Episode Details

Anthony Godfrey:
You’re the total package, you can create the costume, direct it, pull the kids together, bring out the best in them.

Robin Michelsen:
Not alone.

Anthony Godfrey:
Singing, dancing, and acting.

Robin Michelsen:
Not alone, not alone.

Brynn:
She is incredible, you guys. She is amazing. You know what she did? She hand-sewed my entire dress. And she is just, she's amazing. It's incredible how much thought she put into this play.

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Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They took the audience back in time to the 1940s with period costumes, a creative set design, and delightful music.

On this episode of the Supercast, listen as Midas Creek Elementary School students take the stage in a lively and uplifting performance of the musical, "Don't Say No to the USO”. It is a family-friendly production with a focus on humor, suspense, and nostalgia. It was a spectacular student performance that had everyone clapping and doing some toe tapping.

We're here with Robin Michelsen at Midas Creek Elementary talking about the performances of "Don't Say No to the USO” that just completed last night. I was able to see it on opening night. What a wonderful performance. Tell us a little bit about what happened.

Robin Michelsen:
Well, I've been at the school for 15 years. We've done a play, we've tried to do a play every year. Of course, COVID came in, we had a couple of other years that got skipped that we didn't do it. We try to do something that correlates to the sixth-grade curriculum, but I will have to say this is my favorite play of all the plays we do. We do one in Egypt, we do one in the Middle Ages, but this is the one.

Anthony Godfrey:
It was really impactful for me. First of all, it really transports you to the 40s, takes place during World War II, and the hairstyles, the costumes, and the dialogue. It was just really cool to go back in time, and some sixth graders really pulled off looking like they were from the 40s.

Robin Michelsen:
They did.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about the costumes and the hair. I know that you made the costumes, so let's hear about that.

Robin Michelsen:
Well, this is the second time we've done this play. We did this play also in 2017. So I had some of the costumes, I had a lot of the military costumes. I didn't make those, I went to military, what do they call them?

Anthony Godfrey:
Surplus

Robin Michelsen:
Surplus stores. I went to some surplus stores and took them in and stuff, so I didn't make those from scratch. But a lot of the dresses I had, some of those dresses are actually authentic. They're actually 1940s, '50s dresses.

Anthony Godfrey:
That doesn't surprise me. Not that I was there, but it looks like what you imagine the 40s to be.

Robin Michelsen:
Yeah, some of them are authentic. Actually, a funny story that the girls don't wear those kinds of dresses. So I would ask them to wear something that they could change into, and then they come out and it doesn't fit or whatever, and they realize they didn't know how to undo the zipper or the buttons. I had to show them how to put it on. There was one that zips up the back, and she's trying to zip