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Rumble Strip

Summer Musical

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Pulling off a full musical with 120 kids in three weeks. It is a fricking miracle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumble to Rumble Strip. This show is sponsored by Honey Road, the best restaurant in Burlington,

0:05.0

serving eastern Mediterranean small plates at the corner of Church and Maine.

0:10.0

Excellent food prepared by excellent people. Now onto the show.

0:14.0

All right, are you ready to start this thing?

0:16.0

Our first run with costumes.

0:20.0

I'm afraid.

0:22.0

Joanna is very afraid. Juanna is very afraid.

0:25.0

It's the summer musical in Randolph Vermont.

0:28.0

It's one day before Showtime.

0:30.0

People from town are volunteering backstage to finish the sets.

0:33.4

If you walked into Chandler Music Hall today,

0:35.5

chances are they'd give you a job.

0:37.6

The director, Kim Nowlin Hathaway, is giving notes to the kids

0:40.4

before their final dress rehearsal.

0:42.4

Kim grew up in this town, and she was in the summer musicals

0:45.2

as a kid.

0:46.2

So was Molly Clark, the show's musical director.

0:49.0

Her first show was Oklahoma when she was in third grade. The summer musical's been going on here for

0:54.4

over 20 years and this year they're putting on footloose. And honestly it feels like

0:59.7

the whole town is involved like it takes every last person in Randolph to pull this thing off again.

1:06.0

A full musical with up to 120 kids in three weeks. It's a miracle.

1:12.0

I spent an afternoon talking with some of the kids

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