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Speaker 1: Matt had Graft has told us the story behind that song.

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Speaker 1: I have was not familiar with it about Billy Joel.

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Speaker 1: But that's not in the show, is it, Matt.

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Speaker 2: That's not in the show, so I don't have to

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Speaker 2: tell I can tell you the story.

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Speaker 1: Well during Matt to the studio here with his fringe

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Speaker 1: shows Elton John Your Song Tonight and Tomorrow Night and

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Speaker 1: Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Both shows are at His Majesty's Theater, one of the

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Speaker 1: most beautiful theaters that you can performat.

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Speaker 2: It is sumptuous and.

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Speaker 1: Tickets for both are available through Fringe world dot com

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Speaker 1: dot A. You now, we're going to have to quickly

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Speaker 1: tell the story very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, Billy Joel had a depressing moment in his life

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Speaker 2: and he thought he would end it all by drinking bleach.

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Speaker 2: And then he thought, no, furniture polish is going to

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Speaker 2: taste better than that, so it didn't kill him. But

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Speaker 2: he wrote that song, you know, second Wind, to try

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Speaker 2: to talk anyone else down from the ledge, and that's

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Speaker 2: why it's so upbeat and everything.

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Speaker 3: The ledge is very shiny.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Now, Elton John and Billy Joel individually fantastic. I've

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Speaker 1: seen them together, they were fantastic. What is it about

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Speaker 1: the music of these two that you love so much?

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Speaker 2: The thing I love about Elton John is, especially the

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Speaker 2: ones I picked from the seventies, just so singable. There's

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Speaker 2: something iconic in every one of the songs, you know,

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Speaker 2: whether it whoops up to something up in his high

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Speaker 2: voice or whether it's just a good old tune. It's

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Speaker 2: just fun. And those kinds of songs where that you

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Speaker 2: remember them from the radio being on in the background

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Speaker 2: while you did something else, but it became part of

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Speaker 2: your DNA.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I heard Philadelphia Freedom the other day when I

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Speaker 3: was shopping, and I, what a great song. Haven't heard

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Speaker 3: it for Young's.

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Speaker 2: It's awesome me and you know, but the other thing

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Speaker 2: I find is everyone if you look around a shop

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Speaker 2: when something like Rocketman comes up, you see everyone lip

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Speaker 2: syncing too.

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Speaker 3: Especially since the movie yes the music to another level

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Speaker 3: with another audience and.

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Speaker 2: It revitalized your favorite CPR have another innings.

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Speaker 3: How do you pick the songs because there were so

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Speaker 3: many for both artists.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was hard as anything, and I just kind

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Speaker 2: of thought I was looking down the list of them

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Speaker 2: and I thought, what part of that song does everyone

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Speaker 2: just know? You know some people, you know, people come

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Speaker 2: up and they go like, oh, you're going to do

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Speaker 2: are you going to do mad Chatis? And I'm like, no, what, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: people kind of vaguely know that, but something like Candle

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Speaker 2: in the Wind, everyone just knows it not and nobody

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Speaker 2: knows how.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's like when they start singing Tiny Dancer

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Speaker 1: and almost Famous on the bus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, everybody does. That's the thing. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm confident everyone knows all of the songs in the show. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So they're all relatable ones that very much. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a favorite song by each.

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Speaker 2: Of them in the in this show? I love Benny

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Speaker 2: and the Jets. There's just something about it that just.

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Speaker 1: I've always loved Benny and the Jets, And of course

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Speaker 1: he launched the you know, the final concert with that,

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Speaker 1: and it was just the best grave moment high notes

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Speaker 1: to get that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. Luckily you can

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Speaker 2: outsource that kind of thing to a fun very wise,

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Speaker 2: you haven't heard something until you've heard all the men

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Speaker 2: singing the Benny bit at the right. Oh, it's gorgeous, right,

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Speaker 2: now it's great, I'm good, okay, as you wish.

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Speaker 3: For the show.

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Speaker 1: Courage people to sing along?

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Speaker 2: Why would I dress up exactly? Oh, you know, fewer

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Speaker 2: people dress up because I don't know why. Maybe they

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Speaker 2: maybe they just didn't nit past the costume store that day.

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Speaker 2: But everyone's encouraged to sing along. In fact, you'll get

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Speaker 2: a QR code and when you scan it, it'll bring

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Speaker 2: up the words so you can.

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Speaker 1: Batast.

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Speaker 2: Why would you want to go and see anything to

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Speaker 2: do with Elton John without singing along to it? You

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Speaker 2: got to be a part of it.

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Speaker 3: No, when as a performer, how do you feel about

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Speaker 3: the Billy stuff where you haven't played it? And your debuting?

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Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?

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Speaker 2: Do you know?

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Speaker 3: It's exciting?

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Speaker 2: It is exciting and terrifying at the same time. But they,

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Speaker 2: you know, they say the hardest note to play is

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Speaker 2: why you love songs like this. And with Billy Joel

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Speaker 2: he's really like I mean, you know, with Elton he

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Speaker 2: wrote the music and Bernie Toyer, but Billy Joel kind

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Speaker 2: of did everything. And the words are really really, really

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Speaker 2: sophisticated and a bugger to learn. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: But once the songs get going, they just kind of

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Speaker 2: they have their own life. I think I'm just a

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Speaker 2: just a conduit sitting up there.

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Speaker 3: They are.

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Speaker 1: You've done us some other shows as well. You've done

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Speaker 1: Peter Allen, Yes, boy from Oswald.

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Speaker 2: If I had energy to do that again, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what.

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Speaker 1: One of our favorite guests on this show actually is.

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Speaker 1: Joel Jackson. Oh yeah, is from Albany. He played Peter

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Speaker 1: Allen and he was and he was amazing. It must

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Speaker 1: he must just be the most divine character to play

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Speaker 1: Peter Allen.

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Speaker 2: He is great just because there's nothing. When I say

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Speaker 2: he's not skilled, I don't mean that in a bitchy way,

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Speaker 2: but the think was he he's just so authentic with

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Speaker 2: how he got up there and his body moved around,

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Speaker 2: jumped about the place just before it's time. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: he never he never let the audience out of his

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Speaker 2: Peter Allen locked eyes with the audience and didn't let up.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's so good though, and I'm reassured that

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Speaker 2: he drops notes on the piano all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but just what you get his energy from him. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: at the end of one of those shows, you're sleep well.

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Speaker 3: Oh I bet you, oh yeah, yeah. And the others

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Speaker 3: who played in me, Hugh Jackman, they said the same thing,

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Speaker 3: although the Jackie Show was more about the celebrity of

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Speaker 2: Care well the thing. I met Todd McKenny and he

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Speaker 2: me a video that was just like, please go and

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Speaker 2: see MAT's show. So I don't have to do it anymore.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Peter Allen's never been played by anyone ordinary.

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Speaker 3: No, I'll take yourself.

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Speaker 1: I do have to ask about the Abbot show though, Benny.

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Speaker 2: I was Benny andrew my hair. It's called a lioness

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Speaker 2: head and you have to okay, well, I mean real

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Speaker 2: hair helps because he swings his head around all the plays.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, and I apprenticed in having to stand up

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Speaker 2: to play piano.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I had to go.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I didn't. I wasn't part

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Speaker 2: to be because between Peter Allen and Benny. Yeah, some

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Speaker 2: chiropractice is going to make a fortune out of my neck.

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Speaker 3: You get the trifect. You play John Lord from Deep

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Speaker 3: Purple with a heavy rock band.

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Speaker 2: It's possibly not as campy as.

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Speaker 1: My definitely this time it's the great piano players Elton

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Speaker 1: John and Billy Joel. Your song is Tonight and Tomorrow Night.

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Speaker 1: Billy's just the Way you Are As Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 1: All of His Majesty's tickets are available through Fringe world

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Speaker 1: dot com dot are you thank you for coming in

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Speaker 1: so early in the morning.

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Speaker 3: We know it's early for French people.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you for having me act. I popped over

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Speaker 2: and put my clothes in the laundromat before I.

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Speaker 1: Came that.

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Speaker 3: It's incredible job.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to say anything, mad.

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Speaker 2: We got to get a visual of this some way.

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Speaker 2: And now you're ba.

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Speaker 3: Now you mentioned my brothers at the lauder Mat stealing

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Speaker 3: your Your.

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Speaker 2: Small half is la jeez if they fit him

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Speaker 3: To see you, mate,