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Speaker 1: What's up his way up with Angela he and what

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Speaker 1: an honor Hi you to have Lendcaya Kabtta here. I've

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Speaker 1: seen you doing press Good Morning America. I know you

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Speaker 2: Be outside, Yes, outside.

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Speaker 1: But of course you are playing starring in Wicked on Broadway,

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Speaker 1: the first black alphabet full time correct, So congratulations on that.

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Speaker 1: I was watching your journey too, of your first day,

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Speaker 1: like you documented going and having your debut performance and

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Speaker 1: the audience and your everybody was like crying because that

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Speaker 1: is an emotional play.

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Speaker 2: Yes, when you're watching it, Yeah, it is ups and

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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on that because I know, like even going

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Speaker 1: to Broadway. I love going to Broadway plays, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: I feel like I don't see enough of us fair

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Speaker 1: represented on this stage. I feel like that's all correlated.

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Speaker 1: So what did that mean to you when you first

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Speaker 2: I just felt like it was an opportunity to tell

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Speaker 2: my story and the story of my community in like

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Speaker 2: a very passionate and honest way, especially in a character

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Speaker 2: even though the world is kind of against her in

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Speaker 2: so true to herself through all this hardship. So like

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Speaker 1: And you've been, you know, doing this. It's interesting to

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Speaker 1: me your whole background that here, Yeah, because this is

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Speaker 1: not something that initially you intended to even happen, right,

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Speaker 1: for you to even be shycles to be acting, that

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, like as a kid, I did dream. I had

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Speaker 2: had other things that I that I had passions for

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Speaker 2: the end of college that I was like, no, I

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Speaker 2: think I'm going to like pivot and like really pursue

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Speaker 2: this because I was just so curious. I've been so

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Speaker 2: That's a great way to think, you know, graduating from

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Speaker 2: college is where are we going?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: What did you when you had dreams of being on

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Speaker 2: You know. I always say I dreamt in feelings, not

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Speaker 1: Hear your parents also came here from Ethiopia, and so

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Speaker 1: it is that you represent and what Alphabet represents. It

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Speaker 1: you to like combine your background but also your passions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like I'm playing a very hot headed

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Speaker 1: If somebody, for some reason it's under a rock and

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Speaker 1: you describe Alphabet's character for people who are watching Because

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Speaker 2: I think alphabet represents challenging preconceived ideas of the world

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Speaker 2: So like this concept of like good and evil, like

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Speaker 2: the whole but at the end they become they become one.

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Speaker 2: Glinda and Alphaba become close, and Alphaba literally tells Glinda,

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Speaker 2: And so everyone sees Glinda at the beginning, just like

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Speaker 2: So like that's just a small example of just not

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were so supportive, especially being immigrant African parents,

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Speaker 1: Process because you didn't just pap up obviously on Wicked,

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Speaker 1: Because sometimes things happen too fast. Yeah, and if you're

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Speaker 2: I definitely I was tearing up. I was like, this

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Speaker 1: But I also want to make sure that we're going

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Speaker 2: They're going to go see Wicked, right.

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Speaker 1: And you gotta take the family, you gotta you know exactly,

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Speaker 1: So do you see a difference in you know, just

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Speaker 2: To see theater. I definitely feel like from what I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think sometimes people feel like it's a little

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Speaker 2: of those songs where like she's just experiencing so many

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna you want me to be evil? You want

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine if they would have asked you to

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Speaker 2: Honestly, sometimes I'm like, what if I came back and

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Speaker 2: I would enjoy it. It would be kind of silly.

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Speaker 2: It would be silly. I would enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: So what do you see as yourself? Like now, because

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Speaker 1: I know you've been visioned being on Broadway you wanted

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Speaker 1: to since you were young, So now what do you

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Speaker 1: envision like what's next? Because I know you're thinking about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I think I'm super excited to start

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Speaker 2: building characters from the ground up, new characters, whether they're

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Speaker 2: on screen, originating a Broadway show, or I'm super into animation.

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Speaker 2: I love Disney. I want to be a new Disney

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Speaker 2: Princess one day. Okay, we're hoping we hopefully put it

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Speaker 2: out right. So, yeah, I've been in long running shows Wicked, Hamilton,

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Speaker 2: and Rent, played characters that people know so well, So

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling uber creative now, Like I'm just like, now

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Speaker 2: that I've conquered this thing, I don't even know I

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Speaker 2: could do this, So like what else do I not

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Speaker 2: know that I can do?

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Speaker 1: Right now?

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Speaker 2: I gotta see.

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Speaker 1: Theater is definitely harder than television and film.

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Speaker 2: I would say they're different, they're different difficulties because I

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Speaker 2: have the eight show week to like rev up my energy,

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Speaker 2: and I have the entirety of a show to build

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Speaker 2: the arc of a character. But if I'm when I'm

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Speaker 2: doing like a single episode of a show, like that's

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Speaker 2: like a snapshot in a moment of a character's life,

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Speaker 2: and oftentimes the future of the series is not even

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Speaker 2: written yet, so it's like I don't even know where

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Speaker 2: my endpoint is. So I would say physically, it's probably

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Speaker 2: it's it's easier on screen because we're not doing eight

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Speaker 2: shows a week, but the intensity intensity of the camera

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Speaker 2: being right in hont of your face.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also no doovers like you, I mean not.

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Speaker 2: You do get duovers on screen. It's incredibly vulnerable. So

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Speaker 2: it's just like I would say, it's just different difficulties

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Speaker 2: in both. Who has been the.

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Speaker 1: Most like, Wow, I can't believe this person reached out

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: That's such a good question. I was pretty let me see,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to forget anybody. I mean John Cheu,

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Speaker 2: the director of the Wicked movie, hit me up like

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Speaker 2: immediately when when the press release came out, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, that's amazing. I'm obsessed with everything he's done.

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Speaker 2: He's so brilliant and his like his mind works. I

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Speaker 2: was just like, I'm so John, if you can hear me,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait for us to do a project together.

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Speaker 2: He's just the homie like he's he's from California like me,

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Speaker 2: so like he's very down to earth and like just

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Speaker 2: like incredibly supportive for someone I've never actually met, like

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Speaker 2: just supportive from afar.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we love it. But I'll be watching you

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Speaker 1: and following everything that you have one on and congratulations

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Speaker 1: to you. Represent amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know for everybody that wants to go out there.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Wicked, shame on you. But you know,

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Speaker 1: make sure you get a chance to go because I've

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Speaker 1: already been a couple of times and it's a listen,

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Speaker 1: I don't even have time like that. When I tell you,

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Speaker 1: if anytime I have like a little spare time. Let's

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Speaker 1: go again.

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Speaker 2: You know it's fun, all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining me. It was

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Speaker 1: a pleasure, such a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you

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Speaker 1: Well,