1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: And Amanda Jamn. I'm thrilled for our next guest. A 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: few weeks ago, the entire team and I minus Brendan 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 1: Jones of On Other Plans, Ryan was there. We went 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: to see Titanic the musical. I don't think I've ever 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: laughed so hard. It is so bonkers, it's so funny, 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: it's so camp, it's so musically great, and the story 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: is told from Celendion's perspective. She for some reason, is 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: on board the Titanic. So who better to get on 9 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: to talk about this than Marnie McQueen, who plays celendi 10 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: on herself. 11 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: Maney Hi, Hello, Amanda, Hi Jonesy. So great to be here. 12 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: Thank you. 13 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 3: Selene Dion. 14 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: She's a little bit kookie, isn't. 15 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 4: She She's very kooky. She's an incredible entertainer. She is 16 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 4: so dedicated to making sure that her audience get bang 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 4: for their buck, like she gives everything to her performances. 18 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 4: And I have absolutely loved delving into the world of 19 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 4: Selene Dion. Over the past couple of months that we've 20 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 4: been doing this show, and also in the lead up 21 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 4: to performing as Selene Dion eight shows a week, I 22 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 4: have just fallen more. 23 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 2: In love with Selene Dion than. 24 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 4: Ever before because of firstly, yes, all of her kookie mannerisms, 25 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 4: but also I've been able to see just how much 26 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 4: she has dedicated her lifetime to entertaining people. 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: Your Selene is slightly unhinged, slightly very described the show. 28 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 4: Look, the show, the show. What I love about this 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 4: show is that it was created during sort of a 30 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 4: dark period in American history four years ago. Yes, and 31 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 4: these three creative people got together and said, we need 32 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 4: to create a show that is just pure joy. And 33 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 4: so that is what it is. It was created by friends. 34 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 4: It wasn't. 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: You know. 36 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 4: They weren't just given money. They weren't commissioned to make 37 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 4: the show. They're going to give it, no limitations or restrictions. 38 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 4: They were just wanting to make each other laugh and 39 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 4: create a piece that just made an audience laugh for 40 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 4: ninety minutes. 41 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: And that's what they did. 42 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: It's a kooky premise, though. So Selene Dion is on 43 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: the ship. 44 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 4: Yes, So Celen Dion bursts into a Titanic museum tour 45 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 4: and she says, no, this is not how I remembered 46 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 4: the story of Tetanique. And she then goes to tell 47 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 4: a story about what actually happened on board the Titanic, 48 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 4: and that she was on board the Titanic, so she 49 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 4: knows everything that went down. And of course then we 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 4: filter her retelling of the story with all these incredible 51 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 4: Celendion hit songs. 52 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: So and am I giving too much away to say 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: that the iceberg is a giant black man playing Tina Turner. 54 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: It is hilarious, but musically spot on. Musically it's a 55 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: great night as well. 56 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, the team have worked very hard to 57 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 4: create incredible arrangements and to you know, work the famous 58 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 4: Selenity On songs in with the dialogue of the show 59 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 4: and the story, and it's all so so funny. It's 60 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 4: so brilliantly crafted. And I think that's what people love 61 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 4: is just there's never a dull moment. It moves from 62 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 4: one funny thing straight into the next, and. 63 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: Which is why people go and see it more than once, 64 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: because you can miss something the first time around. It's 65 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: so layered, the something happening every second. 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, That's what I really love about doing this show 67 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 4: is afterwards so many people say, oh, we loved it 68 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 4: so much, We're going to come back and see it again, 69 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: and regular people, you know, not musical theater fanatics are 70 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 4: coming back to see the show just like you. 71 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: People are coming back like a third and fourth time. 72 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: And there's a bar in the theater. 73 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: You encourage people to just get on it. Absolutely what's 74 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: not to love about that? 75 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: Yes? Are we allowed to ask you at this time 76 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: of the day to give us a burst of Selene? 77 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: Well, I haven't warmed up, so I'm. 78 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 79 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 4: No? 80 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 2: I think maybe you can come to see the show fair. 81 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 3: Enough, got to warm up your instruments. 82 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: You are so great, I mean, everything about this show 83 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: is just brilliant. 84 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 3: Does is Selene Dionne aware of this? Does she know 85 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: of this show? 86 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: I believe so. Yes. 87 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 3: Imagine if she was in the audience one night. 88 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: I know, wouldn't that be brilliant? Well, that'd be scarier. 89 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 4: A matter of time before she sees it, because there 90 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 4: is a production in New York that's been running for 91 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 4: almost three years. We were the first international production to 92 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 4: open up with a local Sydney cast. It's about to 93 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 4: open in London. It just opened in Toronto, and I 94 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 4: think it's probably only a matter of time before Celine 95 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 4: dion goes to see the show. Herself and people have 96 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 4: been to see it though, and they love it. 97 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah people. 98 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: And it's had a longer run than you expected. You 99 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: sort of weren't sure what to expect, and it's just 100 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: been extended and extended and extended. 101 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: Yes. Good. 102 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: The ticket sales are going extremely well, so yeah, I 103 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 4: think we'll be here for a bit longer. 104 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 3: And it keeps you off the streets, stop from tagging trains, 105 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 3: which were usually. 106 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 2: Just yeah, really into that. 107 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 3: We miss Elmani on the Sydney train network. Titanic is 108 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: playing at the Grand Electric. It's such a great spot. 109 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 3: Book at Titanic Musical dot com dot au money. Thank 110 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 3: you for joining us. 111 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 2: Pleasure absolutely along again see you then. Can't wait to 112 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: see your smiley face in the audience.