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Exclusive: Cast Of Old Globe's ENGLISH On Favorite Classroom Memories
May 15, 2024
In an exclusive video, the cast of San Diego's Old Globe's production of English share with us what their favorite classroom memories are. English plays at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center through February 18, 2024.
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Hi Broadway World! My name is Ari Durambach. I am currently playing Gully in English here at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego
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and I'm going to ask my castmates a few questions about what their favorite classroom memories are
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Okay, Pouya, can you please tell us your favorite classroom memory? My favorite classroom memory? I don't know. I was always the nerd in school, so it was indeed a burden to always be better than other people
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but, you know, I've carried it with pride and grace. Uh-huh. That's beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing with us
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Okay, Tara, it's your turn. What is your favorite classroom memory? I really liked being super popular in school. Yeah, I was just like super popular
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No, kidding. I had some really amazing teachers in school. In the third grade, I had this teacher, Mr. Robinson
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who was about to have a baby, and he would tell us every day about how his wife's pregnant and having a baby
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and then on picture day, he quickly came and took the picture with us because his wife was having a baby
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and it was just so exciting in third grade that Mr. Robinson had a baby, and now she's like a grown-up
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Anyway, it's really cool. That's sweet. Thanks for sharing. Okay, Mary, what is your favorite classroom memory
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That was a long time ago, but what I remember, I went to music school, and I think I was in fifth or sixth grade
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and my subject was piano and ballet, and we had a kid who really liked me a lot, and he was sitting right behind me
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and I used to have all these braids and all that and a huge ribbon and bozong, and he used to pull my hair
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and then would sit very quietly, and I was just screaming and crying and complaining to the teacher, and nobody believed me
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Wait, how old were you? I think I was like 10, and it was like I was so mad at him, and then once when he pulled
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I grabbed his hand, and so anyway, and he was like sort of he got to go out of the class, and it was fun
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Wait, should we ask Joe his favorite classroom memory? Joe! No! You overwhelmed him
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He dropped his coffee. No, come on in. Okay, we have Joe here. We get to hear his favorite classroom memory. Are you ready
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I guess I'm ready. Okay, whenever you're ready. Hello, my name is Joe. I went to an all-boys Catholic prep school, and one of my fondest memories in class
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is that once over the loudspeaker, our principal said, attention everybody, there's a security situation in our parking lot
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which meant that everybody in my high school at every floor of the high school went to the windows to look down at the parking lot
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to see someone trying to steal a car, and our security team running and following them like chickens
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and we watched a live version of Pac-Man where someone was trying to steal a vehicle
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and then our principal came back in the loudspeaker and said, okay everybody, sit down, it's over
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and that's my fondest high school memory. Wow. Okay, should I share mine? Can I
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I don't know if this is my favorite, but I just think that it's one that deserves to be said
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I was a theater kid in high school, and so we had a thespian initiation day, which was when you became a national honor thespian
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or honor thespian or whatever, and it was our version of hazing, but since we were theater kids
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we were never nice about it. You sang to each other? No, we went around the whole school belting theater songs, and it was really embarrassing
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It's actually not a good memory at all. It was pretty traumatic
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So it's also traumatizing, school memories. But it's fun for us to listen to it. But we had a great time. We were truly in our own world. We just went around the whole school crawling with..
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It was really weird. We were just being theater kids. I don't know if that's my favorite memory, but that's what you're going to hear today
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That's what they're going to know. Mary, do you have any final comments before we say goodbye to Broadway World
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Well, the irony is that in 1981, I performed with a play called The Ass, which was a political play, in Old Globe
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and all these years later, I'm coming back here, so it's an honor to be working with everyone here
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Great team, great actors, great crew, and great management. We love it
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Pouya, do you have anything to say? Well, I have loved being here at the Old Globe, and I've done this show multiple times before
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but I have to say, doing this with these group of people in the round is something that you should definitely see
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and it's a memory I will cherish always. Thanks, guys
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