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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, guess what's coming back to the Lyric Theater in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: It's Hairspray.

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Speaker 3: It's got a strictly limited season to tell us about.

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Speaker 3: It is the man who'll be popping on a wig,

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Speaker 3: some heels and some fabulous costumes.

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Speaker 4: How does that different from any other days?

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Speaker 2: Shane Jacobson, Hello, how are we doing? We're doing very

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Speaker 2: well now.

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Speaker 3: Excuse my ignorance, but I wasn't. I wouldn't have pegged

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Speaker 3: you as a singer. Do you have to do much

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Speaker 3: singing in a musical?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to do a lot of it. The

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Speaker 1: truth is, mate, that's actually where it all began for me.

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Speaker 1: You know. Theta was my first love, as they say so. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I sang in vands as a kid, and I sang

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Speaker 1: in music the shows for thirty years, and most of

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Speaker 1: the professional work I did on stage has all been

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Speaker 1: a musical. Singing is the thing I love to do.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's just not what I'm known for.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, you're playing Edna, and Edna in the film

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Speaker 3: was John Travolta. I think you were saying earlier, Jonesy

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Speaker 3: that Divine played this role in the very first incarnation.

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Speaker 3: Has it always been a man playing a woman in

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Speaker 3: this role?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's how it's always traditionally how it's been played,

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Speaker 1: and it was how it was written. And the truth is,

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Speaker 1: I think most people expect to see me kind of

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Speaker 1: hamming it up on stage and as they used to say,

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Speaker 1: play the wig, which I don't. I played the part

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Speaker 1: of a loving mother and a loving wife, and Todd

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Speaker 1: mckennie plays my husband. But yeah, look, and the theme

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Speaker 1: or the sort of the spine of this show is

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Speaker 1: about acceptance and body image and or and even though

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Speaker 1: this thing was written many, many, many miny years ago,

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Speaker 1: you know, the themes are still current, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: But my favorite thing is we've been We've done three

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Speaker 1: months in Melbourne, not just finished six weeks in Adelaide,

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Speaker 1: and we've not had an audience yet that doesn't get

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Speaker 1: up off their feet at the end and dance. And

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Speaker 1: you know, being an entertainer and having you know, COVID

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Speaker 1: in my revision mirror, I love that people get up

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Speaker 1: and durn.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I bet, I bet. It is a very feel

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Speaker 2: good kind of production.

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Speaker 4: As far as your husband, who would have thought it?

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Speaker 1: I would have thought and James, the great part is

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Speaker 1: we're dancing, but this time, unlike you and I were

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Speaker 1: doing with clothes on, which is a nice.

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Speaker 4: Different And when you think about it, I was I

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Speaker 4: had to host something recently and someone said, do you

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Speaker 4: get nervous? And I said, I've danced naked in front

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Speaker 4: of you.

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Speaker 2: The audience was nervous.

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Speaker 4: That's it. Once once you do that, once you once

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Speaker 4: you around that corner, you can really do anything.

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to. Let people know that we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the fact that we did the full multigies.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yes, that's true. There is some assumelge knowledge.

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Speaker 4: We just didn't get up there and rip our gear off.

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Speaker 3: And Shane, with your role every night, how long does

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Speaker 3: it take you to get ready?

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Speaker 1: I may have a new appreciation and I just want

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Speaker 1: to apologize to everyone listening that applies makeup. So there's

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Speaker 1: an hour for me to get ready to get on stage.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is that I also have to do,

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Speaker 1: is I dance in the heels now. I just I've

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Speaker 1: been to weddings with my wife and I know it

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Speaker 1: gets to that point in the night which he says,

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Speaker 1: oh God, I just want to kick these things off.

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Speaker 1: And I knew, we knew. I knew that so much

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Speaker 1: that at our own wedding we had slippers. We had

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Speaker 1: like one hundred and fifty slipper sitting in baskets around

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Speaker 1: the down floor for women to kick their shoes off

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Speaker 1: and put slippers on so they can enjoy the night.

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Speaker 1: Because my wife said, I just won't do this to myself,

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Speaker 1: and I always said it must get a little bit uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea it's actual torture. But now I know.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Does it get any easier for you?

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I started the show with a bad hip,

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Speaker 1: but she's got to have to get my hip replaced.

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Speaker 1: And then after weeks and weeks of dancing in heels,

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Speaker 1: my hip doesn't hurt. All that pains moved into my knees. So, man,

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Speaker 1: if you don't care if you've got sore knees but

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Speaker 1: you hate to saw a hip, borrow your wife's shoes.

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Speaker 4: Seems reasonable to me. What wonderful medical infid What about

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Speaker 4: underwear do you stand on that?

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Speaker 1: I've got it. I've got an enormous fatsuit and it's

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Speaker 1: incredibly hot to dance, and I don't recommend you wear

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Speaker 1: what I'm reading now.

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Speaker 2: I just feel sorry for the people who do the

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Speaker 2: laundry on that show.

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Speaker 1: I apologize to her every night. Every night she has

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Speaker 1: to take that suit off?

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Speaker 4: What about your g string? After the real full Monty,

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Speaker 4: Who's face did that end up on?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's more of a gen whiz stream To be honest,

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Speaker 1: we didn't used to call mine the MC.

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Speaker 2: James was the g whiz one because wisdom poor.

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Speaker 4: The poor wardrobe lady. I used to just say, I'm

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Speaker 4: just I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: And their entire time apologizing. I said sorry once I

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Speaker 1: ripped my clothes off in the audience. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, James.

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Speaker 1: You know Australia has spoken since you maked and I'm

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Speaker 1: fully covered in fabric in the show.

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Speaker 4: And some prosthetics and extra even if you've doubled right well, Shane,

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Speaker 4: this is going to be great.

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Speaker 1: More Jacobson More.

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Speaker 4: Tickets For tickets, head to Hairspray Musical dot Com. Down

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Speaker 4: at you, Shane Jacobson, Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: My pleasure as always, love you to talk to you