MTV's 'MADE' visits Wareham

Jan 15, 2013

One lucky Wareham High School student may soon have an MTV camera crew in tow as they try to get “MADE.”

The MTV documentary series came to Wareham High School Monday, Jan. 14, and held an open casting call. MADE gives kids the resources, money, or training that they need to accomplish a specific goal. As the name of the show implies they are, hopefully, “made” into what they set out to be.

As drama rehearsal carried on in the auditorium, students filled out brief questionnaires and waited for MTV producer Jeff Musolino to call them into a separate room for an interview.

“It’s really the student, how interesting they are, rather than the goal” that determines who is picked to be on the show according to Musolino.

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Davenport’s dream is to ride horses.

“I used to work to ride in middle school,” said Davenport.

She would put in long hours doing dirty work at a stable to earn the privilege of riding.

“I’ve never had a trainer," she explained. "I’ve never been able to get into it as much as I’d like.”

It’s not exactly the most inexpensive sport to pursue, and while a lack of money has always been a stumbling block, recent events in Davenport's life have thrown up even more.

“I’ve been kicked out of my house, and I need to work and go to school," she explained.

Davenport stays at a friend’s house, and tries to pitch in with things like groceries when she’s able to.

Anyone who’s watched MTV in the past half decade or so has probably noticed that the adolescent debauchery of people shamelessly seeking fame has become the standard.

Musolino said he thinks that MADE is “one of the last few positive shows on MTV,” and the purpose of the show is to help out the underdog.

Toriana Bunting-Figueroa, 14, wants to be a singer and an actress, and she hopes MADE will get her the training she needs to be a top-notch vocalist.

“I’ve never really had singing lessons," she said. "I can’t afford singing coaches to teach me.”

Bunting-Figueroa's aunt and cousins were sitting in the auditorium pulling for her.

Viking Theater Company Director Don Bliss said the show approached Wareham High School, and the school turned the open call over to him.

Bliss expressed sympathy for the "underdogs" MADE is looking to lend a hand: "High school is four years with nowhere to hide."