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Speaker 1: Do you know today in the US it's National Wicked Day.

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Speaker 1: I was honoring one of Broadway's longest running musicals, Wicked.

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Speaker 1: Millions of theater fans from around the world are celebrating

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Speaker 1: today as the as the day the musical Wicked premiere

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Speaker 1: on Broadway. So what a perfect day to talk about

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Speaker 1: Wicked the musical at Crown Theater from December fifteen two

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Speaker 1: January twenty six. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. And back

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Speaker 1: in the role of the Wizard is Todd McKenny and

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Speaker 1: he's joining us now. Good morning, Happy Wicked.

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Speaker 2: Dayte Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know it was Wicked Day.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Wicked Day.

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Speaker 3: I'll be expecting big things from our mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think so love very long standing ovation.

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Speaker 1: Well back in the roles, like putting on a comfy

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Speaker 1: old CARDI you haven't worn for a while. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I get to go to work and because I

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Speaker 3: get to put on this top hat and every every

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Speaker 3: night where I put this huge top ad on, it's

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Speaker 3: got Bert Newton to day written member yes in the

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Speaker 3: lining of it. So that always feels good.

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Speaker 2: A friend of mine, yeahs show it was Bert, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: very good.

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Speaker 3: Yes, here we are, it's it's it's a it's a huge,

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Speaker 3: huge musical and so to bring it to Perth, you know,

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Speaker 3: where I'm from, is just such a such a joy.

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Speaker 3: And I get to have Christmas at home.

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Speaker 2: And so the perfect timing, wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, perfect timing, and my mum's going to who's moved

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Speaker 3: to Brisbane is going to come over, so our whole

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Speaker 3: family will be together for the first time in many years.

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Speaker 3: It's win win.

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Speaker 1: It is, of course the perfect Christmas present, just once again.

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Speaker 1: Tickets available to tet Now, when you reprise a role,

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Speaker 1: do you give it a bit of a tweak?

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Speaker 3: You do a little bit, yes, And it's great to

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Speaker 3: have the initial rehearsals and you're the director, you know,

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Speaker 3: directs every step and every blink of your eye. And

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Speaker 3: then when she goes back to America and you then

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Speaker 3: step away for the show for a while, as I

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Speaker 3: did coming back in, I get to put in all

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Speaker 3: the little improvements that she'll never get to see none.

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Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, absolutely, it's nice.

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Speaker 3: To have time away and then you can when you

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Speaker 3: come back, you sort of you come at it with

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Speaker 3: fresh eyes. And that's that's how it feels to me.

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Speaker 3: In the Brisbane season. So there's little flourishes here and

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Speaker 3: there that I didn't you know, put in in the

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Speaker 3: original season. So yeah, I get to do all that, Tod.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned standing ovations earlier because you love one with

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Speaker 2: every performance. But we were talking recently about some of

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Speaker 2: the film festivals, and the evations can go for twelve

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Speaker 2: seventeen twenty two minutes. How long is too long as

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Speaker 2: a star when you're on stage? Mate? Is it ever

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Speaker 2: too long?

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Speaker 3: That is too long? Let's play it the older we

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Speaker 3: get at the end of the night. I just want

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Speaker 3: to get home.

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Speaker 2: To the makeup off and get out of here, have

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Speaker 2: a shower.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But actually Wicked with the two girls who are

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Speaker 3: playing the leads, and these are just mammoth mammoth roles

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Speaker 3: and physically challenging and vocally challenging. These girls are just incredible.

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Speaker 3: They get a standing ovation at pretty much every single show,

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Speaker 3: which is a great accolade to them and also to

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Speaker 3: the piece. And the audience is just love wi and

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Speaker 3: so much, and they love these two characters, and so

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Speaker 3: I think they'd be happy with all the work they

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Speaker 3: put in. I think they'd be happy for the standing

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Speaker 3: ovation to go along as the possibly.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. As you know, people love it already,

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Speaker 1: but the movie with Ariana Grande is coming out a

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Speaker 1: few weeks before the Perth run of shows. This will

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Speaker 1: send perhaps a whole new audience to see the show

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Speaker 1: to the theater.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think it's a yes, it will certainly benefit

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Speaker 3: us to you know, you go and see the movie

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Speaker 3: with her and that terrific cast Jeff Goldblum is playing

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Speaker 3: with it in that one, and then yeah, and then

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Speaker 3: you can have the luxury of then being able to

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Speaker 3: come and see it live on stage and in your face.

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Speaker 3: And so I think that it's going to be a

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Speaker 3: very beneficial timing of be coming out and we're all

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Speaker 3: going as a task to see the movie as well.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it sort of it re energizes us as well.

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Speaker 3: And as you say, it introduces a whole new audience

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Speaker 3: to Wicked.

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Speaker 1: And to going to the theater in general too, which

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Speaker 1: as a theater man you would have to love.

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Speaker 3: Oh of course, of course. And you know, and introducing

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Speaker 3: young people to the theater is really what it's all about,

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Speaker 3: whether it's the ballet or the opera or the symphony orchestra,

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Speaker 3: getting young bums on seats, as they say, is the

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Speaker 3: future of the theater and it keeps it alive. And

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Speaker 3: this show definitely has that. I mean, our audience has

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Speaker 3: turned up. A lot of them have dressed as witches,

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Speaker 3: and there's a lot of pink and a lot of green,

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Speaker 3: so it already it already comes with that kind of

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Speaker 3: audience participation, which is great to see. And the audience

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Speaker 3: has sing the songs, so they already know the songs.

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Speaker 3: Is such a phenomenon this show, and so to have

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Speaker 3: the movie to back it up is a great thing.

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Speaker 2: We can You're excitedly, You're obviously excited about you know,

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Speaker 2: not only the show, but coming back home to Perth

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Speaker 2: and the family reunion and as such regular basis, what

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Speaker 2: do you miss about Perth? Is there anything that sticks

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Speaker 2: out in your mind?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what? Well? I miss my friends. I've

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Speaker 3: got two different sets of friends in Perth. I've got

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Speaker 3: my school friends and then I've also got my mum's

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Speaker 3: dancing school friends. So the hundreds and hundreds of people

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Speaker 3: for me to catch up with when I get back

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Speaker 3: to Perth. But do you know one of the things

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Speaker 3: I noticed when I come back to Perth, and I

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Speaker 3: often spend a lot of time up in Kings Park. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just love Kings Park so much. Is the light

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Speaker 3: the light in Perth and the beaches in Perth. I

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Speaker 3: mean everybody in Sydney goes on about BONDI mainly for

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Speaker 3: years have been saying, you've got to get to Perth.

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Speaker 3: These aren't beaches, you get it.

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Speaker 1: I always talk about the Perth LIGHTO is you can't

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Speaker 1: create in other places. And yeah, I when I lived

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Speaker 1: away from Perth for a little while, I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: just how much I missed the sun setting over the ocean, so,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting straight out to see that. I would

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Speaker 1: love to ask people where they were when they got

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Speaker 1: the call and I were casting mind back nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: three Andrew Lord Webber's song and Dance.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember where.

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Speaker 1: You were when you got the call that you got

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Speaker 1: the gig? You got the roll?

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Speaker 3: I do. I was at the Morley Roller Drove.

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Speaker 2: No for you speed skating.

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Speaker 3: I was skating around the morning Roll.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 3: My mom there, and my mom's there and I've gotten

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Speaker 3: the skates on and she called me over and said

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Speaker 3: you got it, and so I was literally rolling around.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Birth store and that bush was playing.

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Speaker 3: No, Black Betty was the other side. Now, then Black

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Speaker 3: Betty would come on. I have such great memories.

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Speaker 2: Of absolutely mini wheels.

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Speaker 1: Look on that note which is going to make me

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Speaker 1: smile all day, Tom Burketty. We looked forward to you

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Speaker 1: coming home. Crown Theater, December fifteenth, January twenty six Wicked

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Speaker 1: the musical tickets through Ticketmaster. Can't wait to have you

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Speaker 1: back in town.

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Speaker 2: Switch at Perth light On. That is the best past

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Speaker 2: that location.

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Speaker 1: Two days ago our producer Greg who's on some leave

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Speaker 1: at the moment, he used to speed skate. He did

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Speaker 1: at the more Rolodrome too, Black Betty, he could well

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Speaker 1: have been there.

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Speaker 2: That very nice he might have been. He was probably

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Speaker 2: part of Snowball as well. Amazing, very very cool, fancy fu.

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Speaker 2: Such big news there as well from Mom