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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nason.

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Speaker 2: Todd McKenny is in for Amanda, who's on assignment for

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Speaker 2: the next few days. And Todd, you've spent a lot

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Speaker 2: of time treading the boards. You just finished a successful

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Speaker 2: run of The Odd Couple with Shane Jacobson.

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Speaker 3: That's not a musical, no straight play, and how did

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Speaker 3: you go with that?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 3: I said my lines and didn't bump into the furniture,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, it was great to not have to get

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Speaker 3: up and all of a sudden do my show hands.

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Speaker 1: There was Nora. It was my usual thing. And there

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Speaker 1: was no lycra there was no tap shoes, there was

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Speaker 1: no singing.

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Speaker 3: It was just comedy, but comedy and having a whole theater,

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Speaker 3: which guffooring with laughter his mother's milk to me and

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Speaker 3: to Shane.

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Speaker 1: So that was that was fantastic, just the good people laughing.

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Speaker 2: I've seen you do the Boy from Oz and it's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: When you're performing, you do it so so well. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: when when they pay me, I focus.

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so you're not doing it for free? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: thats why I haven't focused today. I thought we were

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Speaker 1: paying you. I don't know. I just said yes to

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Speaker 1: spend the morning with you. Do we have to negotiate

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So I've got your back on Dancing with

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Speaker 1: the Stars. Now you're getting the money. The Daily Mail

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Speaker 1: has gone right.

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Speaker 3: Hauld out, Yeah, making away from mc kenny's return.

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Speaker 2: Triumph from Return, if I could write it, are you

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Speaker 2: So you're going to be in Wicked playing the wizard.

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Speaker 1: Yep, which is great.

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Speaker 3: I've did the whole Sydney seasons, stepped out for Melbourne

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Speaker 3: to do the Odd Couple and I'll step back in

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Speaker 3: for Brisbane, Perth and maybe Asia.

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Speaker 2: On stage when you're performing, what's the worst thing that's

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Speaker 2: happened to you? You know? Because as these shows become

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Speaker 2: more and more complex, and I'm thinking of, for example,

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Speaker 2: they've got The Woman in Black, a play running at

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Speaker 2: the moment with Dan McPherson and John Warden which.

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Speaker 3: Relies on suspense and this woman appearing in different moments

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Speaker 3: all over the theater, right, and thisces the Jesus out

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Speaker 3: of the audience.

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Speaker 1: But you have to pull that off.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: The worst thing that's happened to me is I went

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Speaker 3: off stage. I did a whole scene in very serious

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Speaker 3: drama and walked off stage and the audience.

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Speaker 1: Were laughing through it, and I didn't know why.

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Speaker 3: And I got on stage and I had a coat

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Speaker 3: hanger stuck to the lining of my jacket and it

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Speaker 3: was swinging at the back. So I'm trying to do

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Speaker 3: Shakespeare and people are laughing and it was a coat

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Speaker 3: hanger because I'd walked past the wardrobe brack and a

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Speaker 3: coat hanger.

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Speaker 1: Took themselves to my costume. And the this is fraud. No,

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Speaker 1: it's fraught. Yeah, the whole business is fraught.

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Speaker 3: But if you want to do yourself a favor, and

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Speaker 3: you're sitting around my night not wanting to know what

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Speaker 3: to look at on your socials or whatever, do yourself

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Speaker 3: a favor.

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Speaker 1: In Google.

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Speaker 3: Peter Pan fails because it is hilarious because I was

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Speaker 3: doing Peter Pan a pantomime, and I thought I was

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Speaker 3: just going to line and have a look. I was

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Speaker 3: playing Captain Hook for Bonnie Lithgow and there's this one

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Speaker 3: because there's a lot of flying involved. Whenever there's flying involved,

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Speaker 3: it's fraught. And all of a sudden you're looking at

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Speaker 3: this set and you've got the kids lying in their beds.

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Speaker 3: Peter Pan's about to fly in and appear at the windows.

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Speaker 3: All right, and the mechanist side stage is pulling the

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Speaker 3: ropes obviously grabs the wrong rope. So little Wendy, who's

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Speaker 3: sound asleep in the bed, he suddenly just goes flying

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Speaker 3: out of the bed and face plants into the side

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Speaker 3: of the set.

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Speaker 1: You can hear the mechanists going the other rope.

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Speaker 3: And so then Peter Pan, who doesn't know what's going on,

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Speaker 3: he suddenly gets pulled up in the air and he

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Speaker 3: makes an entrance and he goes into the side of

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Speaker 3: the door frame and the window, I mean, and the

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Speaker 3: window then falls out of the set. Just just google

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Speaker 3: Peter Pan fails. It works, but you know you've got it.

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Speaker 3: You have to have that suspense. So when the woman

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Speaker 3: in black, if that suspense, if you don't pull that

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Speaker 3: suspense off that woman, you see that a woman appearing,

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Speaker 3: you can't see her open the door and walking and

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Speaker 3: ruin it because that would ruin it.

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Speaker 1: So I hope they've got that right. They'd have to

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Speaker 1: have that right. They would have to have that right.

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Speaker 1: And it's not easy to go.

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Speaker 2: There's the woman in black and Todd mckenny's hooked her

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Speaker 2: onto the back of his pants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, by accident, because he's walking.

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Speaker 3: Fast exactly, or you're on your way to the bar

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Speaker 3: and you suddenly past the woman in black is just

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Speaker 3: coming in and saying, oh sorry, the game's over.

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Speaker 1: You've got to get it right. You've got to get

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Speaker 1: it right. It's a blood spot. I'll be thinking about

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Speaker 1: this when we see you in Wicked. Yes, I'll be

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Speaker 1: thinking about that, right,