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Well, thank you for coming on, Lisa. Hey. So we were just talking about your
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teaching. What's the school that you teach at?
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It's called AMDA. It's a four-year BFA program in Los Angeles.
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It's a two-year program in New York. But I joined the voice faculty fall of
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2019, and then the pandemic hit.
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Yes. And during that time, I had 26 or 27 students, plus some other people that
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I coach on Zoom, which is why I have this nice microphone.
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Yeah, it sounds great. We kind of set ourselves up with a good camera and a
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good mic, and so I could give the kids a really better experience with me.
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And I have to say, I really love the teaching. My whole family are teachers.
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And even though I've been singing all my life, I just didn't stop and take the time to do it.
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And since being back in person, it's really been unbelievably fun.
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Like I said, the kids are in college. They're artists. They want to be on Broadway. They're singers.
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They're either musical theater or contemporary singers, commercial singers.
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And they just want to learn how to use their voices.
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And it's really fun for me to be with that age group.
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They don't have kids, so it's kind of fun. Yeah. All that enthusiasm.
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Yeah, they have a lot of that. I wish their technique met the enthusiasm.
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Yeah. Well, some of them will take a while to get there, and some of them will get there quickly.
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You know, it's about them respecting themselves and their authenticity,
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and they can see the results after.
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It's not a bunch of tips like you would ask Roger Federer how to be a tennis star.
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And oh he gives you some tips and all of a sudden boom
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you're a star forever you know it takes time and it's
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conditioning and it's it's a craft like anything else and
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i i kind of say it's sort of like being an athlete
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you have to keep that pace and that training is your
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body's different every day you're maturing they're not mature yet they have
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certain layers of instability physically that won't kind of meld until they're
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26 27 their bodies and their mucous membrane system are all changing and right
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and then they'll have a good 40 years before it gets unstable again so i.
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Want them to be i want them to be
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as prepped and proud of them their work as possible yeah
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it's been really great for me i've loved it i've loved it so great to
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talk to you because i'm here in the bay area and i know you've been
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here a lot and i lived there a long time i know
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and i don't think we ever met or anything i did know
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you in phantom which i loved yeah i think
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i i knew some other people in the show John you
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know John Monagro yes John Monagro
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yes I was in a show with
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him oh John's the best they're all they're just it was a great company of
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people I love them you know they it was
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a beautiful five years with with people who really cared about the show everybody
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worked hard every day and it was some shows get old and people get tired of
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it but we couldn't afford that in in San Francisco so I well it was such a huge
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hit here oh we just had a ball. It was a great, and it went by.
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Like in a flash. I know. I remember. All of a sudden it's over.
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And it was just always sold out for five years or is that what it was? Five years?
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Yeah. Five. Yeah. Five years. Well, wow.
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What a great treat that was. And a great run. You know, I bought a home after
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that and I was, I'm forever grateful to that long-term show, you know? Yeah.
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I just, it's in, I'm in Pasadena.
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And right after that, I went back to New York for another kind of three and a half years.
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So. And you did some shows on Broadway in New York?
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Yeah, I did Phantom for another three years. Oh, you did it?
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I didn't know you did it in New York. Yeah, I bought my home after Phantom closed
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in San Francisco and Pasadena, and I'm sitting there, and the phone rings.
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And of course, you're still in kind of a loop of the role of the girls who do it.
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And they wanted me to go to London, and I said, no, I just got a house, and I have a puppy.
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And it was too much. I was in boxes still.
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But and i said no and i i was like
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gosh maybe that's it you know you don't know if they're gonna call again
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and yeah literally a month later they called and
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said both girls in new york are pregnant can you come and i
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went i'm in so because after that much
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time i i did the tour a little bit before that after five or
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six years in a show in a role you kind of want the payoff of doing
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it on broadway yeah so so what
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was it like what was it like going from san francisco to broadway
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was that your first broadway show no i did aspects of love before
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oh so you oh so you're old hat yeah i did lame
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is for three years and in the middle of it i did the the uh new
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broadway premiere of aspects of love yeah i
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lived in new york a long time i actually moved out of new york to come to
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san francisco and do uh phantom oh i
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didn't know that oh yeah i thought you were from here okay no well it
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felt like you were from here i think a lot of people thought it was like my hometown doesn't
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it yeah i think a lot of people assumed it was they
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do my cell phone is still 415 so i think people think
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that i that i live there still yeah i think
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a lot of people probably think you still do but i
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did i don't know why like the ghost of phantom past here so so what's the show
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that you have coming up here we are doing the 30th anniversary of help us on
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the way the richmond ermite you know benefit that that started a very long time
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ago and i was there at the the beginning,
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because I was in San Francisco, those were the years, the 90s,
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when we were all in San Francisco together.
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With Ken Henderson and Joe Seiler, and we just, they become dear,
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dear friends of mine, like my family, and I've been in so many of them,
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you know, over 25 of them, I'm pretty sure,
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that, you know, like, everybody that comes back to it feels like your family
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again, in San Francisco, and the, when we started doing them, I, I,
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couldn't get enough of it every year because it was
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a night off from doing the same show over and over again and a
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night where everybody did one song and we were backstage together
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enjoying each other's company and artistry and it was
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glorious it was a glorious time and i and
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singing music that you didn't normally get to so i am
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so it's like a cabaret format it's yeah
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everybody comes in and does one thing you know they kind of get up and
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do a number and you hope it's early so you can go have a drink right away yeah
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that's what i love about doing cabaret type shows yeah it's so it's so much
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it's so much fun it's actually it's so much easier than doing an entire musical
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that's for sure you think and it's just and people are so.
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Receptive and warm and it's just a great environment it's a fun thing and you
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just feel like you can be yourself i mean i i recently just did a one-person
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show and I won the New York Bistro Award for it this year. Did you write it?
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I did. My husband and I put it together. Good for you. And it's music?
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As my friends call it, they call it Intro to Lisa 101.
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Oh, nice. So I mean, I did it in the Green Room 42 in New York a year ago and
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then I just did it Easter weekend again and then April 1st was the Bistro Awards
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that they told me I was getting an award for the show.
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Well, congratulations. Yeah, that was fun. on i mean i
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said does it mean something goes oh are you going to be a cabaret singer now and
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i said i don't know i find it a lot of pressure but really
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really fun to do i love telling the
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stories that you're not going to know you know they're you know they're even
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my friends who had known me for years said i hadn't heard half of the things
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that you were telling me i just because you're revealing things about your childhood
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and family and little stories fun stories that have happened along the way and
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there's i mean there's 40 years of it so there's plenty of good stuff,
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yeah it was from i have to wait till some people probably pass
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away to tell some of it but you know it's that'll be
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part two yeah that's the problem with writing a an autobiographical show or
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a memoir or something it's like what can you get away with you know what if
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they read it yeah yeah it's uh it's yeah but you know it's it's uh it was great
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fun and i have a couple of pianists one
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on the East Coast, one of the West Coast that I've worked with. I did the show out here.
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Last summer too and there's a lot of there's a great arts community out here and down here in la,
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also and it's been you know even though i'm teaching and still i'm still traveling
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a lot doing concerts so the time to book like a show take off five or six weeks is kind of difficult,
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at times but you know there's still some shows
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like a couple of shows i'd like to do if they find me
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that'll be great what would those be i i mean the the
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top of the list would have to be like the piazza i've
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always wanted to play margaret oh i love that so i'm just putting
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it out there i'm waiting for somebody to uh you'd be
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great in that i love that yeah it just
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it suits me now it seems like people aren't doing
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that as much as they used to used to say they should yeah the music's glory
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it's it but it's no joke it's really difficult and the it's not only the italian
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and the language but the music is very complicated and beautiful and so you
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really have I'd have a cast of pretty tight musicians that can then handle it.
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But it's a beautiful show.
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And I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
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I think there always should be a bucket list, right? Oh, for sure.
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People ask me if I'm going to retire. I'm like, I don't know.
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What does that mean, really? What do we do? I mean, it changes.
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What you want to do changes, but you can't ever really.
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It's hard to retire from this, I would say. Well, you know, your voice will
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tell you what it wants to do.
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I mean, my voice still works for me very well because I trained well.
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I went to MFA, was in voice performance and was in kind of the opera world out of grad school.
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And I just had a good technique and I've always been a crossover singer and I've taken care of it.
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But I think I was, I came into Phantom a little older, so my voice was really
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settled in a place where it could withstand that role for a number of years
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and not hurt it or damage it.
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Or it was, you know, I was ready for it at that time.
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And I've seen it with singers who didn't have that all together that do some damage.
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And maybe they weren't old enough or mature enough to, because it's not easy
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singing and you're singing every day. You have to be that kind of an athlete, I think.
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Yeah, it's the everyday thing. And sometimes twice a day, they can really take
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a toll on you, I think. It does.
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And yet it's over and you're thinking, you know, where did the time flew?
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Like I said, and I loved, I'm glad it was San Francisco. I love that city.
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I have so many dear friends there.
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Joe and Ken actually just sent me a video of one of the first.
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Benefits that I did with them almost 30 years ago
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and my mom who has passed away now was visiting me with my stepfather they were
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both choral music educators and they came out to see phantom for the weekend
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I was doing the benefit so I said hey you want to come and play for me you know
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and so my second song I invited her up and I introduced her as my my high school
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and junior high music teacher,
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oh and then she walked up and everybody started giggling because we
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are kind of carbon copies so i said oh
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it's mother's day oh mrs gage is also my mom you
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know kind of and i i don't have any videos of
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my mother we weren't a video family have a lot of pictures yeah so i have a
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video of her and i performing together and then we did an interview backstage
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after for like oh you're like three four four or five minutes and it's both
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of us standing there and talking with each other and And I'm telling you,
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it just makes me cry just to think of that. I'm so happy I have it.
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Well, that's wonderful. Yeah, it's great. Those kind of things are.
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But that's what this benefit kind of means to me. And I'm going to be back with
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some incredible talent on this one yet again. Yes. We are.
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Yes. People will. I mean, Rob McClure, who is starring in Mrs.
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Doubtfire, for one, if you hear anything about him, the guy's a superstar. I can't wait to hear him.
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Do his thing but there are just bruce falange is there again paula west sam
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harris who i've met i've met all these people doing this benefit so it's kind of,
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yeah yeah david burnham and faith prince and debbie
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boone jennifer lee warren let me think who
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else oh jason brock who's back from japan lived
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there for a while but a bay area singer wonderful talent so i
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mean all these people i've known for all these years because of
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this benefit of it so i'm it's kind of like coming home a
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little bit too yeah well i
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sort of know faith prince i mean uh i did a while back she i went backstage
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when she did there was a play here in act that didn't the tales of the city
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music oh yeah yeah yeah that was fun didn't take off i enjoyed it a lot yeah
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i heard people loved it but they yeah they um,
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Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Things kind of go. It just depends whether
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they think it's going to make it in New York or not. Yeah.
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And New York is another banana. It's all about the money, if they can sell it.
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Yeah, it's all about the profit. Yeah.
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That's not really what's going on too much in San Francisco,
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except for the touring companies.
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Yeah. But everybody else is non-profit for the most part.
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Yeah. So I feel the pandemic really put
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its stamp on the Bay Area you and people sustaining and staying afloat and alive
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and it's affected opera companies and symphonies all every arts organization
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so uh it's been hard i had to leave the union myself really i just couldn't
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get anything anymore and i felt like i wanted to do stuff so,
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and you were limited i'm not sure if i made the right decision but i did a couple
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plays non-union and at least i got to do something could you go back i just
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wrote them an email asking Yeah.
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Should I not? I'm like, why don't you not for a while and go get some experience?
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can't believe yeah so i tell them why
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don't you go work see what you can get and work
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work work and don't join the union and without any experience first well
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decent wages yeah oh yeah so they're competing
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don't get the benefits fits but yeah yeah
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i don't know things are changing or protections or protections
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which is important we just have to keep live art arts alive yeah gotta go with
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the flow and keep it alive i live in la but i don't i love movies and tv but
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witnessed and experienced how it can be so quickly taken
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someone doesn't support the arts and we have to still struggling most theaters
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are still struggling to get an audience back since then right just people have
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become complacent and stay home yeah and they lost so many subscribers yeah
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almost every theater yep yeah because if people aren't putting their money in
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it uh it's it's you know it's hard but I can't give up.
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live performance will ever go away.
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when you sing and we sing live for each other we are
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like the wave of second responders you know
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you can watch a movie you love and that's that certainly helps but when someone's
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in front of you and they are this their your sound is hitting their body and
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their their ears there's nothing like it it's it's a sensory you know overload
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be completely supported everywhere and the kids to get the experience.
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they, and they were scared to death emotionally.
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going i can't do this i can't do this you know they just hadn't been
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able to exercise it at 18 to
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to or it'll be on social media forever and you'll
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have to live with that i mean it's we didn't have have to do
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that growing up in our era so i we're at which i'm grateful for you could make
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mistakes you you and you should be able to make mistakes you should you should
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singing every day yeah just we're not an ai product we're we're human you know and thank god still.
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we're still apparently that might change from what
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they how do i know you're not a robot no how do
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you know i'm not an alien i was watching the show resident alien
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on tv it was about have you seen it oh my god
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i love it it's one of our favorite things i love
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it so how do you say his last name how do you say his name what's
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his last name oh forget about everybody go
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go see every minute of resident alien it
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is it is a piece of genius it's so funny
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it's it's from beginning to end it was beautifully written and
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it's so kind-hearted too yeah it's like it's good family entertainment his adopting
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the 14 year old sensibility you know with the child how they banter just it
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i couldn't get enough of it and it's like he's it's like he's so uncomfortable
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in his own body all the time.
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Resident alien because i i
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have to cast oh alan
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to to dick to dick yeah that's his name t-u-d-y-k
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yeah oh my god people apparently a lot of people a lot of people have known
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about him before i i didn't know he was in other shows that were really good
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like firefly voiceover stuff for characters too oh i'm sure yeah the guy's he's
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brilliant though i i i want to you You know what I love the most?
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some of the actors will start laughing. Oh, yeah.
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And the editors leave it in for like a split second. Yeah, they can't hold it together with him.
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Or the woman who plays the main character. I forget her name.
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Yeah, Sarah. Is that her name? Once in a while, she'll start. Asta.
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Yeah, Asta. She'll start laughing at the actor. And they'll leave it in.
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The editors will leave it in for just a split second you
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know they're doing it on purpose yeah sarah tomko and
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like cory cory reynolds who plays sheriff mike oh god
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oh my god he's great well they're
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all great i mean the entire elizabeth bowen
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who is the other agent i mean the yeah oh she's fun
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everyone in it is so good that i i it looks like
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they're just having so much fun yeah i think i
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think they get along really well you can just feel the chemistry through
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this oh my god they know they have a good show so i'm yeah so that helps that
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we we were sad when that when we finished the season it was that it was over
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i have a little ways to go yet so don't tell me the end i won't tell you i'm
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not saying anything because it just it keeps getting better.
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that where they they start off a little unsure of what
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they're about and then you know episode after episode
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it just gets better and better right and you can tell
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that so are we going to see you with this benefit i'm going to be there for
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sure let's see find me okay find me
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find me and and the benefit is to support to support hiv programs hunger programs
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and youth programs their small emergency emergency grants program all right
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yes but project open hand which is incredible and yes i came to know that group
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when i was in san francisco and a lot of sponsors no it's an It's an incredible,
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incredible gift to the Bay Area, this thing.
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And Joe and Ken have been completely devoted to this.
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For years and years and all the people that have come through it and that i've
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known like i said it was it was a such a relief from the and the phantom company
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a lot of them joined all the time they said it was such a great night for our
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for our san francisco community.
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And i'm still friends with a lot of them so that that's a it's a great thing
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to get up there it feels like it was sort of my second home for a while so i
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miss it yeah i do and these are really
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great programs that they're giving to here so you're really supporting a lot
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of people who need help if you if you attend the reef and you're going to see
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the next group of you know broadway talent that are cast and mrs.
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what yeah the talent is just fantastic yeah yeah
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these kids are going to be able to you
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know you're on tour and you're doing the same show all
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the time and now they get to get up and dress up look pretty
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and get up and do something else that they
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love so that's that's kind of a i love
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watching them do that the last one i did was with the les mis company and get
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this that company had in it a cover for cosette and fontaine and she was maybe
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23 24 and her mom and dad and i were in phantom together in new york Oh, wow.
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And there she is. And her dad was, and we were, I was on the Les Mis,
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this particular, a tour of Les Mis originally.
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It started in 88. And so, and her dad was in that company for a while.
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So, I mean, I've known her since she was a baby.
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So, needless to say, we took a lot of pictures together and sent it to her parents.
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They're on tour and out of college. And they want musical theater.
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She comes by it rightly. Both of her parents are superstars. So that was...
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Helps a little bit. To have the influence of that. It's pretty cool.
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So I was looking here. We have Jason Brock from...
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On the poster from the X Factor, David Burnham.
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Yeah, Jason lives in San Francisco. He was in Japan for the last three or four years. Oh.
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And he's immersed himself and lived there. David Burnham, I just sang with here in Pasadena.
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We've sung a million concerts together. And, of course, Sam Harris, superstar.
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Jennifer Lee Warren, who was out of control, talented. Yeah.
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Paula West, who is, you know, our San Francisco, you know. Yes.
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Star, star, star, star. But she sings all over the place. She's great.
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And you have Bruce Valanche for the comedy. He is hilarious.
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He's been in the show. Yeah, I know. He's a lot. And he's perfect and he's brilliant
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and he's unbelievably funny.
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And anyone who watched Hollywood stars in the 70s, you'll know who he is. I did.
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She used to be somebody i'm saying no it's
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it's that it's gonna we're gonna have a ball be funny michael orland
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is the music director who was with american idol originally it's md and he is
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just he works with everybody and he's wow the best that's a tough job being
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the musical director on american idol wow i think he did originally and i hope
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i don't i give his bio correctly but he's worked with everyone and he's he's
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a big deal and he's a wonderful man,
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that was the thing I was most impressed with, was getting all that music together
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And when you had no time at all. The weekly.
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Yeah, incredible. Yeah. Just an incredible feat. I mean, wow.
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You look at the kids, they're young. They can memorize things very quickly. I know. I know.
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I remember those days. A few years ago, I did Maria Callas and the Masterclass and the play.
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And it's basically a one-woman show. And I'm telling you, I was like, oh, my God. I know.
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Can I memorize this? And I found that I could, and it felt good.
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usually do. do, but I realized it's because I didn't have to sing any high notes. Oh.
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I thought, all I have to do is talk. This is easy. No, I'm just kidding.
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That's a great show. I love that show. I loved it. I had a great time doing
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that. I'd love to do that again.
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I just finished the first draft of a one-man show.
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I had a great-grand-uncle who came here from Italy to become a big movie singing star in New York.
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Oh. And he was in a Broadway show when he was like 30 and then never again.
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And he wrote his memoir and he published it in Italy.
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And I wrote a one-man show based on that. And so it's going to have music. Oh, what was the show?
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Well, I haven't. I'm just writing it. It's called The Singing Janitor right now. Oh.
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Oh. Yeah.
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Anyway, I just thought I'd share that with you. No, that's great.
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Yeah. I love real stories.
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So broadway and beyond this this uh
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july 14th 7 30 p.m at
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marines memorial theater yeah you have got
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a great space do you have the you have the info i do
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i'll put it all in the notes yeah yeah i
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don't have that address at the top of
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my head oh for the website yeah yeah
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i have it here okay the website is www probably
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don't have to put that but a reef r-e-a-f f
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as in frank yeah f as in frank dash s-f as in frank dot org reef dash s-f dot
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org yeah it's a richmond agreement aids foundation yes yeah great yeah oh so
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that'll be great it's It's going to be a really, really fun night.
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And getting back to San Francisco, as I've told you, I don't get to do it enough anymore.
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Yeah. Well, maybe we can see you more often.
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I would love to, but doing the teaching kind of keeps you on a regular schedule.
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Oh, right. So I really, and I love it.
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I don't want to give it up, but I didn't think I'd sing this much this late.
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And so the juggle around the concert travel has been a lot.
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The spring was just almost killed me. So I thought I'm trying to do it all,
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but someone's going to have to give at some point. But for now.
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How about if you do a show at the Raz Room?
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At the Raz Room? I don't know the Raz Room. I mean, not Raz Room.
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Feinstein's. Feinstein's. I've done that before, and it'd be fun to do it again.
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Yeah. I could see about that.
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I'm for it. You got my vote. Okay. I'll be there. I've sold one ticket.
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I've sold one ticket. Yay. I'm in.
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I'm in. yeah it'd be fun to come up there and do that again uh it
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used to be called the razz room i keep forgetting it's
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feinstein yeah feinstein's is a great space oh yeah
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i just i just videoed a show there last week
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sean two weeks ago sean patrick murtaugh
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i don't know yeah i know sean i think sean and i met doing this benefit
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also there you go years ago i
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just i just i just did i just videoed his show which was
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a tribute to the divas of feinstein sonheim yeah
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i saw that yeah but he i said
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these are you know if if it's been so
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many years doing this that that everyone's come through this benefit at
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some point or another yeah that's um that's a
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good thing yeah yeah i'll maybe you you probably know carly my friend carly
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ozard too i do yeah i do hey carly let's do shout out she's like my best pal
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amazing talent amazing voice yeah lover of lover of animals which we love Yes, we do.
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Yeah, she's like, you know, truly, her voice is like a precious gem.
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There's not a lot of people with her voice type.
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No, there aren't. People don't, they don't write for it. They don't know what
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to do with it. But I have a student that is a true contralto,
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you know, big dark mezzo.
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And it's hard. And she goes, well, there's not a lot of roles in musical theater.
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I said, so we're going to have to find you where you fit.
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Get people to write for you. one thing that they found that she fits well in
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is dance club dance music oh yeah yeah yeah,
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she's done a bunch of that because she has that big voice they can like fill
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in the background right but she's done some uh lamplighter stuff the gns recently
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yeah been she's been fantastic with them oh i love it she's incredible so i'm
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perfect for that perfect yeah yeah it's so much
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that is so much fun also yeah yeah the gilbert and sullivan oh stuff it's great
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it's it's so funny you would you would swear it was current.
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I know, and it's so old. Yeah, I am. It's so old. The 1880s or something? I know.
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Yeah. Hey, I have to teach a little lesson. Well, thank you, Lisa.
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I have to teach it at three, so I have like six minutes. Oh,
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gosh. Okay, I'll let you go. We'll see you at the Reef. I'll be there.
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Please do. Yeah, I'll come back and see you. Reef. Doing some.
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Zoom doesn't really like our singing lessons, but there's a lot of things you
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can do as far as sharing and listening and self-taping and back and forth.
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We did a lot of that. but nothing like being in person and really hearing the
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voice but we do what we can and we have to so it's yes at least we have the
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zoom so it's that's good yeah so reef.sf.org to go get all the information about
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the benefit yeah there's there's a very few of the great tickets left.
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So there's not a bad there's really not a bad seat anyway so
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yeah it's a great it's a great space it's a great space it's all sorts of fun
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how many times have i sung there millions so i'm i'm digging it it's called
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broadway and beyond probably beyond
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all right square thanks ray thank you thanks so much okay okay bye bye.
