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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.

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Speaker 2: Here we go. Alicia Keys is here. Yeah, we're so

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Speaker 2: excited to have you. We're excited to have you anywhere,

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Speaker 2: especially here. Thank you Hell's Kitchen. This new musical. Alisia

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Speaker 2: Keys has been working on this for you said, thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Years, thirteen joints. You know, that's how you look at

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Speaker 3: it as Jointsandy.

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Speaker 2: Smoke, thirteen joints before the show I'm working.

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Speaker 3: Well, you should because the show opens on four to twenty,

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Speaker 3: so it's kind of perfect.

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Speaker 2: Explain this to me. Previews start March twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: Correct, So previews do start March twenty eight. Y'all can

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Speaker 3: come see that as well. And what happens is there's

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Speaker 3: three weeks, about three and a half weeks of previews

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Speaker 3: that allow us to test everything with an audience, and

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Speaker 3: then you make changes during that time, and then when.

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Speaker 1: You stop the show, like in the middle, if you

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Speaker 1: go to a preview, can somebody stop and say we

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Speaker 1: got to reset that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that what happens?

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't do that, would you?

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Speaker 3: No? You cannot do that, okaye. It runs like a show,

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Speaker 3: and you're going to experience the show and it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be amazing. But after the show there's a bunch of notes,

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Speaker 3: and then the notes get implemented, and then for twenty

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Speaker 3: you can't touch it anymore. And that's the official opening.

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Speaker 3: You can touch the creative anymore.

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Speaker 2: So walls during previews, you may be in the back

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Speaker 2: just kind of hiding. I'm there a lot, and then

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Speaker 2: when it comes to notes time, here's Alicia, girl, you

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Speaker 2: were off key.

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Speaker 3: There's a bunch of notes on multiple levels. For sure.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be some musical notes. There's gonna be some

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Speaker 3: dialogue notes. You know, there's gonna be choreography notes. There's

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Speaker 3: gonna be stylin notes, wardrobe notes, lightning notes, set design notes,

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Speaker 3: all of these things that kind of come together and

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Speaker 3: you're like, this doesn't feel quite right. Can we fix this?

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Speaker 3: I'm noticing that's not happening, and it happens from everyone.

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Speaker 3: The director Michael Greif, who also did Rent and Dear Evan.

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Speaker 2: Hand never heard of those, right, Oh God, couldn't you

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Speaker 2: get someone who's a little more tested.

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Speaker 3: We have the incredible Camille Brown is doing all of

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Speaker 3: the choreography. She's stunning. Mike Chris Diaz as the book

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Speaker 3: writer and then obviously I create the music.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be freaking out a little bit

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Speaker 2: of Licia because this is real deal Broadway. This isn't

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Speaker 2: off off off off Broadway.

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Speaker 3: Kind of like the real Like it's the realists of

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Speaker 3: the real that's so cool. We are at the Schubert Theater,

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Speaker 3: like the crown jewel of Broadway. We get to open

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Speaker 3: at the Schubert Theater.

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Speaker 2: They're ghosts at the Schubert Theater. A friend of mine

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Speaker 2: was in a show there once, and you say he's

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Speaker 2: scared of living.

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Speaker 3: No crap, everybody listenings, no, damn ghosts. Pay more for ghosts. Well,

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Speaker 3: come come, come see the show.

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Speaker 2: Don't the ghosts. Ghost You're good, ghost, You're good. Now, Okay,

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Speaker 2: back to this preview thing. I would pay money to

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Speaker 2: go watch a rehearsal where someone goes stop stop stop, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I told you it's step two three four step two

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Speaker 2: three four.

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Speaker 3: Drama.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like the tantrums and the Diva moments.

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Speaker 2: We actually went to a sound stage in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: years ago when Madonna was about to do her whatever tour,

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Speaker 2: and she gave us the full rehearsal. They call it rehearsal,

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Speaker 2: and it was she stopped that crap down in the

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Speaker 2: middle and she read some guys up and down. I

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Speaker 2: would love to see.

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Speaker 3: No, it is. It is exciting. I mean, there is

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Speaker 3: a dress, there is an invited dress that happens. Maybe

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Speaker 3: you should.

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Speaker 2: Come so you have the power to do that. So

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Speaker 2: it's called Hell's Kitchen because of course Alicia Keys grew

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Speaker 2: up in Hell's Kitchen. My favorite story, and I'm assuming

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Speaker 2: this will be folded in, is when you and your

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Speaker 2: mother pushed a piano down the sidewalk to your apartment.

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Speaker 2: Am I spoiling? Is this a spoiler alert? Am I

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Speaker 2: giving it something I want?

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Speaker 3: No? Because, first of all, the show Hell's Kitchen, although

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Speaker 3: it is based on my experiences growing up in New York,

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Speaker 3: is not autobiographical. So you will definitely get pieces of

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Speaker 3: things that are experiences that are infused into it. But

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Speaker 3: it's not like you shouldn't come out there like wait

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Speaker 3: did that really happen? Because it's not auto biographical, but

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Speaker 3: it's inspired by my experience is growing up.

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Speaker 2: In So no piano pushing with moms, So there's.

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Speaker 3: Not a moment where we're pushing the piano down where

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Speaker 3: the characters are pushing the piano down the street. But

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Speaker 3: there's so many moments that take you to these places

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Speaker 3: that you can't believe. And ultimately it is a love

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Speaker 3: story between a mother and a daughter. There you go,

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Speaker 3: so you do really every everyone who comes there calling

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Speaker 3: their mother at the air like Mom.

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Speaker 1: I really love you.

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Speaker 3: I sweat God, I'm sorry I was bad to you

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Speaker 3: because mamaus go through a lot. But this show is

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Speaker 3: really really special the way that the the way that

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Speaker 3: the relationship between the mother and daughter evolved. Because it

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Speaker 3: starts off really rocky.

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Speaker 2: I will cry. There will be tears, many tears. So

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Speaker 2: you know, you have such a rich catalog, Alicia, the

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Speaker 2: Alicia Keys catalog. Oh you're gonna make so much money

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Speaker 2: on that one day. No people are doing it, but

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Speaker 2: it's such a rich now to be able to to

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Speaker 2: be able to fold these songs and these lyrics into

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Speaker 2: a stage production, there's gonna be a little tricky. It's

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Speaker 3: You know. I got to say that it's really fluid

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Speaker 3: the way the music is a part of it. There

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Speaker 3: are I've written new songs for this musical as well.

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Speaker 3: So you're gonna hear some new music. One of them obviously,

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Speaker 3: it's Kaleidoscope, which you're gonna hear, right. But the songs

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Speaker 3: that are on albums or are well known, the way

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Speaker 3: that we've done them, they're really smart and they really

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Speaker 3: help propel the storyline forward. So you hear this song,

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Speaker 3: one of my favorites, is unthinkable, actually, and you start

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Speaker 3: to see this relationship develop, and the way that you

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Speaker 3: hear unthinkable even I myself when we were first putting

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Speaker 3: it together. So why didn't I create unthinkable like this before?

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Speaker 3: Like I never even thought to perform it like this

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Speaker 3: before or to do so. A lot of the ways

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Speaker 3: that it's happening, even I've never experienced a song like

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Speaker 3: not only does it assist the storyline, but you're hearing

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Speaker 3: the music that you love in a way that you

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Speaker 2: Alicia Keys is here the new musical. It's called Hell's Kitchen.

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Speaker 2: The previews began March twenty eighth, and uh, obviously it's

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Speaker 2: already been staged and you've seen, you've seen lights, you've seen, Yes,

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Speaker 2: was there ever a moment you're sitting in the almost

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Speaker 2: empty Schobert Theater watching everything going on the stage as

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Speaker 2: they prepared for this incredible performance. Hey, and you actually

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Speaker 2: just what the how did I get here?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 2: This is Broadway, New York City, which was your backyard

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Speaker 2: growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Now it's you're in the

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Speaker 2: backyard with your own show.

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Speaker 3: No, it's when I tell you it's crazy. Literally, last

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Speaker 3: night we were just in the theater and I was like, guys,

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Speaker 3: here working and we're all like, oh, we're in the

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Speaker 3: Schubert Theater. This isn't You don't just every day launch

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Speaker 3: of Browers show Like this is crazy and I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to be cool about this because this is out

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Speaker 3: of control. And I really really felt that so deeply,

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Speaker 3: many creative ideas and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't,

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Speaker 3: and so when it does kind of go all the way,

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Speaker 3: it's it's a shock, it's a blessing. It's like it's

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Speaker 3: kind of unbelievable because there's so many things that could

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Speaker 3: that's not the case, and so it feels unbelievable. And

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Speaker 3: thinking of my mother who grew up in Toledo, Ohio,

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Speaker 3: all these years later, we're able to see her dream

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Speaker 3: what that means to me, you know, And in so

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Speaker 3: many ways she's she gave me these dreams to fulfill,

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Speaker 3: you know, And so the fact that they are becoming

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Speaker 3: It really is. As we stood on the tks, mine

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Speaker 3: got cheap tickets to see the shows as a kid, right,

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Speaker 3: you know, all the things, and so now you know,

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Speaker 1: See. I love the fact that you know how important

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Speaker 1: it is to keep theater and music and stuff in

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Speaker 1: the school systems, that you actually recently helped a school

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Speaker 1: that was losing their entire program.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm grateful. I'm really grateful. About this. This is

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Speaker 3: Professional Performing Arts School, which is my junior high school

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Speaker 3: in high school, and that's where I went to school myself.

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Speaker 3: And recently there's been some funding cuts and obviously it's

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Speaker 3: always tricky to keep the programs. And a young girl

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Speaker 3: And amen, I'm really grateful.

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Speaker 2: Virginia went to school up in the Bronx that they

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Speaker 2: were going to they cut the arts program in her school.

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Speaker 2: She left, had school went to another one. She said,

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Actually, Jennifer Lopez was my choreographer. She had gone to

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Speaker 1: the school. Yeah, and her sisters were in school with me,

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Speaker 1: and they after the year, after my sophomore year, they

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Speaker 1: I can't go to a school that doesn't have a

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Speaker 3: So I left.

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Speaker 1: But actually they heard me talking about it. They hit

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Speaker 1: me up the other day, Preston High School theater program

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Speaker 1: is back, to come and visit and see the new show.

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Speaker 2: You should donate a tuba or something.

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Speaker 4: So when you're talking to those kids and thinking about

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Speaker 4: those kids who are all starting out and they're really

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Speaker 4: interested in performing. Where do you even begin to give

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Speaker 4: them advice on how someday they have a Broadway show,

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Speaker 4: asking for a front.

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Speaker 3: Asking for a friend. Absolutely, I mean I think that

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Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a really long process. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 3: it took me thirteen years to bring it to life,

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Speaker 3: so it doesn't necessarily happen fast. And most creative things,

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Speaker 3: it takes time. It takes time to put in the work,

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Speaker 3: it takes time to find the right people to work with,

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Speaker 3: It takes time to make sure it's ready, and all

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Speaker 3: those things. So I think the first thing is that

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Speaker 3: you can't and then have patience but also have the

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Speaker 3: But it is, it really is. It's definitely possible. I'm

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Speaker 4: Twenty thirteen joints.

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Speaker 2: We are on behalf of the Elves Straight Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna make a contribution of fifteen thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: No, that's incredible. They're going to be so happy.

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Speaker 3: This is the part of the show. Ali discovers that

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Speaker 2: Here it comes. I can't wait to see Hell's kitchen,

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Speaker 2: Alicia Kids, Thanks for coming on TODA