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The Power of Seeing Yourself: Broadway, Black Voices & Breaking Barriers · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: George.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right.
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  Speaker 3: Lauren came in, Hey, y'all, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Is Laura l Rosa And this is another episode of
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  Speaker 2: the Latest with Laura l Rosa. This is your definitely
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  Speaker 2: did on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all
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  Speaker 2: of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 3: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're getting on into a new episode, and y'all know,
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  Speaker 2: low Riders, how we start off our episodes. We always
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  Speaker 2: check in behind the scenes of the grind. So I
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  Speaker 2: am coming off of a very long but short weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We still have not really stopped to take the rest
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  Speaker 2: that y'all know that we need. We were in we
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  Speaker 2: were at the Roots Picnic, So see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our content and conversations that we had and we hosted
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  Speaker 2: here on the podcast in collaboration with the.
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  Speaker 3: Roots Picnic and at and T still going viral.
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  Speaker 2: There was a report that I saw that a local Philly,
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  Speaker 2: a local Philadelphia outlet did that talked about the Roots
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  Speaker 2: Picnic and the amount of people that came out. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a report that eighty thousand people that came out
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  Speaker 2: throughout the festival weekend. I'm told it that eighty thousand
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  Speaker 2: was split into forty k between the two like festival
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  Speaker 2: concert days now, they did do the Roots like Roots
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  Speaker 2: cond of like a conference surrounding the weekend, So like Friday,
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  Speaker 2: there were live conversations, a comedy show that went down
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  Speaker 2: that Black thought did I saw Dave Chappelle take the
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  Speaker 2: stage there, But eighty thousand people is crazy. I mean
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  Speaker 2: roots Picnic is roots Picnic. But of course if you
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  Speaker 2: got jay Z coming somewhere and the people are gonna
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  Speaker 2: come out. And from what I read in a report
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  Speaker 2: and confirmed on my own, this was the largest weekend
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  Speaker 2: in the Roots Picnic festival history. And this vessel has
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  Speaker 2: been going on for some time now. And again I think,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, people wanted to see jay Z. They
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  Speaker 2: wanted to see him return to the stage. We had
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  Speaker 2: no idea what was going to happen, as you guys
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  Speaker 2: heard in some of the episodes here on the Lateis
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  Speaker 2: with Law on the Rosa. Even the people on stage
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  Speaker 2: with him, the Roots Quest Love Adam Blackstone, like they
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  Speaker 2: didn't even know what was going to go down in
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  Speaker 2: that stage. I mean they had practiced but they had
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  Speaker 2: no idea about the afro, they had no idea about
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  Speaker 2: the freestyle. So there was a lot of surprises and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of moments that will live on in history period.
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  Speaker 2: But to be there during the history making year, it's
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  Speaker 2: something I will always remember. If you guys want to
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  Speaker 2: go and check out that content, go and check out
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  Speaker 2: some of our previous episodes, because it's all here. We
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  Speaker 2: got it all right here at the Latest with Lauren
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  Speaker 2: l Rosa the podcast, but coming off for Root's Picnic,
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  Speaker 2: we went into our first live week.
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  Speaker 3: Live on air with Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club has just became Netflix's first daily live show,
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  Speaker 2: and coming off of the Roots Picnic and going right
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  Speaker 2: into the I feel like I barely sleep during the
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  Speaker 2: week anyway because I'm up trying to make shot and
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  Speaker 2: got everything. I'm organizing everything and all of the things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my body still hasn't caught up. And we just this
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  Speaker 2: weekend did we shot a television show in DC. So
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  Speaker 2: God has been like really really blessing me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talk about this type of stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 2: There was a message this morning that at my church,
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  Speaker 2: my pastor was also his son who's a really good
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine. Jerome Lewis Junior gave a gave a
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  Speaker 2: sermon this morning about stewardship and about making sure you
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  Speaker 2: take care of what God has given you so that
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  Speaker 2: you can get to the next steps. And I really
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  Speaker 2: feel like he spoke to me, like I promise you.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of times we can get in
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  Speaker 2: the motion of just like doing things just to get
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  Speaker 2: through not doing them at the highest level, or just
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  Speaker 2: because you're doing so much, just kind of being like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm tired, like finding ourselves complaining a bit.
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  Speaker 2: And I always try and correct myself, whether it's here
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  Speaker 2: during the behind the scenes of the ground checking or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: when I'm talking about all of these things, no matter
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  Speaker 2: how tired I am, I'm telling myself, Okay, you need
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  Speaker 2: to learn to prioritize rest within all of this. But
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  Speaker 2: also you gotta because you have to show up your
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  Speaker 2: best at all of this, because when you show up
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  Speaker 2: your best, you're stewarding it correctly. If you take care
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  Speaker 2: of what God has already give you, there is more
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  Speaker 2: to come, and more doesn't always look like a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of new opportunities, and more can be just further excelling
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  Speaker 2: in the opportunities that you already have. You know, your
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  Speaker 2: ability to get rest within the opportunities that you have
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  Speaker 2: because you're disciplined and you're carving out time and then
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  Speaker 2: scheduling all those things. And I think I'm definitely getting
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  Speaker 2: to the point where I feel like I'm doing a
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  Speaker 2: lot better at all of those things, especially boundaries. That's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing for me. Like learning that my discipline
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  Speaker 2: and my boundaries go hand in hand was a huge
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  Speaker 2: way of call for me. It's something that I've had
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  Speaker 2: to like really stick to in order to steward what
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  Speaker 2: God has given me, you know, and in the season
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  Speaker 2: of my life. So yeah, I'm just we're going y'all.
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  Speaker 2: And when this show that we shot in DC comes out,
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  Speaker 2: I think it will it'll touch a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: And you talk about stewardship and understanding what God has
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  Speaker 2: given you and the kind of some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that you've been through and why God has placed you there.
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  Speaker 2: That's the show that I shot this weekend speaks to that.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited for you guys to get to see that.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't release details now, but you know, I
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  Speaker 2: will keep you updated on the latest when I can.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of the latest. Let's get on into it.
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  Speaker 2: So the seventy six Tony Awards went down. And for
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  Speaker 2: those of you guys who've never watched the Tony Awards
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  Speaker 2: award show, it is all about the theater, are okay?
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  Speaker 3: It is all about the live performances.
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  Speaker 2: The theater Broadway, the plays, the actors, the theatrics, the
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  Speaker 2: live performances. Now, this year, I feel like I've spent
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time paying attention to Broadway because there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of celebrities and a lot of pop
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  Speaker 2: culture intertwined with with Broadway, which has always historically been
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  Speaker 2: a thing, but I think it like m y uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's happening so much this year. I know Tracy
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  Speaker 2: Alischross is currently on Broadway, Trusta Thompson, Magda Saghian just
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  Speaker 2: came off Broadway, and Zidler, Uh, I know Candy Birds
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  Speaker 2: and uh you know Denzel Washington. They were doing everything
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  Speaker 2: over there with Othello, uh Taraji p Henton, Taraji p
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  Speaker 2: Hinton and uh Cedric the Entertainer currently on Broadway as well.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: So I I tuned into the Tony Awards this year
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  Speaker 2: because I recently just came off of Broadway, not singing,
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  Speaker 2: acting and performer, y'all okay, not yet, no, not doing that.
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  Speaker 2: But I hosted a live talk back conversation with some
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  Speaker 2: of the cast members of The Outsiders on Broadway, and
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  Speaker 2: it was an amazing conversation. I think one of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest things that you realize when you get into the
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  Speaker 2: arts is how much the arts and representation, well, how
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  Speaker 2: much the arts represent to so many different people, Like
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  Speaker 2: people from all across the world come to Broadway and
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  Speaker 2: it's one thing that, like it, no matter what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in the world, unifies people. But also you realize
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  Speaker 2: how representation within that matters. So I got a chance
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  Speaker 2: to talk to three of the cast members of The Outsiders. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what was so special about this was that my niece,
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  Speaker 2: who was eleven years old, she came up to spend
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  Speaker 2: the weekend with me. She's on her summer break and
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  Speaker 2: she is just, you know, beginning to kind of have.
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  Speaker 3: A bug a bit for performance.
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  Speaker 2: She's like dance, she loves cheerleading, She's into like hair
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  Speaker 2: and makeup and all these things. Now, so taking her
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  Speaker 2: to Broadway, you know, with something that I've been telling
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  Speaker 2: her that we needed to do her behind was late
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  Speaker 2: for the play, so she did not get to actually
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  Speaker 2: see the Outsiders, but she did get to see the
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  Speaker 2: the talk back conversation you guys are about to.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen to.
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  Speaker 2: And what was so special about it is the conversation
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  Speaker 2: that that we hosted was all about like community and representation.
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  Speaker 2: And I got a chance to talk to two of
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  Speaker 2: that's actually two of the cast members and one of
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  Speaker 2: the crew you know that worked backstage on wardrobing, and
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  Speaker 2: you know some of the things. But my niece is
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  Speaker 2: getting to look at you know, two black women who
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  Speaker 2: are working on this huge production on Broadway and one
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  Speaker 2: young man.
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  Speaker 3: You know that she.
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  Speaker 2: Can look at it and be like, oh, they're just
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  Speaker 2: like me. And there were a ton of other children
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  Speaker 2: and families in the theater as well too. The theme
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  Speaker 2: of the conversation, or the like focus of the conversation
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  Speaker 2: was about identity, community, storytelling, and the connections that bring
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  Speaker 2: people together on stage, behind stage, and beyond. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as my niece gets older and she starts to kind
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  Speaker 2: of understand what I do for work, things that can
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  Speaker 2: really impact her as a person and make her, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not make her, but help her become morally sound.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the things I.
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  Speaker 2: Love to to be able to feed into with her.
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  Speaker 2: And when I was watching the Tony Awards tonight and
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  Speaker 2: I saw Magda Stallion come out and open with Pink
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  Speaker 2: and and and they're celebrating lead women in Broadway and
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  Speaker 2: Meg the science that they're you know, representing for the
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  Speaker 2: black women, I was proud of her.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say, listen to meds so main.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know those guys. They were just two
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  Speaker 4: strangers carrying some cake.
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  Speaker 5: Anumber kneeses tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Quite well, we're going to be to bring community and
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  Speaker 3: this the government.
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  Speaker 2: And coming on stage and and presenting an award and
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  Speaker 2: talking about what she learned on Broadway. This is a
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  Speaker 2: young black girl from Houston who has lost her mother
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  Speaker 2: and has been through so much publicly, still pushing through y'all,
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  Speaker 2: Like I just, I mean, I look, anybody who has
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  Speaker 2: ever been on Broadway understands how impact for it is.
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  Speaker 2: But I think anybody who has ever wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: anything in life and remember that you literally remember the
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  Speaker 2: moment where you looked up and you were like that
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  Speaker 2: person is just like me. So if they can do
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  Speaker 2: what I can do, you know how special that is, so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in honor of the Tony Awards and all
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  Speaker 2: of the winds and the celebrating that the people in
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  Speaker 2: the arts community are doing right now, I want you
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  Speaker 2: guys to take a listen to this live conversation that
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  Speaker 2: I had on the stage of the Outsiders musical on
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  Speaker 2: Broadway with some of the amazing black and brown people
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  Speaker 2: who are involved in making that world go around over there.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get on into it, but we can get right
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  Speaker 4: into the questions.
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  Speaker 2: And I want this to feel like a community conversation
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  Speaker 2: because I know that that's what outside this is all about.
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  Speaker 4: It's about community and conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So the talk back is centered around community and
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  Speaker 2: connection for you guys, and anyone.
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  Speaker 4: Can take this question.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait, before we do the question, how about we
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  Speaker 2: do some introductions That probably makes sense, right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So you guys introduced yourself and talk a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: About how you got involved in a theater.
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  Speaker 6: I'm okay, well, but I played Johnny Kid, and I've
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  Speaker 6: been doing theaters since I was a kid, middle school,
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  Speaker 6: high school, some of my friends from middle.
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  Speaker 4: School or through the night, yeah, and went to college
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  Speaker 4: rooms for theater and then my way here from New York. Hi, everybody,
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  Speaker 4: my name is Naco Henry.
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  Speaker 1: I played Ace in the show tonight, and and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been dancing and singing all of it from a
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  Speaker 1: very young age. After college, moved right to New York
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  Speaker 1: and I've been doing it ever since.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, I'm a dresser on the show. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that's the only question we asked, Like, Oly, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that is the only one. All right, So let's get started.
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  Speaker 2: And that we've done the introductions, we've had the advertiser,
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  Speaker 2: let's gettun entrap, all right. So the talk back that
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  Speaker 2: we're about to do with Sin it on community and connection.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it for you guys that have people
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  Speaker 2: of color and our voices and perspective represented both on
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  Speaker 2: stage and.
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  Speaker 4: Behind the scenes and conversations like this. I think it's crucial.
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  Speaker 7: Just last night, I got a message from a mom
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  Speaker 7: my my background.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Lebanies and Indo Caribbean, and she told me that.
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  Speaker 8: She brought her two songs to see the show and
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  Speaker 8: they were just mind blown that there.
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  Speaker 4: Was someone who looked like them on stage.
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  Speaker 7: In that meant a lot that she said, they didn't
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  Speaker 7: even know this was a possibility.
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  Speaker 8: So seeing them see themselves reflected in a production like
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  Speaker 8: this just open their eyes to.
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  Speaker 4: Like what they can do.
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  Speaker 7: And I think I didn't have that as a kid,
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  Speaker 7: so that was really important to me.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, in terms of on stage, I also think it's
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  Speaker 9: extremely important given that we're talking about a story that
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  Speaker 9: involves the hats.
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  Speaker 4: And have not right, We're talking about class.
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  Speaker 9: And I don't think we can talk about class without
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  Speaker 9: also talking about race. So I think it's super awesome
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  Speaker 9: to have that on stage. I think it makes it
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  Speaker 9: way more real and it adds a lot of depth
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  Speaker 9: to the play. And off stage it's so so important.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, there's like I can talk Debri about hair
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  Speaker 9: and things like that, and like she can kind of
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  Speaker 9: know where I'm coming from, and we giggle about how
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  Speaker 9: in the rumble scene, I wear a shower cap under my.
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  Speaker 4: Wig because I'm not gonna have miss hair and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not doing that. So we just love to laugh about
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  Speaker 4: things like that.
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  Speaker 9: And it's nice to have like a sister kind of
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  Speaker 9: friend that I can talk about things like.
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  Speaker 4: That with the thinking someone to do is behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 5: It's incredibly important because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: everyone behind the scenes is also making the show.
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  Speaker 4: Happen, and we.
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  Speaker 5: Are support system for our actors, so it's very important.
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  Speaker 4: And I think on top of that, I always think
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  Speaker 4: about this.
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  Speaker 1: One memory that I had early at our run was
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  Speaker 1: that all.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Greasers were covered.
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  Speaker 5: By black people, and I remember they all were coming
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  Speaker 5: down for Act two and I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: wait go black people. But it was just like so
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  Speaker 5: special getting to see people who look like me, like
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  Speaker 5: walking down the stairs and like going to do this thing,
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  Speaker 5: like this is the highest.
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  Speaker 4: Caliber of fear that you could possibly do, and that
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  Speaker 4: was just very special. Well, we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about representation.
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  Speaker 2: I think for when I'm here from all of you guys,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot about like seeing is believing. I brought
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  Speaker 2: my knees here today because I wanted her to see
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  Speaker 2: that as well.
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  Speaker 4: She brought up you annoyed that I just did that.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't remember myself my first time ever coming
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  Speaker 2: to Broadway.
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  Speaker 4: My little cousin, Oh she was in the Lion King,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember feeling the same. You're like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go out nowhere. We're family, but like literally
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  Speaker 4: like she is me and she's there, so it's possible.
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  Speaker 4: So you specifically, remember your first time seeing someone.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it was on Broadway or wherever where you were, like,
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  Speaker 2: I can do this myself, and hey share that memory.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So for Anext, I'm a huge Wicked fan. Wicked is
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  Speaker 5: my favorite job all times. I've seen it way too
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  Speaker 5: many times.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the point.
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  Speaker 5: But the first time I ever saw Wicket on Broadway,
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  Speaker 5: I was very, very fortunate enough to see Lilly Cooper,
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  Speaker 5: who was the standby at the time.
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  Speaker 4: And she is black, and I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: this is so exciting.
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  Speaker 5: And I didn't realize how important that was until years later,
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  Speaker 5: where I realized like, oh, there has never been a.
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  Speaker 4: Full time black alphabet until Black two three years ago,
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  Speaker 4: two years ago, and I was like, okay, cool. I
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  Speaker 4: think also on top of that, like after.
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  Speaker 5: I saw Lily Cooper, I immediately went to my fair
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  Speaker 5: like okay, So for the twentieth anniversary, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 5: the first black Alpha bat. I'm gonna graduate from college
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  Speaker 5: or go right into Broadway, and so it's like just
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  Speaker 5: like things like that.
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  Speaker 4: I was like thirteen at.
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  Speaker 5: The time, and it was just so special getting to
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  Speaker 5: see someone like me doing what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember I was obsessed with Rent as a kid.
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  Speaker 8: I saw it way too young.
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  Speaker 10: My mom didn't notice about when I was like side,
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  Speaker 10: but we went to go see it in Chicago, and
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  Speaker 10: I remember I hadn't gotten the chance to meet him
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  Speaker 10: have but Justin Johnson was Angel on tour and on Broadway,
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  Speaker 10: and I just remember watching him as Angel and just
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  Speaker 10: being so enamored by him, Like watching it like like
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  Speaker 10: a brown gay character as an eight year.
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  Speaker 4: Old was really ugumented for me.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I didn't have much access to Broadway in theater
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  Speaker 9: where I was from. So I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, right
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  Speaker 9: outside of Atlanta. Yeah, but I do remember the first
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  Speaker 9: time I went away for like a summer intensive program
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: where I just spent the whole summer dancing, and I.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Spent it at the Alpine Ali American Dance Theater.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: And that's where I was like, oh my goodness, like
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: this is history, like seeing so many black dancers and
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: like the highest caliber of modern dance.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: That really inspired me. So I think that was the
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: first time I thought, oh, I.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Could do this forever.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I love that. Thank y'all for sharing those personal moments.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean the audience as I mentioned when you
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: guys sat down, Like, you guys do a lot of
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: work to pull up Broadway. So but like six seven
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: days a week, six days a week, yeah, eight shows
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: six days a week, a lot of rehearsals, a lot
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: of practices, and the audience only sees a final performance.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: But there's so many people that are helping you guys
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: stay okay through all that, that are helping create the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: energy of the show every night. Can you guys talk
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: a little bit about what that collaboration with me, the cast,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: and the crew looks like. That makes the outsiders feel
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: so power our whole live because it's a lot of
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the costill may and the you know the day, it's
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the moments that help us feel so close to the story.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I'll stage.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, just with in terms of the physicality, we have
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: an incredible physical therapist, Lucy Miller, and we also have
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: a doctor who works on the show, and we're always
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: in and out of her pet room.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: She's backstage the whole show upstairs. We go to her
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: before the show.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Also, our fight captains and our dancey captains, everyone in
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: charge of keeping it clean, and our company managers and
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: our stage managers.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Everyone there's so many people.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: I think I counted on my first day, we got
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: a face page and there was over one hundred and
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: twenty people outside of the cast that are involved in
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: the production, from the creative team to producers, to the
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: writers and so so many hands on the production.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: And everyone loves the show so much and cares about
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: the show.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: And I think that's that's really special that we all
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: collectively are like in it together, you know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it really takes every single person in this building.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: I mean after the big fight scene when we're all
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: soaking wet, sound has to take little like air little
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: guns just to like puff air out to get the
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: water out of our mic so that we can save
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: the finale otherwise, you know, our mics are clogged with water. Like.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: There's just so many little details, right, and then hair
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: and makeup, how Johnny has these very realistic looking cuts
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: and bruises throughout the show as well as Dallas, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: we have little blood packs backstage that we.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Use during a fight. Like It's truly so intricate and
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: it's really awesome to be a part of. And that's
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: just the people who work during the show. We have
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: people who come in like on the wardrobe team.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: We have people come in every morning from like eight
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: to twelve I think, and they are just pressing all.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Of the shirts.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: The actors have like multiple sets of all of their
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: costumes and think each of you guys has four or
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: something like that, and they come in and they press
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: whatever went through the rumble.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: The next day it gets rotated, and they do it
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: every single day.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of work that goes in just everywhere,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: but in costumes there's a lot of work.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: What about I mean, so we see the physical right
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: like all of the makeup and accustom and well what
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: about the internal because there the story of the Outsiders
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: is one there's a lot of classism and you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: different things that I'm sure cause conversation amongst you guys
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and maybe thoughts other people that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Also help you internally, like mentally guide.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Through this process as well too, as those things are
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: coming up and those villains are coming out.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: While I will say at the beginning of each show,
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: we have a circle up where we all right behind
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: you know, scrim We're standing in a circle.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: We have like a word for the show that I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: a pitman cherry.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: She has this little like stack of angel cards that
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: there's a word, and we all try to really ground ourselves,
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: to make eye contact with each other, take some deep
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: breaths together because obviously what we're.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: About to go through is very intense.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: And when we started this process, we were all encouraged
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: by the creative team to have like not just a
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: physical cool down, but also an emotional cool down or
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: like a tapping out of it so that you can
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: stay disconnected from your character when you leave the building as.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Much as you can. So yeah, good to know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, next question, what has it meant to you
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: guys to participate in conversations like this that are intentional
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: about creating space for black audiences, audiences of color, to
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: engage with Broadway in a different way, or you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: like you say, maybe for the first time, this is
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: someone's first Broadway.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Experience ever, and then they get to have a conversation
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: with you guys who are part of the show. What
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: has it been like being a part of these.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: I think it's such a blessing because growing up I
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: didn't have that a lot of other people didn't have that,
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: and I think that there's so many young artists out
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: there who don't even know that they're artists yet, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: they think that the sooner they can realize it, the
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: longer they have to like hone those skills and get
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: started on building whatever craft that they're doing. And I
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: feel like that's such an honor to be able to
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: show them like little limits of what they might have
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: in themselves that they don't even see it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I also do social media for this show, and it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: been really wonderful getting to get I'm sure.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Like my experience working on a Broadway show, because I
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: was the kid who was like trying to find anything
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and everything about working in theater and so getting to.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Be that person for people who look like me is
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: just been so full circle and I just it's really special.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I know for me watching you guys
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: on stage, one of the things that I'm always thinking
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: about is what you guys are.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Your characters are so big. You guys have such big.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Personalities to get the characters when you're auditioning, What is
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: your life like outside of here?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Guy?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Once you take a real break and maybe you get
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that one day off, what do you guys do in
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: your free time?
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: My goodness, Well, it's a limited amount of time because
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: you have to do your life stuff like your laundry,
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: and you gotta clean and dish all those things. But
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: then also you want to see your friends, you know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: other people that are special to you in your life.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: So I try as much as I can to keep
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: a balance. I try to see friends throughout the week,
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: whether it's for a quick coffee or for a quick
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: bite after a show. But also so I have to
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: protect my voice and my body right, so I have
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: I can't talk too much after a show, and I
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: have to make sure that I, you know, do in
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: my pilates classes whenever it takes, so that I don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: get injured. Like it's truly never enough time. But I
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: feel like this is my third Broadway show, but I
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: think I'm finally starting to.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Understand how to fit it all in and how to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: make it all work. Yeah, I'm struggling with that. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: think it's hard.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Just yeah, it's every I feel like everything I eat,
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: everything I say, it all affects what's gonna happen in
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: the performance.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: So it's a lot of like saying right now, it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: like being too afraid to hang out, so having to
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: say no to a lot of friends and not having
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: that much of a social life. It's a sacrifice that
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: you have to make. My mom always says that she
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: was like her son is like a monk or something,
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: because like I can't talk like bull FaceTime, and I'll.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Just be staring at her like naughty like things like that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Because like my voice, like we were trained to sing,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: so we don't lose it singing, but I lose my
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: voice talking a lot.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Like outside of the show. So that's scary to navigate. Yeah,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I just try to have some grace for myself, Like
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I am a very busy person just in general.
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: Okay, ooh, I'm not in the show, but no, I
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: love I try to have grace for myself first, Like
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: I make to do this.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I'm really big on this, so like making sure, like
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: these are the things I have to get done.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make sure I do these things in
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: order in that way. And then sometimes there are days
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: where I'm like, Okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I need to do all these things, but do I
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: really have to do all these things right now? Or
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: can I spread them out through the week. And if
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I end up spreading them out through the week, I
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: really just am patient with myself, Like today's a rat day,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: and that's just what it's gonna have to be.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I'm being okay with that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, I can identify there's a lot happening really
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: fast over on the riding side of things for me,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and I can.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Feel it where you're like, you want to go out,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you want to have a guy, you're young.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Is a great experience, but you also are protecting what
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: your works basics, like what you guys have done.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: To a job at it right they're doing a baby.
• 25:02
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• 25:05
  Speaker 2: For anywhere to go back and thus conversation, Thank you
• 25:09
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• 25:10
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