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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation my favorite musical. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest musical phenomenons to hit the stage in recent decades.

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Speaker 1: And now Jesus Christ Superstar is opening tonight in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Playing Mary is the brilliant Mahalia Barnes and she joins us. Now, Hi, Mahalia,

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Speaker 1: how are you hi there?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Oh is this role a dream for you? How did

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Speaker 1: it fall into your lap?

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 2: It's pretty exciting. I you know, musical theater, you know,

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing has not really ever been on

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Speaker 2: my radar, not something that I've been longing to do.

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Speaker 2: But this show is just a different beast, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's especially in this country. I think we have

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Speaker 2: such a huge amount of love for Jesus Christ Superstar,

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Speaker 2: particularly because of the you know, I mean obviously there

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Speaker 2: was the seventies version with Marsha and you know, Johnny

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Speaker 2: English and people like that, but you know the nineties version.

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Speaker 2: You know, as a child born in the eighties, the

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Speaker 2: nineties version is you know, iconic in this country with

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Speaker 2: John Farnham and John Stevens, Kate Sobrano and you know,

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Speaker 2: so when the show when I was asked if I

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Speaker 2: wanted to audition for Mary I was. I sort of thought, well,

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Speaker 2: I can't really say no to that, can I? I mean,

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Speaker 2: what an honor to be to be able to be

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Speaker 2: a part of that legacy.

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Speaker 3: Did you think you're a sert to get it?

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Speaker 2: No, I definitely didn't. I never think that I'm a

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Speaker 2: certain for anything, but you know, I certainly thought i'd

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Speaker 2: give it a good shot.

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Speaker 1: Is it a different muscle when you have to perform

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Speaker 1: like this. I know you've toured extensively, but to perform

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Speaker 1: in a musical and a couple of times a night

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Speaker 1: for the afternoon sessions and things like that, is it

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Speaker 1: a different kind of muscle you have to flex.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's a lot of different muscles I'm having to

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Speaker 2: flex that are involved in some of the choreography, Like

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that I'm dancing or the ensemble are

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Speaker 2: incredible in this show, and they are just like they're

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Speaker 2: unbelievable how hard they're working up there. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I think that, you know, I'm very fortunate to get

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Speaker 2: to be carried along by a couple of them in

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Speaker 2: a few ensemble pieces where I do a little bit

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Speaker 2: of choreography, which my family is very excited to see. Vocally,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's exactly vocally, it's actually been been a

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Speaker 2: joy for me. I mean, I sing a lot, and

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Speaker 2: if anything, you know, like I don't know if you've

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Speaker 2: seen many of my shows, but I can get a

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Speaker 2: little bit carried away and sing for hours and hours

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Speaker 2: and hours on end. So you know, I love to sing.

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Speaker 2: My biggest challenge is that I'm you know, because I'm

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Speaker 2: not singing every song, you know, I'm You're just sort

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Speaker 2: of being singing everything, right, and I've got to shut

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Speaker 2: up every now and then I let, you know, let

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Speaker 2: Michael Painter have a go for Jesus, you know. So

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Speaker 2: you know, I find that I'm backstage singing the whole time, right,

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's definitely different eight shows a week,

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Speaker 2: you know. And the biggest shift for me, I think

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Speaker 2: is just being in one place for such an extended

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Speaker 2: period of time, you know, normally somewhere for a night,

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Speaker 2: then I jump on the plane and head somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's really it's interesting and it's really exciting.

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Speaker 3: I was reading your touring but with coldure, but I

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Speaker 3: read that you're managing cold. Is that? Are you part managed?

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Speaker 2: I'm not managing colture. I manage Dad.

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Speaker 3: I can just imagine you crack and sticks. Go boys,

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Speaker 3: let's go, come on into the market.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I was helping tour manage cultures for

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Speaker 2: the tour, like we're helping with all the logistics and

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Speaker 2: things like that. But yeah, I mean I managed Dad

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Speaker 2: full time. So that's it's a lot, but it's great.

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Speaker 2: You know, it keeps me on my toes, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, between that and this, and then

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Speaker 2: you know, I was doing a bunch of the Chisel shows,

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Speaker 2: singing dvs as well. It's been it's been quite a

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Speaker 2: busy time.

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Speaker 3: I let you go, you poor thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait to see this. It is my

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Speaker 1: favorite musical. I can't wait to see this incarnation of it.

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Speaker 1: And you're going to be amazing. I'll see it in

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Speaker 1: a few weeks and I'm thrill.

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Speaker 2: It's so great. I'm sure you'll love it. I just yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm just like I said, I'm so excited for people

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Speaker 2: to see it. I'm going to love it.

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Speaker 3: Man is going to be yelling at more more Mahalia.

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Speaker 1: That woman.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to give the people what they want.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's quite right.

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Speaker 2: But I happen to rush the stage. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: how they feel about that, you know, like it's.

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Speaker 3: Not about it's about us. You can get your tickets

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Speaker 3: now to see Jesus Christ Superstar at ticketmaster dot com

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Speaker 3: dot au. Mahalia Barns, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,