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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. Elisia

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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 joints.

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Speaker 2: Gandhi smoke thirteen joints before the show.

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Speaker 3: Dow, I'm working. Well, you should because the show opens

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Speaker 3: on four to twenty, 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.

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Speaker 1: And then when you stop the show, like in the middle,

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Speaker 1: if you go to a preview, can somebody stop and

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Speaker 1: say we got to reset that? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Is that what happened?

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

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Speaker 3: No? You cannot do that. It's like it runs like

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Speaker 3: a show and you're going to experience this show and

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Speaker 3: it's going to be amazing. But after the show there's

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Speaker 3: a bunch of notes, and then the notes get implemented,

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Speaker 3: and then for twenty you can't touch it anymore. And

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Speaker 3: that's the official opening. You can touch the creative anymore.

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Speaker 2: So waters 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 styling 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 is the book writer,

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Speaker 3: and then obviously I create the music.

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Speaker 2: This has gotta be freaking out a little bit of

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

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Speaker 2: 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

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

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Speaker 3: open 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 said 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. Don't worry about the ghosts.

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Speaker 2: Ghosts are good. Ghosts are good. Now, okay, back to

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

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Speaker 2: 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 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: That was she stopped that crap out in the middle

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Speaker 2: and she's read some guys up and down. I would

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Speaker 3: It is it is exciting. I mean, there is a dress,

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Speaker 3: there is an invited dress that happens. Maybe 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 you 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 in it.

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Speaker 2: So no piano pushing with mom, So.

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Speaker 3: There's not a moment where we're pushing the piano down

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

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

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Speaker 3: love 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: them mother at the air like mom, I really love

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Speaker 3: your sweat.

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Speaker 2: God, I'm sorry I.

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Speaker 3: Was bad to you because mammas go through a lot.

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Speaker 3: But this show is really really special the way that

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Speaker 3: the the way that the relationship between the mother and

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

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

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Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna make so much money on that one day.

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Speaker 2: No people are doing it, but it's such a rich

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Speaker 2: now to be able to to be able to fold

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Speaker 2: these songs and these lyrics into a stage production, there's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a little tricky. There's gonna be a little trick.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for everyone who's working the buttons on this.

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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 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: 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 Mark 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 that? How did I get here? What? This

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

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

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Speaker 2: 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: this is not regular, Like I know everybody's up in

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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 Brower's show, Like this is crazy and I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna be cool about this because this is out of control.

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Speaker 3: And I really really felt that so deeply, and I

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Speaker 3: feel this so deeply in the process of bringing it

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

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Speaker 3: many ways she gave me these dreams to fulfill, you know,

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Speaker 3: and so the fact that they are becoming fulfilled is like,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I definitely get on the tier train, so

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Speaker 3: don't have me started. But it's just unbelievable. It really is.

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Speaker 3: As we stood on the TKS line, got cheap tickets

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Speaker 3: to see the shows as a kid, right, you know,

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Speaker 3: all the things, And so now you know, now kids

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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 I know you actually recently helped

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Speaker 1: a school 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: And recently there's been some funding cuts and obviously it's

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

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Speaker 2: Rgenia 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 that school, went to another one. She said,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Actually, Jennifer Lopez was my choreographer.

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Speaker 3: She had gone to the school.

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

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

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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 3: Is back, to come and visit and see the new show.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, we 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: interested in performing, right, where do you even begin to

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

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Speaker 3: Ask me for a front, asking for a friend. Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: I mean I think that it's it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: really long process. Obviously. You know, it took me thirteen

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Speaker 3: years to bring it to life, so it doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 3: happen fast. And most creative things, it takes time. It

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

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

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Speaker 3: So I think the first thing is that just begin though,

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Speaker 3: and then have patient but also have the fire so

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Speaker 3: it really is. It's definitely possible. I'm not saying it's easy,

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Speaker 2: on behalf of the Elvis Stree Morning Show. We're gonna

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

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

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Speaker 2: at Lasia. Kids, those are coming on to that.