Footloose: Dancing Is Not a Crime

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Today and every week we will be discussing musicals , but specifically what they taught us .

Another week , another musical we're back , we're back . I'm pretty sure my children are top dancing upstairs it does sound like maybe they're practicing for their end of term showcase .

I think that's exactly what they're doing . Which ?

is slowly but surely coming upon

I love it . I love it .

The show must go on .

The show will always go on , and it's always wonderful , that's it Exactly that . I went to a concert this week .

You're really getting out there with the whole music performances .

It wasn't a musical concert . It was so . Charlotte's little friend and her mum and Charlotte were going , and then I was invited along , but I , you know , officially felt old . I felt old at this concert this lovely singer was talking about , you know now that she's grown up at age 25 , oh , wow , okay , when was that I ?

Mixamon . Well , listen , you're doing better than me , because I've never even heard of that singer before .

It's lovely to discover new music . I really had a great time and I'm like but I'm now officially feeling old Now I officially feel old , and musicals don't make me feel that way , so I need to go and see another musical .

Yeah , you feel young and fresh as a birdie .

Yes . In musical theatre Musicals don't make me feel old . Going to concerts make me feel old .

Yeah , especially if you don't know the person you're going to see . Like , that was awful brave of you to actually go to a concert of an artist you don't really listen to . Yeah , well done you In the world of musical theatre . It's been a busy week , though .

Oh , my goodness .

Particularly for a certain Rob Matt . Oh , delighted they have had quite the week . So they started off the beginning of the week on their social media by announcing that their musical or play my Son's a Queer . But what Can you Do is finally going to get its Broadway premiere in June

Yes , it's only a short stint .

Yeah , in the New York City Center , but that's amazing for them , especially when they were there ready to go and then , for whatever reason , it all fell through and the opening number , I think , in their show is called Anything Is Possible , and it was really lovely that Anything Is Possible and it might have taken another year of , I think , probably a lot of

Yes , along with Hannah Todd is going to be Hannah Dodd Dodd , sorry .

Bridgerton's Hannah Dodd . Yeah , going to be Hannah Dodd Bridgerton's Hannah Dodd yeah , so they're both going into it from the 29th of May for well . I certainly know that Rob Madge is for 16 weeks only , but the whole story of how it came about it's really interesting . Did you hear that ?

no , go for it so , um , they were .

so Rob Madge was hosting the Stage Awards this year and he made a joke of I am your host , as the emcee would say , and if there's any cabaret producers in the house , hit me up . And they did , and they managed to get an audition and they said that they were happy enough with that .

I love them and their socials are amazing .

So I we haven't talked about this on the pod yet so I have come back from london where um went to see starlight express . That was planned and booked . And then I was surprised with the lovely visit to the Kit Kat Club which I did not think was happening .

But I haven't talked about my London theatre goings on the pod Starlight Express .

I think we'll probably have to mention it , don't we ? Because we did do it on the pod and I was very vocal on how I felt about the revival and the changes that have been made and I have to say , to be fair , it was brilliant and the change .

Wow .

Because of the technical stuff involved , like the I Am or Starlight Express sequence was like absolutely gorgeous with how they do it and tell us what about seeing the child ?

yeah , no , it was fine , okay , because actually he loved is that you didn't see the child actually very involved in the whole show .

Okay , so it wasn't that they just do a wee bit at the beginning and then they appear at the end , very involved , and actually it the way they've staged it . It's very clear that that the child is manipulating and creating everything that's happening on stage .

Oh right , so you've seen it there .

There you go , yeah .

So I went off on a tangent there because I forgot we hadn't done the theatre news . No , no , I loved it yeah . But now are you going to have to go and see Cabaret with Rob .

No , here's the thing . Okay , and interestingly and I said this after having seen it because I was so , so spoiled I am a lucky boy because we sat at some of the cabaret tables , so we were very close to the front and you know , you're very involved in how in it , in the way it's staged .

Okay . Forever Do you know what I mean . Yeah , does that make sense ? Yeah , 100% .

Yeah , so no , that's how I feel .

Okay , awesome .

Yeah .

Yeah , it's been a very exciting couple of weeks it has .

Yeah , it was good . Good Shall we move on . I do have other theatre news , right ? Yeah , no , but I forgot I needed to talk about my theatre news .

I know your theatre news .

So let's move on to what we're doing this week . Then Musical Theatre News .

What are we doing ?

What are we doing ?

Footloose .

Footloose , footloose , kick off your Sunday shoes . I have to say , back in the day , when we were out at the DISCO or out for a wee night out , you know we did like the dance floor . We did and normally when Footloose came on like the dance floor , maybe cleared a little bit .

And we also learned a really good routine

Sure did .

So we always did that .

I always loved that as well , like looking back , so uncool . But like at the time , we thought we were amazing when , like a song like Foot Fitness did come on and we did have a dance routine and we did the dance routine in the club Same with like S Club .

Yeah , well , we do that at any gathering S Club .

Reach . You know like we have a routine for that too and we think we're really cool but in hindsight like that's so not cool , like doing a full on routine in the club . No , I know Absolutely , nor did I . But , like At the time , we thought we were like Proper rock stars .

Yeah , we were like We've got a routine , we've got a routine .

Yeah .

You're so cool , so cool .

Whilst everybody's Looking at us Like going Seriously , okay , I'm going to beat him up In the car park . Why seriously ?

I'm going to beat him up in the car park . Why are you dancing to that song ? Okay , so Footless , the 1998 musical based on the 1984 film which I wasn't massively familiar with . I knew of it , it was kind of like there , but it's really the musical that I would know more than the film .

I knew it was Kevin Bacon's big thing , and that's you know , knew it was Kevin Bacon's big thing yeah .

You know , you always see Kevin Bacon like dancing . Is it in the middle of like some street or something ? No , it's not , it's in a building , and you always have that like whenever it's due . You know , this was what he was in , type thing . I don't know what I'm saying .

No , and I can happily stand over . I wouldn't be a fan of the film and I'm a bit more of a fan of the musical . Do you know what I mean ? The film just doesn't grip me at all . And the remake ? I think I watched the first five minutes and then turned it off . But does the remake have music in it ? No , yeah , remake , I did .

But is that ? Does the remake have music in it ? No , yeah like it's .

It's the musical well , no , no , no , no , no , no . So for the remake they had , as far as I'm aware , because I only watched the first five minutes , but I think they had some of the key tracks from the first movie , like Footloose , and then they put in like extra , like more up-to-date , modern-y kind of music yeah .

Yeah , some of the songs are great . So music is by Tom Snow Mm-hmm . He is a songwriter for many , many people .

Yeah .

Many , many people Lyrics .

Like music artists ? Yes , it's not in the world of musicals .

Lyrics were Dean Pitchford , who did one of my faves , the Boy From Oz , oz and Lizzie McGuire , a movie we all love .

What a hit .

It's just like dreams are made of .

Oh , is that what that's from ? Yes , oh , interesting . Okay , I know the song , I've not watched the film .

And my cousin when he got married . That is what him and Niall walked down the aisle to after they got married Lizzie McGuire ? Yeah , but it was like an orchestral version of it .

Oh , classy , it was amazing .

It was really , really cool . Dean Pitchford is a songwriter who is also in the Hall of Fame . He was inducted in 2024 .

Oh wow , he must be very good .

Yeah , kenny Loggins , you know , we all know him from A Star Is Born , barbara Streisand's A Star Is Born , and the book was by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobby . He was the original Roger in Grace .

Walter Bobby .

Mm-hmm . Oh , and he was a nicely , nicely Johnston in the 1992 Guys and Dolls .

Oh , well done , walter Bobbe . Great name , walter Bobbe .

And he won Tony for Best Director of Chicago .

Tony , tony , tony , you're very enthusiastic about that . You were shaking your pen , aren't ?

you . I know because it was a fact I remembered . Very good , Excellent . I was more impressed with the fact that I remembered it .

So yeah , the musical opened in Broadway's Richard Rogers Theatre in October 1998 . So it's not as old a musical as you think it is .

Do you know ?

what I mean . I think in my head I kind of thought , with the movie being of the age it was 1984 , I thought the musical was a bit closer to that .

Same and this was because it's set and it's very much an 80s , very much an 80s film . You associate it with the 80s and the musical is set in the 80s .

You just assume that yeah , it was that's it , and it ran for 709 performances until July 2000 . It received mixed critical reception . General consensus was that the show was in and of itself poor Nice , but , as we've just said , the music and the talented cast at the time made it entertaining . It was nominated for four Tonys .

Yeah , just there's not a huge love for it , and if you didn't think there was an awful lot of love for it in America , where it is set , there is even less love for it in the West End . So went on a world tour first in 2000 . Had a UK tour in 2004 . Ended up in the West End in the Novello Theatre on the Strand .

That's it .

Excuse me , but lasted seven months . Didn't last very long .

No , it really didn't . It did , interestingly , star David Essex , and I love this one , cheryl Flippin Baker .

Did it Absolutely . Oh my goodness , we love a one . Cheryl Flippin' Baker Did it Absolutely .

Oh , my goodness , we love a bit of Cheryl . She was . You gotta slow it . Bugs Fizz . I can't remember . I should remember it . It's coming up to that time of the year , isn't it ? Who was ?

she . You're a vision . Who was she in ?

I have no idea . Maybe the Bugs Fizz ? I have no idea . Maybe , but she wouldn't have . She'd have been too young to play one of the mothers , wouldn't she ? Did she play ?

no , she wasn't Ariel . No , in 2006 no , you're right she must have played one of the mothers , aye so there you go .

Yeah , it didn't really do very well , no no , did have another revival in 2017

it's more of an amdram show . And what did we say ? Oh , brittle no , it is because you know what . It is a good chorus show . There's some really good songs in it . There's some nice wee parts or whatever . But yeah , there's a couple of these musicals that we've done , and you know what ? It's okay to be an Amdram show .

No , I need to verify because obviously I work with an Amdram . I didn't mean O Brutal as in let's make it an amateur show . I mean it wasn't even a show that could go on national tours .

No , I don't think so .

Just don't do any tours . No , yeah , okay , no yeah .

I need to verify . I'm not saying .

Amdram's the best thing in the world .

I think you know an Amdram will do it justice . Well , I don't think you need to put it on tour , that's what I'm telling you .

Those producers that listen to us don't bother putting it on tour .

Just allow the Amdrams to have it .

Anybody who doesn't know Footless tells the story of Rem McCormick , a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town where he attempts to overturn a ban on dancing enforced by the efforts of a local minister . There lieth the plot . That is it . There's not much more you need to know .

I mean . All I would say is he becomes the voice for young people .

That's it , and I suppose that's one of the overriding kind of things that I learned from the musical .

And actually I was helping a lovely student this week . Look at monologues for an edition , and Ren's is actually a really good monologue . Oh yeah , you know that speech that he gives to the preacher , so yeah , you know Very good .

Fun facts , fun footloose facts . Oh , yes , with a little bit of alliteration . It grossed 80 million . The film grossed 80 million , becoming the seventh highest grossing film in 1984 . And Footloose Number by Kenny Loggins and let's Hear it for the Boy , my personal favourite by Denise Williams . We're both nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song .

Awesome , there you go . Well , my musical air glingos . Are we okay ?

to sort of move into there .

I didn't know much about the film and then I actually the remake totally bypassed me . I didn't even know there was a remake until I was doing research for this .

And you watched it . No , I didn't , no . And now that we've done the podcast with your fellow podcastee , he's telling you don't bother .

So there we go . Anyway , I also didn't know that it was actually inspired , by a real event so um elmore city in oklahoma yeah and they had this tragedy , you know .

Yeah , so Elmore City in Oklahoma . They banned it in an attempt to decrease the amount of heavy drinking Advocated by the Reverend FR Johnson , and he said no good ever comes from dancing . If you have a dance , somebody will crash it . They will be looking for only two things women and booze . When boys and girls get together , they get aroused .

Yeah .

Not okay . No , until 1980 , though , junior class of Elmore City High School made national news when they requested permission to hold a junior prom , and it was granted . The request overturned the ban . Permission to hold a junior prom , and it was granted . The request was over .

There we go . That's in the musical and that's in the musical .

Yeah it kind of rang a bit similar to the prom . Do you remember when we were talking about the prom ?

Yeah , yeah .

For goodness sake , just let kids be kids sometimes I know you need a wee boogie . And that's what I kind of learnt the idea of celebrating the youth . Fitless is a celebration of youth , highlighting the energy and the passion and the potential that young people can bring to positive change . Yeah , I suppose that's the teacher in me coming out , is that ?

Yeah , no , I like it and I like that . You know it's a , there is a real fight for it and yes , okay , everything comes okay in the end . But initially you think , oh , it hasn't , it hasn't worked , even though you've fought . But initially you think , oh , it hasn't worked , even though you've fought .

And sometimes that does happen in life .

You know , you've fought really really well , you've fought your case really well , but just there's too much hurt there , or trauma or whatever it is , but then obviously it does all come out well .

In the number footless on any given Sunday .

Reverend Moore .

he says in this morning's convocations I'm so glad that you got that , because I have that down to me , but I didn't want to say the word oh , convocations , so you didn't know what they were either . So a convocation is a planned assembly of people for a specific purpose , usually religious in nature .

From the Latin convocare , meaning to call or come together oh yeah , so I didn't know that it has to be a formal meeting , academic or religious , and you have to be gathered for a specific reason , so you can't just just come together or can't just . Oh my goodness , there's 20 of us here . Oh we're at . You know we're a complication .

Yes , yeah , yeah , interesting .

That's all I learned in that one . Do you have anything else to say ? That's all I learned .

No , the one thing , one musical effort .

Yes , no same yeah , can't stand still . I really like that wee song , I think you see , if it's done well , I think it's a . It's a nice way , like I don't know , there's like a wee , like I can feel my shoulders going with it . Anyway , um , it says book , a book . Back where I came from back where I From . Life's Never a .

Humdrum Well done . I will take you there .

What is a humdrum ?

No idea . Well , I just presumed it was like the .

Yeah , boring or lax excitement .

There you go . Life's a bit humdrum sometimes , isn't it ? Until you stick on a wee musical .

Yeah , and then you're buzzing , see um so you like that song .

Probably my favorite song in the whole musical is let's hear it for the boy love it .

Oh , here actually I've got another one in . I'm so sorry . Just says gotta watch my p's and q's becomes I'm so sorry . Just says gotta watch my p's and q's um , which is weird . Yeah , yeah . So which is weird because our daughter said what is p's and q's ? Yeah , and then I was like here , guess what , I'm researching this musical and they say p's and q's .

Okay .

Which originated in pubs and taverns , where bartenders would remind customers to keep track of their orders .

That is so interesting because until now I have never heard wondered what the P or the Q stood for , so I knew it was your manners . Yeah , I knew what it meant . Yes , but I never really thought of the significance of the P's and the Q's . Yeah , so pints and quarts .

Yeah .

Interesting , isn't it ?

So that's why I just got into it a little bit deeper , because it was only whenever CJ pointed out like but why is it P's and Q's ?

And I was like I actually don't know why she's a clever girl , isn't ? She is so um sorry , yes , I'm here for the boy which she sang .

So go nice little introduction .

Your CJ sang it last year on our show . That's right um . Can I check now ? I might just be be doing a silly Timmy moment on the pod , do you know ? Did you know that Bollorama was referring to bowling ?

alleys , yes , Okay . So you didn't .

No , okay . So in the song it says let's hear it for the boy she sings oh he , he don't score a bowlerama . I didn't realise that bowlerama was like an established generic term for bowling . Yes , it's called bowlerama , let's go to the bowlerama . Yeah , I didn't know that .

Yeah .

Is that an American thing ?

Yes , I was going to say , and is that why you know ? Yeah , well , it's probably not why I know .

But you're more American than me . It is ?

It is an American thing .

Because I've never spoke to you about this . But whilst we're on the topic , let's do it .

What .

You're very American in our intro , am I ? Ladies and gentlemen , please take your seats .

Oh yeah , I am . I was like , oh flippin' Nora ,

Fair enough , total tangent there , but I just thought bull-aollorama like kind of reminded me of your intro .

There we go , ladies and gentlemen . No , there is definitely a film where Bollorama is mentioned . No , no , no , it's Flintstones .

I was like how do I know ?

Bollorama . It's from the Flintstones . There we go , got it .

Yeah , they also make reference of maybe he's no Casanova , still his kisses bowl me over , like some of the lyrics are hilarious .

No , because you've said it , I can't say it . Okay , not Humorously when After he's Dead ? Not Humously , after he's dead .

Yeah , detailing the provocative customs and norms of the European social life in the 18th century . There you go , mr Lover , lover .

Yeah , that is a good song . Good , yeah , now that he said it Humanus , hominus , something like that , we know what it is . Yeah , I know . See , now that he said it humanus , it was hominous , hominous , it was hominous , something like that , we know what it is . Yeah , I Need a Hero . I need a hero .

I get rid of that bloody song .

Okay , that song has two meanings for me . One , it was in one of the very first productions I did with Stageco . Yeah Well , it was was . No , it wasn't my first production , lauren , it was in the second one , it was in Seating Beauty . I love when you start talking out loud and it's just your innermost brain working , isn't it ?

It's really bad , it's very funny . No , lauren , no , it was . It's terrible , it was a Stageco favourite as far as I can remember .

I need a hero , I think sharon loved it yeah um it was in every pantomime going it was in every end of year thing . There was a performance of it . I remember lying on stage and somebody walking over me like there was just lots and lots um , but I also think um .

That's hilarious .

It would be delighted if you shared that across the board . Well , he doesn't listen , so it does not Absolutely true , I love the Shrek .

is it in Shrek 2 that one of the characters sings ?

is it the the fairy godmother , it is Jennifer Saunders sings .

I Need a Hero .

I like that one but yes , whenever it says isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed ?

yeah that's just a horse yeah , did you not know that ? Oh , I did .

I know , but I mean Ferry Stade .

Sure , back to my reference about Shrek . He talks about him being a noble . The donkey talks about being a noble steed .

Yeah , but that's different from a Ferry Stade .

It's still a steed . Ferry , steed , fari , steed , noble steed . Oh , it's the steed part . That's the first one . It's the steed , oh my God , it's not like a Siamese cat .

Oh no , it is like a Siamese cat .

We need to have another wee grammar lesson .

Adjectives and nouns .

So the steed is the noun Okay and Fari , or noble , is the adjective describing the steed Got it . Anyway , let's move on to . Mama Says Okay . One of my favourite songs . So I love Willard . Willard , if I Brilliant , he's the comedy comic relief . No , hence I like it . I like that character because I like the comedy characters , don't I ? And he's ?

Yeah .

Yet he doesn't really have much to back up the fight . Do you know what I mean ? Anyway , he sings Everything I ever learned . That gets me through the worst . I learned at my mama's knee . It's so true . It's so true . To learn at your mother's knee means that you learn it when you're a child .

just thinking if you have more lessons .

I got you doing right apr and just said if lauren had more lessons like that she'd be all right . Oh shush .

Um , it's a great note because there's not very many numbers where there's like a boy and then a couple of boy dancers , you know , in the show , where then it's kind of just them focusing .

I really like that number for that am I gonna say milk it for all ? It's worth , I think it gets like three reprises doesn't it yeah ? You think he's he's given . You know he shared all of the lessons his mom has taught him . And then he remembers more , and that happens three or four times .

Like underwater or holding your breath .

Yeah , yeah , yeah , oh underwater .

Who is the longest one ? Is it Kate Winslet ?

No .

No , because she was doing like for Avatar . She was doing training and it's like 15 minutes or something .

Nope . So the longest recorded time a man voluntarily we need to add that voluntarily held his breath was 24 minutes and 3 seconds , set by Alex Sequeira Vendrell . Sorry if I didn't pronounce your name properly , but he was a professional free diver there you go Very good .

I always remember like I was taught in school you can't go more than three minutes without oxygen , three days without water and three weeks without food .

It took you a wee while to remember that , considering all figures , were the number three . I'm very tired .

It was like a P7 for every teacher , so it didn't really mean much oh my excuse me , You're sitting opposite a P7 teacher . That's why I said it . That's why I said it .

Sure , I love the chorus of that song though . Yeah , sure , uh , I love the chorus of that song though . Yeah , once you drive up a mountain , you can't back down , and I think that is yeah , it's a good life .

I think you should . I think you should .

And just any time I point to it , I could break into song Once you drive up a mountain , you can't back down with my southern accent .

no , Do it .

Here can you do next week's podcast intro in a southern accent . No , here he sings . You can throw a bit .

Uh-huh .

Do you know what a bit is To throw a bit ?

Well , is it a bit of money ? No , no , here he sings , you can throw a bit .

Uh-huh . Do you know what a bit is To throw a bit ? Well , is it a bit of money ? No , no , do you know , ep Arne , I don't think so . It's an informal way of saying someone can be a little reckless or impulsive in their actions or decisions . To throw a bit ?

Surely that's not to come back to gambling . Maybe , you know like .

The number of times on this podcast you've said surely that's come back to gambling .

You have definitely said that to me .

Before that expression , I think I feel like I have you , so have , because every time you said , I'm like that's a vega center , that's a vega center which you don't want to go to .

No , I know have .

We mentioned that in the podcast we're celebrating big birthdays well okay , so lauren's like . So the rest of our friendship circle celebrating a big birthday . Lauren's the following year , and my God , does she make sure we don't forget it ? And they all want to go to Vegas .

Yes , your fillings oh did you miss that skip that science lesson clearly oh yes , it's horrible . Ooh yeah , not when you do it voluntarily . You just accidentally one of your sweets gets stuck .

Yeah , why anybody would stick tinfoil in the gob . I've no idea .

No , idea , no idea .

I feel this often happens . With a song I really like , I kind of go down a path of lots of musical lyrical lingos . I've talked for a long time . Have you anything else ?

I don't have any other musical lyrical lingos . I'm on to my stand on a basis .

See , you're a good upstanding citizen and you know all the references in . Dancing is Not a Crime .

Oh , don't you . I recognise them all , but you would know them too I would know them too .

What interested me in that number was the mention of tribal .

Yeah .

So anyone who doesn't know the show , dancing is Not a Crime is the song that Ren then sings to the Reverend Moore and the congregation when he's trying to convince them to let them have a dance . Yeah , because it's in the Bible and he references lots of Bible references . In Ecclesiastes there's a time for singing , a time for dancing .

Lovely .

The Sundance was a complex ceremony to honour the Great Spirit and ask for blessings for the crops . Rain dances many tribes , such as the Navajo and even some called pardon me , Navajo , Navajoajo , not navajo the navajo and some cultures in africa performed rain dances to ensure rainfall .

Yep , and that's why as well , years ago , when people thought witches , you know , you think back to Crystal the dance thing was banned because they thought that it was because they were bringing creation Spirits To the crops . They thought it was bad , they thought they had witchcraft and that side . And seeing them dancing , have you seen , though , in Broadway ?

She's winging her finger at me again .

There is a play called John , proctor is the Villain .

Yes .

Which is a it's . The crucible hasn't been rewritten . It is a take on it about a group of kids studying the crucible and then looking at John Proctor . But isn't it interesting ? Because we flipped the crucible . That's .

I didn't realise that's , so that's , I didn't . I didn't realize I that's , so that's disappointing , actually I I'm ashamed of myself because I did see that . Uh , because actually the Tony nominations came out , um , and we'll maybe talk about that in the next episode and I spotted that play has been nominated um and went I know that name .

And Lauren loved it . It was amazing . We were very good yeah .

Oh , listen to you , but we were very good .

We were very good . We've talked about it on the pod before . We took a line from it . We called it you're raising heaven , Raising up hell . We took a line from it . We called it You're raising .

Heaven .

Raising up hell . Oh , I've forgotten Raising up a whore and pulling heaven down . That's what it was , and it's a line from the crystal .

I think we went the other way , pilling heaven down , raising up a whore .

Yeah , that's it . And I was Joan Proctor and you were Alistair . You were , instead of you being Ali , my wife Instead of it . Yeah , that's it , and I was Joan Proctor and you were Alistair . You were , instead of you being Ali , my wife , instead of it being the girl it would be John Proctor and Ali the wife you were Alice , is it not ?

Abigail ? Is the Ali ?

was sorry , the other boy was Alistair yeah yeah , it was all , it was all , we were all all . Yeah , it was all , it was all , we were all all different genders . Anyway , you should be real .

Yeah , I was in it . It was very tiring . You are very tired , shall . We move on to our standing ovations .

I love the way somebody , somebody , somebody , I'm not going to say grass . So somebody's eyes Somebody's eyes , somebody's eyes are watching . I love that . I think that's great , really good number as well for three girls to do .

That was on my list .

And here for the boys .

Yeah , they're my two as well . So let's hear it for the boys . Somebody's Eyes and I've already mentioned I love Willard , so I love that character and I love a song . So that's good , already mentioned , I love Willard , so I love that character and I love his song . Yeah , I like heaven help the man who fights his food yeah , and there are some .

There are some good , and that's why I think it is a good amdram show the music rocks , the music does rock it is great and there's far more really good numbers than just Fitness .

Yes , yeah , do you know what I mean ?

The very opening and the very end . The lyrics are different .

Yeah .

But actually you kind of forget about that song .

Because even like some of the more subtle , like gentle numbers , like the oh , what's it called the duet between Wren's mother and the Reverend Moor's wife .

Yes , and Ariel as well Is really lovely as well . Yeah , some really nice parts in it . Yeah , yeah , it's good . I mean , it is what it is .

It is what it is . It is what it is I . I can understand why it hasn't . It hasn't had as much success in time like in broadway or in the west end . Um , how there's limited like I , I can't remember the last time there was a professional touring production

And they're probably that 2017 one yeah that's exactly it .

I would have thought it would be Bums on Seats , though , but maybe it's not , maybe it's not . Fame maybe kind of overshadows it a bit , maybe .

Maybe , and also it does take a wee while for the story to kick in a little bit For you to kind of really understand all the characters and why , there's this big thing , so maybe it could be just that as well .

That's it . But listen , if you love a good old boogie , it's a perfect show for you . Absolutely Shall we do our . What Would Paddy Do for this week , then ? So what would you rather do ?

Yeah , what about you ?

What would I rather do ? Obviously , before the parade passes by like hello , it's Dolly Love it . Yeah , I don't have quite the build for a Rocky Horror Show .

Speaking of Paddy , did you hear , really briefly , that she gave praise to the new production of Sunset Boulevard ?

she did .

High praise indeed .

On that . Did you hear what happened this week ? Oh wait technical so the Wednesday matinee on April the 23rd , the Wednesday matinee on April the 23rd , the Wednesday matinee , there was a technical issue with the sound . First of all , can I just say Nicole Scherzinger does Wednesday matinees .

There you go .

Interesting . So anyway , the show was cancelled . But to be fair to Nicole Scherzinger , she came out on stage with a megaphone and she sang with one look through the megaphone for the audience . She said I don't know how this is going to sound , but at least it's from the heart . And you know what this is a once in a lifetime kind of performance .

She sounded quite good . Did you listen to the video ? It was grand . Interesting she bring that up . Yeah , she sounded quite good . Did you listen to the video ? Yes , it was grand .

Interesting , she'd bring that up .

I know , there we go , there we go . Thank you for joining us .

We're going to go back , back , back .

Way back many centuries ago .

We've done , joseph . We can't do it again . Shall we just do it again .

Pret pretend , we've never done it before . We'll do it again .

Well come back next week and see what we're talking about .

Yeah , bye , bye .