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Speaker 1: Now more. Mark Simos on seventeen r.

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Speaker 2: Well Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporters should check out

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Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, How you doing?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I saw a great Broadway show this week.

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Speaker 3: You know that everyone should see. It's called Becky Shaw.

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Speaker 3: It's a comedy playing at the Helen Hayes Theater and

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Speaker 3: I really you would love it's everyone loves it.

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Speaker 1: Every reviewer loved it.

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Speaker 3: There wasn't a single one that didn't like it. And

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Speaker 3: it's it's just absolutely hilarious.

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Speaker 2: And you can picture me sitting through an entire Broadway show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you would like this show. It's fun, It's really fun.

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Speaker 3: And the star of it is this guy, Alden Ehrenreich

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Speaker 3: who played Hans Solo, you know, in that Hans.

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Speaker 1: Solo movie that came out a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: And he's a really good actor, but he's never really

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Speaker 3: had a hit movie and now he's got to hit

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Speaker 3: Broadway play. He'll be nominated for a Tony Award and

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Speaker 3: and everyone Linda Emon, who is a very well known

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Speaker 3: Broadway actress kind of steals the show, and she's also hilarious.

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Speaker 3: So it's about a family, and it's also, strangely enough,

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Speaker 3: it's about a family, it's.

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Speaker 1: Also about dating.

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Speaker 3: And it's just it's so many laughs that you really need.

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Speaker 3: You need the laugh, believe me.

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Speaker 2: So's to tell us the name again, Becky Shaw sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Hey tell this girl.

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Speaker 3: This actress who you don't really know, plays this Becky Shaw,

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Speaker 3: who doesn't really come into the play for a little while,

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Speaker 3: and you think that she's meek and mild.

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Speaker 1: By the time the play is over, you're terrified of her.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things.

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Speaker 2: So, how's Broadway doing overall? How's business on Broadway?

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Speaker 3: Business was really good? Last week Broadway was up about

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Speaker 3: five million dollars from the week before. It's a little

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Speaker 3: behind from last year, but it's a big, big increases.

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Speaker 3: The shows that they're really carrying it are Harry Potter

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Speaker 3: and The Curse Child has become such a hit because

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Speaker 3: they brought this guy Tom Felton in from the Harry

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Speaker 3: Potter movies and now the Harry Potter fans are like

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Speaker 3: selling out the theater every.

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Speaker 1: Week to see him.

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Speaker 3: So he just signed another contract to go through November,

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Speaker 3: because where's it going to go. They're doing just doing great,

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Speaker 3: and Hamilton is huge, of course, and then we have

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Speaker 3: some new shows opening right now for the Tony Awards,

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Speaker 3: and we'll see how they're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, tell us about this Michael Jackson movie. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you're like a Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 3: I am the Michael Jackson expert. Well, it'll be interesting

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Speaker 3: some people.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like a rave review.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not allowed to review it yet. It's only

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Speaker 3: just be shown for the first time. I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: what's great at What's I think is going to be

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Speaker 3: great about it is that Michael's nephew, Jermaine Jackson's son,

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Speaker 3: Jeffar Jackson, plays him in the movie, and he looks

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Speaker 3: a lot like him, and he can dance.

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Speaker 1: Like him and sing like him.

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Speaker 3: So the concert part of this movie is going to

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Speaker 3: be fantastic. I don't know what the story is going

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Speaker 3: to be like, but the story I do know this

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Speaker 3: much about the story. This is only about the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 3: It ends when Bad, the album Bad comes out and.

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Speaker 1: Michael's way on top.

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Speaker 3: They don't get into anything after nineteen ninety, so there's none.

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Speaker 1: Of the they were originally going.

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Speaker 3: They originally filmed part of it to show Michael being

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Speaker 3: accused of child molestation and then being exonerated, and it

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Speaker 3: just didn't work in the movie, so they cut that

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Speaker 3: whole part out and they've just made it about his

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Speaker 3: great success and all the great music from the eighties,

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Speaker 3: which I think is smart because you know, the MJ

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Speaker 3: crazy stuff that happened. I do you know, Bubble I

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a better idea? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I do know that Bubbles the chimp is in is

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Speaker 3: Not everyone loves Bubbles, the real Bubbles Now the real

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Speaker 3: People got to visit him, and he's great and he

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Speaker 3: doesn't remember anything that happened. But uh no, I think

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Speaker 3: I think the movie will be fun. If you like

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Speaker 3: Michael Jackson. It'll be like a great concert film.

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Speaker 1: We'll know more in a couple of weeks. We'll we'll,

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Speaker 2: Paul McCartney tell us what he's up to.

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Speaker 3: Huge stuff going on. He's going to be the musical

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Speaker 3: guest on Saying I Live. I think it's May May fourteenth,

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Speaker 3: and it's the final.

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Speaker 1: Episode of the season, and he's promoting.

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Speaker 3: His new album called Boys of Dungeon Lane, which will

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Speaker 3: right now. The single is terrific. Paulccartney. These guys, the

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Speaker 3: guys who are last, the Rolling Stones, are announcing on

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Speaker 1: They're dropping a single on Saturday the eleventh.

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Speaker 2: And who's going to play this new single?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the last album was fantastic and it

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Speaker 3: and there's nothing better than for me, there's nothing better

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Speaker 3: have Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr

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Speaker 3: this week. And he had a very good country album

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Speaker 3: last year. So these guys are in there. Well, Bruce's

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Speaker 1: I did, wheelchair access is on the stage.

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Speaker 3: But you know, and listen Gladys Knight and all those

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Speaker 3: and these people are serious about it. They're not like

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Speaker 3: You know Sting is coming to the Metropolitan opase. I mean,

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Speaker 1: It's very exciting. I think, let them do it.

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Speaker 3: Paul Simon's on tour, he's doing none of the big tour.

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Speaker 3: So all of these classic guys are out there doing

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Speaker 1: You know, it's cool, No, it.

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Speaker 2: Is, it is. Hey, these are all the old time artists.

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Speaker 2: They always knew how. They had better work ethics, more

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Speaker 3: They also they were real composers, you know, they weren't

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Speaker 3: These guys who were out there wrote their own songs.

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Speaker 3: They recorded there, they orchestrated them, they you know, recorded them.

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Speaker 3: They were the real thing, so they don't want to

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Speaker 3: give up. I'm very excited about the Rolling Stone. I'll

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Speaker 3: be right there on Saturday watching that announcement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't realize how these guys were trained. If

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Speaker 2: you were the Beatles the Cavern Club, you did like

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Speaker 2: you perform noon to midnight. You have twelve hours a day.

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Speaker 1: So oh yeah, yeah, yeah right, and the Stones listen.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Keith Richards has a little arthritis and he

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Speaker 3: That's that's because Keith. We can't move Keith around too much.

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Speaker 3: everyone's got to sit at.

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Speaker 2: The well, hey, will you in a minute? Left, Roger Freeman,

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Speaker 2: tell me about the oscars. Now, what happens with the oscars?

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Speaker 2: Next it moves to YouTube or something.

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Speaker 3: on YouTube the next two years of the ninety ninth

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Speaker 3: sort of crazy because it's too late. They should have

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Speaker 3: too late. By that time, no one cares that they're

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Speaker 1: On YouTube, and who knows what that'll be like. I

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Speaker 1: have no idea what that'll be like. I would YouTube

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Speaker 2: I love YouTube, That's so what I watch most of

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Speaker 2: going to well, how do I find this? Where is it?

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Speaker 2: How do I see it?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: One will ever find no no one will ever find it.

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Speaker 3: I have trouble now finding the Yankees on you know,

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Speaker 3: Apple or Amazon, so listen, it's tough.

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Speaker 1: That's a whole other story about the Yankees.

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Speaker 3: Well, but anyway, the Oscars, you know, the Oscars will.

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Speaker 1: Go on and on. This year. By the way, we're

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Speaker 3: Lot of big hit movies, like big deal movies.

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Speaker 1: So the Oscars should.

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Speaker 3: Be interesting because we've got Steven Spielberg movie coming in June.

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Speaker 3: We have Christopher Nolan movie coming in July. We've got

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Speaker 3: all these big, big event movies. So they'll all be

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Speaker 3: part of the Oscars next year.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's good to hear. Great stuff, Roger Freeman.

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Speaker 2: You want to see more, go to his website showbiz

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Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you all right,

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