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Come Alive - Des Flanagan and Ruby Clarke - · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Des Flanagan and Ruby Clark from The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular,
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  Speaker 1: which is on at Crown Perth in a very made-for-it.
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  Speaker 2: Tent, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Circus tent. Roll up, roll up. On the Riverside entry there.
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  Speaker 1: It's on until October 10. Tickets are through Ticketek. They're
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Des, are you Hugh Shackman in the show?
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  Speaker 3: No, funnily enough, I'm Des in the show. No, I
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  Speaker 3: play a showman.
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  Speaker 4: It's a completely recontextualized version of the show with the
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  Speaker 4: songs from the movies. So that's the only thing you
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  Speaker 4: can really expect or just to have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not the greatest showman on stage. As you said,
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  Speaker 1: it incorporates the music, but then it's a circus spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not the movie in three days.
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: So I play a showman who's been running this circus
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  Speaker 4: for time immemorial.
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  Speaker 3: I want out. Ruby plays a character called Max.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I try and coerce her into joining this marvelous circus.
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  Speaker 4: And so throughout the hour and 40 show that we have,
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  Speaker 4: you'll see trapeze, Teeter board and slack line.
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  Speaker 3: It's so impressive.
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  Speaker 1: So you run away to join the circus.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: And then the oldest tale in the book.
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  Speaker 5: And then you see what happens when I do join
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  Speaker 5: the circus.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the things you people do are just absolutely
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  Speaker 1: mind blowing and amazing. Do you ever sit side of
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  Speaker 1: stage and see stuff and just go.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, still have your mind blown every day. Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: There's like points in the show where, Um, where, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Des is on stage talking a lot and I'm backstage
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  Speaker 5: waiting to come on and I just get to like
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  Speaker 5: stand back there and appreciate, like, I can watch all
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  Speaker 5: the circus acts from the VOMS where you enter and exit. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And you just like, every time you're literally like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's so good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm on stage at one point every night and
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  Speaker 4: almost a tear every night for just the same act.
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  Speaker 3: It's our hair hangers.
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  Speaker 2: Hair hangers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, girl. They're hanging from their hair. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and they're twirling around. They're flying. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine who went the other night said,
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  Speaker 2: don't sit in the front row if you scare easily.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think she meant by that?
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  Speaker 5: You just feel like you're in it. It feels like
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  Speaker 5: you're in it no matter where you sit. It's so like,
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  Speaker 5: it's beautifully set in the round.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a bad seat in the house.
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  Speaker 4: It's only 15 rows deep, but 15 rows deep in
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  Speaker 4: a normal theater, you feel like you're on stage.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: What's rehearsal like? Is it just moments of utter chaos? Bonkers.
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  Speaker 3: It was real. I mean, it's so slow and thought out.
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  Speaker 4: But particularly for this version of the show, for both
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  Speaker 4: Ruby and I coming from music theatre, it was very
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  Speaker 4: much a sewing.
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  Speaker 3: Together of all the disciplines.
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  Speaker 4: So we have our dancers, our singers, and the circus artists.
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  Speaker 4: And so we kind of all learnt the show separate
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  Speaker 4: of each other. So our expectations were non-existent. So we're
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  Speaker 4: learning the show having no idea what's going on and
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  Speaker 4: then slowly you start piecing it together.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's so much going on at once.
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  Speaker 1: Does anything ever happen where the audience won't pick up
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  Speaker 1: on it but you know something didn't quite go as
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  Speaker 1: it was meant to and you just probably want to
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  Speaker 1: laugh and you have to keep it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Ruby and I have a really good spoken language to
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  Speaker 4: our eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, things like not going the way they normally go
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  Speaker 5: for sure is always incredibly amusing but how... An associate
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  Speaker 5: director was like, no matter how many times he's watched
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  Speaker 5: the show, he always sees something new.
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  Speaker 2: There's always something new to see.
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  Speaker 5: But that's less on the mistakes or something not going
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  Speaker 5: as planned thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of the product of the show. That's where
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  Speaker 3: the twists come from. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No one pivots like a stage professional.
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  Speaker 3: No, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's live theatre.
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  Speaker 5: That's like the beauty of it, you know, like something
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  Speaker 5: goes wrong and how do they navigate that?
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  Speaker 4: People come back multiple times and they're like, oh, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't see that before. And it's either because there was
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  Speaker 4: so much going on the first time or we had
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  Speaker 4: a lovely little pivot.
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  Speaker 3: Or you say, well, that's because it wasn't supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess if you've never been to the circus before,
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  Speaker 1: Come Alive is the perfect place to start. It's on
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  Speaker 1: until October 10th. At Crown, I don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: put it because it's in a special tent.
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  Speaker 3: Riverside Car Park.
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  Speaker 2: Riverside, okay. That doesn't sound very glamorous.
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  Speaker 4: It actually is so glamorous.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we're right there.
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  Speaker 1: Come round the back.
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  Speaker 5: Riverside.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming in, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Cheers and Ruby, thank you.