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August 4, 2026 11 mins

There's a rumour that a cast member from High School Musical is coming to Armageddon Expo in NZ this year and we're really putting bets on it being someone who had a teeny tiny role in the movie, so we've gathered stories from other people who had a teeny tiny role in their own productions. Someone even got cast as a sultana, we love to see it.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dad, MS Brill and Clint pop podcast. That's our radio show,
but wrapped up in a neat little package just for you.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's MS bri and Clint Podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Kaitlyn Merritt's here filling in on her birthday. How dedicated
she is.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather be.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Clips Ah, what about IBETHA Bean.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Try Beth don't really want to go back there?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh okay, no, it.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Was amazing, but I it just took me forever to recover.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I had big plans to go there for my fortieth. Yeah,
and now I don't know if I can be bothered.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I mean, we sound very uncoll but it does like
I stayed up all night.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Recently to see Dom Dollar and Dom Dollar went on
stage at three am.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh absolutely, he.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Was the headliner and he went on at three am.
Absolutely not so yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's that's ridiculous. It's no place for you need to
be in a deep rim by then.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, my sleep data, my smart watch would have conniptions. Bro,
you're off big high school musical news today.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh my gosh, So I saw and I don't even
know if this is even true, but I'm going with that.
And I don't know why this came up on my
Facebook when I was looking for it, or even while
I was on Facebook, but Armageddon Expo did a little
Auckland guess hint and then just on as the picture
it's his high school musical.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Smart from them. They know, they know the millennials are
thirsty for nostalgia right now. And you know I would
pack out and armaged an expo. Troy Bolton good job, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I mean Abzac from came to Auckland Armageddon. I would
lose everything inside me.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
That's what.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
They sit the bar really high, don't they, Because it's
not going to be.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's not going to be.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I said it could be Vanessa Hudgens and you said no,
I reckon. Vanessa Hudgens is too big as well.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
She's too big as well. I even think like actually
Tisdale might be too big. It could be. Like I
was talking to producer Cordos, very and musical as well,
by the way, saying with pitch perfect, so great, first movie,
second movie, met in the summer, third movie. They really
brought it back high.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Budget on that one.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
The last one good yeah, But like mentioned, if they
had chaired so Corbyn Blue that I'd come up for that.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Even me late lining up to get a photo and
a singnature no one else. Taylor Swift fans are Swifties
and Twilight fans are twy hard's.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
What are high school musical fans like? You guys?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Old Google sees wildcats?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh your wildcats? Yeah, because that's their bustball tea, Yeah, wildcats.
I was actually in a production of high school musical
Are You and Tao for the We? And it wasn't
even it wasn't a school production. It was like a
into long I am m yeah. I was like I
did drama and like dancing and stuff and so like

(03:12):
it was really busy. So I had to go after
school like twice a week. I got the part of
the teacher, like the old teachers, and so they had
one adult who was like the basketball teacher, and then
it was all kids and then I was like the
other adult. But I was actually a kid. I was
only like fifteen.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I was going to say, how old were you?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I was like fourteen or fifteen. I'm like, oh, you
bloody kids?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Were you really tall?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know. I think they were like, were you the.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Only only fifteen year old?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Too?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Mariu with boobs and they were like, she can be
the teacher.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I actually won a trophy for like best New Actress,
did you Yes? But this gets me onto another sad
story of my acting career because I was also that
year in the stage show production of Chicago.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Now, how bumping is the Timaru amateur musical theaters?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Not amateur?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well did you get paid?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
No? That makes it sound so it wasn't an insult. Okay, yeah,
no it was. It was pumping that year and I
was one. So there was a cast of about forty
of us. I was a dancer, and I just had
these massive like as you can imagine Chicago. So it
was beautiful and just very six sy and it was

(04:28):
all yeah. But unfortunately I was the only one that
didn't get a.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Microphone the cast of forty and they had thirty nine microphones. Correct,
that sounds intentional.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
So I went to go get my microphone because I
was like, where did you guys get those?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I better go get mine to put on my head.
You know, they had it was very professional and there
wasn't one with my name on it. And so I
went up to the musical director and I said, Vicky sorry,
I think there's been a mistake. I can't find my
microphone and she said she let me did in the
eyes and she just see Caitlin. We thought it was
bess that you didn't have one. So that's what I found.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Even sugarcoat it, she should have said, you're the only
one in this cast that can project.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Actually, do you know what? Mum came to every production
and she could hear me singing. That's how loud I saw.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thank god you didn't have a microphone. Then got us
thinking it would have happened to a lot of people.
And we want to know what was your bit part
in the in the in the school production, in the
local production, in the school, whatever it was you wanted
to be a part of it. Maybe you didn't quite
have the acting chops or the singing chops when you

(05:35):
found out you couldn't sing, but bless you and bless them,
they still found a role for you. Maybe you were
rock number two, yeah, or a tree or a tree
is a classic, or a non speaking part that goes
on in one scene and one scene only, But you
had to do every rehearsal in the three months leading up.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Doesn't mean you're not an important part. You still have
fun on coming to see alid that she got. Oh
you've got one my sister. Actually, I don't even know
what Bliman production it was, but she was a door knob,
a door not yea.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I bet she was the best damn doorknob the North
Shore Musical Theater Company had ever produced.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
She said, sing dung.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's actually more door Belle. Yeah, multi talent, oh hundred
diale's itim or takes it to nine six nine sex
No part too small. Caylin was the only cast member
to not get a microphone in the Temato Musical production
of Chicago.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was because that no, actually, there's no way around there.
I just have a really terrible singing voice.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well yeah, then that's how you found out.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
So we asked how small was your part of the production.
Lily's here, Hi, Lily, Hi, tell us the show and
what part you played.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
So the most iconic one was in Cinderella and I
was the horse.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Wait wait, what is this the carriage?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, the horse that draws the pumpkin carriage.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, so I got to do a fantastic shake.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah wait, so you didn't even get your face Seene.
It was just your butt wiggling inside a horse costume.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Well, I mean I got to have my face in
when I bowed with the head as a horse.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
That mean I was going to say, does the horses
ask to a curtain call?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh there was a heat as well? Yes?

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Did you wish you were the hit?

Speaker 1 (07:40):
No?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I was pretty happy being the ass.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Wait did you have any lines as the horses asked?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Did you have any lines to remember?

Speaker 4 (07:47):
No? But I did get like slapped on the ass
as I went off stage by the prince.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
So I hope.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Very charming, Prince charming, very before you can't even asseless
horse in the production of Cinderella. Rachel's here, Hi, Rachel,
I think yours gonna actually beat that. How small was
your part in the production? Very small? I was a sultana.
You were a sultana.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, a non speaking part of you know, the mighty Sultana.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I was going to say, what production required? In which
production did you play a sultana?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
What? What was the show?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
It was a local primary school made up.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
One of the one of the ones that the teachers write,
and they wrote apart for you as the sultana. Any lions,
Rachel mine? But my mum hands sewed me a sultana costume. Cute.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
It would have been cut with the other sultanas. Or
are you the only one? No?

Speaker 1 (08:48):
I was one of the okay, very important, Rachel, very important. Okay,
what don't for us to talk to the sultana from
what school?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Poky Primary and Himilton? The Pookitty Primary School production of
Sultanas and the Sultana that we are honored. We asked,
what was your part in the production? Someone said, I
was a background mushroom in Ellis in Wonderland, not even
the main mushroom.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
A background mushroom. I don't know how many mushrooms they
were in.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, there's the main one, there's the toadstool one, isn't
there the big mushroom that the guy sits on top
of he smokes.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
The yes, So she was behind them.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I was the newspaper boy in the school production, and
now I'm the drama teacher.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
So suck on that. I like that. You know that's
a real redemption arc.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
We do have another ass.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
It was the ass of the cow and bad Jelly,
the witch, not even good enough to look all important roles.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, I was a cuckoo in a cuckoo clock.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I stood behind this damn clock for a whole act,
just to pop out of the clock and say cuckoo
one time.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's really important.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
What would the show be without the cuckoo and the
cuckoo cloth exactly?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And then everything like, no one would know their lines.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Next if you want to do that, what do they say?
There are no small parts, only small actors.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Correct. Yeah, this is making me feel really great about
not getting my microphone.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I was one of the forty penguins in the year
six Antarctica School production.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
We were just.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Standing in the background, waddling around in our penguin costumes
and mask.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's fun. There was of you, or forty of you.
That's fun.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Just like making sure you don't wobble into each other.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah. Yeah, someone said this is long, but it's funny.
My great aunt was a piano teacher and would always
have an end of year concert where we would have
to sing and perform a piece. My brother and I
were both in it one year, and she put us
right at the back. When it came to the singing
section of the show. She said to my brother, just

(10:56):
mouth the words. Yes, we were a little tone. I
don't think I continued music after that. I still sing
along to music at work, and my brother now plays
the drums for Chip, So it didn't kill our confidence. Geez,
your own family member cast you out of the production.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Now, this one.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
In my school's production of the Little Mermaid, I was
one of the hedgehogs on the beach. Oh, we don't
have hedgehogs on a beach.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's when they start making up extra characters so that
all the children can participate. It's like when you give
all children a certificates.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Hey, they're all important, very important, very important.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
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