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Speaker 3: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this a special visit today from

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Speaker 1: the two Well, i'd say the two leads, the two

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Speaker 1: best performers.

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Speaker 2: You were saying the two stars before.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to say. That's what they've told

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Speaker 1: me to say about them. From the Book of Mormon.

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Speaker 1: It's Nick Cox, who plays Elda Cunningham, and Shawn Johnston,

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Speaker 1: who plays Elder Price.

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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, Hello boys, Hello, Now.

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Speaker 1: I know you don't normally do interviews, and particularly at

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Speaker 1: this time of day because you know your nighttime performers.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel night after night after night to

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Speaker 1: do the same show, because I think consistency is so important.

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Speaker 1: It's probably underrated for other performers, but you guys have

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Speaker 1: to be the same every night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely. It's a bit of an adjustment, like

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Speaker 4: as you because once you open, you have this amazing

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Speaker 4: adrenaline and then you have this little adrenaline done, but

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Speaker 4: you have to maintain the same sort of energy on

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Speaker 4: stage because everyone's seeing it, ideally for the first time,

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Speaker 4: do you want to maintain that energy and then you

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Speaker 4: just kind of get used to it. You're like, this

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Speaker 4: is when you start to ramp up in your body

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Speaker 4: kind of a justice like, oh no, no, it's go time.

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Speaker 3: At least that's how I feel anyway.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of cool because it's

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Speaker 5: a comedy, so it's a little bit different. You do

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Speaker 5: get the added benefit of it being a little bit

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Speaker 5: different each to night because the audience is a different

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Speaker 5: so you kind of play off different energy that they

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Speaker 5: give you. But yeah, I certainly feel. Yeah, you kind

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Speaker 5: of find that pocket to sit in and then you

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Speaker 5: can explore within that. But it kind of stay. It's

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Speaker 5: a little bit routine and you can make your way

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Speaker 5: through the show.

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Speaker 2: It's just such an extraordinary thing. I have a confession.

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Speaker 6: I've been invited to it for many, many years, and

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Speaker 6: each time I always in my mind go, yeah, I

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Speaker 6: want to go. I'm gonna see Mormon, And people say

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Speaker 6: have you seen Mormon? And I go no, and I

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Speaker 6: got you got to see it, And then people telling

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Speaker 6: me to see it. And it's like with Breaking Bad.

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Speaker 6: If I'm saying you've gotta watch Breaking Bad. Yeah, and

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Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, it was too long, too late.

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Speaker 6: I hadn't seen it, and then I started getting angry. No,

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to watch it, and now I've just

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Speaker 6: started watching.

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Speaker 2: You didn't go and watch it. You did go and

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Speaker 2: see this. Yeah, so you guys are looking worried, where's

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Speaker 2: it going?

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Speaker 3: Well, that was a bit worried about breaking bad.

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Speaker 4: That is a masterpiece, you too, Nick, I don't like

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Speaker 4: Boo told what to do, but I loved it.

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Speaker 6: And I haven't laughed in a musical for ever. I

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Speaker 6: don't think I've ever.

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Speaker 2: Laughed in a music.

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Speaker 1: If the musical says it's funny, it's just not.

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Speaker 2: This one.

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Speaker 6: Is that the religious sensibilities in it? That would be difficult.

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Speaker 6: Are there any Mormons in the cast?

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Speaker 3: Not in the cast. We had someone in costumes I

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Speaker 3: believe who was Mormon. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting too that that Mormons have actually come

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Speaker 5: to the show and do enjoy it. They take it

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Speaker 5: in good spirit and because it's all written in truth,

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Speaker 5: so that when they're watching it, as you said at

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Speaker 5: the top of the show, we four got that high energy, fun,

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Speaker 5: loving and just being nice to everybody. And it's the

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Speaker 5: way it is. It's like that's just actually how.

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Speaker 1: The moments come out of it. Okay, I reckonend this.

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Speaker 1: At the end, I think they're poke poke fun poke phone,

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Speaker 1: poke phone. But at the end there is a universality

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Speaker 1: of these these guys trying to do the right thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, do you has anyone ever stormed out? Have

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Speaker 6: you had anyone that you've noticed, or have you ever

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Speaker 6: because when you're doing controversial stuff, have you ever eyeballed

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Speaker 6: someone in the crowd with their arms cross going?

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had that that's loud?

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Speaker 5: Tell them to be quiet?

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Speaker 4: I think we've had sometimes people leave, but you kind

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Speaker 4: of benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 3: They might just have to run to the bathroom or

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Speaker 3: something like that.

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Speaker 1: You never know, the organ has arrived and the doctors said,

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Speaker 1: how your kidney's ready? It's now will never exactly.

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Speaker 3: You know, no better time than the present.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that begs the question. Have you had a

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Speaker 2: Mormon knock on your door?

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Speaker 3: Never on the door, Never on the door.

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Speaker 5: No, I've not had to run in. But you had

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Speaker 5: to run in with some people in Melbourne?

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Speaker 3: Right, Oh I did, Yeah I did.

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Speaker 4: They ran into two Mormons on the street and they

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Speaker 4: were wearing there were two bay two they were actually

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Speaker 4: going two Bay two and they had this these colorful

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Speaker 4: ties on, and I was I kind of my eyes

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Speaker 4: lingered a bit longer because I was like, they look

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Speaker 4: like Mormons, but are they I've never seen like a

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Speaker 4: non black tie. And then I walked past them and

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Speaker 4: they must have caught my eye and they went, you

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Speaker 4: ever hear of LDS before? And I went, I have

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Speaker 4: just wasn't sure if I was you. And then then

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Speaker 4: we had a love of chat and they were very friendly, very.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the costumes, this is a very important question.

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Speaker 1: You have to wear white shirts. Are they constantly in

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Speaker 1: a bucket of nappy sand? Do you ever about to

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Speaker 1: go on to have a slip of coffee backstage and disaster?

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Speaker 5: Not yet, but I have thought about that several times.

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Speaker 5: There'll be times too where I'm like, last minute brushing

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Speaker 5: my teeth or something, and I'm like, you're even if

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Speaker 5: you just like spill a bit of water, it's just

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Speaker 5: gonna be so yeah, certainly something I've thought about. Thankfully,

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Speaker 5: I have a few iterations of the white shirt, so

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Speaker 5: I can maybe get away with it.

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Speaker 1: And there's lots of bits your arms are in the air.

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Speaker 1: There were no pit stains. From what I could see.

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Speaker 3: You could.

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Speaker 6: This is Amanda's review. The night was on point, but

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Speaker 6: they were showing pitstones. Well, guys, we are so happy

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Speaker 6: that you came in. It's such a treat to see

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Speaker 6: and I'd recommend it to anyone. Don't be like me

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Speaker 6: and say nah because of being told do yourself a favor.

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Speaker 1: It is the funniest night you will have in the theater.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely believe.

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Speaker 2: That, Nick Sean, thank you for joining us. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Thank you playing out the Capitol Theater.

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