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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.

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Speaker 1: Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Co written by the brilliant Tom Sainsbury alongside longtime collaborator

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Speaker 2: law Official Chisholm, a Christmas Crisis explodes onto the stage

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Speaker 2: as a high kicking, sleigh riding disco ball soaked spectacular.

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Speaker 2: How good does that sound? The pair have crafted a

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Speaker 2: world brimming with interpretive dance, chaotic festive energy, and more

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Speaker 2: tinsel than any reindeer should safely be near. And they've

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Speaker 2: even wroped in Matt Heath to play a little part.

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Speaker 2: To chat more about this, we are joined by Tom Sainsbury.

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Speaker 2: Tom get a, how are you hi?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Well, listen openly night tonight with Matt, he says our narrator.

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Speaker 3: And it's all new.

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Speaker 2: It is for Matt Heath. Yeah, absolutely, he's got a

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Speaker 2: script there, he's been going through it diligently.

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Speaker 4: It's just great to be back treading the boards where

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Speaker 4: I started. Hey, Tom, tell us about Christmas and chaos crisis. Sorry, jeez,

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Speaker 4: I've already I've already got some word wrong.

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Speaker 2: Get him out now, mate, get them out now.

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Speaker 3: So me and me and We've been doing kind of

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Speaker 3: comedy dance fifty years now and this is our first

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Speaker 3: kind of Christmas one. We've been really inspired by the

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Speaker 3: kinds of the outrageous pantomimes from the UK or even

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Speaker 3: Wellington's been doing them, and so we were trying to

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Speaker 3: tap into that market. So we've gone for a really

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Speaker 3: kind of outrageous dance show. It's got Santa but we've

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Speaker 3: got Santa Claus and Missus Corse kind of breaking up

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Speaker 3: in one storyline, and then we're taking the path out

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Speaker 3: of the kind of Hallmark love movies of the cupcake

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Speaker 3: Maker falling in love with the Prince, and then they've

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Speaker 3: got the Alps causing chaos. So it's all kind of

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Speaker 3: a big, bonacious, loud, colorful dance spectacular. So has it.

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Speaker 4: Always been your dream to bring panto to our shawes?

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Speaker 3: Has it always been my dream? Listen? I just go

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Speaker 3: with a kind of you know, with the audiences, go smart.

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Speaker 4: Well, speaking of audience, is there a lot of Christmas

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Speaker 4: spirit there? I'm just I've just fired up the Boublet

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Speaker 4: records for my kids and I'm trying to pump pump

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Speaker 4: some up and put the three up? Is there enough

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Speaker 4: out there for.

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Speaker 3: You, Tom, is But the thing, I'll tell you what

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Speaker 3: when you're doing a Christmas show, because we kind of

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Speaker 3: start working on it to temper and when you're already

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Speaker 3: listening to kind of Christmas carols and pushing people Christmas cheer,

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Speaker 3: like tonight, we'll be fine. I reckon next week, I'll

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Speaker 3: be sick to this of it.

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Speaker 2: So the show has got everything Tom, comedy, dance in

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Speaker 2: a bit of absurdity for good measure. Do you have

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Speaker 2: to train for this? Because it sounds like a really

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Speaker 2: physical show. There's a lot of dancing going on. It's physical,

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Speaker 2: it's fast paced. Have you been down at the gym

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Speaker 2: for the past couple of weeks preparing for this?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what. Because we say it's like

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Speaker 3: really funny, and it is really funny. But we've got

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Speaker 3: a cast of like a dozen and we've got some

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Speaker 3: trained dancers in there, but we've also got kind of

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Speaker 3: comedians who aren't traded us. But we try. We go

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Speaker 3: so hard, and I'm the kind of task master and

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Speaker 3: so I'm like going no, no, left left right, left,

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Speaker 3: left right, So we take it really seriously. But because

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Speaker 3: I'm usually stepping out and watching it, so these last

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Speaker 3: few days where I've been trying to catch up on

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Speaker 3: my dance, I'm like, oh, puffed.

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Speaker 4: You know, just to bring it back me to me

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Speaker 4: for a second, I was, I was, I've done my

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Speaker 4: due diligence, but I missed a few bits. And then

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Speaker 4: I was just looking through some of the notes and

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Speaker 4: then at one point, I've got a dance. I didn't

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Speaker 4: know that.

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Speaker 1: From the start of act too.

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Speaker 4: I danced along Sir Santa Claus is coming to town.

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Speaker 4: And that's that's really it's really peaked my nerves. That one,

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Speaker 4: what are you expecting?

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Speaker 3: Wait, look, do you there's there's no You don't have

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Speaker 3: to dance with anyone. You don't have to be in

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Speaker 3: sync with anyone. And you know what, you can kind

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Speaker 3: of do a boublet kind of like kind of kind

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Speaker 3: of a shuffle to the side. You just kind of

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Speaker 3: interpret it how you want.

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, there's no no judgment here. But I

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Speaker 4: just want to share a story I was in. I

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Speaker 4: signed up to Modern Dance Club when I was an

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Speaker 4: immediate and just so I could wag, and then the

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Speaker 4: teachers found out and then they they made me perform

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Speaker 4: a dance by myself in front of Assembly for punishment

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Speaker 4: for not going to Modern Dance Club. So there was

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Speaker 4: there's a little bit of history there, but but but

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Speaker 4: but I'll work through it now. Christmas in Crisis, it's

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Speaker 4: got a theme around ordering online and Christmas consumerism in

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Speaker 4: one of the stories. Are you making your own presence

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Speaker 4: this year? Are you buying keywears at secondhand?

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Speaker 1: How do you?

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Speaker 3: How do you?

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Speaker 4: You know your art?

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Speaker 3: I'm keeping through to my look sometimes, you know, you

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Speaker 3: start with the best intention and I've gone for key

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Speaker 3: we made mostly. But you know, once it gets to

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Speaker 3: you know, to twenty third, twenty fourth, you're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this person just throw money at the problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought you were doing account you know,

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Speaker 2: if it's money that the thoughts there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, money, and you're doing your bit for Christmas as

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Speaker 4: it is with Christmas and Crisis. You're a busy man, Tom,

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Speaker 4: your stand up, your TV feature films and theater. Are

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Speaker 4: you going to take a break. It's been a huge

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Speaker 4: it's been a huge ten years for you, Tom.

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Speaker 3: It's been pretty bad. I do get so December the

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Speaker 3: twenty third from men on, I think it's just going

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Speaker 3: to be lying on the couch, steering at the steeling

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Speaker 3: for a good three weeks.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like a good time. Fantastic. Hey, Tom, all

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Speaker 2: the very bit and you too as well. Matt, go

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Speaker 2: well tonight. This is a big role for you. This

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Speaker 2: is this is your moment to shine, as they say.

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Speaker 4: Oh just just here's the first line that I've got. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: warmis welcome, dear friends, sweetest lovers and foes. Here's a

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Speaker 4: Christmasy tale of four different woes.

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Speaker 3: You pick the right man, Tom, Is that the top

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Speaker 3: those dolts at Tome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only another two hundred lines that you've got

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Speaker 2: a nail, but that first one is pretty good.

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm excited. Thanks for having me time. I

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Speaker 4: appreciate you thinking of me.

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Speaker 3: Tom.

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Speaker 2: Wait, Tom, great to chat with you. Go check it out.

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Speaker 2: It says called a Christmas Crisis opens tonight. Matt Heath

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Speaker 2: is the narrator tonight. There'll be a different narrator each night.

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Speaker 2: It's at the Q Theater and runs until the twentieth.

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Speaker 2: It will be a hell of a great time. So

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Speaker 2: if you want to get your tickets, just go to

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Speaker 2: Q Theater dot co dot nz. You're listening to news

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