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Tim Wright: I Mostly Get To Kickback and Watch The Brilliance · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Well, I would be getting in quick to get your
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  Speaker 1: tickets for MJ the Musical at Crown Theater because it
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  Speaker 1: is only on until July nineteen. Tickets are selling fast
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  Speaker 1: through Ticketmaster and it is a show well worth seeing.
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  Speaker 1: One of the people in it is Albany born actor
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  Speaker 1: Tim Wright. This morning, Hello, welcome to Nice to meet you. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You you play Dave, Michael's business manager. I do. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: You're probably the only one on stage that gets to
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  Speaker 1: have a decent lunch because you don't have to come back.
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  Speaker 2: And Dad's yeah, fat, Yeah, I know you're right. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very lucky in that regard. Dancing is not one of
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  Speaker 2: my strengths, so I'm well cast in this one.
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  Speaker 3: So tell everybody a little bit about Day Day, the
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  Speaker 3: character you play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Dave is MJ's business manager. He's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a mixture of real life people for MJ, so not
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  Speaker 2: any one specific person. And look, he's really there to
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  Speaker 2: I think highlight just how much he's on the line.
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  Speaker 2: What's at stake for MJ putting together this dangerous world tour,
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  Speaker 2: and what a financial risk it is to him. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so I approach him as a guy who actually does
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  Speaker 2: really care about MJ and is genuinely concerned for him,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a little bit of self interest in that
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  Speaker 2: as well, of course, But yeah, he's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fun to play and look most of the time you
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  Speaker 2: saw it, I mostly just get to kick back and
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  Speaker 2: watch the brilliance of our dance ensemble and our MJ
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  Speaker 2: and all of our incredible cast and the band, and
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  Speaker 2: kind of an amazing gig for me in that sense.
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  Speaker 2: I do spend quite a bit of time side stage
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  Speaker 2: in the wings just marveling at how guys wishing.
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  Speaker 3: That you could sing a beance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh mate, it's yeah, I'm quite happy to just watch
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  Speaker 2: because those guys, they are killing themselves out there, giving
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  Speaker 2: it all for the audience.
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  Speaker 1: They are amazing. And Alario Grant as all the Michaels.
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  Speaker 1: I love teenage Michael as well and the little Michaels,
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  Speaker 1: but Alario is pretty spectacular to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really is. And he's such a lovely guy
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  Speaker 2: as well, which you know, my parents came up for
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  Speaker 2: opening night and you know, they were sort of beside
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  Speaker 2: themselves and I grabbed a Lario at one point and
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  Speaker 2: at the party, I was like, do you mind can
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  Speaker 2: you come and say hi? To the family, was like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he came over. He got pictures of everyone and he
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  Speaker 2: was so he's just a really lovely, generous, down to
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  Speaker 2: earth guy and ridiculously talented.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the night I was there, the audience specifically really
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  Speaker 1: lost its mind over want to be starting something?
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  Speaker 2: That's it? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you find it's different from one night to another
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  Speaker 1: as the song that the audience might really have a
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  Speaker 1: reaction with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. I mean that one is pretty consistent one.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that is the point every opening night,
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  Speaker 2: certainly that we've done that, the audience lose their minds
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  Speaker 2: and all get up on their feet, which is I've
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  Speaker 2: not done show before where mid act you get a
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  Speaker 2: standing ovation, and that's happened on this one pretty much
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  Speaker 2: every time we've opened, and that's unusual. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's I don't know, there's such a build in that
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  Speaker 2: number and it's quite long. It's spelled like you.
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  Speaker 1: The little thriller ty yeah tees, which is yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: gets really Can you.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me as an audience when that thriller te has
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  Speaker 2: happened and finished? Were you like, oh, no, is that
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  Speaker 2: is that?
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  Speaker 1: It?
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  Speaker 3: Is?
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  Speaker 2: That the only thriller bit we get Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think we we think we knew it had to
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  Speaker 1: come back, but it was really it just it's like
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  Speaker 1: triggering a little excited just.
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  Speaker 3: At taster, little little treating thirty songs. Also in the musical,
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  Speaker 3: as day of the business Advisor, the manager, what's Dave's favorite?
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  Speaker 1: Look.
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  Speaker 2: I get to actually sing a bit in the finale,
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  Speaker 2: so that's kind of fun, a little kind of bust
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  Speaker 2: out a little bit of rap stuff, which is nice.
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  Speaker 2: I look, the whole Wannabe sequence is pretty cool. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in that chunk as well, and that's where I do
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  Speaker 2: bust out a few old man dance moves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This look, there's so many incredible songs in this And
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  Speaker 2: when we first were putting it all together and chatting
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  Speaker 2: with the creative team Lynn Nottage, who wrote it, we
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  Speaker 2: were sort of asking her how did you pick?
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  Speaker 1: Like, how did you?
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  Speaker 2: And they there was a debate amongst the creatives. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there were points they were like there were songs they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to put in there, but they just were like,
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  Speaker 2: we could chuck another twenty in, but we just can't.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have the time. So they were the ones
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  Speaker 2: who had to make those hard calls and trim, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Smooth Criminal one, which I'm not involved
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  Speaker 2: in at all, is probably my favorite in the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the song is banging and the cory and
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  Speaker 2: that number in particular is lot. It is good, breathtaking.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually my favorite Michael Jackson's song. So I was
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  Speaker 1: a bit I was a bit biased there. But the
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  Speaker 1: man in the Mirror Company ensemble spectacular too. And like
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  Speaker 1: I've said a couple of times, shout out to the
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  Speaker 1: woman who plays Catherine, Michael's mother. She is incredible. This
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  Speaker 1: is why you want to get in quickly for the tickets,
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  Speaker 1: which are available through ticket Master. Lovely to meet you, Tim.
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  Speaker 2: Great to meet you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: What's next on the agenda? Is there a musical show
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  Speaker 3: that you go? All right, I've got a taste for this.
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  Speaker 3: I need to be in the next one.
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  Speaker 2: I will take any and all. But I actually do
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  Speaker 2: have another one that I'm going to be jumping into.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be heading off to the Neil Diamond.
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  Speaker 3: Musical after this, oh amazing legend to another.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, very lucky. I feel very blessed.
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  Speaker 3: We look forward to it. Thanks for coming in
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure, Thanks for having me, guys.