christmas we did that for It's a Wonderful Life.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
So you have you say, yeah, so you have a
sound effects person, you know, high, empty empty shoes crunching
through cornflakes, sounds like people walking in snow. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So what does the off What does the theater have
to offer theater fans for this holiday season?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Okay, for this holiday season? Right now, we are rehearsing
and Appalachian Christmas Carol. It's an original version of the
Dickens classic Christmas Carol where the Scrooge character actually owned
a coal mine what we say, and we're using the name.
We're using his name as Samuel Dixon because when I
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researched it, Samuel Dixon actually owned the coal mine and
one was one of the biggest mind owners back in
the day. So we're setting it present day. And the
character names, like I said, has changed. It's not Ebenezer Screwge,
it's not Bob Pratchett, but it's their character. And Tiny
Tim is a girl. Her name is Little Lily because
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I didn't have any little boys right to do it,
so we changed it. And the fact that it's an original,
I wrote it with the help of the cast. They
helped me West Virginia Isaac, so I didn't sound too
much like a California voice talking.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So yeah, there's some slight differences in the way we
say things around here.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I guess exactly exactly because I had one of the
ones was one of the ones that they talked about
the Golden Rule, and I had one of the kids
say you mean do unto others and say you would
have them do it to you, and the little girl says,
I don't understand what I'm saying, And then have you
never heard of the Golden rule. Well, yeah, but we
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say treat others like you want to be treated. Was
it good? Change the line? It's the way it works.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I think it's cool that you had the names changed,
and I'm glad you didn't over West Virginia like having
Jim Bob Cratchit instead of Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Crach No, no, James Smith. Okay, look what are the
last names in West Virginia. And amazingly they must be
related to me because I grew up in a Smith
in California, but from New England.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I gotcha, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Okay, so you know, okay, so it's the Appalachian Christmas Carol,
I know, I know. It's not just plays and music
and wrestling and all that stuff. You have craft events also,
do so you have one coming.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
At Yeah, well Saturday of the third, which I guess
might be after we do this, but that's a craft
that presented by homeschool children craft they have made. But Saturday,
December tenth, we're having a craft fair Saturday, December sixth,
No fight, I got I can't remember which day of
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the weekend it is, but we're having must be Saturday
the seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
See, you know why she's directing in.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Right, Coco and Pictures with Santa. Yes, all my calendars
on it. Don't you need a wrong date?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, you have an event with crampis right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yes on eighteenth? Yees. Saturday the seventeenth is crafts, Cocoa
and Pictures with Santa, and then Sunday the eighteenth is
pictures with Crampus.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I think that's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I've never seen anybody do the cramp No.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, let's let's hop because we've had a lot of
people go back to say the same, Well, that's cool.
We've never seen Crampus. Dude, we've never seen people do
pictures with Crampus.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You might be a transitter.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I watched the movie. I love the movie. Uh you know,
I like that weird stuff. So I mean, honestly, that's
going to attract a large field of people that usually
get left out.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Right exactly, and hopefully, you know, more people come to
things like that. We'll have We'll give them flyers for
everything else that's happening next year. Hopefully they'll come back
and see a show too.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got to wonder why someone like Jerry would like
weird stuff. It's probably because he's weird himself.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I am weird. That makes sense, I love.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah. All right, Oh, I said, then you've got to
come out and see one of our weird shows. Oh,
absolutely weird so far was the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
That was our first post COVID show.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Now, Jerry, if you go to that, you're going to
have to dress the part.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, absolutely, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Years. Yeah, well, the actors loved it too. They're asking
me to do it as an every year thing. Started
becoming a thing to do it live.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There you go, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
They could have the Rocky Horror Festival and the play
be the like the main attraction, but they could have
a whole bunch of stuff leading up to it.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Ooh, they gotta get you to come to a board meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Keep them, thanks, James.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, So for the Appalachian Christmas Carol, what what the admission?
What's the admission on that?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Sure? It's one weekend the sixteenth through the eighteenth. Seven
dollars for adults, five dollars for children under twelve, seniors
over sixty with a two dollars discount if you bring
a can food donation.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Gotcha. I mean listeners get down there. You know they're independent.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's seven dollars. It's cheaper than a movie, but it's
live action.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We have kind of a large following. So if somebody's
traveling through West Virginia they're making a visit, where might
they go to look on the internet to see when
your shows are that way? If they're passing through, maybe
that's something they would like to do, is stop and
get some good, clean entertainment.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Sure well. Our website is Mountain Roots Theater dot org
and that also has links to our Facebook, our Twitter,
our Instagram, our TikTok. Yeah, we don't quite have my
bank account number or my grandchildren's pictures on there yet,
but everything else gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So, Kathy, after the holiday season has passed us, what
is upcoming for the theater?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
What is upcoming in January? We're gonna Rea. We're going
to be starting up again our monthly open mic variety show,
which we call Anything Goats. First Friday of every month
at eight o'clock. Anybody can come up and have their
fifteen minutes of same. If you sing, if you tell jokes,
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if you do spoken word poetry. We had one, We've
had a magician come all the way from Ohio. We
had a child once at about ten years old, bring
up a deck of cards and a dog. He did
card tricks and the dog was his magician's assistant. She
pulled the cards. Okay, we've had a self defense demonstration.
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We've had a motivational speaker, like we say, anything goes.
We had one guy to come up and do tequila.
He sat and bopped his head through all the instrumental
part and at the very end he belted out all
the lyrics there are tequila.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I thought you were I thought you drinking.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's what I was thinking too.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I was like, wow, probably he was probably doing that
before he got to us. We do not have a
liquor license, and we've been going back and forth on
whether we should or should not get one. Got because
of that. Yeah, yeah, so that starts in January. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right, So.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Do you have a Facebook page that uh listener or yeah,
our listeners could could check out.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, we do Mountain Roots Community Theater. All right, it's
our Facebook name.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well, I'll tell you once again, this is Kathy Debler,
theater director of the Mountain Roots Community Theater.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah, the biggest thing it takes to keep it running,
of course, is money to pay the rent. So we're
always being we are nonprofit, we're always looking for donations
stuff like that. So that's why I at ad issue
to the place. We do craft pairs, which vendors come
and you know, pay a few dollars for a space
and we get all that money, you know, corporate donations,
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sponsorships to be in our program, stuff like that. Just
and we'll take you know, donations of stuff too. You know,
if you've got old furniture, cool clothing. We don't need
all of your old ripped T shirts and blue jeans,
but if you've got any interesting, you know, costume type pieces,
that'd be cool, that kind of stuff and people. We
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need the audience to come see the shows and actors
to do the shows.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Absolutely, so the ripped T shirts and jeans that I'm
guessing that you're talking from experience.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Always we don't know about it unless we've seed it
or it's happened, right right, there's a reason we know
dint of these things.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Real quick, Kathy, how many people will your theater hold?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We seat about one hundred, but we limited that because
that's how many chairs we have, and that keeps it,
you know, a little bit socially distanced. Still if we
if we need to, we'll buy more chairs and we'll
be able to see close on one And.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Y'all have like just a large amount of parking. You're
up in a next to applauza.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Correct, correct, there is I almost want to say only
at parking, but there is plenty of parking.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So nobody will have to worry about not finding a
place to put their car.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
So so far until we start selling out one hundred
feet the show, then we might have to worry, but
then gonna have to buy you tickets in advance, which
you can do on our website Mountain Root Theater dot org.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Okay, two more thanks Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
One, if there's someone out there, because we have listeners
from around the world that some can't possibly you know,
come to the theater, is there an address that they
can send donations to?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Sure? Our street address is twenty seven hundred so two
seven zero zero East DuPont d U p O N
t Avenue, Suite three C Bell B E L L
E West, Virginia two five zero one five.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So, Kathy, uh, you know I mentioned about our listeners
and where they are is there any way that if
they can stream the shows since they can't come.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Not yet. We're working on getting that. I, like I said,
I'm old, so I'm gonna I'm gonna play the senior
citizen card of I don't know how to do that, so.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Real quick, before we sign off here, let's hear about
you and your move from LA to West Virginia. What
were you expecting when you came to the mountain state.
Did you do your homework first or did you go
into this uh with what blindfolded? Did you hear stereotypes
about our state and then find out that they were
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wrong or were your perceptions correct?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, all right again, Like I said, I had checked
out the weather. I came down. I came up here
over here a year before I actually moved this, came
where for about a week, checked it out. Okay, the
weather is yeah, pretty much. I yeah, I see the rural.
I wasn't expecting the potholes as bad as they are
(25:12):
stereo times. When I came out the first time and
I was having dinner at the little restaurant attached to
the motel where I was staying, talking to one of
the oldest that's one thing I noticed that I wasn't expecting.
Everyone is so friendly here, so much more than La. Yeah,
and we're not overly obsessed over here of offending people
(25:36):
right in LA. The cashiers at Walmart in LA cannot say, honey,
sweetie darling, have a good day. Hunh I can't say that.
Now you're getting sued for sexual harassment, right, and that's
just ridiculous. So it's nice that out here you can
still you that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right. Well, let me ask you this, And I know
I'm not trying to be the dead horse here, Jerry.
When you heard.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What Bette Midler said about our state, what did you
think of that?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was offended on behind because now I live here,
so now I consider myself West Virginia. I know I'm
not a native to him, but still now it's my state.
And it's like that was just terrible and rude. Yeah,
and probably never.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Even need it, I don't know, right, it's also very inaccurate. Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, you know when I when I first came here,
I saw talking about stereotypes. I was teaching theater at
the high school here, and one of the very first
things I asked the kids, I said, Okay, what do
you want me to know that you think maybe that
I need to know you know? And they said, well,
you know, the stereotype is that we all marry our sisters.
(26:51):
That dropped true, that's Alabama.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well, Kathy Doubler, theater director of the Mountain Roots Community Theater.
You're in Bell, West, Virginia. We're gonna sign off with you.
We very much appreciate you coming on and giving us
the lowdown on the theater, the people, and everything that
you have to offer there.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
This is been a great, great opportunity to meet for
me to share our fever stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes, well thanks.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
We hope you get good results from this too, Yeah
we do.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, so, thanks so much, and good luck to you
in the cast. Hope you will have fun and bringing
lots of moola.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Really, thank you so much. Hope we do get a
chance to have to do that live stream with you here.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yes, yeah, that's something to look forward to. So thanks
againing to Kathy, and thanks to you the listener. We're
up to thirty two countries now. Check us out on Facebook,
send us a message or an email at West Virginia
Talk at yahoo dot com. That's all spelled out West
Virginia Talk, not w he talks, West Virginia Talk.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And we appreciate all of you out there. We've made
a couple of posts. We don't know if you've seen
them or not, but we're in the top thirty percent
on Spotify being shared worldwide.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, that's a huge honor. But we're in the top
twelve percent for something else.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, I can't remember all the details up. We did
post them though on Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I think it was streamers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
We have had a like a three hundred and sixty
percent increase this past year, yep, from our first year.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's because we have people like Kathy Debler with us
and we appreciate her being here with us, and once again,
send us a message, send us an email, West Virginia
Talk at yahoo dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Thanks for listening everyone. I'm James and I'm Jerry. This
has been a West Virginia Talk, a J and J production.
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