Feedback with Toni Reece · 830 WEEU "The Voice of Berks and Beyond"

Feedback with Toni Reece and Guests Wilson High School Theater Production of Cinderella

April 6, 2026·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Toni Reece asks if you have people who make you feel like a big deal with simple acts of attention.

Monday starts with local voices. The host opens Feedback on WEEU with the usual ways to call, email, or text, then the room fills with a large group from Wilson Theater Company. They are there for Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, but the conversation quickly gets more personal than a simple show preview. It sits with the practical stuff of performing: waiting backstage, feeling the nerves come up, and finding a way to walk out anyway. One student says he stops thinking of himself as Jacob and lets Lord Pingleton take over. That gives him somewhere to put the fear. Harrison picks up the same idea through Prince Topher, connecting the character's uncertainty with the actor's own push toward confidence and joy. The students are talking about roles, but really they are talking about how theater helps them handle pressure without pretending it is not there. The host keeps the tone warm and grounded. She remembers getting nervous before presentations and passes along advice she once received: give the nerves two minutes, then redirect. Anthony has his own version. Before warmups, he takes two minutes alone, listens to a song, grounds himself, and treats that pause as his last moment as Anthony before the stage self shows up. That small ritual gives the episode its shape. It is a school musical conversation, yes, but it is also about young people learning how to carry themselves when the room is watching. Around the edges, it still feels like local radio, with contact details, many student voices, and a host who likes following the bigger thought. Later, she widens the reflection into ownership, stability, identity, and what in life really belongs to us.

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A warm morning conversation that treats a school musical like a real community event.

Tony Reese opens Feedback on WEEU with Wilson Theater Company, and the segment stays grounded in people rather than spectacle. The talk circles Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the cast, the director, and the nerves that come with stepping onstage.

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