13 Questions for Gabriella Uhl Out of 13: The Musical

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The young artist talks about discussing her ‘dream role’ in the Netflix film music.

The latest tween obsession (and ours) fell on Netflix. Under the leadership of Tamra Davis, 13: The musical released on the Streamer on August 12 and contains Gabriella Uhl, who previously in the national tour of School of Rock, As 12-year-old Evan Goldman’s peculiar best friend Patrice.

Based on the 2008 Broadway Music Bell 13 per Jason Robert Brown, And elishand Robert HornFollow the movie Evan (Eli Golden) that is forced to move from NYC to Indiana just as he is preparing to throw the perfect Bar Mitzvah. Patrice takes him under her wing after he arrives after the new – and many others. However, they started clashing as soon as Evan decided to branch out a few friends and make a few more friends.

We asked UHL 13 questions about discussing her ‘dream role’ of Patrice, her character’s journey through the film, which she thinks is the ‘lamiest place in the world’, and much more.

1. What was your response to the discussion of the role of Patrice in 13: The musical?
Gabriella uhl: We found out on the final zoom call because all the cast was practically done. I struggled, started crying and sinking on the floor, outside the eye of everyone on the zoom! Patrice was completely my dream role and I couldn’t have been happier. We were at home almost a whole year at that time because of the pandemic, so when my mother and I left for Canada [to film] A few weeks later, no one knew we were gone. It was still difficult to tell anyone that I got the part! Cast was only announced almost three months later.

2. How did you prepare for your audition? What song did you perform?
My very first audition was in person in March 2020 in New York City. I sang a cut of “beautiful” by Carole King. Then everything closed for about 6 months and the next bunch of auditions and workshops were on tape and on zoom. For that, I was asked to sing the iconic Patrice songs, ‘what it means to be a friend’ and ‘lamiest place in the world’. Like so many theater children, I sang those songs forever, but it made them almost harder to prepare for this audition, because I understood how hard Jason Robert Brown’s music is to sing well. My voting teacher and I spent a lot of time working on the storytelling aspect of my actions. The creative team made it very easy for me when they said, “We know how well you can sing, don’t worry about your voice. Focus on telling us something we don’t know about Patrice yet.”

3. How would your Patrice’s journey tease throughout the film?
Patrice is growing a lot in the film. She is a big city girl in a small town and she feels as if Evan is her ticket from that place where she is so misunderstood. When he chooses the other children at school above her friendship, it hurts her, but she learns to be compassionate about his struggle as the new child at a new school.

4.. In what ways do you relate to Patrice?
I’m from a small town so I totally understand how Patrice felt so misunderstood. Patrice had a friendship with Evan’s grandmother. I also have an easy time with adults.

5. What do you admire most about Patrice?
I really admire that she does not deteriorate from what she appreciates and only believes to impress or fit others. She stays true to herself.

6. If you could put Patrice in any other musical, what would it be and why?
I think Patrice would have an absolute explosion that shows someone in the city of New York for 24 hours, so I would put her in On the city! Bonus points if I should be Patrice if she is in On the city Because of how surprising Joshua Bergasse’s choreography was in the revival!

7. How did your stage experience prepare you for film 13: The Musical?
I learned in the theater how important it is to act, listen and take direction at all times. I also learned on tour how much we depend on the crew! The crew on the School of rock Tour was, and still is, some of my favorite people and role models. I was ready to be productive and safe on set because of how much I learned about theater art.

8. What was your biggest challenge on the screen rather than on stage?
The first challenge was to develop a different kind of endurance. In a stage show I have to do eight shows a week, but I have to get everything right for the first time, because this is the only time the audience will experience the show! In the film, we may just shoot one scene on a full day, but I have to focus well enough to do it as many times as it takes to get it right. Also on stage we have to make everything so much bigger, so that every person in that theater – no matter how far they sit – what I feel and can be swept away in the story. On the screen, the camera is right in my face! If my storytelling is too big, it just seems ridiculous.

9. What do you hope next in your career?
I know that being a young person with the experiences I had is unique, and if I never work again, I still have so much to be proud of and happy. But I hope, of course, that a new show comes to Broadway with a young teenage girl -roll for which I can audition and origin!

10. What career would you like if you do not act?
Dogs. Something with dogs. Maybe I can work at a doggy day care? A dog walker? I want to be friends with all the dogs.

11. How did you celebrate thirteenth birthday?
I turned 13 during the first year of the pandemic. My family rented a house that week, so we could be in a space other than our home, which we did not leave in months except to get groceries or go for a walk. My sister’s birthday is the same week as mine, and it was just nice to be new for a while.

12. What is your dream theater role?
Patrice was my dream role for so long that this is a difficult question now! I grew up with obsessed Singin ‘in the rainso one dream role is Kathy Selden.

13. Where do you think the ‘lamiest place in the world’?
I don’t think I don’t know yet! I was all over North America and I can honestly say that I loved something I was so far.