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The Sound of America The New Ben Franklin Rock Musical (A True Story!) feat. Kyle Metzger · philly has heART

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Hey, Lou. Hey, you. Happy Fourth of July. It
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is America's 250th birthday. I mean, the signing
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of the declaration is 250 years old. There have
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been Indigenous people here long before America.
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OK, well done. Well done. Do you want some good
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news? Oh my gosh, what? After I sent an Instagram
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story about needing 69 more downloads to beat
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our highest month, our people delivered. Our
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listeners finger blasted our stats. And now I
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don't think we'll be able to beat June and July.
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Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I mean, we did - Triple
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the content for the month. We did triple the
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content. So I'm not going to be disappointed
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when we go one third of the content of June and
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July. I'm not going to be like, why? Yes, but
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we're sharing America's stories. Guys, my favorite
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one I'm really excited for. We're going to talk
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all about American Girl Dolls this month. Just
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stick around for two weeks. So what did you end
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up doing this weekend? During last week, Pati
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Garcon and I popped into Da Vinci Art Alliance
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and we had a quick chat with Sam while they were
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doing their installation for the July shows.
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We're excited to come on board to one of their
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projects for July. Last Saturday, Pati Garcon
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and I went to Old City. Paradigm and the new
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show at Larry Becker Contemporary Art and the
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new show at Penti Menti. And then I went into
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the office on Sunday. Oh, goodness. Oh, my goodness.
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No regrets, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. You know what?
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Sometimes you just have to like put a little
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extra effort in on the weekend to like make the
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week a little easier. You make your Monday that
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much more pleasant when you're in on Tuesday
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and dealing with fires on your own. Right. Right.
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100%. 100%. We had a lovely meal at Dante and
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Luigi's on Sunday night. It was so good. It's
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like Italian market area. Oh yeah, delicious
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Italian food. Absolutely amazing. They were just
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about to take off for a week for their summer
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break. So there was like a different vibe in
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the restaurant of like everybody's like, this
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is my last shift until freedom, which was really
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nice, right? And then we went to Mr. Edison at
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the Bellevue that just recently opened last week.
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And I will say everyone's got to check it out.
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The cocktails were amazing. The oysters were
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so good. The vibe there is awesome. They had
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a xylophonist and a bass player. Can I bring
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my kids there? I mean, maybe not. You say xylophone.
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And that screams children. That screams children.
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Well, we have an amazing conversation ahead of
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us about America. We truly got in hinged on this
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one. Yeah. Let's get to it. On to the conversation.
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Greetings. This is Robert Marsh and you're listening
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to Philly has Hard Podcast. In this podcast,
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we sit down with artists, gallerists, educators,
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curators, and other creatives who comprise the
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Philadelphia art world to discuss upcoming performances,
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exhibits, and other events and initiatives that
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are not to be missed. The art scene in Philadelphia
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is so rich that it can seem daunting. Consider
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this your weekend cultural recommendation. With
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me always is my producer Lucinda Deggerland.
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Hola! And today we have Kyle Mesker, Barrymore
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Award -winning director and educator. Thank you
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for joining us today. Thank you! Thanks for having
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me! Yes! So Kyle, take us through your journey
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that brought you to the performing arts. What
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moments, both big and small, directed you to
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where you are today? There's a photo of me from...
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freshman year of high school where I am sitting
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on stage on a couch listening to the director
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give notes after a performance and I am so locked
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in the focus is scary you can feel it through
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the photograph and That was huge for me because
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I was a kid with a ton of energy, was constantly
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in trouble, couldn't stop talking, couldn't stop
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getting out of my seat. And so theater was something
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that just completely enraptured me and I never
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stopped. I find it endlessly fascinating. Like
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even in rehearsal, there's always something to
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look at and adjust and finesse and dig into.
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And I just love that because my attention span
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is tough. And then did you go on and continue
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studying theater? Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I
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did all the plays in high school. I went to University
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of Hartford. They have a conservatory there called
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the Hart School. So I went there and got a BFA
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in musical theater and performed for a while,
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moved to New York shortly after school. And then
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a few years into living in New York, I took an
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acting class and wasn't working on anything at
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the time. And the teacher of the class was directing
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the show. And I was like, hey, can I? Can I assist
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you? Is that a thing? Do directors have assistants?
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Can I, I just really want to be in the room again.
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And he was like, sure, whatever. And I sat, you
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know, sat in on a rehearsal and I remember this
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moment where like something wasn't working in
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the scene and he was like, what do you think?
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And I was like, well, what if they try this?
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And then they did it and something clicked. And
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yeah, I guess I have a lot of stories like this
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where he's like, I was sitting. and a pivotal
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moment happened to me and it changed my life
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yeah from that point on I did both for a little
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bit like directed and acted but for the most
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part from that moment I was like oh this is way
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more interesting I get to create the whole world
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of this piece and like collaborate across the
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table with designers and actors and playwrights
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and producers and macro versus micro exactly
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yeah yeah yeah Again, I think of him. I think
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my brain is always in search of more stimulus
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Yeah, you know and so realizing like oh wow the
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director does the whole play Not just the one
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character interesting Yes, but kind of counter
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-intuitively I realized pretty early in my directing
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career that the less I micromanage and the less
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I try to control the room or control what my
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collaborators are doing, the better the work
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is. So like the lighter touch I have or like
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the more I trust my collaborators to do what
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they do well and just kind of nudge or edit the
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material that they're putting forth, the better
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the product is. So it's like actually like having
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less control over the room makes the art better.
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Not why I started doing it, I think. What brings
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us to Philadelphia? Well, I moved here in 2020,
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which was a very exciting time to make any big
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life change. But I went back to school kind of
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late, about like 10 years after undergrad. I
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went back to school for directing in North Carolina
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and I lived in New York for a decade. I knew
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I didn't want to go back. I had kind of done
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what I wanted to do there and was looking for
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a new adventure. And Philly just has so much
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to offer artists. There's a ton of theater here.
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There's a ton of universities that I could work
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at to, you know, pay for my life. It's one of
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the last cities in America where you can own
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a home. That was really fascinating to me. Amen.
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Amen. Yeah. So, like, after rent, I calculated
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once, like, how much I paid in rent in the decade
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I lived in New York, and I've, like... just threw
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the calculator away. I was like, no, don't need
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to know that. Didn't need to know that. She's
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scary. She's scary. And, you know, my family
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is in Connecticut and my, you know, my friends
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in network was in New York. So I wanted to stay
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on the East coast. And, um, yeah, just to like
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check to every box and the vibe, like the, the
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theater vibe here is so weird. The art that is
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made here is so weird and interesting and constantly
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redefining the form. And we have Pig Iron, so
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there's this constant arrival of new divisors
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that are entering the industry through Pig Iron,
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and a lot of them stay and make theater companies
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and create work. And we have the Wilma, which
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is doing really cool shit, can I swear? Yeah.
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Cool doo -doo. There's all these smaller companies
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that are just... creating really high level,
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beautifully produced work. There's a ton of new
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work here. Like playwrights can actually get
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their shows produced here and it's not in a dingy
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basement. It's actually on like a really gorgeous
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black box space in Center City. It's really wild.
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I think because I came here later in my life,
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in my career, I really don't take any of it for
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granted. And I feel like incredibly lucky that
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I've gotten to work in the spaces I've gotten
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to work in. work with the people I've gotten
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to collaborate with. Bunch of freaks. Bunch of
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freaks. My people, honestly. Yes! As you mentioned,
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you hold a BFA from the University of Hartford
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and a Masters from UNC Greensboro. And now you
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are teaching at Temple University. When you initially
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embarked on this education journey, did you know
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what you wanted to pursue? while you were there,
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did... Did you show up on campus, declared a
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major? Yes. In undergrad? Hi, my name is Kyle.
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Big time, big time. I am here to do musical theater.
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La la la la la la la la la la la la. In my black,
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black t -shirt, black pants, black shoes, because
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we had to be neutral in class. Walking across
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the campus like a flock of weird crows. From
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that moment at like 14 years old. I was like,
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oh, this is what I want to do. I was also really
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not, I was not a good student if I wasn't engaged
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and it was really hard to be engaged in things
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that I didn't care about. So like, it's crazy
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that I'm an educator because I failed junior
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English in high school and had to go to summer
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school. because I didn't write the research paper.
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I just didn't do it. Canterbury Tales didn't
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do it for you? No man, didn't do it. Did not
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click. The funny thing though is like in high
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school I think I graduated with like a 2 .6.
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Like I really pulled it out of the toilet at
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the end. So I don't know if I had an option to
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go for anything else but musical theater because
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like if you looked at my yeah I mean what am
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I gonna do? Marine biology? Like I didn't pass.
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Regular biology, exactly. Like I can't tell you
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what the C cucumber is. I don't know what a cucumber
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is. And was there a specific class that you took
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that just underscored that you knew that you
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were on the right track when it comes to undergrad?
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And what was it? Yeah, well. Honestly, my way
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into theater was through music and through singing.
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My high school, we didn't really have many drama
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classes and we would do like two shows a year,
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so I filled my schedule with all the choir classes
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and the music theory and keep, you know, piano
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and anything I could get my hands on, you know,
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performing arts -wise. So I didn't really consider
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myself an actor. I didn't really know how to
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act. I didn't really know what it was and then...
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I got to undergrad and I took this viewpoints
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class with my teacher, Diana Muller -Marino,
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who is just like such a cool human being too.
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And viewpoints was all about spatial awareness
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and kinesthetic response and breaking down what
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your body is doing and kind of like a... Like
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letting your body kind of take the lead and raising
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your awareness of it and it that that vocabulary
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and that language Really spoke to me more than
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any any other like I love Stanislavsky Super
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super valuable all that stuff all all the kind
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of classic acting technique Psychological breaking
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down like why the character does with you like
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super valuable. I teach that I make my students
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do it but the body first method of creating a
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character or creating a world really spoke to
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me and it's carried me through, I mean that's
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super present in my directing work as well. Because
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as a culture, as like Americans, we just don't
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think of our bodies really as anything but the
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thing that brings our brain from room to room.
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You know, like our whole existence is in our
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head. You know, it's like what we see, what we
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hear, what we say. And our body is just this
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kind of like annoying sack that is attached to
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the important thing, which is our head. Right.
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But our bodies are so smart and they're so intuitive
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and like have so much more awareness than we,
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we give them credit for. So yeah, I try to listen
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to that and try to, try to bring that into the
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Rehearsal room and into the classroom as much
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as possible because there's definitely those
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kids in there like me who are like I Do not connect
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to these words help your body is a cheat code
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use the bot like Physicality will help you understand
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why your character's saying these words That
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brings us to the sound of America a synopsis
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the production imagines Benjamin Franklin as
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America's first rock star. Backed by a live band,
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Franklin is reimagined as a struggling musician,
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inventor, and printer who forms a band with his
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leather apron club friends. When he accidentally
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unlocks the power of electric rock and roll following
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a lightning strike, Franklin becomes an international
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sensation, swept into the world of fame, political
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intrigue, and tension with the British elite.
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Would you add anything to the synopsis? That's
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a great synopsis. We ripped it from the website.
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Good job. Good job, Sound of America team. That
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sounds great. No, I think that's totally the
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story. I would also just add that it is a fucking
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party. Yeah. This show is a party. Nice. It is.
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Its DNA is 90 % rock show. 10 % musical theater.
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The band is incredible. Like we got really amazing
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local musicians that are going to blow the roof
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off Fringe Arts. But then also all the actors
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also play instruments. It's really staggering
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the talent of these actors because gorgeous voices,
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incredible musicianship. really finding the humor,
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finding the real moments that we've created in
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the show, and just making it look so easy. We
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just ran the show for the first time on Friday,
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and I was just grinning ear to ear the whole
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time. God, you guys are charming. You make it
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look like you do this every day, and this show
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has never been done before. It's brand new. It's
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really incredible. I think people are going to
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have a blast. Nice. What drew you to the production?
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Well, I love a party. You know, I'm a freelancer,
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so I'm always seeking the next project and always
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trying to, like, do something new. I mean, I
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think, like, the best thing about my industry
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is that no two months ever look the same. So,
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like, right before this I was doing... the Dolly
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Parton musical 9 to 5 out in media. Oh, nice.
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And yeah, we closed that on a Sunday and started
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rehearsal on Monday for this and like couldn't
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be a more different show. I've always been interested
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in theater that is untraditional or like... Plays
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with other mediums or disciplines. So like this
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show being essentially a rock concert Masquerading
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as a musical theater piece was really exciting
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to me And so I've I've really wanted to lean
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into the rock elements of it and like the the
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set design the lighting design are Really gonna
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make you feel like you're at the who concert
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or you know the strokes or something and then
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it's also just so fun the show doesn't take itself
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too seriously either i think there's a lot of
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In July, in Philly, you know, the semi -quincentennial,
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which is a word I never thought I would know,
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or be able to just say. Well, we got to use it
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up because we got six more months to say it.
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I think there's a lot of offerings in the city
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that are really leaning into the history, which
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is super important, but I'm excited to play with
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something that kind of just has a sense of fun
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and a sense of... frivolity and like we just
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get to see Ben Franklin in a whole different
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way you know I think we see Ben Franklin as like
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the balding guy with the little bifocals you
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know holding his little book and with his little
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beer belly and it's nice to see Ben Franklin
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as a cool Harry Styles rock star. Have you seen
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that meme of the guinea pig or the hamster dressed
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up as Ben Franklin like This might be an AI meme,
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but he's like DJing a rave in France or something.
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Wow. I heard that Ben Franklin, anytime he went
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anywhere foreign, people just knew. He's like
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the original Bella Hadid. Yeah, it's very clockable.
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Wow. big fur hat he would wear. They were going
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to war in, like, the states and he was just going
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around to France, like, trying to curry favor
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or something. Maybe I made that up. No, no, no,
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he did. But this is, yeah. Well, you'll have
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to see the show to find out how that goes. Yes!
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I will say, so I will say the show is historically
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accurate. except for the fact that Ben Franklin
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was not a rock star. So we've worked with this
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amazing woman, Roz, who put together the Franklin
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Museum. And she's, you know, kind of our dramaturge,
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fact checker. We recently learned what dramaturge
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means. Oh, yes! I think I mentioned my colleagues.
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Yeah, so she was really instrumental in making
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sure that we are playing within... some of the
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realities you know and like we have characters
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from his life that are characters in the show
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and with every ticket after the show you get
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a tour of local Ben Franklin haunts because you
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know the venue French Arts is in Old City right
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it's right around the corner from you know all
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you know Ben Franklin's old stomping grounds
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so you get a tour led by our Ben Franklin. No
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way! I love that! So we're hoping that... Audience
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participation! Yeah, so you know you get to rock
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out, you get to enjoy the show, and then you
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get to hang out with our Ben Franklin for you
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know 30 minutes, do a little walking tour, and
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see some of his favorite places. Oh my gosh,
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I love that! In addition to the dramaturge, what
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other research did you have to do to get ready
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for the production? My mom, like many people's
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moms, is a Ben Franklin head. No way. Super duper,
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like has a tattoo. No. Yes. Yes, hardcore. Hardcore
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Ben Franklin. Are you from Philadelphia? No.
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Wait. Neither is she. We're from St. Louis. Oh
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my gosh. So I'm like, mom, you don't have a Lewis
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and Clark tattoo, however. So I just went to
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her. I was like, tell me everything. And she
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said, sit down. She got her big, her big, thick
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biography, hardcover biography out thump on the
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table. And then watching a ton of rock concerts
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on YouTube. So, you know, watching like Bruce
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Springsteen and the E Street band and the Who
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and, you know, some more modern, you know, like
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what's Harry Styles doing, you know. Elvis trying
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to think about what is the storytelling that
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these musicians do because they're not just standing
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at the microphone for 90 minutes right you know
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there's there's a lot of storytelling that happens
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we looked at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville as
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a like a reference point of that kind of you
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know I'm gonna sit on the stool and tell you
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a story about why I wrote this song you know
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and then go into the song we have like a VH1
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storytellers moment in the show oh perfect yeah
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Papa video came up in our last recording. Any
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pop -up video moments? No but we do so we do
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have projection design and I wonder if it's too
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late to throw a little pop -up bubble in the
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bottom with facts about you know that would be
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oh that is too good an idea. Write it down. We
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may have to credit you for that one. That was
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pretty good. Do you remember um what was the
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show the dating show that did that with the little
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bubbles blind date but um Oh my God. Was it a
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syndicated? It was like a syndicated. Uh huh.
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Yeah. It was like a reality show and they would
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follow like the two people on a date and the
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little bubbles would pop up of like, you know,
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he's about to blow it in three, two, one. Oh
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yes. Right? What was that called? Four, three,
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two, one. Eliminate? Eliminate? No, that's MTV.
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MTV had the real crazy ones like Next. Oh yes.
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Backup dates in the bus. Right. Yes. Oh, room
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raiders? Room raiders. Oh my God. What an era.
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What a time to be alive. That shit would not
23:25
fly these days. So like back then there was no
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social media. So like you could get away with
23:33
having survived your teens and 20s without anyone
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knowing unless you went on room raiders. Yes.
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That's where you fucked up. You could have got
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away with it. I'm keeping this tangent in, it's
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too bright. Something I might not keep in, we'll
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see. I saw on the website that there were references
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to Roger Daltrey, is that right? Can you tell
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us a little bit about that? Yeah, so we've partnered
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with Roger Daltrey. On this project, we're donating
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royalties from the production to one of his charities.
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He is like really big on charities for children.
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And he may or may not make an appearance in the
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show. Virtually, perhaps. But yeah, pretty cool
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to have, you know, the sign off from Roger Daltry.
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I actually was in Tommy in college. Tommy the
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musical. So I'm hoping I get to... Tell him that.
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I was Cousin Kev. Robert, do you know who Roger
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Daltrey is? No. Would you like to explain? Oh
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yes, Roger Daltrey from The Who. British band?
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Oh, yes. Pinball Wizard? Amazing. Oh, that's
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great. Acid Queen. Yes. Robert still is not placing
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this guy. Moving on. I'm excited about it. Yeah,
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super exciting. Three words to describe the sound
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of America. I would say three words to describe
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the sound of America. Rockous, joyful, and party.
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Nice. Excellent. Excellent. Where can our audience
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find the sound of America? So the show is running
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July 1st to August 1st at Fringe Arts in Old
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City. You can get tickets, I believe, at FringeArts
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.org. Just pulled that out of my ass. I have
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no idea if that's true. I will link it in the
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show notes. I will fact check. Yeah, I got you.
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Should I do .net and .com just in case? I'm pretty
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sure it's org. I'm pretty sure it's org. Shows
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are Wednesday through Saturday 7 p .m. and then
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we have matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2.
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Excellent. Love it. Excellent. Kyle, where can
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we find you on Instagram? My handle is Kyle Metzger
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underscore 11. Excellent. Everyone check out
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The Sound of America at Fringe Arts and we'll
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be right back with rapid fire questions. And
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we're back with rapid fire questions. Pile. Philadelphia
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art scene in one word. Freaks. Nice. Favorite
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musical number. In the show? In life? In life.
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Oh god, okay. Probably the opening number of
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Here Lies Love, which is a David Byrne Fatboy
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Slim musical about Emelda Marcos, the dictator
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of the Philippines in the 70s. Deep cut! Deep
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cut! Yes! Yes. Dream venue to work in. Ooh, I
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would love to work at the Arden. Please. Thank
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you. Yes. Putting it out there. A round of F.
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Mary Kill Shakespeare comedies adapted to teen
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movies edition. The Twelfth Night adapted to
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She's the Man. The Taming of the Shrew adapted
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to 10 Things I Hate About You. And A Midsummer's
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Night Dream adapted to Get Over It. I don't know
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that one. I think you found your kill. Yeah,
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dead. Kirsten Dunst is in it. I'll have you know.
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So is Cisco. So is Mila Kunis. Ben Foster. I
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can see the DVD cover. Shane West. Shane West.
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Wow. Cisco. Thong song? Underrated. Underrated.
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Okay, let's take it back to the rapid fire now,
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Kyle. Yep. Yep. Favorite Cisco song. Thong song.
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Um, okay. Fuck, Mary, kill. I guess kill that
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one I don't know, because, I don't know. I can't
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feel bad about it, right? Yeah. Fuck. 10 Things
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I Hate About You, and Mary, She's the Man. Listen,
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10 Things I Hate About You is the better film.
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She's the Man, rewatchable. Highly, highly rewatchable.
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If you have cable, and you have two channels,
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and they're both randomly playing when you turn
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it on, you're watching She's the Man. Love it.
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Love it. It's true. Kyle, thank you so much.
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This is amazing. Thanks for having me. Check
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out The Sound of America at Fringe Arts. It's
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a party! I love getting unhinged on the mic,
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Robert. Unhinged Lou is the best Lou. Might f
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around and use a lighter hand on the edit button
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this time around. Don't get too crazy. What are
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you up to for the weekend? What should we get
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into? The Sound of America, the new Ben Franklin
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rock musical, a true story, is opening the night
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that this episode drops. And Kyle convinced me
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to go. Nice. Morgan Overton presents America
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500 at No Name Gallery, formally opening this
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Friday, July 3rd. Unbound, a visual study on
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the nature of freedom at Umbuntu Fine Art Gallery,
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is also opening this Friday. The Philadelphia
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Sketch Club will be open after hours from 8 p
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.m. to 10 .30. For its first Friday! For its
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first Friday! Fun! Cerulean Arts 14th Annual
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Juried Exhibition is ongoing through July 19th.
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Have you ever been to Cerulean Arts, Robert?
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Hmm. Me neither. Let's change that. Love that.
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And with that, Philly has heart. And art. Thank
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you for tuning in to Philly has Heart. Don't
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