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Speaker 1: What would you talk about on you on your podcast? Fine, say.

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Speaker 2: Elvis the fifteen Minute Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: It is the fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: And we are so excited that guests actually dare to

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Speaker 3: walk through our door for this podcast from the world

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Speaker 3: famous rockcats Joanne and Alyssa, thank you for coming to

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Speaker 3: the show. You missed it as they don't walked in.

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Speaker 3: They high kicked all the way through the hallway and

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Speaker 3: through the door. Hey you know what, so what since

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Speaker 3: nineteen thirty three the very first Christmas Spectacular at Radio

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Speaker 3: City Music Hall, and the tradition continues. I know I've been, Gosh,

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Speaker 3: I've been at least twenty times.

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Speaker 1: In my life.

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Speaker 4: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: And you know when the big organ start playing and

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Speaker 3: Santa Claus comes out and here comes a camel.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is just as the name

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Speaker 1: says it.

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Speaker 5: Spectacularvity no matter at the end, Ye how many times

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Speaker 5: you seen it, you just start bawling. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing.

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Speaker 3: So I'll start with you, Alyssa, what is it for

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Speaker 3: you not only being a rock cat, but being a

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Speaker 3: part of this amazing tradition here in New York City.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it is literally a dream come true. It

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Speaker 6: sounds so cheesy to say, but I mean growing up

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Speaker 6: wanting to be a dancer professionally, and then seeing the

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Speaker 6: Rockets perform when I was younger on stage and knowing

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Speaker 6: that that's what I wanted to do my life, and

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Speaker 6: now getting to do it for ten years now, and

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Speaker 6: getting to dance with amazing other females like Joanna, and

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Speaker 6: there's eighty four Rockets, and we all just truly get

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Speaker 6: so close, and it's literally it becomes your family, and

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Speaker 6: we're spending all the holidays together, so it's literally your family.

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Speaker 3: I gotta say, Alyssa, Joanna and joining I want your

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Speaker 3: answer in a second ease. I'm I'm just the story

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Speaker 3: from the rock Cats just fascinates me. The mistake you're

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Speaker 3: all making is you're not installing a kickometer. So you

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Speaker 3: said you've been kicking and dancing with the Roquettes since

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Speaker 3: for ten years. Yes, I wonder how many times you've kicked.

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Speaker 3: There's got to be a number, and there's.

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Speaker 1: No way to count it.

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Speaker 6: I don't think I want to know that at zac number.

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Speaker 6: But I know in each show we do just over

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Speaker 6: two hundred kicks a show, and we can do up

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Speaker 6: to four shows in one day.

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Speaker 1: But there's rehearsals too.

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Speaker 6: It's a lot, I know in rehearsals, So it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: We'll ever gone flying or are they just so secure

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Speaker 1: they never fly off your foot?

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Speaker 6: They're pretty secure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're very secure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, Sometimes being in the front row

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Speaker 3: is not the best place to be. But okay, so

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Speaker 3: Alyssa for ten years, Joanna, you've been you've been with

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Speaker 1: For eighteen years that have been Yeah, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: the life not doing that?

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, can you say that again?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure? Can you imagine a life not being a rocket?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean we do have a saying, once

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Speaker 4: incredibly special, and like like Alyssa's said, we really are

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Speaker 4: you've seen the show have very many times. It's part

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Speaker 4: of my holiday tradition to be part of the Christmas Spectacular.

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Speaker 5: Do you have to audition every single year? We audition,

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Speaker 5: We do.

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Speaker 4: We do have to re audition, you know, to continue

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Speaker 4: to five shows a day at the Christmas Spectacular, so

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Speaker 4: it's a very intense schedule. But we're so excited. We

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Speaker 4: open on November seventh or seventeenth, sorry, and then we

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Speaker 4: run through January first tickets around sale now and we're

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Speaker 3: We will we will be there again this year. I

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Speaker 3: if anything, if we do anything, it's got to be

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Speaker 1: But think about this. I mean, this is New York City.

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Speaker 3: We've got in par State Building, we have Bagelscha.

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Speaker 1: We have the rock Cast, We've got Pastrami and the Rockets.

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Speaker 3: I mean, New York City is a superstar in and

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Speaker 3: Christs Spectaculary. You showcase this city so beautifully and it's

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Speaker 3: it's amazing. So I hate to go down this road,

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Speaker 3: but in showbiz sometimes things happen. Has there been ever

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Speaker 1: That was kind of funny. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it is live theater, and it's funny that

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Speaker 6: There's ice skaters that come on stage and actually ice

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Speaker 6: bus breakdown a couple times on stage. I mean, everything

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Speaker 6: so if that happens, we just hold the show. They

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Speaker 6: get the bus off the stage, the rockets come off

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Speaker 6: and the show must go on.

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Speaker 5: As they said, you're rehearsing before Like, you know, the

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Speaker 5: show opens November seventeen, but how many months or weeks

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Speaker 5: are you rehearsing beforehand? Yeah, So we started rehearsing this

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Speaker 5: excited to spread Christmas cheer.

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Speaker 7: And I have a question, Elvis, maybe i'd be permitted

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Speaker 7: to ask.

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Speaker 3: Now, hold on, we're about to get into a segment

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Speaker 3: called ask a roquette.

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Speaker 1: Should we just start that? Now? Go ahead? So ask?

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Speaker 1: So they've got the answers. What do you want to

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Speaker 1: You've been doing.

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Speaker 8: This for eighteen ALYSSI been so you're basically professional Rockets

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Speaker 7: Let's just say it your professional rock Cats.

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Speaker 5: Take that.

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Speaker 7: When is your last show of the season? What is

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Speaker 4: This year? We close on January first?

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Speaker 7: Okay, so January first? January second? Do you even get

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Speaker 4: Or do you like, Oh, there's a lot of recovery

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Speaker 8: Just think of that like a professional athlete. Baseball season ends,

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Speaker 7: Sometimes, do you not raise your legs until and I.

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Speaker 8: Don't mean that, do you not kick until like maybe June

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Speaker 7: Like is this like you know I need to rest I.

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Speaker 4: Mean absolutely we take time to rest our legs that

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Speaker 4: after the season is important. But you know, we are

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Speaker 4: so I've ever been life outside of rockets is very different.

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Speaker 4: Like for myself, I teach pilate's so that's my main

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Speaker 5: Have you all done the things I have?

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Speaker 7: So how do you do it when it's like the weather's.

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Speaker 5: Been kind of nice lately, but the years that it's

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Speaker 6: I think it's a lot of adoreurnaline. I mean that

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Speaker 6: So getting to do that and like check that off

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Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie, but adorenaline kicks in and then

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Speaker 3: Nice well, of course every year, I think Dance of

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Speaker 1: And you follow that is exactly it. It's so weird

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Speaker 4: There's fairy drones that fly out over the audience, so

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Speaker 4: It's a really fun number.

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Speaker 7: We're excited to share an audience.

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Speaker 4: How often do you guys get hit up by people

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Speaker 4: you know for free tickets.

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Speaker 1: Sale at come by the box office.

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Speaker 6: Get your tickets.

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Speaker 3: You're having a pile that you give away to friends

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Speaker 3: and family during the season.

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Speaker 4: I mean, right, I mean I think for all of us,

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Speaker 4: And I think one thing that is really special that

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Speaker 4: that in the audience there is somebody that is their

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Speaker 4: first time seeing the Christmas spectacular and knowing that you know.

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Speaker 7: My first time is going to be on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Oh you've never been. You've never been my whole life.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're Weirdos. You're gonna love it. Gandhistti,

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Speaker 7: It's excited.

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Speaker 3: You will become addicted to it, because I mean, I

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Speaker 3: leading up to New Year's it's still happening, sometimes five

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Speaker 3: But it's such an honor to have you here anymore.

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Speaker 3: Ask a rocket questions you have one, yes, okay, just

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Speaker 7: So as you.

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Speaker 2: You know you were saying that when you were a

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Speaker 2: What advice do you ladies have now having done this

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Speaker 2: all these years, have four people that are aspiring to

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Speaker 6: I love that. I think that's a great question, and

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Speaker 6: I take so much pride and like gratitude for the

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Speaker 6: job that I do. But it is a hard rehearsal process.

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Speaker 6: It is an intense season, so lots of hard work

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Speaker 6: So definitely just like lots of hard work and if

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Speaker 6: But I think that's what makes the Rockets so amazing

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Speaker 6: as we are these amazing dancers, but we're athletes, we're strong.

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Speaker 6: We trained year round for this and it's like I said,

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Speaker 6: it's literally a dream come true gets to do it.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, years ago we used to come

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Speaker 3: in i think pre season during dress rehearsals and we

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Speaker 3: to see the show, right Danielle, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We actually were on stage. I think we introlled one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, several years we did that.

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Speaker 3: What was great at being backstage to see what you

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Speaker 3: guys see because you'll see the Rockcats they're running to

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Speaker 3: the camel walks by.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we absolutely do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean and all the animals you have there

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Speaker 3: for Nativity scene is just it's animals.

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Speaker 4: Ye, animals, and it's spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever cleaned up camel dung before living contract?

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Speaker 1: No, the Rock has just kick it out of the way.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I will say the backstage choreography is just

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Speaker 4: as important as what you see on stage. You have

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Speaker 4: the show would not be possible without everyone's involvement. Right,

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Speaker 4: things go smoothly on stage because things backstage are going

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Speaker 4: to So things are as choreographed backstage as much as

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Speaker 6: I can't imagine literally city of people backstage making this production.

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Speaker 6: It's not just us on stage, it's everyone behind the

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's the Radio City Music Hall, which

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Speaker 3: I've been a suit of a Rockefeller Center and since

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Speaker 3: I was a kid, all books, all the pictures in

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Speaker 3: the history of the building and everything that's happened with

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Speaker 3: Sometimes people call it I don't know usures. So Rock

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Speaker 7: Like the ghost of Christmas?

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Speaker 1: That is happening again?

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Speaker 7: It back, You're there, You're there in amongst the little

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll go wrap up here. Okay, I don't it.

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Speaker 5: Well again, if people want to get tickets, people want

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Speaker 5: to come out to see you, how can they do that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, So everyone should go to rackets dot com

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Speaker 4: to get tickets, or you can visit the Radio City

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Speaker 4: box office. We run through January first. We open on

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Speaker 4: November seventeenth, and we hope you will come to the

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Speaker 7: This season, I'm going for the first time. All right,

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Speaker 7: we'll have a new performance. Thank you, thank you so much,

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Christmas, Christmas. The Fifteen Minute Morning Show