Celebrating 25 Years: Dave Talken

Dave: “I think I think it has been a good place for our family in general. The theater aspect, the building of confidence, the faith aspect of it, I appreciate greatly, and in that it was a place that was safe for you all to be kids. To have the opportunity to express yourself and to to get to do something that you really enjoyed that also helped to cultivate faith in you and to have other people around as mentors in that regard as well. It was the Christian, it was the youth and then, yeah we do theater here. So that focus on on the kids and their families and on their faith in a theater environment.”

Hillary: “So you made it rain on stage during Singing in the Rain, can you explain to us briefly how that worked?”

Dave: “Well, we had a gutter that we put across, well we had a rolling platform that was 16 feet long that we put a gutter across the front of. It had a short roof on the wall in the back that came down with a pipe at the top with a whole bunch of holes in it. Had a tank in the back that had water in it and a pump that made a lot of noise and pumped the water up into that tube with the holes in it and it just ran down off of the roof and ideally splashed into the gutter, but a lot of it didn’t.”

Hillary: “And there was a fun fact about the pump. Can you share that with us?”

Dave: “Everyone tells me it was in the same key as the song. I have no way to confirm or deny that, cause yeah, I’m tone deaf.”