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The beauty and the magic of

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this show is there's no good guy
and there's no bad guy.

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And so it was very interesting
to see who people latched on

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to based off
their own lived experience,

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who they felt was in the wrong
who they felt was in the right,

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what that gray area is

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like, much like
the issue of mental health,

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which is what
our show is all about.

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There's so much gray area an
there isn't a clear cut answer.

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And the show doesn't
try to do that.

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It doesn't
try to present anything

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in this very concrete way.

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It's just here are these people,
here are their struggles,

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and let that wash ove
you and take away what you will.

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And that's part of the magic.

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We often

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go to see a musical to escape
and I think this musical you go

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to to to delve in even further,

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♪ Im alive, Im alive,
I am so alive ♪

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♪ And Ill tell
you the truth...♪

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The Donmar Warehouse

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has an incredible tradition
of staging musicals.

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And because of that,
I was really keen to try

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and program a musical
each season when I was there.

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I never saw the origina
production of “Next to Normal.”

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I knew of it.

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It's the show that I was most
asked to program

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at the Donmar Warehous
because it hadn't been to the UK

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and the superfans
were clamoring for it.

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What the heck?

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One of the producers
in my team

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told me to listen to it
and I put it on my earphones

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one night runnin
and it just instantly sunk in.

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I think the pandemic shifted
British consciousness

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and the conversation
around mental health

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and mental illness
significantly.

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When we returned, I found that
with colleagues, with friends

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and become much more commonplac
to talk about being in therapy

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or being on medication

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and have done plays
about mental illness,

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and I've sort of experienced
the extreme outpouring

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that play can have
on its audience.

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The reaction of the audience is
huge, and I think it really

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demonstrate
something in the British psyche

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about the taboo of not talking
about mental illness

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I think is still really strong.

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The shame attached to it

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about how we hide those things
and the struggles.

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And so I felt it was a story
that really would resonate.

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It's been four weeks and I'
like to try something new today.

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Sometimes when these stories
are hard to tell.

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Hypnosis can be helpful.

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I had just got back to the U
after recording the cast album

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for my Broadwa
revival of “Caroline or Change,”

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and it had just been Grammy
nominated

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and we were all very excited,

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and I was sitting listening
to repeat on my kitchen

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and I could just hear Caissie
Levys perfect vocal,

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delivering the tinies
catch of emotion in her voice,

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suggesting fathoms of feeling

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that she didn'
like deflect away some comedy.

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And I just thought

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I think she's Diana.

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Sitting right next to me here

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is Caissie Levy,

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who I mean,

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where do you even start
with Caissie? Casey's work?

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Truly!

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Caissie's work.

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it really speaks for itself.

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Caissie has originated
much of amazing roles

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as the original Els
in “Frozen” musical on Broadway.

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Incredible in the
“Hair” revival in 2009.

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Thanks sweetie.

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I mean, amongst

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so many other things, “Caroline
or Change,” “Leopoldstadt.”

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And this is incredible.

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But I think more
so than this work is like

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the most human, the most kind,
the most like ready

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present actor to work with.

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Needless to say as well,
incredibly intimidating

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to turn up to rehearsal
to know that

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Caissie Levy was going
to be there.

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So then to find out
that she become such a quick

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best pal is a huge joy.

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So we're
very lucky to have you like.

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Thank you.

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You know the,
Trevor Dion Nicholas,

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We have a veteran of huge
scale theater

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who can hold his own
in some of the biggest houses

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and concert halls
that are available.

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And we know that
with your personality

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and your talent, your voice,
you can fill it.

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But we also now know

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that we can play
in a small, intimate space

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and keep things just on a

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completely naturalistic level
and that amazing,

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combined with the generosity
that we found in the company,

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is this is a real treat,

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kind of the best you can hope
for as someone to work with.

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I wanted to think about who Gabe
would be in this production.

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I think the idea of the American
jock is not a trope or a type

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we have as much of in

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the UK and I was thinking about
perhaps now, 15 years later,

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who would be the son of
the Diana might be imagining

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she had that her son
would grow up to be and Jack

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delivered something
He just played the truth of it.

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But his presence

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is extraordinary
and I was so excited

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to have him take the role

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♪ The memories will...♪

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This man needs no introduction.

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But for those who know Jack,
I think everyone,

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everyone knows

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part of who you are
if not like what you represent.

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I think you're so warm
and so lovely

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and I love you and admire you.

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And to take such
an iconic role. Yes.

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And to completely reshape i
not only takes such braveness,

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but also to be able to do it
so impeccably

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that you would never know
that there was

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a completely different
persona to Gabe.

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You redefined it.
Absolutely redefined it.

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And that is beautiful to watch

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and was beautifu
to witness in the room as well.

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Yeah.

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Jamie Parker, I know i
an amazing Shakespearean actor

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as Harry Potte
in the original “Cursed Child.”

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But I did know him
as a musical theater

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singer, crooner,
perhaps originally.

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♪ ♪

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I have to take my dad, bro,
Jamie Parker, as well.

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Like, I love this man.

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Okay, So if you have seen
of course, “The History of Boys”

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and like the legend of that,
but also it's

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this is Harry Potter,
like opening it

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here on the West End,

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going to Broadway

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and playing one of the most
iconic characters

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in literature
and bringing it to life.

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To take a role
that has so much expectation

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and subvert all that expectation
by just playing it honestly

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and playing it beautifully.

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And I've been I've been a fa
of your work on multiple levels.

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Your work is is impeccable
and you, you,

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you go with your details
down to the fingernails.

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And I will always appreciate
the depth of nuance that you

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put in there.

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And the chance
to meet the younger actors

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through a really thorough
audition process.

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I mean, Eleanor
Worthington-Cox

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won the Olivier, age
12 as Matilda.

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So, you know,

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she's no stranger to musicals,
but it was

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when she walked in the door
and showed herself

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to be so clearly her mother's
daughter with Caissie Levy.

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We knew we
were on to something.

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This is Eleanor Worthington-Cox.

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She is an incredibly
accomplished woman.

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She won an Olivier
for being the original

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Matilda. Went on to many,
many television roles,

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many theater roles.

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She she's nominated
for her performance in this.

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Yes. She's brilliant.
She's kind.

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She's all heart.

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Im gonna cry!

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And I love our scenes together.
- I love ours.

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This is Jack,
who is starting in “From Here

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to Eternity” and then has now
had his Palladium debut.

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I remember these things!

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And is now our wonderful, Henry,
and couldn't be more magical.

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As a person
and a partner on stage.

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I felt held every single night.

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It's not easy.

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Yeah, literally, just while
I sob onto your shoulder

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and literally snot
and cry onto you every day.

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And that's so special

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that we were able to hold
that every single night

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and look after each other while

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also abusing each other and
calling each other silly names.

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So thank you.

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The rehearsal process
began with the company

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familiarizing themselves
with Toms amazing music.

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I think his score is rocket fuel

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to an incredible story,
to some really punchy things.

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But it's complicated. It's hard.

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You need to be powerhouse
singer.

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So we start the process.

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When I got to musical with that

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a week of learning the music

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with director,
Musical Supervisor,

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When anybody asked me
like in these months

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what the experience was like,

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I've been like,

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I've never felt so safely
supported by a creative team,

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but also by like
the full company.

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There's this beauty
in what we were able to trust

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and explore and play with,
with each other in the room.

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And I think the whole way
we approach the process of

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we spent that first week
just making sure

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we're all on the same page.

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I am really grateful

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to a company called
“Applause for Thought”

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that we worked
with that Donmar Warehouse

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to support the acting company
and the company more widely

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when we're taking on a play
with issues

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of this seriousness.
I was really struck by

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how once we started
working on the piece

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day after day,
people would share stories

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in the company
and the wider company,

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the creative team and
production staff.

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People would just start saying,
“Oh, I've experienced that.

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I had a period of my lif
when that my depression was bad.

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I was on medication for this.
I have bipolar.”

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It's things that people don't
share

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people were sharing

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and the work was something
that being channeled,

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and I think we felt that
in the room.

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But the company “Applause
for Thought”

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gave us a really supportive

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process.

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We both

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sort of looked at bipolar
from a clinical perspective

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and looked at the kind of

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diagnosis the character
and understood it from that.

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But also they did some sessions
with the cast

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to support them
in the playing of it.

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And I have never felt cast,
feels so safe and strong

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in what they were doing,
which I think is essential.

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In the last rehearsal process
with Mike and Ann and Nigel,

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they created this space

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and we hear a lot these days
about like safe space.

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But trul
I feel like that rehearsal room

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had some magic to it
because

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we had the luxury of time

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to really get to know each other
and like, make this piece

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what it should be now,

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which is very different
than when it debuted in 2010.

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You know, or 2009.

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And then I brought rehearsal
room experts to the rooms.

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We brought professionals
from the health care

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industry, psychiatrists, people
who specialize in bipolar

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who, um, delivering EST
to help us really try and get

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into the character's mindsets
and to empathize with what

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they were experiencing.

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For me, a lot of the challenge
was the authenticity

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of these health car
professionals in different ways.

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And like

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there was a fun challenge
in that there was like,

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we know the pills,
that was its own thing,

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but then there's

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that feeling of triumph in it

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when you nail it and like
that was exciting to me.

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Then I try to get on my feet
and play with my movement

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director and let the characters
live in space.

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Once all the parts
were together,

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we had all of our team together,
the family and the cast,

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and it was exciting.

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I didn't have concerns about th
gravity of the subject matter.

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I had concerns abou
representing it authentically.

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As a director,
you're always trying to honor

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the author's intentions
and to represent

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the themes, the subject,
the people authentically.

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And millions of people
live with bipolar

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and their story is important.

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And there is that stigma often
attached to how bipolar

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is represented
famously, on screen, in stories.

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So getting that right
was really important to me.

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I'm up for doing one more.

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So yeah, yeah.

11:36.033 --> 11:38.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
I loved filming this show.

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I've had the opportunity
to capture digitally several

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of my productions
and each time I do it,

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I really enjoy the process
of watching actors

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adapt their performance
for the camera

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and thinking about

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where the camera needs
to be placed

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and the rhythm of the edit
and all those amazing things.

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We've shot it over
three evenings

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and then two afternoons
we built over the stools

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that we have all the movie
camera shots that we wanted

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and it a seven camera set up
and it was really amazing

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to have

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that amount of material and tha
number of options in the edit.

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I think so often in capturing
the stage productions,

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the shot choice
just can't be interesting enough

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to do the work justice.

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But we were really able,
I think, to get the shots

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we needed to do
justice to the production

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and the performers
and their performances

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stand up so beautifully.

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In extreme close up, I thin
is a testament to those actors.

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I think it is incredible
what they do.

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So the chance to capture that

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in a new medium
that has new rules

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is the chance to grow
as an artist, is a gift.

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And I haven't spent
as long on an edit

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on anything else.

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And it was a joy to keep that
close to its material so far.

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Tom Kitt was able to join u
in London when we were creating

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this live capture to spend time
in Pinewood Studios with him.

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As we mastered the audio,
it was a thrill watching him

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dig into his own

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arrangements and orchestrations
and pull out tiny bits

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of different instrumentation
was just incredible.

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♪ Use may be fatal ♪

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It is a real gift.

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When you get to work
with authors

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who are excited
to see how their story can be

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reinterpreted 15 years later
in a new production,

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especially after

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the phenomenal success
of the original production.

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I'm forever grateful

13:27.933 --> 13:31.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
for his and Brian's openness
to letting me approach

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the material from my lens
from my perspective in my time,

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from my country.

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And I hope the sort of thin
we found the specificity of that

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its time in this place
and will allow it to travel

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and see American
audiences successfully. And

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♪ There will be light ♪

13:51.100 --> 13:52.400 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75%
I'm so excited that this

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production is included in PBS
Great Performances

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Broadways Best

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initiative.

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I think the capturing of live

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work on screen is essential
in terms

14:04.533 --> 14:08.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
of sharing it, giving access
to wider audiences.

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You couldn'
get to the original productions,

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whether that's becaus
it was in a different country.

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But those access means

14:13.300 --> 14:15.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
those cost barriers
that they had to bring.

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I think it is essential

14:17.366 --> 14:19.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
that we share this work
as widely as possible,

14:19.400 --> 14:22.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
and I'm so grateful
for PBS for doing that

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and for deeming us worthy to be
part of this series of works.

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♪ Light ♪