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Speaker 1: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is on at Theater

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Speaker 1: in the Bay, Theater on the Bay in Camps Bay,

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Speaker 1: running until the thirty first of May. It's presented, of

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Speaker 1: course by Petertorian with the Lampter and it's it's outrageous,

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Speaker 1: it's funny, it's saucy, it's it's marvelous. The lovely Craiger

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Speaker 1: Barney has stepped back into the stilettos, so you don't

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Speaker 1: need to worry. He's sorted. I don't think he needs

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Speaker 1: an understudy in the form of Dylan. He stepped back

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Speaker 1: into the stilettos of the iconic doctor Frank Confurter, and

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Speaker 1: the gorgeous, spectacular and enormously talented Natasha Sutherlands, who plays

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Speaker 1: the narrator, joins us on the line. Now, Natasha, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine.

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Speaker 2: I'm just so enjoying listening to you trying to explain

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Speaker 2: to Dylan about you know, officiates in Rocky Horror.

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Speaker 1: No, I know, I mean, just just wonderful clam clamoring

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Speaker 1: in the dark for context for Jenna. The generational gap

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Speaker 1: just growing ever bigger.

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Speaker 2: And I have this lovely picture of Bill Mills.

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Speaker 1: Now, oh, no, no, what a spectacular chat really really,

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Speaker 1: although I won't I won't go into the rest of

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Speaker 1: his video collection, which is an entirely different Yes lately

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Speaker 1: that's a whole podcast for dealing with childhood trauma. Right

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Speaker 1: last night, like official kind of media opening night? How

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Speaker 1: did it gow? How was it?

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Speaker 2: I think it were I think it were brilliantly. We

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Speaker 2: had a maginee in the afternoon and then we had

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Speaker 2: an opening night, so you know, we we we were

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Speaker 2: just doing our thing really and seemed to have seemed

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Speaker 2: to have a fantastic reaction from the audience, which is

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Speaker 2: always wonderful when you're on a cult iconic musical like this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's a daunting thing to jump into,

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Speaker 2: but it's got such a strong cast and an immensely

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Speaker 2: brilliant creative team. Always couldn't wait for it to, you know,

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Speaker 2: to open and for people to be on the receiving

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Speaker 2: end of it, because like a symbiotic relationship, isn't it

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Speaker 2: need the you know, you need the show, need the audience,

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Speaker 2: everything will becomes one. And yeah, so it just a

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Speaker 2: wonderful celebration. Lots of fish nets, Dylan and like beautiful legs,

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Speaker 2: good legs, looking beautiful and fish.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 1: This is a question that I wouldn't normally ask because

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Speaker 1: I normally hate give us the synoptis, tell us what

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Speaker 1: it's about. But but I think it's important for context

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Speaker 1: and for the likes of Dylan who maybe don't know,

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Speaker 1: and and also because I just want to see how

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Speaker 1: you describe the Rocky heart, because it's not just like

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Speaker 1: it's not you know, girl meets boy or uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: lots of jazz hands. I don't know how you're going

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Speaker 1: to do this, Natasha, but that's your that's your job

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Speaker 1: and not mine. Give us up for the show, Natasha,

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Speaker 1: sont just.

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Speaker 2: Done an opening night, Please quickly give us. The thing

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Speaker 2: about Rocky is that I remember, I remember the first

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Speaker 2: time I saw it, and I you know, gosh, I

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Speaker 2: was I was quite young, I mean not too young.

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Speaker 2: That was not illegal to watch Rocky, right, but I

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Speaker 2: remember watching it and it was like a flap in

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Speaker 2: the face with a feather boa and I was trying

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Speaker 2: to make sense of it because I was born into

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Speaker 2: a family of storytellers. And the thing is actually to

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Speaker 2: almost not try and make sense of it, because Richard O'Brien,

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Speaker 2: who sort of wrote it and put it together. It's,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a mishmash of so many themes of

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Speaker 2: the times in the seventies there as well as the

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Speaker 2: fact that he just had this wonderful love for nineteen

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Speaker 2: fifties b grades to show horror films like Fey Ray

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Speaker 2: and the Ape and Invisible Man, and so in a sense,

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a mash up of all of that,

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Speaker 2: and it works brilliantly. It starts off with our tag,

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Speaker 2: as I suppose you could say, Janet and Brad boy

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Speaker 2: has a really met girl. They meet and they get engaged,

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Speaker 2: and they decide to go and visit and ex signs

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Speaker 2: tout a friend of theirs, Dr Everett Scott, and they

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Speaker 2: have a this storm coming along the way, and they

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Speaker 2: have a spare tire that is flat, as young people do.

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that, really, Hey, I did as well,

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Speaker 2: and I'm definitely not young. But regardless, they go ahead

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Speaker 2: and they drive to meet doctor Scott, but their car

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Speaker 2: looking man creature called riff Raff allows them to come

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Speaker 2: journey as people and the couple take a take a

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Speaker 2: all intents and purposes and mad scientists. Yeah, doctor friend Theurter,

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Speaker 2: and he has a sort of bunch of acolytes which

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Speaker 2: we are called week, all the phantoms on stage who

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Speaker 2: are there because he's about to have this grand unveiling. He's,

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Speaker 2: you know, created this human creature Rocky, after what we

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Speaker 2: can only imagine of some some reasonably failed science experiments.

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Speaker 2: He's created this creature and everyone's day to celebrate it.

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Speaker 2: And poor Brad and Janet rather unwittingly have walked in

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Speaker 2: onto this scene. And then I don't know how much

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Speaker 2: to reveal you now, No, I think I think that's

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Speaker 2: I think that's good.

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Speaker 1: I think you've done terribly well there, because it's not

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Speaker 1: it's not an easy unless you can unless you've seen it,

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Speaker 1: unless you can see what you're talking talking about. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if somebody's just tuned in and they've just arrived from

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Speaker 1: planet Mars and what on Earth is this debauched? But

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Speaker 1: what is this? The funny thing is having grown up

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Speaker 1: in England and Richard O'Brien, he used to host a

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Speaker 1: show in the UK Natasha called the Crystal Maize and

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Speaker 1: he was the kind of I mean, he was the host.

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Speaker 1: But he's I'm saying, was this If he's in I

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Speaker 1: think he's still with us. I don't think he's no

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Speaker 1: longer with us, but he was. He's quite a strange character.

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Speaker 1: He's quite an eccentric character. So once you link those two,

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Speaker 1: bit you know, he's a bit of a weirdo and

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Speaker 1: I use that term lovingly. He's you know, always clad

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Speaker 1: in kind of leather pants and leopard print, which makes

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Speaker 1: me think that he and I would get on terribly well.

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Speaker 1: But he is he is quite odd. He is quite odd,

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Speaker 1: and so the fact that this has come from within

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Speaker 1: the depths of his brain isn't really a massive surprise.

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Speaker 1: What's been what's it been like working with that with

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely humbling and amazing. You know, they are so

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Speaker 2: professional and hard working and kind and their work ethic

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Speaker 2: is just phenomenal to watch and obviously obviously super talented,

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Speaker 2: and it's really amazing. Where As with everything in the world,

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Speaker 2: you know, you're watching as a write of pathogism, someone

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Speaker 2: who's much older in the profession, watching the new guard

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Speaker 2: coming in and realizing that story storytelling in this in

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Speaker 2: this country is is. It's so cool and well held,

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Speaker 2: and it's just going to fly further and further. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been it's been a pretty amazing ride, really, really very.

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Speaker 1: I love I love speaking to to LAMB to students

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Speaker 1: and LAMBTA alumni, alumnus, alumni, because the talent, the young

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Speaker 1: talent that we have in this country is just remarkable.

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Speaker 1: And every time I'm at theater on the Bay or

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Speaker 1: I'm at the artscape and I look at that, you

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Speaker 1: know and some you sort of you get to see

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Speaker 1: that some of the same faces, don't you, And you

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Speaker 1: get to know certain people and you think, God, we

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Speaker 1: and fortunate to have such a crop of excellent I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about cats that I saw what the end

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Speaker 1: of last year, which absolutely blew my mind. And we

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Speaker 1: had three of the three of the the young young

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Speaker 1: performers in the studio, all lambta folk and you just think,

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Speaker 1: God that the future of musical theater is safe in

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Speaker 1: the hands of this of this next generation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not just talent, you know, it's I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying not just talent. It's talent, but it's them

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Speaker 2: learning about discipline and crash or etiquette and you know,

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Speaker 2: so many things that make this an industry that needs

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Speaker 2: that needs to be respected and known. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 2: an easy thing to do this that requires a lot,

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Speaker 2: a huge amount of collaboration of self of skills to

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Speaker 2: an awesome process because as a narrator, you know, I

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Speaker 2: I love watching the creative. So I've just been watching

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Speaker 2: watching them, them working and it's been. Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to come and see this at tickets

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Speaker 1: we can get via web tickets and running until the

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Speaker 1: thirty first of May. That's a nice significant run. I

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you're going to be there in Lepprint.

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Speaker 1: I'm to listen. You only need to You only need

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Speaker 1: to ask me once and then I'm in. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I can't wait a thing along I'm listen,

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Speaker 1: I am, I cannot wait. Yeah. I am such a

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Speaker 1: fan of the show. I'm such a fan of me.

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Speaker 1: I always you know, I'm a real musical theater hall.

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Speaker 1: I act asolutely of some obsessed with musical theater. This

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Speaker 1: is one of my favorites. And what Dylan doesn't know

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Speaker 1: is that I will be tucking a pair of fishnet

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Speaker 1: can't wait to come and see it. Natasha, appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. Thank you very much. Indeed, really really

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Speaker 1: lovely having you on. Natasha souther Than starring as the

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Speaker 1: narrator in Peter Torune's The Rocky Horror Picture Show on

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Speaker 1: a theater on the Bait in Camps Bay until the

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Speaker 1: thirty first of Mate