1
00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,840
Speaker 1: Cricket the Musical. Yes, he's on at the State Theater

2
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,760
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Thursday. Tickets are available through Cricket the Musical

3
00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,000
Speaker 1: dot com dot au. This is Dennis Canahan's show. What

4
00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,200
Speaker 1: can you tell us about it?

5
00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,280
Speaker 2: Dennis, Well, I can tell you Dannel. Timing is everything

6
00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:34,520
Speaker 2: and you've timed it beautifully.

7
00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've just brought it into the eve of the Ashes.

8
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,799
Speaker 3: I did the show last year and quite a few

9
00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,560
Speaker 3: Bamie Army people turned up, even though England weren't here,

10
00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,800
Speaker 3: and so I was just thinking that we need to

11
00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,560
Speaker 3: get Australians a bit more vibed up, a bit more

12
00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,920
Speaker 3: ready to sing along and boo the villains and cheer

13
00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,240
Speaker 3: the heroes when the ashes happened, so we can compete

14
00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,360
Speaker 3: with the Barmi Army. Although currently a few of them

15
00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,520
Speaker 3: are coming to the show. So I'm bracing myself today.

16
00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,040
Speaker 2: There's going to be some serious heck doday, heckle Well.

17
00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,520
Speaker 3: They Actually the feedback I got was they felt it

18
00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:09,360
Speaker 3: was a fair and balance show. I slapped both. I

19
00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,040
Speaker 3: should point out it's not really a proper musical. There's

20
00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,600
Speaker 3: no Todd McKenny and Lisa mcewne and later host up.

21
00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,120
Speaker 3: It's a one man show and it's a whole lot

22
00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,160
Speaker 3: of comic songs. That's the blast of it. Yes, and

23
00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,919
Speaker 3: so it is. The crowd is very much encouraged. The

24
00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,200
Speaker 3: sing along parts. They are encouraged to cheer and boo,

25
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,919
Speaker 3: but the barmaie army boot different parts.

26
00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, what was the spark that made you decide

27
00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,440
Speaker 1: to turn cricket controversies into a musical rather than just,

28
00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,520
Speaker 1: you know, say, a stand up show.

29
00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,000
Speaker 3: It's just my way of dealing with it. I've been

30
00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,800
Speaker 3: a musician, playing, played up and down the East Coast.

31
00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:47,880
Speaker 3: I've never actually played in person. I'm very excited.

32
00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,880
Speaker 1: Okay, all right.

33
00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,760
Speaker 3: I've been playing for years and it's just I wanted

34
00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,200
Speaker 3: to be a rock star. That was the plan. I

35
00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,320
Speaker 3: wanted to be a serious rock star. But people kept laughing,

36
00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,360
Speaker 3: so I just kind of went with that and that's

37
00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,120
Speaker 3: how it ended up.

38
00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,440
Speaker 1: All Right, you get a laugh, I'll give you some lama.

39
00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly the plan and it seems to work.

40
00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,560
Speaker 3: But it started a few years ago. I started writing

41
00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,840
Speaker 3: songs about rugby League and AFL and then Stuart Broad

42
00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,760
Speaker 3: refused to walk even though it was out in a

43
00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,960
Speaker 3: game in twenty thirteen and that led to a song

44
00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,839
Speaker 3: to the tune of the Drifters classic under the Broadwalk.

45
00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:27,080
Speaker 3: I reworked that as the why I didn't broadwalk and

46
00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,120
Speaker 3: YouTube that's had millions of hits, particularly in India. It

47
00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,800
Speaker 3: turns out because Indians are quite fond of cricket, seems yes.

48
00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,920
Speaker 3: Apparently when the English team came out, I think it

49
00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,480
Speaker 3: was about twenty thirteen or twenty twelve, they came out

50
00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,080
Speaker 3: and I just had to look through the list and

51
00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,320
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of South Africans and West Indians and

52
00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,839
Speaker 3: people from Zimbabwe and New Zealand and Ireland and it's

53
00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,440
Speaker 3: not really part of the English team. So I did

54
00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,520
Speaker 3: a song identifying where they were from and saying, well,

55
00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,160
Speaker 3: christ Church in New Zealand that's in England, and Kundiawa

56
00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,320
Speaker 3: Papua New Guinea that's in England as well. So I'll

57
00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,080
Speaker 3: do the section as the MCC pointing out how England

58
00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,000
Speaker 3: is actually everywhere.

59
00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,760
Speaker 2: Do you, Dennis, given that it's you know, you're doing

60
00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,159
Speaker 2: this musical during a cricketing season, do you have to

61
00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,359
Speaker 2: update the show as the season goes on? Do you

62
00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,680
Speaker 2: tweak it a little as to.

63
00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,359
Speaker 3: The events absolutely. So I started doing it as a

64
00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,200
Speaker 3: sort of a off Broadway thing in twenty nineteen and

65
00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,680
Speaker 3: it's about half a dozen songs that have lasted because

66
00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,840
Speaker 3: they you know, one of the big songs in the

67
00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,279
Speaker 3: show is about Mitchell Johnson's The Stars.

68
00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,760
Speaker 1: I was going to say that's going to be an evergreen.

69
00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,240
Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah, it is because that identify particularly with

70
00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,960
Speaker 3: the Ashes that catches win matches. Whatever it tashes that

71
00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,120
Speaker 3: win Ashes and Mitchell showed that when he grew that mustache.

72
00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,479
Speaker 3: You know, last year with the Indians coming out, there's

73
00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,640
Speaker 3: so much controversy their shoulder charge in Melbourne on the

74
00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,679
Speaker 3: young opener Costas and then the send off sending Travis

75
00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,279
Speaker 3: head off in Adelaide and you know, getting fine it was.

76
00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,920
Speaker 3: It does change. So this I'm expecting each ASHES test

77
00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,559
Speaker 3: is going to give me two or three new songs,

78
00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,920
Speaker 3: so to show that I do in Brisbane two weeks time,

79
00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,919
Speaker 3: that'll have songs out of Perth. The Adelaide showill have

80
00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,320
Speaker 3: songs out of Bridsbane, et cetera, et cetera.

81
00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,000
Speaker 1: Because there's always at least one controversy or key moment.

82
00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,479
Speaker 1: Any predictions about what we might get during the Perth

83
00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,279
Speaker 1: test you.

84
00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,359
Speaker 3: Don't want to death row people, but someone's going to

85
00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,000
Speaker 3: break down, like every first test, and there's always someone's

86
00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,040
Speaker 3: handstring goes because it is it is grueling five days.

87
00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,320
Speaker 3: No matter how much you warm up five days, you're

88
00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:31,800
Speaker 3: going to get cramps. You're going to push through the

89
00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,560
Speaker 3: cramps and that's going to turn into a strain. So

90
00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,920
Speaker 3: you know that's going to happen. I'm hoping that it's

91
00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,279
Speaker 3: not one of it's a poem. I think it's a poem. Yeah,

92
00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,840
Speaker 3: and also just that there is so much intrigue about

93
00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,599
Speaker 3: whether they go, and you know, I'm bracing myself the

94
00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,039
Speaker 3: horror might happen that Australia lose five mil Like, I

95
00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,600
Speaker 3: don't think it's going to happen, but if it does,

96
00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,800
Speaker 3: I'm trying to work out exactly I'm going to react

97
00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,279
Speaker 3: to that. Other than a whole little laments and tears.

98
00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:57,440
Speaker 3: The show is going to be miserable.

99
00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,400
Speaker 2: It's going to be a very morbid song. It will.

100
00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,800
Speaker 1: It will, and with a lament as you say, well,

101
00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,279
Speaker 1: at this stage, it won't. Cricket the Musical is on

102
00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,280
Speaker 1: at the State Theater tomorrow and Thursday. Tickets are through

103
00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,720
Speaker 1: Cricket the musical dot com dot au. Thanks for joining

104
00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:10,240
Speaker 1: US Stanners

105
00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,640
Speaker 3: Thanksanner, Thanks for having me on