Cole Escola
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166 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Cole Escola’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
That was seven years ago. And four years ago, I came on this stage and did my first our hip parade. And I sang this song. Take a deep breath as I walk through the doors. It's the morning of the very first day. Say hi to my friends who I ain't seen in a while. Try and stay out of everybody's way. It's my freshman year and I'm gonna be here for the next four years in this town.
Hoping one of the senior boys will smile at me and say, you know, I haven't seen you around before.
Cause when you're 15 and somebody tells you he loves you, you're gonna believe them.
I mean, listening to that, I wanted to jump out of a window. That was 13 years ago. It was a long time ago. Look, I would have done that a lot differently now, and I would have done it differently knowing that other people would listen to it later.
All the phases. I'll see you at Carnegie Hall in a couple of years.
I do have memories of that. And I remember being excited that we were going to my grandma's because I didn't like the trailer where we lived and I didn't like my father.
Yeah. And my grandmother and I shared a bedroom and she taught me how to read. And yeah.
She told this story a lot about her 10th birthday when she found out her dad had a stroke and died working in some sort of mine in Canada. And then there was also a story about how She really couldn't see. Her eyesight was really bad, but her family couldn't afford glasses. But then one day a doctor came to town and gave her a free pair of glasses. These aren't great stories.
It was always the way... that she told them and the details and the way she, you know, she disappeared into the story in the telling of it. Like, you know, we didn't have a lot of money. We didn't have a lot of money. And mom made $3 a month, $3 a month, six kids and $3 a month. And just the seriousness. I mean, I'm laughing because I'm just now realizing it was a cabaret act.
I never put that together. That was my first exposure to cabaret, was hearing my grandmother with Alzheimer's retell me stories about her childhood in Alberta, Canada.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would go to lunch with them. I don't know why my mom – I'm sure she knew. I mean it was literally every Monday of second grade that I would say, I'm sick. I need to go to grandma's. And we would go to this burger joint or the diner with my grandma, Irene, and her friends, Ruby, Grace, and Shirley.
Undoubtedly. I wanted... I mean, I wanted to be with them. I wanted to be them. I just they were and they because they also loved me. They loved I was so precocious and they were always just shower. I mean, after my grandmother died. Her Alzheimer's got really bad and she had to move into a nursing home and the group of gals split up and all went their separate ways because of health issues.
I started going to church by myself. I was like 11 years old because I needed that validation from God. I needed someone brewing coffee for the group to look at me and say, well, aren't you just so polite? That was life to me.
That was my first professional acting job. But when I was, I think, five, we didn't have performing arts in our town. But there was this company called Missoula Children's Theater. And every year, two adults from this theater company would come to town for one week. And in that one week, they would do auditions on Monday and the show was on Friday. And I just lived for that one week, a year.
But then, yeah, my first professional acting job was in a production of Grapes of Wrath. I played Winfield Jode. And it was in a town 30 miles away from Klatskanai, where I grew up. And... During that time, my grandmother lived in a nursing home and it was much, much, much closer to the theater than where I lived. So some nights after rehearsals, I would stay over at her nursing home.
Well, I wasn't sure that I was allowed to be there. I knew I could visit. I was pretty sure I wasn't allowed to spend the night. But I did anyway, and it felt... It was weird. I was lying to so many adults just so that I could be in this play. I think I lied to my mom and I told her like, oh, no, the play feeds us.
And meanwhile, I wasn't eating because I knew if I said I need money for food, she would say, well, we can't do that. I'm sorry, you can't do this play. And, you know, I lied again.
to the adults in the play saying like, oh yeah, no, I can stay with my grandma in the nursing home so I can be late at rehearsal and just 11 years old trying to keep everyone in the dark about the fact that I was a child.
Yeah. Yeah. This woman that played Rose of Sharon, her name was Susan. She bought me food on our meal breaks every day. And it was never an issue. I never asked her. She just she saw what was going on. And yeah. She would buy me food and then other actors would give me rides to my grandma's nursing home. And I was in heaven.
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