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Hitman Talks to Diego Enrico Book of Mormon · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Corpus Christy's classic Kids Big ninety three to nine. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? It is hip Man with you and
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  Speaker 1: you know it's coming up on January sixth at the
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  Speaker 1: American Bank Center. Nine times Tony Ward winning, including Best Musical,
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  Speaker 1: The Book of Mormon is coming to the American Bank Center.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are on sale now at the American Bank Center
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  Speaker 1: box office. And I have on the phone with me
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  Speaker 1: Diego and Rico, who's actually Elder cunning And from Book
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  Speaker 1: of Mormon. Hey, dude, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great? How are you, Jeff?
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  Speaker 1: I am doing great? Now where are you at today?
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  Speaker 2: Today?
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  Speaker 3: We are in the beautiful city of Minneapolis. We just
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  Speaker 3: got hit by a cold front when we got in,
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  Speaker 3: so it is freezing up here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well wait till you get down here. It'll probably
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  Speaker 1: be in the eighties when you come here.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh, I remember Fondley.
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  Speaker 1: So you know it's. Book of Mormon has won so
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  Speaker 1: many Tony's. It's such a great play that was on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway and it's touring. What do you love about touring
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  Speaker 1: with the Book of Mormon?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I mean this shuttle has been a
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  Speaker 3: dream for me. I've wanted to play this character, in
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  Speaker 3: particular Elder Cunningham, since I was in high school. So
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  Speaker 3: just getting to do this is a dream come true,
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  Speaker 3: and it is absolutely it is the craziest thing to
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  Speaker 3: be doing. I just graduated in May, so I am
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  Speaker 3: just pumped to be along for the ride.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Now, of course, you know, if people been
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  Speaker 1: living under a rock, what should why should audiences see
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  Speaker 1: the show or what can audiences expect when seeing the show?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what I always like to tell people when they
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  Speaker 2: ask what to expect is I lead with the fact
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  Speaker 2: that the show was written by the creators of South Park,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
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  Speaker 3: So if you know their comedy, their humor, you know
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  Speaker 3: what you're getting yourself into.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is a night full of laughs.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone who comes and sees the show just has their
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  Speaker 3: own takeaway from it. And may I just I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to give away too much in the show, right,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll throw a little synopsis. The quick thing, just
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  Speaker 3: the quick five second pitch is it follows a pair
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  Speaker 3: of mismatched Mormon missionaries. One of them is like the
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  Speaker 3: picture perfect all American Mormon boy, and the other one,
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  Speaker 3: which is the character that I play, is is he's
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  Speaker 3: a little socially awkward. He's more interested in sci fi
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  Speaker 3: than any Holy book you could put in front of him.
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  Speaker 3: The two are match together and they're sent halfway across
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  Speaker 3: the world just to spread the good word. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: leave it at that, So we keep some mystery there.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. We're talking with Diego Enrico, who's Elder Cunningham
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  Speaker 1: from the Book of Mormon. That's coming on January sixth
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  Speaker 1: the American Bank Center. Tickets are still available right now.
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  Speaker 1: But now I got to ask you, though, though, what
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  Speaker 1: do you enjoy most about performing every night?
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, it comes down really to my to my
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  Speaker 3: relationship with my with my with the co lead Sam McClellan,
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  Speaker 3: who plays Other Price. We really open the show off
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  Speaker 3: together and it's it's it's such a nice thing to
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  Speaker 3: do every single night because we get along so well.
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  Speaker 3: And for a minute, I was a little nervous when
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  Speaker 3: I first got in because he and I there's a
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  Speaker 3: bit of an age difference with us, but we clicked
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  Speaker 3: immediately and it and it is so much fun just
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  Speaker 3: getting to explore and play and and and share this
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  Speaker 3: show with people every single night. So that's that's that's
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  Speaker 3: a huge highlight for me.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now, have you ever been to Corpus before?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure that I have. I used to
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  Speaker 3: live in in Katie, Texas. I was born in Houston,
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  Speaker 3: so I've been to Galveston, I've been I've been all
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  Speaker 3: over Texas at this point, so I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to Corpus.
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  Speaker 3: I have family out there, But I can't tell you
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  Speaker 3: that I particularly remember anything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well it's because you said how it was
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  Speaker 1: freezing right now Minneapolis, but you you remember how it
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  Speaker 1: might be like in the eighties around here down in
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  Speaker 1: South Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's Texas for you.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the best reaction that you've seen while
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  Speaker 1: you've been on stage while doing the Book of Mormon.
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  Speaker 1: What's the craziest thing that you've seen from the audience
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  Speaker 1: when you're doing the show.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one of my favorite things about this show is
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  Speaker 3: that it is an introduction for a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: into musical theater. I mean, the selling point of it
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  Speaker 3: being part of the South Park people that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of new people come and see this show. So the
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  Speaker 3: theater etiquette isn't exactly what you expect from some of
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  Speaker 3: these people, but they are.
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  Speaker 2: So pumped and along for the ride. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: have moments in the.
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  Speaker 3: Show where people are just overcome with excitement and they'll
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  Speaker 3: yell out.
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  Speaker 4: Like all right, Like there are these quiet moments in
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  Speaker 4: the show between me and Sam and around the end
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  Speaker 4: of the show where you get a nice things things
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  Speaker 4: wrap around in a nice.
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  Speaker 3: Way and and the audience is quiet and suddenly you
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  Speaker 3: just hear all right, brother.
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  Speaker 4: It is just.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like the that is always fun.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we love We are having just as much
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  Speaker 3: fun upstage as people are having watching the show.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always great hearing that from the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Diego, I appreciate you calling in today. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's happening on January sixth, the American
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  Speaker 1: Bank Center, Salina Auditorium. Tickets are available now at the
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  Speaker 1: American Bank Center box office and probably ticketmaster dot com.
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  Speaker 1: The Book of Mormon is less than a month away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing it, brother, and I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing you on stage.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, I can't wait for you to
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  Speaker 3: see it. I can't wait for you to come out