Interview with Evie O’Toole from the High School Musical Project | Drayton Entertainment 2024
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Meet Evie O. from the High School Musical Project. Logos for Footloose and Drayton Entertainment Youth Academy High School Musical Production.	
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Why is this opportunity important to you?	
Evie O’Toole: I think that performance is just an amazing opportunity for every young person because not only do they get to express themselves, but they can also meet people of like minds, and then they can connect with them and have lifelong friends, and learn so much as well.	Evie O’Toole sits in an interview room and speaks to the camera. Footage of her performing on stage play on screen.	
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What did you enjoy about the previous High School Musical Production, "Legally Blonde"?	
Evie O’Toole: What I enjoyed most about that experience was just finding out more about myself through the character. Elle was such a positive person. Now, I always live by her motto of kindness and love and pink!	Evie O’Toole continues speaking to the camera.
	
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What does it mean to you to be a performing artist?	
Evie O’Toole: When you're a performer, it's just how you can change other people's lives, and I think that's what's most important about performing, is, like what you can do and how you can affect other people.	Evie O’Toole continues speaking to the camera.
	
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What makes the auditions here different?	
Evie O’Toole: The approach that casting and the director took with these auditions was kindness and open heartedness and just to, like, be accepting of everyone.	Evie O’Toole continues speaking to the camera.
	
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