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Speaker 1: Hairspray The Broadway Music Hall is on at Crown Theater

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Speaker 1: from September seven to twenty eight. Tickets are on sound

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Speaker 1: Now through ticket Master and the Star of the Show,

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Speaker 1: What are the Stars of the Show of the All

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Speaker 1: Star Show? Rob Palmer, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Guys now, Rob Palma.

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Speaker 1: We know you best as a TV presenter with shows

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Speaker 1: like Better Homes and Gardens, Room for Improvement and House

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Speaker 1: Calls to the Rescue.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about your musical theater side.

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Speaker 4: It's a bit of a flip, isn't it. It's a

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Speaker 4: flip the builder treads the boards kind of thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's funny though, the Hairspray story. I've only just thought

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Speaker 4: about this on the way in here. It's sort of

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Speaker 4: like there's a bit of art invitating life or one

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Speaker 4: or the other.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: Because Tracy Turnblad the lead in the show page for

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Speaker 4: lou she's extraordinary. She plays my daughter and I'm Edna

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Speaker 4: to her mother, which is a funny thing.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, she gets her big break out of detention.

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Speaker 4: So the guys, the kids are in detention, and some

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Speaker 4: things happen and one thing leads to another. But my

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Speaker 4: first period on stage was out of basically the tension.

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Speaker 4: I went to the attention. The guy who gave me

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Speaker 4: the attention was the lighting director of the play, and

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Speaker 4: he said, you're not stuffing around in here, just mucking

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Speaker 4: around because the detention was that drama auditions. So we

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Speaker 4: had the audition. So I ended up with a role

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Speaker 4: in the year ten play.

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Speaker 1: Because I was your choice, staying you know tis.

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Speaker 2: So we did this play at school and I loved it.

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Speaker 2: I really loved it.

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Speaker 4: So I've always had this passion for theater and performance.

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Speaker 4: I really love it, and I did it when I

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Speaker 4: was little, but my carpentry sort of took over, and

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Speaker 4: that was where I was obviously going to earn some money,

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Speaker 4: and so, you know, building and carpentry came first.

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Speaker 2: In the background was this, you know, this.

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Speaker 1: Passion for nothing about it surprises me. I just wasn't

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Speaker 1: aware until now.

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Speaker 3: As long as you come out to your shell mate,

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Speaker 3: you'll be okay. We've always said that you work on

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Speaker 3: the boards as attributed treating the boards.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 4: Laid a few floors now, yeah, all over them. But

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Speaker 4: the show is just phenomenal. The team have been working

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Speaker 4: intensely for the last couple of weeks on you early

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Speaker 4: because you know this is the first run. So Wa

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Speaker 4: has been looking to get Hairspray for a long long time.

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Speaker 4: Eight Tony Awards over in Broadway. It's an epic show.

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Speaker 4: It's very, very funny, and not just because I'm Edna Turnblack,

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Speaker 4: a sixties housewife and she's massive too, by the way,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, there's plenty to see. But the guys have

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Speaker 4: come together and just the team. Vincent Hooper the director,

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Speaker 4: an amazing talent, and Fern Reynolds the choreographer.

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Speaker 2: He can do anything like this guy. Will you just

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Speaker 2: watch him.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing happening on it in a blank room, and

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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, within an hour, there are

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Speaker 4: twenty five people, you know, cart wheeling and dancing their

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Speaker 4: way around this room and it all looks like a

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Speaker 4: picture perfect scene. It all comes out of his head.

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Speaker 3: Make it magic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 4: It's really extraordinary to be a part of. I've just

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Speaker 4: I feel so lucky to be here and do this.

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 4: And this is one of those things that I think

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Speaker 4: is that moment that I've always looked forward to doing,

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Speaker 4: you know, a big show in a big venue. The

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Speaker 4: Crown Theater is you know, there's two thousand people getting there.

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Speaker 3: Is your Edna more divine or more John Travolta, where

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Speaker 3: are you going with it? Are you doing your own thing?

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Speaker 4: She's honest, Okay, she's just an honest She loves her daughter,

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Speaker 4: she loves Wilbur and she is fiercely protective. Yes, so

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Speaker 4: you know, and there's some of I guess there's some

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Speaker 4: of my mom in her. But you just sort of

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Speaker 4: it into this woman.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the particularly mad funny shows that

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Speaker 1: comes around. It's no lame miss.

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Speaker 3: No, Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 2: I love Lobiz.

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Speaker 1: Do you find that you're at risk of sometimes just

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Speaker 1: cracking up yourself when you're doing some of these scenes,

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Speaker 1: you know, like with Paige and with Brendan, I mean.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of trouble.

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Speaker 4: Chelsea Plumbley is an amazing actress, yes, actor, and she

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Speaker 4: she just does things and you're not quite sure how

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Speaker 4: to react. And I'm on stage with her quite a bit,

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Speaker 4: and when she will do something that just has your

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Speaker 4: dissolve in yourself laughter, and I don't know how to

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Speaker 4: stop it at the moment.

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Speaker 3: By myself.

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Speaker 1: You need a sad tactic something to do. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: first somehow. But you see performers all the time who

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Speaker 1: can't handle it. Jimmy Fallon's one who could never handle it,

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Speaker 1: even when he was on Saturday Night Live. So it

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Speaker 1: is it is an art it itself to be able

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Speaker 1: to control.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's funny to see me laugh at

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Speaker 4: something I'm supposed to be drying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, try little tricks every now and then.

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Speaker 2: Something I'll just pinch myself. I'll have it.

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Speaker 4: I'll get a little weapon, I'll hide it inside of

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Speaker 4: bra and then when I'm supposed to cry.

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Speaker 2: I can just pat my chest off and I will

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Speaker 2: cry grimace.

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Speaker 1: Are there other shows you've done or are there any

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Speaker 1: shows you aspire to do that?

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Speaker 4: Well, I've done. I've done a few shows. I did

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Speaker 4: a musical All Moon once when I was younger. I

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Speaker 2: Six years old.

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Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, and it.

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Speaker 4: Was there was a pianist on the side of myself,

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Speaker 4: and I had to do this show in front of

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Speaker 4: my rugby club because they, you know, we were trying

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Speaker 4: to fill the place.

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Speaker 2: You seated about sixty people, well not even lot.

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Speaker 4: It was upstairs in the cafe, so you have your

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Speaker 4: then go down for dessert, come up for act too.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, it was It's called When It Happens. It

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Speaker 4: was written by a guy who was at my school originally,

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Speaker 4: and so we did this show and the whole Rugby

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Speaker 4: club was there one night, and it was it buckled

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Speaker 4: me because you've got these guys who you've packed.

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Speaker 2: Down his scrums with.

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Speaker 4: It's a very different relationship, a rugby relationship to a

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Speaker 4: theater relationship. And anyway, they were pouring wine over themselves laughing.

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Speaker 4: They couldn't, you know, they just couldn't contain themselves.

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Speaker 2: Very supportive club. Yeah, yeah, to come out on Saturday

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Speaker 3: Theater, your own friend show. It kind of was great.

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Speaker 4: Ye off Broadway we call it, yeah, Cleveland Street off

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Speaker 3: But it was in your blood, you could tell anyway.

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Speaker 4: At that point I knew that there was some day

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Speaker 4: I would like to do something bigger. But you just

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Speaker 4: I guess my My motto is just to say yes

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Speaker 4: that's right. Saying yes too much can get you in trouble.

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Speaker 4: But remember that movie Yesterday, Yeah, Yes, where the mum

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Speaker 3: Powerful breaking the record.

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Speaker 1: on a Crown Theater from September seven to twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Getting quick at Ticketmaster to get your tickets, Rob, thank

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Speaker 4: Great to see you guys, giving you, giving you the

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Speaker 3: Thanks chalk Is mate Chuki