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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ Superstar is coming to Crown Theater from February thirteen.

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Speaker 1: You can get your pre sale tickets through Jesus Christ

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Speaker 1: Superstar dot com dot are You from today and general

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Speaker 1: tickets gone sale on Friday. Taking the much loved role

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Speaker 1: of Mary, It's Mahalia Barnes.

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Speaker 2: She's with us now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good good. I, like so many

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Speaker 1: people love Jesus Christ Superstar so much. From the first

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Speaker 1: time I saw the movie with Evonne Elleman, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing the role that you're taking on to, I think

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Speaker 1: we're seeing it with Doug Parkinson and Trevor White in

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Speaker 1: the maybe the eighties and then and in recent times.

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Speaker 1: It gets done. Every time it's done, it's just as

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Speaker 1: good as the first time I've seen it. How excited

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Speaker 1: are you to be part of it?

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I mean it's it's my first time

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Speaker 2: in a theater like a stage role, so like that's

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Speaker 2: that's a big deal for me. But it's such an

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Speaker 2: iconic role and such an iconic show that you know,

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Speaker 2: has such an amazing legacy of you know, amazing musicians,

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Speaker 2: people that I look up to and respect so much,

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Speaker 2: and you know, it feels like such an honor to

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Speaker 2: be able to step into that role that's been played

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Speaker 2: before by like a Von Ellerman, but people like Marsha

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Speaker 2: Hines and Tate Sobrano in this cuntry, you know, so

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Speaker 2: it really feels very special.

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Speaker 3: So you say, your first role on stage with Mahle,

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Speaker 3: how do you go about that? How do you go

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Speaker 3: about preparing and that, because it's different to just doing

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Speaker 3: a gig.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm not sure yet. I'm you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: starting to sort of go through all the material and

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Speaker 2: learn it. And I've been you know, looking at watching

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Speaker 2: all different versions and listening to all different versions, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm just going to go out there and

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Speaker 2: still bring a bit of me to it. But I'm

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Speaker 2: really excited. It's an incredible team that I'm working on

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Speaker 2: the show, and I know that it's going to just

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Speaker 2: be wonderful. You know. I've got amazing people and you know,

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Speaker 2: fellow cast members who are incredible, but also a wonderful

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Speaker 2: team you know on the production side who are going

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Speaker 2: to you know, hopefully teach me everything I need to know.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the things about Jesus Christ Superstar

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Speaker 1: is it's a show that you can keep tweaking a

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Speaker 1: little with each you know generation, and will we see

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Speaker 1: any of that this time? I mean in the staging

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, the staging of this version of it is is

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Speaker 2: very much based on the the the version that's been

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Speaker 2: over in the UK and touring touring lately. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's like it's a big out It was

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Speaker 2: a big outdoor production, but obviously we're we're making that

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Speaker 2: work for a for a theater will be you know,

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Speaker 2: theaters all over the country, and so it's going to

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Speaker 2: be it's going to be pretty special. I do think

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Speaker 2: it's it's very quite different than obviously the nineties version,

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Speaker 2: which is flury frent as you mentioned, from the seventies version,

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Speaker 2: you know, like it is something that does keep sort

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Speaker 2: of evolving, but but the you know, the strength of

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Speaker 2: the music and the storyline is what sort of carries

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Speaker 2: it through and it just sort of ties it into

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Speaker 2: each generation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right, as least we were saying that that Trevor White Marsha

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Speaker 3: Hinz audition was over fifty years ago. Now it's hard

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Speaker 3: to believe it. So there's a lot of history here.

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Speaker 3: It is, Yeah, quite incredible. The sense of responsibility I

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Speaker 3: would imagine too in caring about.

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Speaker 2: You know, you know, just a little bit freshy. Everybody

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Speaker 2: loves it, but you know, I'm willing to give it

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Speaker 2: a try.

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Speaker 3: That's great, that's great.

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Speaker 1: We love to know where you were when you got

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Speaker 1: the call that you got the role.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been, you know. I mean obviously i've been.

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Speaker 2: You know, I auditioned, and that process. That's a completely

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Speaker 2: new sort of thing for me because obviously I tend

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Speaker 2: to just do whatever I want and be in my

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Speaker 2: own band and just keep going. So this is a

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Speaker 2: little bit different. I was auditioned and then I had

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Speaker 2: to sort of wait and hear from them, and that

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Speaker 2: was quite a process because so many people are auditioning obviously,

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Speaker 2: and they go through all of their options and they

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Speaker 2: have to I think that, you know, it must be

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Speaker 2: a really interesting process for the people casting to then

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Speaker 2: try and find the right combination. Not just about oh,

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Speaker 2: you'll be great for Mary or you'll be great for Jesus.

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Speaker 2: It's about finding complimentary performers who are going to then

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Speaker 2: have a chemistry on stage, who are going to work together.

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Speaker 2: And you know, that's that's must be a really interesting

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Speaker 2: process for them. But I imagine it takes some time,

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Speaker 2: so I'm sitting on the other end of the phone waiting.

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Speaker 2: But it was good. I was. I was just at

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Speaker 2: home when I when I got the call, you know

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Speaker 2: that they wanted me to do it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it had been a few weeks of nervous waiting. I

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Speaker 2: suppose happy dance around the lounge. Yeah, And you know,

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to tell anyone beforehand because I thought,

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Speaker 2: what if I don't get it? But you know, I

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Speaker 2: called my brother David actually, because obviously this is this

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Speaker 2: is a little bit more and so I told him

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Speaker 2: when I auditioned, I said, what do you think? You know,

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Speaker 2: do you think I should do this? You know, do

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Speaker 2: you think this is going to be? Am I going

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Speaker 2: to be able to hand this? You know, like, what

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Speaker 2: what do you think? And he was really encouraging, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I am. So I called him straight away

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Speaker 2: to let him know when I got it. And then, uh,

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Speaker 2: then I had to break the news to Dad. But

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Speaker 2: I was going to be for a while. Well course

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be basically, I mean, they're they're going

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Speaker 2: to be out on a Cold Chisel tour. And I

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Speaker 2: managed that. I managed Dad, and I also sing with

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Speaker 2: him tis I sing with Cold Chisel, and so, you know,

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Speaker 2: because the Sydney Run starts in November, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be opting out of the Cold Chisel tour.

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Speaker 3: Chance you can go.

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Speaker 1: We are really looking forward to the Cold Chisel Anniversary tour.

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Speaker 2: May we ask how Jimmy's doing. He's doing really well.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's you know, he yeah, he had he

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Speaker 2: had to have a bit of a hit proceeds, but

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Speaker 2: and you know, I think he's been doing everything right.

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Speaker 2: I think he was a little frustrated that he had

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Speaker 2: to go out and do it because he's been well,

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Speaker 2: being healthy and doing all the things that he's meant

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Speaker 2: to exactly. But it was one of those sort of

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Speaker 2: inevitable things that had to happen. But you know, he's

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Speaker 2: recovering really well, and.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be frustrating when you're doing all the

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Speaker 1: right things. Yeah, especially letting me down.

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Speaker 3: That was on the Kwai too. It wasn't my heat, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was just I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 2: probably something that's been building up, you know, for a while,

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Speaker 2: but it was just got to a point where he said,

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Speaker 2: you know what I've got to make you know, make

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Speaker 2: a call now and do something about it so that

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Speaker 2: it doesn't become a bigger problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, on that bloody black belt he got all those

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Speaker 3: years ago. He's put his body through a bit, doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I mean he has put his body through a bit.

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Speaker 2: You know. I think that you know, he.

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Speaker 1: Must run your ragged trying to wrangle him. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, it's certainly a challenging role. So I think

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Speaker 2: Mary will be a walking part we break. We wait

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Speaker 2: for it to get to town.

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Speaker 1: February thirteen. Pre sale tickets available through Jesus Christ Superstar

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Speaker 1: dot com dot you from today and general tickets go

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Speaker 1: on sale on Friday. They will go like hotcakes. Will

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing Mahalia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all the best mohammas.

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Speaker 2: It would be great. Thank you, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Is to talk to you, See you soon,