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Speaker 2: Darren Chris on the show. Hi Darren, Hi guys, Hi daddy, Hi,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we detored you to the problem. Downtown boy

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Speaker 3: So much to talk about, so much we haven't I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: don't know, at least five or six years, because you've

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Speaker 2: I'll look like Pam at hell. Okay, So Darren, okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's get to business. Okay, stop looking at yourself. Let's

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Speaker 3: It's basically TV.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is it? Oh no, oh no, nor okay,

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Darren christ is here. Let's let's reframe the conversation.

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Speaker 2: All right, really we have business to talk about. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Elsie Fest is back, hasn't You haven't had Elsie fest

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Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We're back. And how can you top that one?

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Speaker 2: That was You could have ended it there and it

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Speaker 1: God, you're sweet.

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Speaker 3: For those of you who are listening that don't know

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Speaker 3: Elsie Festus, this is something that I feel like has

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Speaker 2: Everyone listening because we have people in Miami and Philly ads,

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Speaker 3: I think the closest comparison, I mean, because we're at

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Speaker 2: I love elsie Fest because these are the performers that

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Speaker 3: That rowdiness is encouraged and allowed, as opposed to if

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what are in your opinion, because you are

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to tie it all in together Stereophonic.

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Speaker 3: a really cool piece to check out if you haven't

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about your bi coastal thing Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Just turning us on Darren Chris is here. We're about

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Speaker 1: And that's a very delicate way of handling the situation.

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Speaker 1: Was one of the greatest shows ever. And I just

437
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Speaker 1: turned sixty, so I can screw things up.

438
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Speaker 3: That's all right. They have similar things.

439
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:50,520
Speaker 1: I never played this for you.

440
00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a good one.

441
00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,000
Speaker 1: Do you dare me?

442
00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,920
Speaker 3: That's you can if you want this. That's my acoustic

443
00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 3: cover of of this song titled dream Time Gone By. Yeah,

444
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,760
Speaker 3: that's my acoustic melo version.

445
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 2: Miss You came to my apartment one night with your

446
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,280
Speaker 2: guitar and you sang this to me and my dog.

447
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:13,920
Speaker 1: Really you did.

448
00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 3: I think I was probably on something. I don't remember that,

449
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 3: of course I remember that. When you describe it, it

450
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,360
Speaker 3: sounds so much more sultric. You came to my apartment.

451
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:24,239
Speaker 1: Saying this to me.

452
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 3: Although I feel like I was probably like drinking with you,

453
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Speaker 3: and I was like playing by myself in a corner,

454
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Speaker 3: and you probably witnessed it as opposed to me, like, no, you.

455
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Speaker 1: Played it to be on your phone?

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Speaker 3: Oh there you go, Okay, Yeah, see I knew there

457
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 3: was something wrong there.

458
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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing romantic, all right, Darren Chris. You know every

459
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Speaker 2: once one of a song will come out. For instance,

460
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Speaker 2: have you heard the New Lady Gaga Bruno Mars song.

461
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Speaker 3: No. I was on the way over here. I actually

462
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 3: wrote down to myself like, oh yeah, new New Lady Gaga.

463
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Speaker 1: Did you hear it? No, I haven't heard yet.

464
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Speaker 3: Honestly, you know what happened. I was in I was

465
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Speaker 3: in the car, and I was I saw it on

466
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Speaker 3: my phone with like notification. I was like, I'm not

467
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,920
Speaker 3: gonna listen to this until I have really good headphones.

468
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 2: One of the comments on the text was this would

469
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 2: be perfect for Glee.

470
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of things would we did all the

471
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Speaker 3: heads every I mean, there's such a by the end

472
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 3: of the year, there's like a good twenty songs that

473
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Speaker 3: I was like, I probably would have sung the song Clay.

474
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 3: I probably would have thrown this or I would have

475
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 3: asked for it. Ord over Street, of course, I do.

476
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 3: We love I think he's here somewhere or now. Yeah, Chords,

477
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 3: but we have we have a problem. Cord and I

478
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,360
Speaker 3: go out and we get snotchlinging crazy.

479
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: You go out with other Creek cast members.

480
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 3: We had something unique and specific to our relationships. All

481
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 3: three way you boys got the whiz mister mister Duran Bolly,

482
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 3: what an honor?

483
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Speaker 1: Debbie will double up? Okay, Okay, So Darren cla on Broadway.

484
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 2: One of the reasons he's back here in beautiful New

485
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 2: York City is a show called Maybe Happy Ending.

486
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Speaker 3: If I'm wrong, is it taking you everything to not

487
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 3: make a dirty joke about that? Just are you holding back?

488
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 1: Walked into that?

489
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 3: Okay? Good? I mean it is inevitable. So let's just

490
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 3: peel that band aid right as fast as we can.

491
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Speaker 2: So I read the synopsis for this show that you're in,

492
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, Wow, someone was someone was going through

493
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 2: Gandhi's stash.

494
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 3: Where's this going?

495
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,880
Speaker 2: And and uh came up with this incredible storyline where

496
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Speaker 2: can correct me if I'm wrong? Two obsolete retired robots,

497
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: which you are one of, strike up an unexpected friendship

498
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 2: that might even be Love in Soul, South Korea in

499
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Speaker 2: an apartment. Yeah, explain this to me. Uh well, it's

500
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 2: a it's a fair question. Well, I mean, you know

501
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 2: a thing or two about being obsolete Elvis, so.

502
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Speaker 1: That being in I'm obsoletely I have no stay for

503
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: the jokes.

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Speaker 3: No, it's uh well, first of all, it's it's a

505
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 3: wildly original show, which and this is not to uh

506
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 3: poo poo any of the shows that have perhaps more familiarity.

507
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 3: We were talking about The Outsider as we're talking, there's

508
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 3: a lot of shows that are based on films and

509
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 3: music and excuse me, and just books and ip that

510
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 3: we're familiar with. Because you know, putting up a Broadway

511
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 3: show is hard, so you know, you want to be

512
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 3: sure that there's some kind of familiarity. This is a huge,

513
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 3: you know, endeavor, because I have to do that thing

514
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 3: that most artists have to do when ask about their project,

515
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 3: which is try and explain it.

516
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: You know.

517
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 3: It's not like, oh, of course Cabaret, I get it,

518
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 3: Oh of course Headwig and the NGRNE, I get it,

519
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 3: Little shop Hoarse. This is, like you said, this is

520
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 3: a unique little story about It takes place one hundred

521
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Speaker 3: years in the future, about what happens when our technology

522
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Speaker 3: becomes more humanoid, and what happens when we're a little

523
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 3: more you know, if the series and the Alexas of

524
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 3: the world become actually more human like, when they become obsolete,

525
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 3: what do we do with them? You know, we have

526
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 3: a hard enough time throwing away old sweater, is how

527
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Speaker 3: do we feel about something that you know is more

528
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 3: like somebody you have a relationship with. And so the

529
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Speaker 3: show takes place in a sort of a retirement home

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Speaker 3: for these obsolete you know, helper bots, and they're coming

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Speaker 3: to grips with their own I guess, for lack of

532
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 3: a better word, mortality, and they kind of meet under

533
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 3: these funny circumstances and they hatch this plan to find

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Speaker 3: their previous owners. The storytake starts with I play this

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Speaker 3: helper bot, who's like a Model three in a world

536
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 3: of model like I don't know fifteen's who's kind of

537
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 3: wasting way in his little like I don't I don't

538
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 3: want to call it a cell by any means, but

539
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 3: his little his little spot. And the story starts where

540
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 3: Oliver is just waiting for his owner to pick him up.

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Speaker 3: See if you.

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Speaker 2: Put it that way, it's a genius move. Yeah, whoever

543
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Speaker 2: wrote this fabulous.

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Speaker 3: It's I mean, I think also when they wrote this story,

545
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 3: you know, things like AI were something of a sci

546
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Speaker 3: fi concept, and now it's much more common for people

547
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 3: to understand all generations, understand ais impending and current, you know,

548
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 3: utility and all this gary things about and all the

549
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 3: kind of exciting things about it people are aware of.

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00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 3: And this kind of explores a lot of that and

551
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 3: a potential future that we might be facing. But again,

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00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: we have a musical about two help er bots in Soul,

553
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 3: Korea one hundred years in the future. I get excited

554
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 3: about things that I go, wait, I've never I don't,

555
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 3: I've never heard anything like that before.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing.

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Speaker 2: And someone who can actually spark this story, I find

558
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Speaker 2: that fascinating.

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Speaker 3: There's so much I want to say about the show,

560
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: but I get conscious about time and everything that we

561
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 3: have on Live in the air. But the bottom line

562
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 3: here is that it is again widely original and to me,

563
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 3: a really exciting piece of theater. That is directly I

564
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 3: was gonna say antithetical, but I don't. Again, I don't

565
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 3: want to like antagonize any of the other shows that

566
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 3: are that perhaps have a bigger familiarity. I think it's

567
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 3: just a great counterpoint, a great counterweight to things that

568
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: people are familiar with and to take a chance on

569
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: something new. And also here's the here's the ace in

570
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 3: the hall that I think I'm going to try and

571
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: promote as much as I can. This is going to

572
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 3: be a spectacle and a half.

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00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? Oh?

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00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 3: I think people think this is going to be a small, cute,

575
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 3: little show about robots in the future. This is a

576
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,479
Speaker 3: like like like like can I say, I can say

577
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 3: balls to the walls? Balls to the walls? Like spectacle

578
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: in a way that you know in the eighties we

579
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 3: had Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera, these huge

580
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 3: theatrical spectacles that like when you went to the theater

581
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 3: it was like, whoa, how do they do that?

582
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Speaker 1: And this will rival then, I think so will be

583
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Speaker 1: a chandelier.

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00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 3: Wow. I think there will be something like a chandelier

585
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 3: that will be at the new version of like, Oh

586
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 3: my god, like that's the big thing to see on broad.

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Speaker 1: Well Challenges on I can't wait to see it.

588
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 3: Ye?

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00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: Yeah? When is it open? October?

590
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 3: October? Yeah, October that it was previews and then we

591
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 3: opened officially in November.

592
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: So you should probably read the script.

593
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Speaker 3: What do you think I should probably read descript, listen

594
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 3: to music. No, the music's fabulous, and then I get

595
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Speaker 3: to be guys. This is my second time at the Belasco.

596
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 3: My name is on the marque right now and westward

597
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: Fourth just a couple of blocks down, and I'm sharing

598
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 3: the marquee with a young news Arlotte Hell and Jayshen,

599
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 3: which is really exciting because I guess this is the

600
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 3: first time I've ever been like the veteran in the cast.

601
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 2: Hey veteran Darren Chris, what's it like to drive through

602
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 2: the Broadway district of New York City and see your

603
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 2: name on a marquee again.

604
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 3: It's exciting. It's good for you if.

605
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: You're ready to put your feedback on the stage.

606
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I'm really excited for people to see

607
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 3: this show, and I'm excited for people to just for

608
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 3: it to finally be out there and word of mouth

609
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 3: to get around and I don't have to do all

610
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 3: the legwork of like trying to explain what this show is.

611
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 3: It's like trying to explain fan of the opera, trying

612
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 3: to explain I don't dear of Enhanson from the you know,

613
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 3: from nothing, it's kind of a pain. Whereas once people

614
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 3: see it and understand what this is, I'm so excited

615
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 3: to be showing up for it every day.

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Speaker 2: Maybe happy ending a preview start October sixteenth, opening night

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Speaker 2: November twelfth. Of course, congratulations to Darren and of course

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Speaker 2: elsiefest Axcess dot com. That show's coming up to September eighth.

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Speaker 2: You better hop on that now. It's going to be

620
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 2: an amazing day.

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Speaker 3: Are you going to be there, Elvis dat? I hope

622
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Speaker 3: so I just lie to me let me be there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course everybody will beat it, right if some

624
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: free tickets. It's a Sunday. Oh, we're in town.

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00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 3: I live that you're checking right now, don't you on

626
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 3: the air that we're live on the air. Thank you

627
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: for coming by, Thank you for having me, guys, I'm

628
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 3: always so happy to be here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for for always including me in the family.

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00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 2: And all the info about all the above. We'll have

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Speaker 2: an Elvis rand show on Instagram, so there's no problem. Darren,

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Speaker 2: Chris fabrious, thank you, my friend. Megany Stallion, good morning,