1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation from the stage. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: Amanda has her report, I wasn't on the stage on Hamilton, 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: you were there, you were backstage later on in the show. 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 3: This show is just brilliant. It's so so good, and 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: it's playing at the Lyric Theater until I think the 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 3: end of January and then that's it. That's it for 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 3: any Australian production. It is gone. So please go and 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 3: see it. You don't have to know anything about American politics. 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: Is just so dynamic. It's extraordinary. And not only was 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 3: it interesting musically and the songs are incredible and this 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 3: Australian cast are just brilliant. But I thought, what a 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 3: timely time for me to see it, because there's the King, 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 3: you know, talking about Oh it was America's trying to 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: separate from while we've got a king in charge, you know, 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 3: we've had our king visiting this week. People asking the 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: same question, but also coming up to an American election, 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 3: looking at this is the forging of their country, their constitution, 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 3: What did they want their tree to be and all 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: the deep thinking that went into how they define themselves 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: as Americans, and you look at where we are with 21 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 3: this modern campaign on either side you go, Wow, what's 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: look where we are. 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: We're eating on the dogs. 24 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly where we are and calling each other 25 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: the R word and stuff like this. It's just been 26 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 3: quite extraordinary. So it was a great, great show. The 27 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 3: woman sitting next to us has seeing the show something 28 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 3: like twenty three times, and she was saying, oh, that 29 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 3: person's an understudy because it was a Sunday night show. 30 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: They do two shows on a Sunday, and I think 31 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: two on a Saturday. Exhausting, isn't it? But there was 32 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 3: She knew the entirety of the cast. If any of 33 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: the casts get gastric she knows before. 34 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: She's on the caps all they even know did how 35 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: did Gury go? 36 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 3: He was amazing. We had gury Knocks, the guru on 37 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: Knocks in here and. 38 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: You know, Janala, it's very satisfying. 39 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 3: Such a variety of different faces on the stage of 40 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 3: indigenous Torres, Strait Islanders, of Kiwi's of Islander faces. It 41 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: was the length and breadth of actually who was who 42 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 3: we are? Ah, it was just brilliant. And when we 43 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 3: interviewed him last week, he's shy and his self effacing 44 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 3: and he's so quiet, you know, charmingly quiet, and on 45 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 3: stage he plays George Washington and bang, you know, there 46 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: he is with his sword. Yeah, well, I assume it 47 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 3: was a wig he had, like the powdered wig. No, no, no, 48 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: he didn't have the powdered wig. They didn't have the 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: powdered wigs. Had he had short black hair which may 50 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 3: have been his own. I don't know. 51 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 2: I thought because the Hamilton I saw, they had all 52 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: the costume, they're in the outfit. 53 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: Well, they're in the outfits, but they went with the hats, 54 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: but not necessarily the whigs. But the guy who was 55 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: Hamilton him, he's a. 56 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: Bit of a pants man, isn't he Alexander Hamilton? Well, 57 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: the character he's always having it off with. 58 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: Them, not always there was a lot of no. You know, 59 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 3: he was married to Eliza. He also had emotional feelings 60 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 3: for her sister. But then he did have it off 61 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 3: with somebody else, and then that came home to Rooster 62 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 3: had to. 63 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: Play her off. How did that go in the musical? 64 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 3: To RUMs. 65 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: Now? 66 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: But Jason Arrow plays Alexander Hamilton and he's extraordinary. We 67 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 3: were lucky enough to go backstage to see them afterwards, 68 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 3: and they just they look like these young kids on 69 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: the stage, they're just so commanding, and all the wigs 70 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 3: are off because they've got microphones under their wigs and 71 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 3: all this kind. 72 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: Of phones under the wig. 73 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, imagine how hot that would be. 74 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: But a microphone under the wig. 75 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, little microphone. So they say they don't take their 76 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 3: wigs off the second they come off. 77 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So, and that's how they get the because 78 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: you know when they wear the Madonna, remember Madonna brought 79 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: the flesh colored. 80 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: So they have the tiny and it looks like. 81 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: She had a mole on a face, some sort of growth. 82 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 3: There's a tiny little I saw that in a book. 83 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: There's a tiny little microphone that sort of comes down 84 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 3: the middle of the forehead, and that's a microphone and off. 85 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 3: But you have the microphone, but you've also got to 86 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: put the other bit somewhere, which I think goes under 87 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: the wik. 88 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,119 Speaker 2: My problem is when I go and see musical theater 89 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: or any theater, I always get distracted by how it 90 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 2: all gets put together. 91 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 3: Well I'm not I normally have. 92 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: I always look at like, Okay, that guy's doing the 93 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: lights and he's doing it. 94 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, But I normally have a terrible attention span. There 95 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: wasn't a second where I wasn't just in the zone, 96 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: and that's rare for me. This show is just fabulous. 97 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: Okay, So on one being Joseph and the Technicolor dream. 98 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: Coat, which I didn't see and I'm grateful for. 99 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: I go go go at halftime on that one to ten, 100 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 2: where's Hamilton's ten? 101 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 3: It's just britiant And if you, as I said, if 102 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: you don't see it before the end of January, you're 103 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: never going to see it. 104 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: In Australia, we had a lot of people commenting about 105 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: Guri's performance and Forever Now him and Cookie they came 106 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: in and they did Forever Now Cole Chisel. It was 107 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 2: like a spontaneous acoustic performance and it was so so good. 108 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 3: Well, it was so good. What about this email we 109 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: got from Shay who said, from Shay, I was blown 110 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: away by the live performance of Forever Now. It stopped 111 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 3: me in my tracks. I was meant to go to work, 112 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 3: but I sat in my car work and wait, I'm 113 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 3: a doctor, by the way, and I was that's what 114 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 3: she said. 115 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: Well, let's get it on, let's play it again. It 116 00:04:59,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: was so good.