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His Story: The Musical with Anna Miriam Brown · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Okay? With me, I'm very excited to
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  share with you my conversation that I had with creator of his
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  Story. The Musical Anna Miriam Brown.
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  She is the writer of this amazing performance produced by
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  Tony nominated, Bruce Lazarus and Duck Dynasty, Willie and
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  Korie Robertson. This is a world premiere
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  production that is about the life of Jesus by melding a
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  youthful. Place with a Timeless
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  perspective of The Greatest Story Ever Told brought into the
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  third millennium, is a beautiful reminder of Jesus Universal
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  Power of Love and Redemption. And this amazing musical takes
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  place in Dallas at the Grand scape, new state-of-the-art,
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  Broadway, 10. So get your tickets in the link
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  below this episode in the show notes or on Ticketmaster.
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  This is one you do not want to miss along with this.
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  Edible story. You are about to hear from this
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  young gifted, 22 year old and how God can equip us and make
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  things possible when we just say yes to him, and go for it.
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  So, here's my guest, Anna Miriam Brown.
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  Hey Anna. Welcome to, she speaks life.
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  I am so excited. You are here with us today.
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  Thank you for coming on here. I'm so happy to be here.
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  Thank you so much for having. Yeah, I love music.
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  Holes. I love theater.
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  We have a little bit of a background of that with our
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  daughter who has a passion for that as well.
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  And we are going to be talking about his Story, the Musical
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  that you are, the creator of, and you are so inspiring.
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  And I just cannot wait to hear how God downloaded that idea in
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  your heart. But before we begin, I always
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  Love to start us off with asking, the guess what is their
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  favorite scripture verse like a life of verse.
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  Yes. So for me, it's a verse in John.
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  14. I don't remember the exact
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  reference but the verse is now you have sorrow but I will see
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  you again and your heart will rejoice and your joy.
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  No one will take from you and that's Jesus speaking, the to
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  the disciples and a lot of my life.
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  I just dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety.
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  I d. But I always felt the spirit of
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  God speaking that to me, and I always kept holding on to the
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  hope that like one day I would fully have the revelation of God
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  and when that happened, I've just, I've just been living in
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  that Joy ever since and it's this Joy, no one can take.
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  So, that's a really special verse to me.
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  I love it. Okay, you are 22.
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  Yes, that correct. Oh my goodness.
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  I would love for you to share with our friend hear more about
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  you and And how this whole thing got birthed.
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  Yeah, absolutely. So like I said, when I was
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  growing up, probably from like 12 to like 16.
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  I had a lot of just like, kind of mental fuzz and just like a
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  lot of anxiety, and like, I really didn't get, I didn't get
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  the gospel. I didn't really understand God,
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  even though, like, my parents are like, super, super
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  Christian, they love the Lord. They've always been such a great
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  example and I think that's one of the reasons why I was so
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  passionate to find God. Even though I I didn't exactly
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  know how is because I saw he was real, by the way, my parents
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  loved him and served him. So I really even though was like
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  difficult and I didn't exactly know how I kept seeking God and
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  praying and just hoping that one day he would, you know, help me
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  out of just that That kind of dark place.
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  I was in mentally and when I was 16, just this, the spring of
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  when I turned 16, something just started changing for me and God
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  started revealing himself in really like intimate, and
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  Powerful ways, and just showing himself to me through scripture
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  and through people, and through Miracles, and all sorts of
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  things. And I just like, finally, it
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  just started to click like that. Audible and like knowing Jesus
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  and I was like, I became so passionate about it.
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  I was like, oh my goodness. Like I just, I want everybody to
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  find, you know, this relationship with God that I
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  found, and I want, I don't ever want someone to experience like
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  to be stuck in that darkness that I felt like I was stuck in.
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  So I'm gonna like, do my best to like go like, share the gospel.
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  So like I did what every, you know, 16 year old who wants to
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  share the gospel does and I like went to act.
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  Yeah, my friend is going to Kenya with a team and I was
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  like, can I come with you to Kenya?
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  And he was like, yeah. So I go to Kenya and my heart is
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  to just share, just the joy of God and the joy of knowing
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  Jesus. And but while I was there, God
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  had a little plan going on, you know?
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  Like my calling is to, to share the story of Jesus but it wasn't
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  how I thought. At all.
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  And let's just start off by saying, I was never a musical
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  theater kid. I was never into musicals, like
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  I was like, I'd seen, maybe like two little, you know, Community
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  Theater things growing up, but it just never had my attention
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  at all. But when I was in Africa, this
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  Canadian girl, randomly tagged along, like, she ran into them
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  on the trip and she to us on the trip.
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  And she ended up joining our team and she was like, Anna.
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  You've got to listen to Ooh, this musical called Hamilton,
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  and I was like, oh my gosh, I like to be a little, like, a
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  little partner, it's not bad. And then like she showed me
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  enough. She showed me the song Satisfied
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  and I was like, oh, that's pretty good.
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  And then, like one time I was like, we were out helping this
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  Village and the, the doctors were doing their thing, and we
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  had finished with our part, we were just having lunch and we're
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  like, all right, well, look, we have a little break, this big,
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  and I Hamilton. And so we listen to the whole
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  thing. Through and like by the end I
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  was like holy crying and just like feeling so much for like
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  these characters. You know, the founding fathers
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  like and this whole story that I never cared about before this
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  new interest for American history just like with instantly
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  birthed, I just like had this huge passion for musical theater
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  All In This Moment that was like oh my goodness like okay maybe
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  musical Pete is not what I thought.
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  Like maybe it's there's something powerful.
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  Powerful about it. So I was just like so like I
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  listen to the musical Hamilton probably like 50 times after
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  that and it was just something. I had been like so struck like
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  put in my heart that like I wanted somebody to do that with
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  the Bible. I was like if somebody could do
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  this when a Bible maybe like you know, it can it can have the
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  same effect it did on me like with American history and I can
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  help new people like kind of open up to hearing a story of
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  God in a new and a new way. Yeah.
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  But like I didn't think that I was going to be the one to do
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  that. You know I with didn't feel
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  equipped and anyway to do something like that but it just
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  kept like coming back and I kept wanting this thing to be created
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  and then they're just got to be this one.
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  This one day where I just felt so strong on my heart.
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  God speak to me and say like you're the One that's supposed
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  to do this and I was like, what? Like I don't know.
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  Even where to start. You know, I know.
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  Yeah I love it when God just gives us an idea but we don't
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  know how and it's like his perfect plan though so we're
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  completely reliant on him and you know his way on how he wants
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  it to look, right? So that leads us into You
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  starting to write for this musical called his story.
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  So, the play Hamilton inspired you to start looking at.
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  Let's do some musicals with a Biblical lens.
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  Uh-huh. So what did that process look
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  like, I read that you started at age 16.
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  Yeah, that correct. Yeah, okay, yes.
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  So so after kind of having that dream like put into me obviously
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  like you were saying Like, even if you don't feel ready or
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  whatever, like God is not worried about all that, God, can
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  give skill to anyone. He can put the right people
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  around anyone. You just have to be willing to
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  live out God's dream and so, like, even though I felt very
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  like, you know, unqualified I was like, okay, like I'll try to
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  do this and it really didn't look like anything was going to
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  be able to actually happen because I was living with my
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  family and Ukraine at the time we were missionaries and like
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  me. That Ukraine's not like musical
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  theater recording, all that kind of stuff world.
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  And so I was just going to be this missionaries kid with this,
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  like random musical, but that would never become anything.
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  But anyways felt like God still wanted me to do it.
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  So I was like, all right? And I went to my sister who's,
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  like the Musical one in the family, Rachel Brown, and I was
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  like, Rachel, like kind of embarrassing, but like, can you
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  teach me some Fiona? I'm going to try to write a
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  musical. And she taught me four chords on
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  piano. And then from there, I really
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  felt like the Holy Spirit was just guiding me because I
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  started to be able to hear like to hear music and be able to
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  find chords and stuff like that. Not my like any music theory or
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  anything like that, but just like listening and like praying
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  that God would guide me and just like letting my hands kind of
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  leave me on the piano and then just kind of like freestyling
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  lyrics from like like in the perspective of These characters
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  that I grown up hearing about, like, through my dad and my mom
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  telling me Bible story. So like, Peter and Jesus and all
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  them they were in my mind so I can just kind of like right in
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  those characters. So, and then eventually turned
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  into about a year later I had 30 songs and so I yeah.
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  So I had 30 songs and then, my parents heard me singing it.
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  Or I think one of my sister's, like, told on me that I was
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  writing a musical and they were like, Like that's actually
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  really good and they wanted to help me, they wanted to just
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  help it, become whatever God wanted it to become so.
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  So many crazy Miracles happened and how we were able to record
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  it, like record the entire album and God just providing like
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  people and money and everything that we needed.
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  And we eventually made this concept album is and that's what
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  we put out into the world but even then I didn't expect it to
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  become a Each musical but oh, it's beautiful.
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  Okay, what is his story about? His story is about the life of
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  Jesus, but it, um, it's really through the perspective of his
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  disciples a lot. It goes into their stories, Mary
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  Magdalene, and Judas, and mother, Mary, and Joseph.
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  And it's very, very creative and takes the story that we have and
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  just like kind of looks at it through a little bit of A
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  contemporary lens about what that really like what were these
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  characters really feeling and thinking, you know, what was
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  Joseph thinking, when Mary says she's pregnant and you know,
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  what was ludus mindset and all of this?
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  And so just really digging in and putting these classical
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  characters with like real things we go through today.
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  I love that. Like just kind of an emotional
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  background. Yeah.
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  What were they feeling at that time?
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  I know like some stories, I'm like I wish they described how
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  they were feeling more have a little more emotions.
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  So this process I'm thinking brought you even closer to
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  Jesus. What are some of the main
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  highlights of maybe that encounter that you have been in
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  with the Lord, through this whole journey?
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  Well, what's so, Incredible about this is it's like it's a
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  very sweet process of just trusting because it's almost
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  like this is, this isn't the students start out my dream,
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  really? It's like it was God's dream and
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  he decided to share that with me and I feel so honored but it's
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  like I've really felt God's grace and the fact that like I
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  don't feel pressure for this to become anything and every step
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  is just something that God laid. Out.
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  And I get the privilege of walking in and so there's been a
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  lot of crazy things about this whole thing, but I'll tell you
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  one little story. So do you know his story is
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  going to be in a tent? Yes, it's in the ground state
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  grants. Yes, yes, yes.
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  So, beautiful it. It's so stunning.
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  But the crazy thing about this is about a year ago, I was doing
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  this. This Mission San called why
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  Wham. And so yeah with three of my
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  super sweet friends, who love Jesus and we just been reading
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  the Bible a lot about how you know, Moses went up to this
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  mountain to pray and we're like, oh my goodness, all these people
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  in the Bible, they're always going up to mountains and
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  hearing these great things from God.
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  So we're like maybe we should do that.
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  So we went to the store, we bought a bunch of food, we
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  packed a picnic and rented a car and we drove up to This we were
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  in Hawaii and we drove up to this beautiful mountain, it was
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  chilly. And we were like, we're totally
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  going to hear from God and like, it's going to be such an epic
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  encounter and it was actually horrible.
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  We were freezing cold. We, it was pretty miserable, but
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  we ended up just like, you know, cuddling up in blankets and then
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  I fell asleep. And I had a dream where I was
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  standing in front of a big way. White tent and his story was
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  playing inside the tent. And from this, I just wrote it
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  down because I'm like, that's weird but like maybe that's what
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  God wanted to show me and then I forgot about it but like we were
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  not planning on doing it in a tent musicals are intense like
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  that's not like a normal thing. But I just wrote that down and
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  kind of moved on. And then about a year later, the
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  producer Bruce Lazarus called me and was like, hey, what would
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  you think? If we didn't like a big, Cirque
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  du Soleil like tight, and I was like, oh my goodness, so little
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  things like that. Yeah, have been just happening
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  and like, the way that it's all come together is so miraculous
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  that it's like I feel I feel like God's hand is so on it in
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  such a special way just that I feel.
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  So like honored to be to be part of it and I'm so excited to see
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  what it's going to become because like Like God's been
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  with it so much this far that like I know he'll do whatever.
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  He whatever he wants with it. Yeah and I love The Obedience,
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  you know. He just wants our yes and we
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  cook he can do with that. Yes yeah big and Grand of a
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  scale it can get and you have such a obedient heart to him.
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  And so for him to just open these doors for you.
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  How did the doors open to get these?
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  Known Broadway, producers and directors, including Willie and
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  Korie Robertson. Correct, how did that all come
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  about? I mean, that's the crazy part
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  about it is like, none of this was really by our effort.
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  Like I I didn't again know much about musical theater or
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  Broadway, but once we publish the musical and made it public,
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  I word kind of started to spread and God started make these
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  connections. And somebody sent it to Bruce
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  Lazarus who is the producer and he was just like, okay, 16 year
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  old girl writes musical about Jesus, like definitely not going
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  to be my thing but he just listened so he could tell his
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  friend nicely that it's not his thing but he kept it up, just
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  falling in love with it and it's just like so amazing and he
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  didn't. He brought all these incredible
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  teams. Jeff Calhoun who did Newsies and
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  Bonnie, and And then in fully his just incredible, incredible
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  choreographer. It's like I was just watching
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  him this morning just like creating the ending of act one
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  and I'm just like mind blown. I'm like, how do you do that?
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  He's literally like painting with like all these bodies.
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  It's incredible. But so yeah this incredible team
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  that Bruce has brought together and I yeah amazing.
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  Yeah, I was at all God's children were, they help?
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  Help the orphan and the Widow it was a charity event and I got to
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  meet Jep Robertson and and I thought it was him that was part
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  of his story and I knew I had you coming on in a few weeks the
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  interview and he's like oh that's my brother Willie that in
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  Cory. That's doing that.
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  And I was like oh how cool. He's like but we're definitely
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  going to see it not like yeah we're gonna be in that area in a
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  couple weeks so I know we're excited.
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  To go see it and so, tell me like, what are you hoping people
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  will take away from this musical?
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  Well, I think it, I think it'll be different for every person
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  because it really is just the bringing to life of the Gospel
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  that already affects so many people as it is.
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  So I think it will be whatever, people need, whatever their,
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  whatever they're lacking. and I think the gospel is just so
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  powerful, but I think the main message kind of behind it,
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  especially what it's become, because a lot of new songs have
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  been written to is just the idea that there is really nobody too
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  far gone or nobody to Broken that, that that they can't be
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  redeemed if they reach out for help and if they, if they reach
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  out for the healing, that that Jesus offers, so, I think that's
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  the main message and also something that is really on my
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  heart is I want his story to inspire other young other young
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  kids to just take leaps of faith and to just go for it and to
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  just be different and and create and do things for God and have
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  faith and like use their talents to the fullest that they can
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  with the abilities that they have and the resources they have
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  and just like get inspired to do that kind of stuff.
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  Tough and just fill the world with beautiful like pure, holy
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  art for God, I love that and it just shows.
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  Like you may not even know that you have the gift and the
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  talent. Like until you put in that
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  action step just like you, it was like you didn't even know
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  that you had this in you until God drop that idea and you took
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  action into it and that he reveals it and he shows us.
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  So it's so inspiring. You're young and just to see how
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  God is encouraged you. And you're so humble.
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  And, you know, this is something you get to do with God and I
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  just love that you have come on here to share about this.
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  So let's leave our friend here with a takeaway and then where
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  can we see this wonderful musical called his story?
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  What area is it going to be? Is it going to be in several
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  different? Different areas was the future
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  look like for this musical. Yes.
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  So I would say, the take away the best advice I can give you
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  is make knowing Jesus your dream because if your dream is to like
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  is to impress God or make something incredible for a more
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  view, just a good great Christian.
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  Then you're always going to be living in this performance
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  mentality. But if you make your dream, just
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  getting to know him. Being as close to him, as you
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  possibly can, his dreams are going to rub off on you and
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  you're just gonna live the life that he wants.
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  Because you're so close to him that you're just like his
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  partner and everything, so that's always been.
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  My goal is to be so close to God and so faithful with the little
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  things that he gives me that when he has an idea and he
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  wants, he wants to do something, I'm the one he comes to.
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  So I would say just stay so close to Jesus and make loving
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  him. The dream of your life and where
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  can we all see those me? Yes.
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  So his Story the Musical is going to be in the tent every
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  night. Sometimes, like, on Saturdays,
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  we're gonna be doing it. Three times.
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  Three shows on Saturdays. So come, see it at Grand scape?
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  The Colony Dallas, Texas. I don't know the exact address,
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  but if you go to his duel with the musical.com, you can get all
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  the information and tickets. Tickets on Ticketmaster and our
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  website, historically, school.com.
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  And you can also follow us on Instagram history of the
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  musical, and I'll have the links in the show notes for you, that
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  are listening. And thank you so much, Anna for
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  coming on here. Sharing your testimony, and I'm
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  praying nothing but wonderful blessings for this musical and
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  I'm sure many more ahead. There are there.
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  More musicals coming for sure. Oh, I love it.
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  Thank you for coming on here. Thank you so much.
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  It's been great to talk to you. Thank you so much for listening
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  today and I trust that God has encouraged you through this
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  Owing to my Instagram handle. Jamie Elizabeth she speaks life
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  or Facebook until next time my friend.
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  I hope God reveals himself through your own life story.