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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well. Our next guest

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Speaker 1: is the super talented woman that we first fell in

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Speaker 1: love with as Easy On Neighbors, then as a front

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Speaker 1: woman of Rogue Traders. Now she's returning to the stage

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Speaker 1: after a multitude of successes starring in Alana's Morrissett's on

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Speaker 1: stage musical Jagged Little Pill. Nat Bass Hello.

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Speaker 2: Hello, I've missed you.

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Speaker 1: Both so much to talk to you. But you've been

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Speaker 1: in the States. You've been in New York doing workshops

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Speaker 1: for this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was, I mean, after the eighteen months of

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Speaker 2: not much work, it was. It was a huge thrill

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Speaker 2: and a real honor. Absolutely, Broadway doesn't get much better.

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Speaker 1: After we spoke to Alana's earlier this year about the show,

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Speaker 1: she said, it was seven years in the making, So

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Speaker 1: talk us through what the stories. I know it features

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Speaker 1: all her songs. What's the story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does feature It's like it's heavily weighted on

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Speaker 2: all that amazing material and you know, her kind of

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Speaker 2: life story. But the show itself is not biographical. It's

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Speaker 2: based around a family called the Healy family. And look,

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Speaker 2: it's complicated, it's beautiful, it's messy, there's one line that

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Speaker 2: my character says and says, we're perfectly imperfect people just

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Speaker 2: like you, and it kind of sums up the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I think it will really change the face of theater,

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Speaker 2: like it's really come into its own and it should

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Speaker 2: be seen right now. Everyone needs to see it. I

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Speaker 2: think it'll be thought provoking and very moving, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't think you'll come out of it with a

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Speaker 2: dry eye. But it's They're a very very special piece.

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Speaker 3: Is it hard? Singing Elanas Morrisset songs?

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Speaker 1: Vocally they're big songs.

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Speaker 2: They're big, big songs. Yeah, I mean, so far, so good.

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Speaker 2: But it's more the staminas for eight shows a week

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Speaker 2: singing those songs, that's the thing. So yeah, we've all

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Speaker 2: been gearing ourselves up, shelves up for a few months,

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Speaker 2: you know, making sure our voice. I mean it's like

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Speaker 2: an athlete really, you just have to make sure all

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Speaker 2: the muscles are all, you know, malleable and relaxed and

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Speaker 2: ready firing on all cylinders. So yeah, it's a lot

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Speaker 2: of work, but it's I mean, yeah, a thrill.

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Speaker 1: I remember reading that before a concert. Beyonce practices singing

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Speaker 1: on a treadmill, so she can pa with the voice.

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Speaker 1: What sort of training do you have to do.

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Speaker 2: I've just been singing daily. Like for me, I'll do

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Speaker 2: probably twenty five minutes to thirty minutes warmer, but that's

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Speaker 2: just vocally, just sort of you know, stretching my voice

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Speaker 2: and giving it more more strength and more power. But

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Speaker 2: I also then make sure that physically I'm very fit,

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Speaker 2: so I'll do pilate separately and meditating breathing. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: just it's a lot of it's I mean, singing at

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Speaker 2: your best is really about being in a very relaxed state.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you have to have the chops to

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Speaker 2: be able to pull off the notes, but you don't

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Speaker 2: want to strain in any way.

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Speaker 1: So that's hard. And do you find that at night

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Speaker 1: you're saying to the kids, Mummy can't talk.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what? When I did Chess at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the year, it was such a big thing.

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Speaker 2: I was literally like I'd go home straight on the

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Speaker 2: show and just go straight to bed and be like boring.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess time will tell. That's how,

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Speaker 2: you know, how kind of it feels in the body.

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Speaker 2: We're writing the stick of rehearsals at the moment. I

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Speaker 2: just got out of two weeks hotel quarantine, missed that

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Speaker 2: freedom by two weeks. Wow. Yeah, yeah, it was really

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Speaker 2: I was way tougher than I imagined mentally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're stuck in that room. You're stuck in

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Speaker 3: like a marriage an apartment for two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's just no Well, in my case, I

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Speaker 2: couldn't open a window, so I was just I felt

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Speaker 2: very laustrophobic. I mean, some people have about and some

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Speaker 2: people can open a window and I had. I had lights,

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Speaker 2: so that was good. Some people don't have lights. It

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Speaker 2: was it was very challenging halfway.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's interesting you say that because people

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Speaker 1: say I've done hotel quarantine. I don't think I could.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'd survive that. I mean, you had

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Speaker 1: to be fine.

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Speaker 2: I thought I'd be really good. But once about midway,

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Speaker 2: I was just like, you know, I ended up having

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Speaker 2: to speak to the mental health nurse like every day,

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Speaker 2: like I'm not really dealing. Can I get out of here?

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Speaker 2: I just I feel like I can't breathe and I's

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Speaker 2: got a bit panicky, And yeah, it was. He was

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Speaker 2: the most surreal experience and getting out it was like,

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've been in jail without the fun

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Speaker 2: of the crime, and you can still go outside in jail.

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Speaker 1: Right, it's true.

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Speaker 3: But I look at my teenage son and he just

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Speaker 3: locks himself in his little gaming room and he's been in.

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Speaker 2: We love it and he's fine.

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Speaker 3: He would love crime tinge. But it's wasted on people

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Speaker 3: like you. Well, it's so great to see you doing

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Speaker 3: this and do your vocal exercises. We do our vocal

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Speaker 3: exercises every day. Aman to come on and do the

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Speaker 3: vocal exercise.

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Speaker 1: Jmes, he does it as he's going to.

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Speaker 3: Swear old mother Ruddle had a rough cut part.

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Speaker 1: Let's leave it at that. You say that you can

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Speaker 1: get your tickets at Jagged Musical dot com. No, that's

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Speaker 1: always lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. And we're only in Sydney for two and

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Speaker 2: a half weeks because obviously we missed the full run

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Speaker 2: because of COVID. Of course out we're into Melbourne straight away,

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Speaker 2: so don't miss out.

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Speaker 1: So don't miss out, don't dig around, don't dig around.

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Speaker 2: Try to do it. Thanks Nat, Thanks God, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Take it easy. Saying that Jonesy and Amanda's Nation