1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,440 Speaker 1: Well. 2 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 2: Famed, the musical is on at Crown Theater from this Saturday, 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 2: April sixteen to Sunday, April twenty one. You can get 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: you tickets through Ticketmaster. G Madison Clerzy is what we 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,159 Speaker 2: in the biz, well I'm not in the biz is 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: called a triple threat those in the biz singing, dancing, acting, 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 2: and he's joining us right now. 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 3: Good morning, Madison, you know. 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: Oh, good morning you guys. 10 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 2: How are you very well? 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: Now? 12 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: I say I'm good, say triple threat. You're raised in theater, 13 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: you grew up on Shakespeare, but you've also toured with 14 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: the likes of Kendrick Lamar and now you are starring 15 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 2: in Fame. So tell us about the show and who 16 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: you play. I mean a lot of us will remember 17 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: the movie, absolutely. 18 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: I hope so Man, because this play Man is legendary, 19 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: is timeless really because we you know, was written in 20 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: the late seventies and it's still it's still point now. 21 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: So it's really exciting for me to be a black American, 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: a black man in Perth right now and able to 23 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: able to stand the you know, the test of time 24 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: and the standing in Tyrone's shoes, because people like Tyrone 25 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: still exists. I know some Tyrone Jackson's right now, so 26 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: you know, you know, everyone's got a story to tell, 27 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: and it's just I love the theater for that reason. 28 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, we think of that that huge hit find 29 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: by Iron Karra might but also another Iron Karra song 30 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 3: from there, The Here Onlinee was a beautiful ballad. The 31 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 3: music stands at test to Tanto, doesn't it? 32 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: It does? Man, music is so beautiful. You know. I 33 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: came in wanting to do my rap and wanted to 34 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,919 Speaker 1: do you know, do Cayrone Justice. And our musical directors, 35 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: Harry Man and Veronica they, oh, man, they said, gets 36 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,919 Speaker 1: try to do it the way that it was written, 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: you know, and so and so I said, well, you 38 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: know my American you know, Bully came out and I said, well, 39 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: I want to do it my way and uh and 40 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: they said, well, let's try and fuse the two. So 41 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: I definitely have my touch and you know, my way 42 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: of doing it. And you know, it's twenty twenty two 43 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: and I want to I want to bring I want 44 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: to bring some of these characters to life in the 45 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: way that you know, my generation would have done it. Yeah, 46 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: And I also I'm just so happy to be with, 47 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: you know, professionals that want to stick to what was 48 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: written because it still is very special. 49 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, in terms of you know, you say, putting your 50 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: slant on it, It's not like you don't bring some 51 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: experience with you. You were talked before. I mentioned Kendrick 52 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: Lamar because I'm a bit of a fan. So you've 53 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: got about working with people like Rihanna, Lady Gaga is 54 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: a tree. You worked with Mariah. 55 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: Carey, Oh my gosh, she's one of my favorites. And 56 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: she's listening. She is my favorite. 57 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 3: So she's listening right now, Mariah, if you're listening. 58 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: Oh my god. She really you know, I've been around 59 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: the world a few times, but man, she took me 60 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: around the world a number of times, went to countries 61 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: I can't pronounce, and and I'm telling you she was 62 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 1: my favorite. She is the bougiest, most beautiful boy, amazing, funny, goofy, smart, 63 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: talented person. And you know, you know, working with Lady 64 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: Gaga was something of the same sort, except you know, 65 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga she's so so creative, she's such an actress. 66 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,399 Speaker 1: He's such a such, such an artist, and I really 67 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: loved working with her, even though It was just for 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: one of her one of her perfume campaigns, which is 69 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: actually called fame as well. 70 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, Mariah Carey is a bit of a guilty pleasure 71 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: of mine. Anyone who requests a you know, a dressing 72 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: room filled with fluffy kitchens, I want to I want 73 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: to say. 74 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: Girl, you could see my dressing room, just just because 75 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: I knew her. Right, what do you go? 76 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 3: Tigers? 77 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: I understand your wife is from Perth, so you've actually 78 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: you've been a you are a Perth guy? 79 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: Are you a local? 80 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: That's so sweet? You guys are inducting me into the 81 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: into the perthy and love. She was born in Malaysia 82 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: and raised at Perth, and she heard music, career took 83 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: off and you know, signed the Capitol Records, Universal Record 84 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: you know, She's just been all over the world, mostly 85 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: in Japan. She's had multiple gold albums down there. She's 86 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: very talented. And she found her way to Los Angeles 87 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: and I swooped her up as soon as I could, 88 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: and we both wanted to stay single, but somehow it 89 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: happened and we got a baby. We got a baby 90 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: thirteen years later, and I just decided with what was 91 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: going on in the world, especially in Los Angeles at 92 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: the time, that it was just time to get somewhere 93 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: a little safer and and my love for art never changed. 94 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: So no matter where I am in the world, I'm 95 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: a gypsy and we always find our way to art. 96 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 3: You know, you women, you might get the women in 97 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 3: the haske I moves right now, and man, I love 98 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 3: that you've got your own flavor onto the character in 99 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: the show, which is brilliant. But you sound like someone 100 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 3: who's never forgotten where you came from. And that's because 101 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 3: we did talk about people to get carried away with themselves. 102 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean. And that's one thing about 103 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: being a traveler. I knew that early on. One of 104 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: my first places to ever visit was Australia. When I 105 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: was sixteen years old. I was able to come to 106 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: Australia and my parents said, you know, you better go 107 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: and I was like, it's so expensive. They're like, don't 108 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: you worry about that? And that just opened my whole world, 109 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: just to knowing that there was something outside of my street, 110 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: something outside of my neighborhood. And so my life blew 111 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: up then. And you know this is before I even 112 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: knew that I could do this professionally and that someone 113 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: else could pay for my way around the world, you know. 114 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: And so all of these tours, you know, touring with 115 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: Mariah and working with Rihanna and doing all these all 116 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: of these pop stars, you know, all of these things 117 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: and hitting the stage as an actor was because of 118 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: my father. You know, he's an actor. He still is 119 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: an actor, doing commercials every every month. He's always on TV. 120 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: And you know, traveling and making money and meeting celebrities 121 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: and all that stuff is great. But if you don't 122 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: know where you come from and who you are, then 123 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: that stuff can just get taken away so quickly. And 124 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: coming from Los Angeles, where there's everyone's beautiful, everyone's talented, 125 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: everyone wants to be on stage, everyone wants to do 126 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: everyone thinks they deserve great you know, it's just, you know, 127 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: just want to be a hard worker and really love 128 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: who I do it with and who I. 129 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 3: Do it for so well. 130 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 2: We love that we can call you one of us. 131 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 2: You're here. And also finding the musical, as I said, 132 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: Crown Theater from this Saturday, tickets through Ticketmaster, Get your 133 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: leg get in that. 134 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 3: Jay Madison officially a personality now man. 135 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: Listen I'm excited to be here. And this show is great. 136 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: We have a great cast. Great thing is great dancing. 137 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: I think you guys will love it. If you guys 138 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: don't make it out, I'll be mad at you. Yes, 139 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: we'll take a picture together. I can't wait. Thank you, 140 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: have a good morning. Bye. 141 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 3: We're got a new friend. Our record Madison. I love you.