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Speaker 1: Cats is coming back. It's coming to the Crown Theater

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Speaker 1: from November eight. Tickets are on sale now through Katsthemusical

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au. And he's in it, Todd McKenny,

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Speaker 1: good money, meow wow. It is the fortieth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: this absolute classic from Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Speaker 2: Weren't you in the very first Australian run?

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Speaker 3: I was in the first Melbourne one, So I did

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Speaker 3: it thirty seven years ago. It played, so it played

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Speaker 3: two years in Sydney. It was a big, huge smash

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Speaker 3: hit and then we're going to move to Melbourne. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I got a gersey. I was going to like a guernsey. Nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And so it's great to come back after so many

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Speaker 3: years to revisit.

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Speaker 2: It full sir.

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Speaker 4: You're just a kitten, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 3: The acrobatic I was the acrobatic kitten in the first season.

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Speaker 3: I can assure you I'm not now. I played the geriatric,

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Speaker 3: broken down cat in this one.

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Speaker 2: You actually played two ros, don't you?

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Speaker 3: I do? I play. I play the aristocratic fat cat

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Speaker 3: buster for Jones in the first act and the second act.

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Speaker 3: I played the old Gus. They call him Asparagus. His

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Speaker 3: name is and I played here's the old Sea, the

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Speaker 3: cat who used to sit at stage door and regale

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Speaker 3: his stories of him in the show.

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Speaker 4: Talk about there's no need for liker this time title.

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Speaker 4: Will there be something?

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Speaker 3: No, there's too much. Don't even drive. We call it

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Speaker 3: the I call it the l words. That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: Keep you honest in the lead up to it. That's

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 3: It will get me hungry because I haven't even him

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Speaker 3: in four week, do you. It's my own fault though,

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Speaker 3: because I'm one of those one of those drivers who

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Speaker 3: goes ah, those cyclists, those men of a certain age,

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Speaker 3: get him off the ron on that guy, and now

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Speaker 3: it's bitten me. It's bitten me on them, like.

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Speaker 2: Those padded bum ones.

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Speaker 1: I reckon I reckon Cats because we I mean, we

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Speaker 1: do love musical theater in this country. But I reckon

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Speaker 1: Cats was what set us on the path, wouldn't you say?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Cats was like the first blockbuster mega musical that

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Speaker 3: ran for years and yeah you know, and in London

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Speaker 3: a ran for twenty two years, so yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: the first. It was the first one of those mega musicals.

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Speaker 3: And then after that we had Leamirs and Phantom of

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Speaker 3: the opera and all those ones, but Cats really sort

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Speaker 3: of changed the landscape of musical theater in the world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in your incredible career, have you ever met Andrew

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Speaker 4: Lloyd Webber?

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Speaker 3: No, I haven't. Oh wow, maybe he'll come out to

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Speaker 3: see my sella performances. Expect he could be could be Gus,

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Speaker 3: Maybe it could be my understudy of course.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just have to throw a sicky just to get

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Speaker 4: the star in there. I love it, love it.

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Speaker 1: I have to ask, what is your favorite song in

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Speaker 1: the show? Do you have a favorite song.

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Speaker 2: In the show?

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Speaker 3: Well, my two songs, of course.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the obvious episode.

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Speaker 3: Well apart from that, well, I mean I get to

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Speaker 3: sit on stage in front of Gabrielle, the lady who's

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Speaker 3: singing that iconic song Memory that everybody knows, and I

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Speaker 3: get to literally sit at her feet while she sings that.

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Speaker 3: And that's a bit of a thrill because she's got

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Speaker 3: one of the biggest voices I've ever heard. And so, yeah,

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Speaker 3: so that's probably my favorite, and it's the crowd favorite too,

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Speaker 3: And it's heartbreaking when you see it in the story

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Speaker 3: of the show. It's not just a standalone piece. It's

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Speaker 3: a heartbreaking part of the storytelling, and it's yeah, it'll

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Speaker 3: bring the.

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Speaker 5: House down, Yeah, Gabrielle Thomas on Rotten Lisa's Bullpark because

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Speaker 5: she's done the sound of music, amongst the other things

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Speaker 5: at her career. To you, we often say, one of

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Speaker 5: our favorite Perth people from throughout the years. But you

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Speaker 5: and I almost were almost twins because you were born

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Speaker 5: in a month before me and sixty five. So therefore

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Speaker 5: this a certain birthday happened for you recently and one

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Speaker 5: coming for me soon. Did you celebrate big time or

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Speaker 5: did you home?

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Speaker 3: Went my went for three weeks.

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Speaker 2: That's the way to do happy, That's the way to

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well it was great, yeah, because I had some

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Speaker 3: people wanted to throw your party and I said yes,

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Speaker 3: and then I decided to split that into two and

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Speaker 3: then I ended up having a dinner and then I

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Speaker 3: had another one. Like just last Sunday I had the

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Speaker 3: third one. So it was the wrong time having endless

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Speaker 3: three course dinners. Though, when I'm about to get into that, well,

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Speaker 3: I didn't think this through.

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Speaker 4: The festival, the festal of the Turd I like that.

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Speaker 3: But do you know what, let it drag out as

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Speaker 3: long as possible is my just don't ever say no gifts.

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Speaker 2: A gift, no gifts? What was I thinking?

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Speaker 4: Gift?

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Speaker 1: We are actually a couple of mad cat people in

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Speaker 1: the studio.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any cats yourself?

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Speaker 3: No? I don't actually trust cats really well. I had, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I grew up. You know, I've had two cats throughout

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Speaker 3: my life, and I just I just didn't trust them.

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Speaker 3: I could be, you know, minding my own business, w

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Speaker 3: down the hallway and then it comes flying out from

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Speaker 3: behind something and all of a sudden, I'm bleeding. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what happens?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's me.

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Speaker 1: Every second day you have the slightest distrust of cats,

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Speaker 1: they will they will zone in on you, and you

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Speaker 1: will be the one that they will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wake up in the morning, I wearing you

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Speaker 3: wake up in the morning and you're wearing one of

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Speaker 3: the hat on your bed and you're like.

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Speaker 5: No, a, yeah, my wife made the mistake of calling

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Speaker 5: your cat angel and she used the demon for about

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Speaker 5: fifteen minutes a day, So I know exactly what you're

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Speaker 5: talking about.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can't believe it's the fortieth anniversary tour and

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to bits that you're coming to town for it.

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Speaker 1: Cats is on at the Crown Theater from November eight.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are on sale now through cats to musical dot

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Speaker 1: com dott Are you thanks for joining us, Tom to

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Speaker 1: catch up.

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Speaker 3: Man, thanks for inviting me. I'll see you there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well do