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LMFAO Jukebox Musical · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to artists on artists on artists on artists. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: do we have a panel for you today.
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  Speaker 2: His Story's screenwriting expert panel of new voices in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Costumes are character.
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  Speaker 4: Buck Mary Kill wide shot, two shot, close up.
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  Speaker 1: This is artist on artists on artists on artists. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know why they call it show business? I always
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  Speaker 1: wonder that. Welcome back to artists on artists on artists
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  Speaker 1: on artists. If you were alive in twenty eleven, you
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  Speaker 1: may have heard of a little song called shots and
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  Speaker 1: party Rock Anthem. Well, those songs are now the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of a brand new LMFAO jukebox musical.
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  Speaker 5: This musical, Party Rock Anthem brings all the music you
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  Speaker 5: know and love of LMFAO to a theatrical stage.
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  Speaker 6: Musicals are a celebration of story and music come together,
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  Speaker 6: especially at jukebox musical with a power full artist behind it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's listen in.
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  Speaker 5: Damn, this is fucking awesome, guy, so cool, this is
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  Speaker 5: fucking rock this moment right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest with you, guys.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry if I smell like shit, I feel like
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  Speaker 5: I've been running all day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're sexy and I'm I would love that.
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  Speaker 5: We'd love to say that to each other on the team.
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  Speaker 5: This is fucking dope, guys. This ship's fucking dope, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm so fucking excited.
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  Speaker 1: It's fucking amazing. This ship's fucking amazing, and I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. And I couldn't be more excited to
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  Speaker 1: have a freaking team with me because I'm in Miami, bitch, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's pre Broadway and the Miami Regional Theater
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  Speaker 1: that we all know and love.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are workshopping this show in Miami, bitch,
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  Speaker 5: bitch bit. We're at the Miami Sun Theater right on
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  Speaker 5: the beach. We've been there for three weeks of are
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  Speaker 5: we got three more months to work out the kinks
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully we're taking our asses to Broadway Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, well, we are obviously the creative team behind
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  Speaker 1: Party Rock Anthers. I'm Jenna Fou. I am a producer
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  Speaker 1: of this musical, and I am by a few degrees
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  Speaker 1: removed related to red Fu of Party Rock anthems.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Damn that damn royalty?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: We bow down down, you know, I try and keep it.
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  Speaker 4: Up, guys.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Stevie Shred's that's my YouTube name.
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  Speaker 4: I am the book writer for this.
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  Speaker 5: I wrote the script for this, came up with the
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  Speaker 5: fucking sick ass, wicked idea that ended up being this
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  Speaker 5: whole show because this seems gotta have a narrative. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: this is what I've been told so, and I actually
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  Speaker 5: am a Red Food's tenant in the guest house behind
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  Speaker 5: his house. So it's really fucking sick to be here. Like,
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  Speaker 5: it's awesome, and I'm really proud of this thing. I'm
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  Speaker 5: really fucking proud of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Damn, what's up, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: It's me Vanessa Sugeons, not Vanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Tougins.
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  Speaker 1: Because she's always touching.
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  Speaker 3: Aha, that's awesome. I don't know what that means, but
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  Speaker 3: it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: She's always touching.
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  Speaker 6: I'm always touching, more likely touching my toes because I'm
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  Speaker 6: a dancer, y'all, choreographer, and I'm helping the boys here
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  Speaker 6: with a little bit of music direction on the side.
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  Speaker 6: I am been in the business for about thirty years,
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  Speaker 6: grew up in Le Mez, been around the fucking block,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm so happy to be in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Bitch in Miami bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guys, what's up. I'm Kyler Josh Fine, just graduated
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  Speaker 2: usc At Theater School and got cast in this amazing musical.
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  Speaker 4: She swooped him up.
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  Speaker 1: She swooped him up, swooped.
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  Speaker 2: It was so fun, a dream come true. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing the lead in this musical. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what I can give away.
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  Speaker 4: But well, we can give away your character's name.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Pits, Pits, So I am playing Pits. He's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a kooky guy. He really really loves partying
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  Speaker 2: and he loves music. And I don't know what else
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  Speaker 2: I can say.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're really you're really stressed about the end of
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 2: You're really nervous. I'm really nervous. I just graduated college.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Pay buddy, Buddy, you're not gonna blow it, Kyler.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, we're the disruptors, right like you came in on
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  Speaker 5: the right crowd, because we're trying to kind of blow
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  Speaker 5: the fucking you know, Dusty Dentures off of Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna blow him right out of their freaking crusty
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  Speaker 1: old mouths. And I got a Kyler you have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to worry about because you were such a disruptor. I
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  Speaker 1: actually found Kyler at the USC graduate student showcase for
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  Speaker 1: the theater program.
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  Speaker 2: I was just the audience. I was in the audience, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but he.
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  Speaker 1: Was shouting so much, and so I was like, who
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  Speaker 1: is that fucking kid? He has got something. This is
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  Speaker 1: a party rock guy.
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  Speaker 2: I just love monologues. I go crazy for a good monologue.
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  Speaker 2: And I wanted to show the graduates who were like
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  Speaker 2: in the graduate program that like the underground had their back,
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  Speaker 2: like so incredible. I just wanted to support these guys,
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  Speaker 2: give them love, give them acted. So I was like,
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  Speaker 2: whoa after every monologue and like even some during it.
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  Speaker 3: Like incredible he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was shouting along a little bit of Hamlet while
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  Speaker 1: it was happening. Just to show back up for this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Before we got here to Miami, we were at the
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  Speaker 6: La Joya Playhouse for just a little bit of some
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  Speaker 6: like big number working Laoya Bitch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, three days there, We're there for.
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  Speaker 6: Three days and the Loyal Playhouse. If you don't know it,
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  Speaker 6: if you are not a theater person, it shares a
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  Speaker 6: backstage with some of the stages. It has multiple stages,
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  Speaker 6: and we're shouterers here in our party Rock Anthem company,
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  Speaker 6: So we are disruptors and we are shouters. So backstage
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  Speaker 6: during our pre show, we are motherfucking shouting.
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  Speaker 1: That production of street Car named Desire was not happy
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 4: No, they weren't, no way, but that's the past.
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  Speaker 5: Like they they were unhappy with themselves because they can
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  Speaker 5: keep up with the future of what we're up to.
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  Speaker 5: So it's really fucking sick. It's really amazing looking around.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like such an energy because Broadway has never
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  Speaker 5: seen anything like this. You know, I'm hoping that we
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  Speaker 5: get into the August Wilson Theater. I think that's really
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  Speaker 5: gonna shake everything up.
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  Speaker 3: It's that'll blow the dentures off. The place.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be littered with dentures.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the time we're done, I'm just so excited,
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  Speaker 2: like to be attached to something that's like so new
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  Speaker 2: and so shaking up, and like I love the story
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  Speaker 2: of this musical and I don't I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: much I can give away about it.
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  Speaker 5: We'll give it all the way to Kyler. I love
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  Speaker 5: your energy, by the way, and I keep coming forward
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  Speaker 5: with this. People are going to try to knock you down.
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  Speaker 5: As you keep going in this industry, people are gonna
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  Speaker 5: keep trying to like make you not be who you are.
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  Speaker 5: Keep this always just because it's exciting to see. This
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  Speaker 5: is refreshing, right, don't we feel refreshed by this?
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 3: Of course?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this dude's a fucking shout and that's why I
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  Speaker 1: found him.
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  Speaker 3: You're a disruptor.
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  Speaker 6: You will go into a Thanksgiving dinner and say, let's
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  Speaker 6: not be thankful, let's disrupt.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say, like now that I have
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  Speaker 2: the second to do it, like, and I know I
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  Speaker 2: tell you guys this all the time, but I look
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  Speaker 2: up to all of you guys so much and like,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving me this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Like, of course, of course, Kyler, you rock man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you change everything. You change the room when
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  Speaker 4: you walk in.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 5: I've been lucky enough to go to some USC parties
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  Speaker 5: with you and and.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm glad you could come, I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 2: invited me.
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  Speaker 4: I think you invited me as a joke. And I said,
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  Speaker 4: I don't take invitations as jokes.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a joke.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, awesome, because I saw you take one jellow shot
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  Speaker 5: and you were on the fucking roof like you are
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  Speaker 5: so fucking bad.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a lightweight, which I think is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: We need more lightweight to musical.
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  Speaker 1: But I would love to hear more.
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  Speaker 5: About the So let me tell you, guys about what's
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  Speaker 5: going on in the show and what we kind of discovered.
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  Speaker 4: So we realized this music would fit.
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  Speaker 5: Really well into a modern retelling of Dante's Inferno. No, yes,
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  Speaker 5: but it's the Nine Circles of Hell as set in
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  Speaker 5: a Las Vegas pool party.
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  Speaker 2: So so smart.
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  Speaker 5: It's really smart, and it's really brave, like Nobody's ever
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  Speaker 5: kind of reimagined Dante's Inferno like this, And it's the
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  Speaker 5: kind of thing where it's we're ready for it, We're
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  Speaker 5: ready for something new, and the Nine Circles of Hell
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  Speaker 5: you get farther and farther in.
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  Speaker 1: And I think most people were surprised when, like they
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  Speaker 1: first saw it because they didn't expect the concept to
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  Speaker 1: be actually pretty good. I think they weren't expecting that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were just expecting some ham fisted elements
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  Speaker 1: own songs, but.
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  Speaker 2: The Green Day Jukebox musical or something like that right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right, totally, like try to make it fit around there.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is, I listened to that music so much.
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  Speaker 5: I listen to that music when I'm sitting in the
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  Speaker 5: guest house. Red Food plays it constantly, and it hit
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  Speaker 5: me one day, Yeah what if I was in hell?
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  Speaker 5: And that's when I realized this story would be perfect
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  Speaker 5: for this showcase.
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  Speaker 6: This is such a different jukebox musical because this music,
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  Speaker 6: like with Billy Joel music or Green Day music that's
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  Speaker 6: like a genre and a time Lamfao is timeless and
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  Speaker 6: around always always, So that music we have to show
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  Speaker 6: a different version of it because it's it sounds like
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  Speaker 6: elevator music to an American because we hear it all.
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  Speaker 1: The time, exactly, because sometimes we're like, oh, like i
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  Speaker 1: am not a horror is playing and you're like honkshoo, honkshoo,
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  Speaker 1: time to go to bed, because it's just constant, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you're like shopping it forever twenty one and that's
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  Speaker 1: just the current state exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing is, there's two ways to go to
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  Speaker 4: the jukebox musical.
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  Speaker 5: Right when I kind of when I pitched this idea,
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  Speaker 5: it's a Red.
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  Speaker 4: Food because this was my and he's been going with it.
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  Speaker 3: Every knock on his door, like from the.
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  Speaker 5: Fact, Yeah, I knock from the kitchen door and I said,
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  Speaker 5: hey man, I got an idea for you. It just
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  Speaker 5: hit me and I had done my research and I'd
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  Speaker 5: set everything up beforehand. There's two ways you can go.
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  Speaker 5: You can go with the Billy Joel. You can go
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  Speaker 5: with the American idiot. You can go with the on
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  Speaker 5: the nose right beat be beep.
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  Speaker 4: This is a musical called moving Out.
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  Speaker 5: We're just going to be having a guy who looks
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  Speaker 5: like Billy Joel Angel, Yeah exactly, just like very very obvious.
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  Speaker 5: Or you can go with the Mama Mia the head
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  Speaker 5: over heels. You take another story, you find a new
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  Speaker 5: adventure and I.
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  Speaker 3: Went on its head.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and let's reimagine it and see it in the
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  Speaker 5: way we've never seen before.
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  Speaker 4: You know what is uh sexy?
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  Speaker 5: And I know it as sung by a security guard
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  Speaker 5: who is representing Cerberus, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 5: that's that's what I'm looking for, and that's what we found.
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  Speaker 4: Which I'm so fucking excited that we fucking found that.
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  Speaker 4: All of us found that.
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  Speaker 1: You found that, you found that, and we all found
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  Speaker 1: in our own.
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  Speaker 6: I think in each generation of the show, it's being written, right,
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  Speaker 6: like you are writing that fearless fucking book and you
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  Speaker 6: come in and you are rewriting this in all these ads,
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  Speaker 6: like how do you how do you put an ad
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  Speaker 6: campaign together for this?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, like nuts?
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  Speaker 6: And then I'm rewriting it with our bodies and you
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  Speaker 6: are rewriting it with your mother fucking soul.
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  Speaker 2: No way, No, you.
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  Speaker 4: Have to reject one of our compliments.
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  Speaker 5: Again, I'm gonna give you the biggest fucking wet Willie
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  Speaker 5: ever felt.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay, what is.
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  Speaker 3: It for you?
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  Speaker 6: Like just experiencing like selling this fucking music? Because the
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  Speaker 6: budget on this thing is ginormous.
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  Speaker 1: It's ginormous. And I think what we had to do
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  Speaker 1: because as we know, like Broadways Denture City, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: the dusty, dusty Denture Capitus.
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  Speaker 3: Both the dentures off the roof.
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  Speaker 1: So what what I had to do? I had to
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  Speaker 1: think outside the box because obviously these old people were
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  Speaker 1: not going to go for something like this unless I
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  Speaker 1: had a pit that was gonna do it. And I
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  Speaker 1: really pitched this as what are you afraid of? Fuck?
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  Speaker 1: What are you? What are your deepest fears. I pitched
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  Speaker 1: this as a horror for them. I pitched this as
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  Speaker 1: do you want to be fucking scared? This is what
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  Speaker 1: he'll do it. It's the music of LMFAO is going
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  Speaker 1: to deeply terrify you. I played them the song yes
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, like yes, the party's working, Yes, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And see the amount of old people who fainted back
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  Speaker 1: in their chairs upon hearing it because it was so
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  Speaker 1: terrifying to them.
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  Speaker 2: Repetitive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they fainted and then they took out their checkbooks.
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  Speaker 4: You should have seen this shit.
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  Speaker 5: We used to have to go into these pitch meetings
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  Speaker 5: and these financing meetings. We used to have to buckle
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  Speaker 5: them into their seats because they were getting hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how did you get Monster Energy on board?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: They were on board without with like three words. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. They told me afterwards. They didn't even read
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  Speaker 1: the body of the email. They just read the subject
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  Speaker 1: line that said laoja I heard.
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  Speaker 2: They wrote you back. They started writing back right at
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  Speaker 2: lmf They just didn't even read it.
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  Speaker 1: I got a response within thirty seconds that said yes,
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  Speaker 1: And so how.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know they wanted to break into the musical
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  Speaker 3: theater world.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a sense. When you're a producer, it's your
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  Speaker 1: job to anticipate what things are gonna happen, and so
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  Speaker 1: we did. We heavily featured Monster Energy in this show,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys know. But it wasn't hard, like it
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  Speaker 1: was almost a benefit to us. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: with ads and with the sponsorship, you have to like
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  Speaker 1: find a way to work it in and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of clumsy, but this is a symbiotic relationship. This is
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  Speaker 1: bringing Monster Energy to the elderly, which is a market
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  Speaker 1: they don't have. We have what they need. You.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was just gonna say what we found in
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  Speaker 5: the device because the whole thing about musicals, everyone has
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  Speaker 5: a different philosophy of who's singing?
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  Speaker 4: And why are we singing? Can everybody in the room
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  Speaker 4: hear me singing? Am I singing? My inner thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: Why is this a song? Why is the style?
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  Speaker 5: We found the device? Every time you drink a monster,
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  Speaker 5: you start belting l mfao. So they all chug a
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  Speaker 5: monster and start going kyler. How's that process for you?
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  Speaker 2: It's been so fun. I'm a big fan of Monster
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  Speaker 2: Energy drink.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I try to use water for the first couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, but it just it wasn't working for you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: So I quickly made the switch to actual Monster energy drink.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm drinking like eight or nine because we are
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  Speaker 2: running through water.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't giving them twitches.
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  Speaker 4: It was bad. Water was bad.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't getting like the eye twitches when someone's overly caffeinated.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't getting that. And watching that you need that in.
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  Speaker 2: The in the p Yeah, I mean this, this performance
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  Speaker 2: is a dream come true for me. I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: the whole blocking process and building a show from the
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  Speaker 2: ground up. I've never experienced anything like that other than
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  Speaker 2: like when I was in the ninth like my freshman year,
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  Speaker 2: I was in a short film and we were kind
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  Speaker 2: of building that together.
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  Speaker 1: It feels so fun, way different than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so different. Actually it is so much better.
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  Speaker 2: It's so But how did it, Like you guys meet though, like.
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  Speaker 1: We Well, I'm a distant cousin of red food.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so she was over four.
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  Speaker 1: I was over for Shabbat and you know, I'm over
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  Speaker 1: a lot because every week. Yeah, I'm over frequently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I know the family very well because I'm in
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  Speaker 1: it and sky Blue who was obviously Red Food's nephew,
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  Speaker 1: the second member of l M F a O. He
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  Speaker 1: no longer comes around because of the feud, and so
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the family was sort of forced to take
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  Speaker 1: a side. Everybody along the like third fourth cousins, even
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  Speaker 1: everybody had to take a spot. And it split us
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: right down the middle. And it got to a point
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: where because I was like, Skyblue, you're awesome, You're a
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: great kid. But I had to flip a coin because
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I couldn't choose, and so I had to go with
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Red Food. But I think it led us to a
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: good direction because he really wanted to do this musical
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: and he had the idea for it, so we went
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: behind it. But yeah, I was over at the house
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: and I think the first time we met you were
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you were in the guest house.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: I was in the guest house. I accidentally lit my
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: fucking shirt on fire.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was seeing and I was like, that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: guy is dancing so good.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: That guy ran I ran out smoking smoke. Alarms went off.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I jumped into the pool and you were there, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: then we didn't see each other for three or four
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: more years.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: You crate that pan really high with the for the eggs.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I like to cook eggs hard. I like to cook
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: them until they're hard, right right. I just don't like
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: soft shit in my mouth. Like I go hard all
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: the time, even with eggs.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: So right right, right, right, right right.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: You know, I like to cook him up in My
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: shirt was just too long for what I was cooking with.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: So that's just kind of what happened. But that's kind
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: of when we met later, I think at a some
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: sort of industry event.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then for Ravers in Broadway, that's what it was,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a networking event for Ravers and broad Yeah, rib and
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: we met because there was a there was a fountain
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: of uh it wasn't chocolate and it was it was
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Nike Weill That's what it was. Because they had they
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: had Niquel fountain and then they had like a little
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: dish of molly but it baked into candy that you
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: could have, So it was a little something crazy.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: It was wild Us. It was Shyanne Jackson. Who are
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: the other Ravers in Broadway?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Ravers in Broadway, it was well scrill X was there
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: because he was briefly involved in Pippin and so he
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: was there for it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: In like amazing I mean your newest raver on Broadway
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Beany Feldstein.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, he hit the scene hard and fast.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: That's why she burned. She hasn't been to Ribbon, it's
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: so crazy. Hasn't been a rib when she first got
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: cast and Funny Girl she came. She picked up a
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: big hand, a big pile of pixie to us as
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: we call it, and she said, this is the only
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: music that makes me dance. Funny Girl, holy shit right
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: in front of us, and we were having a blast.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And she showed up in full rave gear, handied out,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: candied out bracelets, totem of like uh, it was like
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it was like a giant like Saturn.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Remember I think she went home with Joel Gray that
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: that night.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. She was crazy. I can't
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: believe they did that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I love Joel Gray and I love Beanie. What a
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: good com Can I.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Just say the fact that we got Joel Gray in
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: this show is so amazing. How is it amazing to
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: work with the original wizard himself? Cabaret.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: He's so good.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: It's come in bitches.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: He is so so good when we do uh that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: He is kind of the party rock like he is.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: He's taking me through the layers. So he is the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: party rock and as you guys know, every LMFAO song
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: includes the word party rock in it or or surrounds
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the theme of party rock. So he has he's in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: all of the things and just getting to know like
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a pro like that and like being opened up to
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: a world and a guy who is kind of over it,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you know, like he is very it. There's a reason
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: he's not here today.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's a lot of reasons.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: It gives me fucking chills when I see him do
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: because we have him come in with some solos and
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: he's the the legendary every day I'm shuffling right, everything
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: stops and you can talk about that because that's in
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: obviously party rock anthem, the opening song. It's also middle
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: of act one song, into Act one song, and then
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: middle of back two song and finale song.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It's reprised.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it's.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Different every time, and the middle of act two reprise
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of it is absolutely heartbreaking. The duet that you have
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: with oh my gosh, our co star, I can't remember
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: her name, Seezy the girl, right, I remember because we
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: kept changing it back and forth between Steezy and Slee's bag,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and so I couldn't.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Totally not decide, We could not decide he is great,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: he is really Palmer, she went straight from the.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Jordan Peele movie on a pre probably member that, yes.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: That duet that you have, that second act reprise duet
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that you have of every day I'm chuffling with Kiki
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Palmer is absolutely heartbreaking. The way that you guys harmonize
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: your the choice to slow.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It down, the choice to slow it down and play
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: it slowly, and heartbreaking.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Every day I'm shop.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: I love somebody, Yes, yes, And we talked to the
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: boys about that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I talked to the guys about that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: When we are workshopping a lot of the music and
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: the workshops that we were presenting to Monster and presenting
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: two investors, it was like, we gotta we gotta hear
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: dynamics in LMFAO, and that though we get LMFAO's spirit
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: in their albums, you don't need dynamics from them because
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: they are dynamic in themselves.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: But in a musical, we have a beginning of middle
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: of an end.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: We have peaks and we have valleys, so we need
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: we need a parking bark. As we say in our business,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: we need a moment where a character stands and proclaims
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: their emotion out. It's hard to sing LMFAO's music and
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: not move your body, so we have to slow it down.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Have I need to bring that scene up because that's
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: reprisal four of party Rock Anthem. That turns into a
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: dream ballet under the wavepool, right, And so the choreography
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: that you did.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: For that so beautiful.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: It knocks my balls into my fucking ass when I
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: see it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: It's so good.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I love.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I love when men respond to choreography and they and
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: their balls shake.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not gay, but I like choreography.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I love that, and I love the yeah say yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: And I'm glad to say that yeah yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: We also, I mean every day I'm shuffling.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: The second you approached me about like adding so much
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: movement and just life to this piece, I remember realizing,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: like the first thing came to my mind, every damn shuffling, shuffle,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: tap shuffle.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: We got to make this a tap piece.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: And then I sat down with you and you said,
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: hold it right there, sister, let's sit down and talk ideas.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I realized a tap dance number to
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: every day in shuffling to that part of the song
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: is not deconstructing Broadway. It is not disrupting Broadway. What
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: is swimming in a pool? Lyrical dances, That's what's going
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: to like that is.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: A lot of work to do under a pool, like
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you know, and and also ballet. I'm not professionally trained
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: in ballet. Yeah, it's been.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Really hard to figure out the dynamics of that wavepool
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: and the machine that makes the waves is so loud.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And we get into it every single day, even
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: though it's like I've almost jan a couple of times.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to put my body on the love.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: That energy, I will say, was very intent on it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: being a real pool, monster filled.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: When we had the Monster Energy, we ran out of
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Monster when we had the wave pool pitch.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: We were out of money from Monsters. So you went
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: to rock Star.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, say yes. I went to Rockstar Energy, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: they really really really wanted a pool, and like we were,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: because we were going to do it like traditional ballet
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: style where there's these beautiful like silk things that were
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: blowing and it's supposed to symbolize pool. But they were like,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: fuck that, we're an energy drink company. What the fuck
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: is a silk sheet gonna do for us that doesn't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: sell energy drinks?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And didn't you pit them against each other?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bidding war.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: It was a bidding war within our own production. Last
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: ship was risky as hell, and I love you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. We're disrupting. We're disrupting. We're saying
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: these two sponsors are giving us money. It's just like
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and bid against each other.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: That part, for me is like such a crazy show
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: because the pool is filled with rockstar energy drink and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: then they're Monster energy drink motorcyclists that do flips over
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the pool and I'm holding my breath for dear life.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Waves like eight foot waves are hitting because it's a
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: full wave pool.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I also think we should shout out our incredible
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: set designer who designs a salee okayond Mommy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Stefan Mommy bitch, motherfucker. I mean Steffan Mommy came in
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: with some incredible stuff, especially because that specific segment, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: we in monster versus rock stars all happening on the stage.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: It kind of felt like uh, somebody dealing with two
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Christmases from recently divorced parents. It felt like they were
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: fighting against each other in a massive fucking way. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: I can relate to that, you know what I mean.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: So that was like really crazy. Steffan had to come
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: in and had to had to lump all that together
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: and connect it and make build those bikes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you build the bikes, build.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: The gold the motorcycle.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: When I want a completely original motorcycle, he said, And.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: We can't just get one. We have to buy all
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the parts. And he also the way that he sort
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of flipped the set upside down, like deconstructed in each act.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So it's hard to describe, but the set sort of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: flips in ane of itself because we're going into another
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: layer and it sort of becomes this like noises Off
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: style thing where at the very end we are backstage
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of Miami's Hell. We are in like the essentially the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Devil's backstage for Hell. That's where they keep all the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: hell stuff that they aren't using at that time. It's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: introduced that there's a storage closet where all the demons live.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: It's a greater metaphor for the banality of evil.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, at beautiful like a great beautiful moment, and like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Can't say anything you want, and.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Like one of my favorite moments to get.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: On board or get off, to get the motorcycle or
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: get off, get it away pool or get out, because
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I can go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Back to USC and find another.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: No, no, I'll pick people at those parties.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I could throw a diamond, find a kid yelling at us,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: like no, I'm so into.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It special, but come on.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: So one of my favorite moments of the show, One
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: of my favorite momentes of the show is I thought
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you were did such a beautiful job. And it was
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: both the combination of your choreography and your beautiful writing.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Where where there's that line and where little John in
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the song shots goes all the alcoholics put your hands up,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: and I put my hand up and the music cuts out,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and I realize that's why I'm here. I'm walking down
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the steps of hell to deal with my alcoholism.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Saying is alcohol and we're saying alcoholics go to hell.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Here is the thesis statement of this show. A common
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: misconception about LMFAO is that we are pro drinking. No,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: LMFAO is a morality tale. It shows you what not
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to do. Anytime they're saying sorry, my bitch through a
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hissy fit about my whiskey dick, that is showing you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: don't drink alcohol. It is poison.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Can I tell you who believes this is why you're
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: so fucking brilliant and the best producer I've ever met,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: who believes that alcoholics are going to help energy drink creators?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, because you know there was that viral thing
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that went around that the Monster Energy was actually the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: symbol of the devil or the symbol of the beast.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's actually the opposite.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Oh you did that?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fun.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: It just like I like disrupting every time.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is disrupting because Monster Energy turns out as
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a deeply Christian and deeply sober organization and that's why
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: they're an energy drink, and not because I sat down
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with the CEO a while because we he was so
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: excited and we sat.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Down fucking too.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: We were fucking so I sat down on his penis
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and we had a discussion and we were talking about it,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and he was like you know, I have everything in
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the world. I have the money, I had the funding,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and like I was born into money, I got these investors.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I'm a brilliant entrepreneur. I could have made the most
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: insane whiskey or tequila or vodka, but I didn't because
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sober, and so I poured it into the opposite
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of a depressant, which is a stimulant. And what is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: more stimulating than a monster energy drink.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: And I'm not here to judge any of these people, right,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I don't know what they're talking about most of the time.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: But I am here to make lemonade out of whatever
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: lemons they're fucking around with. So that's what I'm up
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: to with this musical, and I think we're doing a
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: great job of that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a beautiful story just about like the
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: trials and tribulations of partying, but how you can pay
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: party sober, you can party rock with your sopriety. You know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Eleven o'clock number, because we're talking about sobariety.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about it. Well, let's and and we haven't
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: mentioned this yet. Red Fou wrote fifteen original songs. They
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: all sound identical.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all pretty much the same. I thought they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: were from the original album the first thirteen times I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: heard it. Then I realized, oh wait a minute, this
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: shit is new.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: And that's what's amazing is that we have brand new
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: stuff that feels familiar.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you're gonna you're not gonna know for a
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: second you hadn't heard it before.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so that's the same shit.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Well, and that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Eleven o'clock number, as you were saying, is so powerful
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: because it is that big, sobriety turning point moment where
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh God, what's gonna happen? And so red
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Fu reimagined shots as like this deeply haunting number and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: he added a lot of new lyrics.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: It's great. Can we play it? Is that cool?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, this is so. This is footage from last
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: night's rehearsal.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the song. No shots, no shots, no shots,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: no shots, no shots, no shots, no shots, no shots, shot.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Shot shot, shot, shot shot shot.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Party rock, party rock, party, I don't know, party rock.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: What's happening part party rock?
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Party rocky, party rock.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Rock.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: Everybody up, good time rock and we can make.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: It lose yr.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Everybody.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Shots have a good time. Shot shots, shot shots, shot shots,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: shot shot shot shot shot shot shot shot shot shots.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Everybody, Welcome to the pool party.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: I just think it is first of all, I commend you.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: I don't know whose idea it was to bring on
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: the like a vocal coach for everybody, because even though
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: everyone is really trained, the amount of scrouching in the piece,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: we have to untrain them.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean I'm not musically trained.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I just have a very strong voice. Yeah, so I
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: had to do a lot. Well, actually it didn't have
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: to do that much work. It was actually pretty easy
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: to sing the songs. A lot of it was just
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: me recording one thing of my voice and then you
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: guys repeating that a million times. Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, to which we do have a Broadway original Broadway
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: cast album that we are laying down too.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: It's available at Sears.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just doing like a little releasing it already.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: We're releasing it at Sears. You can go to Sears.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: We have a specific exclusive deal with them, so you
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: can get it there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But not just Sears. It's the Sears and Encino, it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the Seis in San Diego.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: You're limited Sears.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all my cousins work. It's really fucking exciting.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I'm so excited.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: And then hopefully if it picks up, we'll get more
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: sales and all that stuff.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: But I'm just so fucked and pumped.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's so much good in this and I
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: think we are going to change the world with it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: And I mean the acting process to get into this,
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: we haven't even talked about that. We were taking you
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: guys out, you know, we were like, run this musical, now,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: run this at a rave, Run this musical at in
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: the ocean.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Rehearsals from seven to eleven every night, and then you
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: guys head out. You guys, put on your chubbies, those
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: bright shore.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And chubbies, you book, get the fuck out.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Of the rehearsal space, and then you guys come back
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: like coped out of your mind the next morning.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we had the Nutritions come in and
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: watch you guys. Turns out, you guys burned eight thousand
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: calories every time we.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Run the show. Yeah, and well it's actually times by
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: two because all of them the caffeine.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but the risk of.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Heart attack for this show is something we had to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: factor into the budget, so we do have a lot
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: more EMT.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Standing by, and our insurance is fucking balls crazy. It's
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: nice come on.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: Bikes and a wavepool plus aorta issues and have to.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, Joel Gray alone is hanging on by a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: threat exactly.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: He already had a couple of strokes.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Joe Gray literally looks like a worm with a head
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: on it right now. He's burning so many galleries.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: What a way to go out, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I also would love to talk about that incredibly haunting number.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It's and it just gets really into this sobriety thing again.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Sorry for party rocking, oh, which comes around the end
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of act one and it's just you on stage, just
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: really really wrestling with yourself. You are so sorry.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: In that thank you, thank you. I mean a lot
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: of that is coming from pure exhaustion at that point,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: because the show has been going for two hours at
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: this point, and you know, I'm exhausted. We're running around
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: all these hells, and I think for my character, for Pitts,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: he's realizing how how low he's gotten for partying. You know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: he's an alcoholic because his father was an alcoholic, because
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: his mother was an alcoholic, but he's still going to hell. Yeah,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: even though it's generational, he's still going to help. And
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I will say you helped me so much with the
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: internal because your understanding of choreography for that number was
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: so simpil if you if you don't mind talking about that,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I can go into my acting stuff because I feel
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: like a lot of it was about.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Your choreography because in corporate fist bumps is in a
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: way I've never imagined.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I remember being I'd love to hear that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'd love to play the song for people because the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: fist bumps are very audio like. You can hear the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: fist bumps with it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I think we have a track of Kyler doing the
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: fist bumps.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Let's play that, Okay, Sorry, do do Do Do Do
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Do Do?
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Sorry?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Party rocking, Sorry for party rock.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry Dad, Sorry for party Oh.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: I love that number so much and the way we
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: can hear you hitting the ground and hitting the air,
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: it's incredible. I took a lot of inspiration when we
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: first took had our meetings. I was I sat with
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: just how basic all of LMFAO's choreography is and just
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: their body of work.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Right because they are not particularly dancers, they're not even particularly.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: And they move in a way they go, they move
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: in a way, but that way is the same way,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: and that's what you're dealing with here, is like just
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: again dynamics. And I was thinking, like, okay, repetition, the
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: same thing over and over and over again. How can
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I do this fist pump in basically every single number,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: and how do I keep that going? And I went
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: back to the Queen of repetition. I used to study
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: her in dance school. Peinabauch, We we love Peanut.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Peanut Bouch.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Was actually a huge red Buffu fan.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys know that, No fucking.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Way allay in Berlin, she had them come out to Berlin.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I played for Kyler and the whole gang. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: played these little pixelated.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: Videos I've never seen, like the Depths of Berlin, the
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: depths of Berlin. I think it was in a meat
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: locker and one girl's going over and over and over.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Oh Cafe barleos.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Yes, And I said, what does that look like, guys,
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: that looks like a fist pump?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: And what is beautiful about Peana Bousch's work? Is her
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: understanding of repetition. And that's what I.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Really really made us repeat. I mean, there was probably
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: three weeks where we were just fist bumping, and every
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: single time we did, you would say, no, you're not
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: hitting it right. You've got to hit a little bit tighter,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: a little bit better.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: It was my fucking mind. You're fucking ship man. I
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: mean the way your brain knocks my balls into my
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: fucking mouth.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: You're so but I love when men say that I
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: move their balls. Thank you, I love and thank you
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: for saying that.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Just like Hell.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, of course I wanted to mention too, for all
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: the LMFAO heads.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Shuffle Bot does make an appearance.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, got we got.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Shuffle Bot does make an appearance.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Is on the seventh ring of Hell.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Shufflebot is Hell once you get to you know, at
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: the very choice.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more of shufflebots Inferno if you will.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: And he comes in and I can't tell you how
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: incredible Aaron Tobate is as shuffle Bot. He is so
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: amazing and I can't believe. You know, we did kind
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: of a King George thing where we had you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: it's a great role. You get an incredible actor. You say,
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: you're so talented, Let's have you on stage for ten
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: minutes and we'll give you three million dollars a year.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: That's what we're doing with it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: And he's now he's doing Death of a Salesman down
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the Road.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he is.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: And he'll come and he'll come in.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: I think the stage manager calls him at like ninety
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: nine forty five, comes in, does his thing goes back
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: as Willie Lowman.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: He's happy. Yeah, it's great. It's fucking dope.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited about this.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to go to get this thing to Broadway.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, can we talk about like we are.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: So close I can taste it.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: We are that there are just a couple of kinks.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: We have to worry about money less.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I think we do well. Okay, there are a couple
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of kinks that I feel like I should talk about.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: This is a budget thing. It's also a okay at
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the very end, you know, we it's obviously a morality
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: play about sobriety. At the very end, we hand out
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred of the King James Bible to every single
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: audience member who's there as a sort of believe to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: leave them with a lasting impact of what the show
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: is trying to say. And a lot of people didn't
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: take too kindly to that. They felt like we were
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: trying to push LMFAO's agenda on them, their highly religious agenda.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: And so I think that might be one very expensive Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: It was very fifteen brand new King James Bibles is
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: very But also.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: This, what's the difference between that and the Blue Man
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: group selling blue T shirts?
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Exactly, it's the same thing.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: It's the same, and I showed me something different between
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: the two.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: I mean that King, I think is going to be
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: worked out in a second.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: It's going to be obvious. The other King, which I
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: think is clearing up.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I bet you has even been cleared up while we've
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: been sitting here, Like I'll get an email and it's
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: all good. Red Food has rescinded the rights to all
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: the songs currently. But I think that's gonna kind of
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: blow over.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's just I'm across that.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Is there a reason why he pulled it pulled it back?
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he saw it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: He saw the show.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: That's the main reason.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: The reason.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he didn't was it me?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Sorry?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yler no, it was no, no, no, Kyler, No, it's.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: There's so much in the show. It wasn't you the
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: last pie is you got to work out that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: I think it will just naturally handle. Is that Kiki
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: doesn't want to do the show.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: We'll figure it out.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: That's gonna take.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Care of that.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I'm deeply across that. It's what. We're fine. We're fine.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: It's the other giant I guess, tiny, tiny little is
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: in the after the second intermission. There's that giant automaton
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of Little John that's just malfunctioning and caught one of
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the actors and crushed them, squished them. Today.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: That was difficult.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our insurance has gone up significantly since then.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: Sent family, We sent flowers Sallas Ripley's family, and we
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: feel we loved her.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: I saw her in Next to Normal. I'm gonna miss
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: her so much. I thought she's incredible. Luckily, you know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: she made CDs of her stuff.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Around, she did covers.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: We ever forever, everyone lives on through music, just as
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: the I mean, I was so sad when Red Food
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and Skyblue broke up. I mean it literally the family
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: fe I was grieving a death. I bet USC had
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: to cancel classes.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: It was awful. It was absolutely awful that that those
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: two weeks there was no parties. Everybody was just in mourning.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: The fraternities. People did not Yeah, they wore masks and
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: they didn't like. The fraternities fell apart like there was
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: It was like almost like our grandfather had died.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: That shit sucks.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, USC fell apart that We were like what do
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: we turn to? You know, who do we turn to?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: But they live on through music, right. LMFAO released two
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: absolutely perfect albums.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Who else can say can say that they're so fucking good.
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: Lawless albums and so so consistent because it's the same
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: sound exactly.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to release two albums. Were on both of the albums,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: every single song says the words party rock in it
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: or has the themes about party. Party rock is insane.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: It's a it's an art form unto itself.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Show me anyone else who has done that shit, No
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: one has.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Billy Joel only mentioned piano Man once.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Billy Joel talks about so many different things. I don't
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: even know what he's fucking about.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so he's just like rambling.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like okay in encyclopedia, great, let me put
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: you on my.
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: Fuck he's an alcoholic.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: What are we talking about? And that's why we're mad
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: at him? Listen? But I think to end on a
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: positive note, I do think that the thing that is
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: going to sail us straight to Broadway is that unforgettable
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: finale song, that unforgettable mashup sort of thing of all
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of their different songs together in like a perfect harmony,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: is so good and the motorcycles are going and it's
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: just so good. I would love to play that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: We shall play that before as we leave, and just
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: before we play it, just say, buy your tickets.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Now, get them now.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: We have seven tickets available every show. You're gonna want
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: to fifteen hundred, King James.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: But this is just the pre trial, so there's we're
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: only doing.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: We can only have seven people near the way to.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: The motorcycles ended up being a lot bigger than regular motorcycles.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: So come to Miami.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Buy your tickets now and come fast, because monster energy
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: erodes metal.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, gonna do we play that ship?
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Play that ship party, rocky.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Girl.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Look at that body girl, Look at that body girl,
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Look at that body work.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Out, work Out, work.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Out, work work four party, Sorry for pot.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: For pod, Oh, look out for that biketo.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: The pool party.
• 44:15
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