Ep 6: Our Final Bow

In this episode, we’re joined by good mate Jarryd Madden as we dive into fan-fiction ballet ideas, backstage chaos, and the reality that live performance doesn’t always go to plan, even in a world obsessed with perfection. Turns out ballet dancers are human after all.

Transcript

Speaker 4 0:00

All right. Are we recording? We're recording. It's already on? Yeah. Wow. That's what we always do. We just hit record and see what happens. Yeah.

Speaker 3 0:08

That's problematic.

Speaker 2 0:18

And I already stuffed it. All right. So Cam messages me and goes, Hey, can you pick up a six-pack of beers for a favor, obviously, to have a guest on. And I I totally forgot. Yeah. And who's that guest?

Speaker 4 0:31

Who is that guest?

Speaker 2 0:33

Hello.

Speaker 4 0:39

Welcome, dude.

Speaker 3 0:40

I'm happy and concerned. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 0:42

Yeah, you should be. This is this is our first proper like guest. Yeah. We had a liner.

Speaker 2 0:48

Yeah, true, but she doesn't. That's a guest. Yeah.

Speaker 4 0:51

It's our first male guest. Jarryd Madden, everyone.

Speaker 2 0:58

You're the first kind of proper guest.

Speaker 3 0:59

You didn't say welcome to the grand final. What? Episode six. Episode six, the final episode. Oh my god, he's reminding us. Yeah, dude.

Speaker 4 1:08

Wow, we're we're I'm a fan. I've listened to them. I've listened to them. Yeah, screw your mum. We're done. Did you have you you've listened to all episodes? I have. Wow. What do you think? I think it's going really well. Have you guys had much feedback? Anyway. We had we had one. Well, we had one hate mail. One.

Speaker 2 1:26

Yeah, just one.

Speaker 4 1:27

Which someone swore and said unfollowing immediately. Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:31

Yeah, that's it. Dude. And that was the first episode. Can I confess something? Oh, yeah. That's me.

Speaker 3 1:40

I just wanted to keep just keep you guys in check. You know you gotta you gotta give it. It's our first episode.

Speaker 5 1:47

We received hate mail straight away.

Speaker 4 1:50

That was because you were jealous. You wanted to start a podcast in the first place. No, not at all. No, no, no, no, no. I like it. It was jealousy. It was jealousy. You sent that hate mail. Yeah.

Speaker 3 2:00

But to keep you guys in check, you know, you get I can't get let your heads get too big. Let's say keep us grounded. Keep you grounded. Yeah. Absolutely. Because this is gonna blow up. Guaranteed. How many followers now? 300. 300. Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:11

That's 300 more than you had before. That is that is very true. That is very true. Yeah, and and honestly, what you chucked it in the website saying how many listeners have we had?

Speaker 4 2:21

Yeah, dude. We've nearly broken a thousand listeners.

Speaker 2 2:24

Yeah.

Speaker 3 2:24

Hey, how cool.

unknown 2:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:26

So we might have 300 followers, but there's a lot of people listening.

Speaker 3 2:29

I can't fit in this room anymore with you two. Yeah, whoa, whoa. Yeah, we're big dogs.

Speaker 4 2:34

But you you you had your podcast, but what did you want to call it?

Speaker 3 2:37

Oh no, this is no, wait. You didn't have one. No, I no, no. This is like like before I was a dad. I had I had a grand plan. Oh yeah. Yeah, no, no. Um I I wanted to, I'm a bit of a nerd, and I really wanted to make a off-the-cuff DD show that had celebrities come in and just kind of just throw them unhinged scenarios. So like people.

Speaker 4 2:59

Wait, like Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 3 3:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 3:02

Are you a Dungeons and Dragons player? Like the game.

Speaker 3 3:05

Oh, I've done it like once or twice. I enjoy it, but I don't get to many campaigns or anything like that. No, no, yeah, no.

Speaker 4 3:10

So, like roleplay kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 3:12

The premise the show was to be called The Squatting Dwarf, which is like the name of the tavern. There's always like some kind of tavern name, like the prancing pony, I think, is in Lord of the Rings and whatever it is. So mine was like a the squatting dwarf. Did you come up with that name? Yeah, yeah, that's great. It's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 3:29

But who you wanted it with Sean as well?

Speaker 3 3:31

Yeah, there's a few mates of mine that we're gonna like this. We have these grand plans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had grand plans. Um, it just never came to fruition. But yeah, the idea was because D D gets really unhinged. Like you have these grand plans and play these really exciting characters, but it always just goes awry. Oh, yeah. So you wanted I wanted to get these guests to come in and play like these characters on these one one-shot kind of shows and just absolute chaos, and just you know, like, hey, welcome Harrison Ford, and not ask him a single question about what he's doing, just throw him into like some really stupid scenario and just for them to just go, what the hell is going on?

Speaker 2 4:06

That's it. Like, you get thrown in a dungeon with a dragon, and he's like, What do you want to do to that dragon? The the like board master, and then say, dungeon dungeon master.

Speaker 4 4:16

Dungeon master, sorry, so I'm still right, okay.

Speaker 2 4:20

And then and then say, I could be like, Well, I'm an elf character, what am I gonna do to that character? I would want to make love to it aggressively, yeah.

Speaker 3 4:29

So it could be whatever wherever your imagination goes, and then you just gotta roll it.

Speaker 4 4:34

Yeah, dude, you should have done it.

Speaker 3 4:36

I know. Thanks for thanks for ruining surprise.

Speaker 2 4:39

I can't someone else is gonna steal his up.

Speaker 4 4:42

Someone's gonna Yeah, you should have you should have been on our Cam's fish tank segment. That was your business idea. Dang, you missed out.

Speaker 3 4:49

Yeah, oh yeah, your segment actually I've been really enjoying.

Speaker 4 4:52

We should have tried it that segment, the your your podcast idea as a segment. We should have done that. That's next time, anyway. That's right.

Speaker 3 5:00

Live and you learn.

Speaker 4 5:01

Live and you learn. Yeah, what have you been doing?

Speaker 3 5:02

Well, oh, just just just the uh segment ideas have been fun. Oh yeah, yeah, there they I know it's how they go wrong. Like at this point, you've aired four episodes. And I saw the one how Joey had a crack it trying to host it and then just oh mess it up royally. It was so bad, yeah.

Speaker 2 5:19

Oh, every every segment. I come in with a great idea. I'm like, dude, I'm gonna say this and this, and you just kind of go with the float. Instantly stuff it up straight away. We will um we've got a segment store in store for you, okay?

Speaker 4 5:31

Actually, yeah. All right. So we'll get straight into it. It's called Real Ballet versus fan fiction ballet. We're gonna read out a little blurb of a ballet, and we want you to tell us if it's a real ballet or if it's fan fiction. It's made up. I'm gonna be terrible.

Speaker 3 5:48

Alright, hang on, hang on. I want to preface this though. I I I really don't know many ballet stories. Like I learn ballets as I go. Yeah.

Speaker 4 5:57

So do you ever watch ballet?

Speaker 3 5:59

No. I genuinely am a little bit bored at times watching ballet. I think it's it's better to do sometimes. I I I do like a I love a story ballet. That's my favorite thing to watch because there's more than just movie. I I think I think generally using the physicality of ballet to tell an emotional story, I think is where ballet excels most at. Um that's just my my my own personal preference. Like, like if it's just like a bit of an abstract, here's an Arabesque, there's a turn, here's an Arabesque, I'm like, lost me.

Speaker 4 6:30

That's so funny. Do you don't watch ballet?

Speaker 3 6:32

No, I don't at all either. Well, I don't at all. Yeah.

Speaker 4 6:36

Neither I mean, neither do I. Like I'm the same.

Speaker 3 6:38

I mean, having said that, I mean, like I first got into ballet, I chose ballet for my career because of seeing Spartacus. True. Australian ballet.

Speaker 5 6:44

It's certain certain ballets, just like yeah.

Speaker 3 6:47

Yeah, totally. No, so there's there's there there are ballets that I saw that made me want to be a ballet dancer. So like that don't get that misconstrued, you know.

Speaker 4 6:55

No, we're gonna we're gonna clip that and yeah, you're out.

Speaker 2 6:58

I'm out. You're done. Yeah, you're done, man. We're gonna send it to David.

Speaker 4 7:02

Yeah, yeah, you're out of here. Alright, let's get into the segment. All right. All right. A guy becomes obsessed with a girl who never speaks, never reacts. Turns out she's not even real, but he prefers her that way. What ballet is that?

Speaker 2 7:14

Capellia.

Speaker 4 7:14

Oh, dude.

Speaker 2 7:15

Dude. Well, you you've seen ballet. There you go. That was so good. I was like what the hell?

Speaker 3 7:23

I was like, luckily, I've done that one. I've been friends, I've done that. I fell in love with the doll. I've done that one. That's that's Oh, there you go. Okay, okay. All right, next one. Next one. All right, let's go.

Speaker 2 7:33

So you're doing you're doing good. Okay. Damn. All right. I was stumped.

Speaker 5 7:37

We should ask you.

Speaker 4 7:42

Alright, next one. A prince ditches royal life for a barmaid gets forced into marrying someone else, completely fumbles it, and she comes back with magical issues and a serious grudge. Is that real or fanfiction? The prince falls in love with a barmaid who what? Yeah, what? A prince ditches royal life for a barmaid, gets forced into marrying someone else, completely fumbles it, and she comes back with magical issues and a serious grudge.

Speaker 3 8:14

No, that one's lost me. Who's that? Joey. Sleeping Beauty? No.

Speaker 5 8:18

Oh. It's the ballet Joey, and I made up. Oh, before Aurora.

Speaker 3 8:25

No, that was. Yeah, you made the prequel to Sleeping Beauty, didn't you? Yeah, that's so that's the Oh, is this also like a subtle slow pitch for like your ballet? You'll stop launching it. Anyone out there who's interested, who were to produce this?

Speaker 4 8:43

Yeah. They've got a ballet. We've got a better synopsis than that. That is terrible. Yeah. But we spent a whole rehearsal. Actually, it was a whole day. It was a whole day. Do you want to hear the most embarrassing part of that? Is that we went into a studio, picked music. Joey and I picked music for this ballet because we thought it was genius. Genius. Vic gold.

Speaker 5 9:06

We started choreographing on each other. He played the girl and we played the guy. And we did romantic love scene, putting her.

Speaker 4 9:16

Because we're like, oh, we'll get someone in and we'll like we'll let's choreograph it. We're the choreographers, we're the directors, everything. It was so bad. If someone walked into that studio of Joey and I holding hands, and he went down on like one knee and was like looking into my eyes, I like was like, oh, I'll pick you up on this count. Yeah.

Speaker 2 9:35

It was bad. We were doing our romantic forest par, the last one we would do, like they'll do together. So it's like really emotional as well.

Speaker 3 9:43

You should totally pitch this to the director.

Speaker 2 9:45

Yeah.

Speaker 4 9:45

Yeah. But that's we we nearly sent it to our boss. Yeah, yeah. Like we were like, okay, like this, dude.

Speaker 2 9:51

We had the emails ready. We were figuring out how to do a PowerPoint as well presenter presentation to do it to him.

Speaker 4 9:59

We also had one of our mates, and he was composing the music as we like as we were coming up with choreography. Dude. But anyway, that's that's a loose pitch.

Speaker 3 10:09

My loose pitch, I would have a crack at Dracula.

Speaker 4 10:12

Wait, is that that's not a ballet?

Speaker 3 10:13

There I mean there are balls no, there are ballets. There are a few ballets out there, but I want to make like the quintessential biggest because like like I said, story, story is what stories are why I love ballet. Yeah. So like a real thick set, like a real textured set, big story plot line, big hooks, all that, that that'd be my one.

Speaker 4 10:33

That'd be my would you have a like a based off Dracula, like verbatim? Or like would you add a little twist or anything or not?

Speaker 3 10:40

No, no, no, no. Go classic, go go traditional. Classic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That that would be that'd be brilliant.

Speaker 4 10:45

I'd have And because it's like it's eerie and spooky, it'd be kind of intense. Like you get some sick music.

Speaker 3 10:50

Set design on my head moments, like very visual moments that would be like like bigger than bloody Hollywood, mate.

Speaker 4 10:57

You're a bigger dreamer than the two of us.

Speaker 2 11:00

Yeah. Yeah, we just had a couple backdrops. You know, that was basically it for us. Oh mate.

Speaker 4 11:06

Alright, we'll do the next one.

Speaker 2 11:07

That sounds great though, Dracula. Dracula would be sick, especially coming from you. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4 11:16

Okay, the next one. Cuba gets bored, starts pairing the wrong people on purpose, and accidentally creates a love story that's better than the original. What ballot is this?

Speaker 3 11:26

Is that forget the name of it? The bloody one. It's got puck in it. It's got the Oberon. The dream the dream. Nah. It's not Sylvia. First Sylvia crack was Sylvia because they did the spell on the character who falls in love with the first thing they see, which was a No, that is that is back on. That's a pike on the dream. Is this a ballet? Is this a real ballet? Just at least give me, at least give me ballet or not ballet.

Speaker 4 11:54

That's the whole point of the game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 11:55

Yeah, but I want to know because if I don't know if it's a really ballet, then that's it. It's not a real ballet. Oh, thank you.

Speaker 4 11:59

This is called the misfire. It's thank God for that. Okay. Yeah. No, we'll give him a tick for that.

Speaker 2 12:03

A tick for that.

Speaker 4 12:04

Yeah, no, okay, no, no, no. No, yeah. That's another ballet that Joey and I loosely came up with. It was uh Cupid coming down on a harness and shoots the wrong couple. Is that you? Would you be Cupid? I would come, yeah. It was good. We were gonna do a comedic ballet. Oh, dude, it was so good. And yeah, the Cupid comes down in a harness and the harness like snaps accidentally, and he's like dangling and he shoots the wrong shoots the wrong couple.

Speaker 3 12:30

That's really funny.

Speaker 4 12:31

Yeah, and then we wanted mini tramps on the side of the wing, so people like land jump in, yeah.

Speaker 2 12:36

And then as they're having their romantic moments, some just random guy just comes in, just a manage, like just randomly. Out of context, he's just happy, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 12:47

There's like a there's like almost have like a bit of like audio, like how that person like Cupid screaming, yeah, totally the whole audience would just be going, What is happening?

Speaker 4 13:02

And that's what we really wanted. And then we wanted the conductor as well to like speed it up, right? And then one of the dancers on stage would stop dancing and then yell at the conductor, going, Hey, like slow down!

Speaker 5 13:14

I can't do it this fast, yeah.

Speaker 4 13:16

Like that.

Speaker 2 13:17

Yeah, yeah, that was the whole ballot. Right, it's kind of like this podcast, just chaotic, eh? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 13:22

But that just like serves a lot of um therapy for a lot of dancers who just want to say to the gutter, hey, sorry, can you slow down? Where it came from. Like every company everywhere, every dancer at some point goes, like, can you just it's nice to pass the blame. I get, I get, I get why you're playing it like that, but I'm not four foot tall. I can't keep up. Yeah, but looking at me. Yeah, you've never had that issue, have you? You're four and a half feet. Yeah.

Speaker 4 13:50

Well, this one shut up. Next one. Feelings have been hurt. I've never been invited back. Yeah, yeah. You had a good run. Yeah. All right. Last one. Two people meet briefly, decide it's life or death or love. Ignore every reasonable option and follow a very rash plan that unravels spectacularly. What ballet is it?

Speaker 3 14:14

That would have to be Willem Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Speaker 4 14:18

We had to make something clear. That would have to be a ballet. There you go.

Speaker 3 14:22

Yep. Good one.

Speaker 4 14:22

We've got the costumes hanging up right here. Yeah. We just came off stage and now we're recording a podcast. Yeah, we're connected.

Speaker 3 14:28

We just did that, didn't we? We just you and I had our little fight scene today. Yeah. Well, Joey's on tonight. Yeah. Joey and I share Tibalt. Yeah. And you were Makusio Makushio.

Speaker 4 14:39

I was. Yeah. Yeah. I was extra chilling. It was a good one today. It was so good. Nice. Love a good sword fight. Dude. It's so much fun. They're fun. Yeah. Yeah. We we him and I, we were practicing rehearsal, and the repetitor was like, that's too much. We were going no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 14:55

So ham. We'll take it from here. Thank you very much. You tell me to put my foot and turn out, great. But there's sword fighting. It's a couple of straight idiots. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 15:05

I was like, no, we've been practicing this more than the dancing.

Speaker 3 15:08

Yeah, that's it. I've been sword fighting since I was a kid. I've been watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I think I know how this works. I think I know. Thank you. I got this one. Yeah, totally. Literally. Oh. Yeah. I'm a kid of the 90s. Every every cartoon was violent. I got this thing. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 15:26

When Henry had the sword in his hand, oh my god. I was like, all right, can I please have that? Because I've got to practice. He was like doing this all the time in the back of the rehearsal. He loved it. Yeah, he loved it. Power trip.

Speaker 3 15:37

Yeah, I was like, you know, that's that's the one thing I want when I eventually retire. I was having a laugh and chatting to stage management, going like, can you get me a sword for my retirement, please? Because for the first 10 years of my career, I would stage management would always tell me I have to stop stop touching the swords, stop touching the props. That was I'm just such a kid with a pro like with kid with a sword, I'm like, I just get it, pick it up and feel like I'm my excalibur. I have the power, I'm here, man. And they just were like, every time they're like, Jared, put that down. Yeah. Put that down. I'm like, oh come on.

Speaker 2 16:13

That's such a good idea. I'd love a sword for like my.

Speaker 4 16:16

You have one in your bedroom.

Speaker 2 16:17

I do, it's hanging up.

Speaker 3 16:21

It's literally like where my pillows are, it's on that wall, so I look at it when I go to sleep. It's amazing. Because like in our company, we have a nice tradition of like, you know, a lot of the grand people, a gift, yeah. So like someone would receive, oh, this is the two two you go wharf or that really iconic piece that you left for our company or whatever. I'm like, no, I don't want to hear that. Just give just give me something sharp and stabby. Yeah. Dude, that is crazy. Prop that I can just forever touch. Yeah.

Speaker 4 16:46

Post-show function. Everyone's like, oh, farewelling, Jared. He's a sword, mate.

Speaker 5 16:52

Yeah. Bravo.

Speaker 4 16:54

Yeah, Aaron's slowly just okay. Oh, that'd be cool. What would you want if you retired? Like I don't know. I'd probably just go through the basic route and get a nice costume like a normal person. Stinks and all sweaty, boring, boring. Boring. Wait, what would you get?

Speaker 2 17:10

The cannon from Nutcracker. Oh my god, I'd be so funny. So funny. The yeah, I no, I'd love a sword. The sword's great. They have these awesome sabre ones that like have the curve and like the thick. So cool. What production was that? That was for Manon. They act they didn't actually use them. Um they're supposed to be for Act Three. The soldiers come out with them. Oh, I remember, yeah, I think we had them in my first year when we did that.

Speaker 3 17:35

We had those swords, and then we did red swords.

Speaker 4 17:39

Just for the show. Not for Manon.

Speaker 3 17:42

Not like scimitar round. It was just like a long ceremonial sword, like a nice spit handle and a hilt. Yeah, it was they'll be, but they just sat at your side, I think, and we're doing like trying to dance, dance with them. Terrible. Oh, so you were taken out for a reason. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 17:56

Oh, also, like speaking of swords. Oh yeah. When we had our god, our 1v1. Yeah. Yeah, we had a 1v1 in Nutcracker. It was like the the poles. The prop swords? Yeah. Whatever they were poles? Pole arms. Spears. Spears. Joey. Joey charges at me. And I'm in my rat costume. And the fear in my eyes. Yeah, I was like, I'm gonna kill him. This is our first year. And I'm like, dude, no, no, no. He charges in his like soldier costume, smashes it. The the the pole bends in half, and then he goes, turn it around on stage. So we bend it in half again. And then he snaps it. So I've got one pole that's just split into two. Yeah. I then run across stage and I throw it into the wings. And our stage manager at the time, she goes, What? Like she's yelling.

Speaker 5 18:49

She's like, What has happened?

Speaker 4 18:51

And I said, plain show.

Speaker 2 18:54

Yeah. I know I gotta talk until after that.

Speaker 4 18:57

No, prop like when things go wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous. That was like with the canon with you when they double stacked it. It's Nutcracker. Nutcracker is crazy. It's great.

Speaker 3 19:07

But there is a lot of history in that production. I joined, I joined the company back in 2007 to for specifically for Nutcracker. That was their first year. They were a man short, and I wasn't even like full-time at that point. I I cut I wasn't sorry. I wasn't employed full-time. It was just like a short-term contract. That's I got in what year? 2007. Yeah, how old were you? Like six. Shut up. How old were you in 2007? I was eight. Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:37

Jeez.

Speaker 3 19:38

Yes. Yes. Yes, I'm that old.

Speaker 4 19:41

Jared Madden showing your age.

Speaker 3 19:43

I'm not a spring chicken anymore. I've seen some things.

Speaker 5 19:48

Lots of nutcrackers. Lot of nutcrackers. A lot of nuts.

Speaker 3 19:52

But there is a lot of history in those fight scenes. Like there have been some funny stories. Oh, yeah. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. This one guy, he was, he knew he was being fired. He was like told like three months before. He's like, you're out, you're done. And so he he just dropped any professionalism in those fights. And I had to fight this guy one time. And so one time he was the rat. I was the soldier. And so he came at me one day and just put his entire costume on backwards. So you got like a rat tail, he's got that coming out the front. Yeah. He put his jacket on backwards. He's put his rat head on backwards, so it's pointing out the other way.

Speaker 4 20:28

Wait, how is he even singing? I don't know. Those rat costumes, you can't see anything.

Speaker 3 20:32

Have you ever tried them on? Yeah, I did the rat. Do you do the rats? I've done every character in that production. That's crazy. Every character. Every role.

Speaker 4 20:39

If you were a rat, you would be hell to deal with. Oh yeah. Because you can get away with, you can get away with a bit in those rat costumes. We had um one of the boys in the rat costume, right? We're running off, same same production, Nutcracker, running off, and he ran into the set. Like, because you can't you can't see. No, that's just say, bang, and I cried because he's in his rat costume on the floor and head like back. Anyway, you got a concussion, and I was like, oh my bad.

Speaker 3 21:09

This stuff is what I live for. Yeah. Yeah. When a production goes too smoothly, boring. Nah, nah. I'm here for all the chaos, all the problems. I one time we did a uh a Firebird production, and I was about to I was doing the the lead hero and mate of mine, he was the the villain of the piece. It was like a reinterpretation, so it's like probably not the classic. Anyway, we were supposed to we're building up to a three-minute fight scene, and seconds before that, he completely dislocated his shoulder. Popped out. And so as the fight was about to start, he just looks at me. He was like a snake character, gave me a snake hissing, and just slinked his like rubbery arm off stage and just left me high and dry for three entire minutes. You're joking. Of me having to pretend. I was like, you just got a stage like so, but you were you can. Now what?

Speaker 4 22:00

You're on stage for three and a half minutes. And you're supposed to be fighting.

Speaker 3 22:04

Now this is supposed to be the fight scene of when I become out victorious after. Yeah. So it's dramatic music already.

Speaker 4 22:13

What did you do? I don't well. Like, what do you do? If he's gone off stage, he didn't come back on. He didn't come back on.

Speaker 3 22:21

Classic. Classic on turns. My my my famously my jazz teacher back in the day, she always said, when in doubt, fan kick.

Speaker 22:28

No, you did not. No, you did not.

Speaker 3 22:30

No, I didn't know. All people to do a fake. The most unflexible dancer in the world. I wouldn't put my money on you. Can't do the splits. Jeez.

Speaker 4 22:39

I uh my my dance teacher growing up, funny thing as well, same thing. It was like, oh, if you ever forget the curry, do like a walk on yourself. Like turn around, face the back, regroup, like a box step, do some you just so like and I did it when I in a competition when I was like eight years old, and I lost the curry, turned around face to the back, did the walk, forgot the curry still, so did another walk.

Speaker 1 23:03

That's a lot of walking.

Speaker 4 23:06

I finally remember the curry. That's three walks around the circle. You could have you could have had a whole solo, but mate, yeah.

Speaker 3 23:13

So and so the the the the whole scene wasn't just purely me on stage, like there was like ensemble and the firebird as well.

Speaker 4 23:20

Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 23:20

So I was just tag taming with the firebird a lot, just walking around, bowing at everyone, saying thank you. Dramatic dramatic arms for helping? Yeah, no, no, but nothing, yeah. No, the funniest bit that like the best bit of that whole event was at one point in the fight, Snake character goes up to the very back. The group all lift him by like the thighs, so he's like really high standing up. Victorious. Yeah, no, no, he no, he and it's during the fight, and he and they they lean him over, do this kind of pin drop, fall downto me, come back up, lean that way, fall down, come back up. So he's like he's just levering, like there's like four or five guys are levering him down and up in this giant kind of swing fight thing. So I get up the back and there's no snake guy. And so one I just hear one of them whisper, quick, everyone, everyone be trees. Everyone be trees. And so everyone just starts, throws their hands in the air like those wailing, inflatable tube guys at the car sale shops, and just starts blowing around in the breeze. And you're just gesturing to them. And I'm just watching this unfold. I love loving the chaos. This is so goddamn funny. Uh the people in the audience must be just going, but do you reckon I want my money back?

Speaker 4 24:32

Do you reckon they understand it?

Speaker 3 24:34

No, I reckon they I wouldn't understand it.

Speaker 4 24:36

Nah, but I reckon people in the front, like when like things go south, I reckon a lot of them it goes over their head.

Speaker 3 24:42

Did they understand that there was a problem?

Speaker 4 24:43

Yeah, I reckon they wouldn't.

Speaker 3 24:44

No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 24:45

I reckon, yeah. As dancers, we're all dying. Yeah, and I love seeing like the panic on everyone's face when things go wrong, even the other night. The glove.

Speaker 3 24:53

So, full context is I I slapped Romeo in the face with a glove and throw it down to challenge him to a fight. As I threw it down, the glove hooked in my finger. So I was like, Is that what happened? It hooked, it just hooked in my finger. So as I threw it down, instead of going straight down, it kept swinging around and shot straight up stage.

Speaker 2 25:07

Yeah, also me and you had our like a magical connection moment. Yeah, we're all synergy. Literally, because I was there and I was like, the glove's not supposed to be there. I waited for the music to turn. I was like, well, I'd I want to give it back to Romeo somehow, but I'm not gonna just give it to Romeo.

Speaker 4 25:22

So I was like, I but I I saw, yeah, he's Joey, Joey's got the glove, and he's like shaking it around, and I'm like, you're like, no, I pick it up and I'm like, yeah, take it.

Speaker 2 25:35

Yeah, yeah. So I take two steps towards, and then Cameron just comes bolting towards me.

Speaker 4 25:39

It was good, but then I and I give it to I give it to Joe, who's Romeo, and he drops it. And I went, well, all that you have to do. How does he drop that?

Speaker 2 25:46

How does he drop that? But you know, like some people struggle, right? When stuff like this happens. I feel like I thrive. I thrive. Oh, you thrive. All right, so men from the boys. Yeah, literally where this is where people like you know, if you want to piss like a puppy, stay on the porch, let the dogs on the grass play, you know what I mean? I've never heard that scene ever. I've heard it no, I've heard it on the page. Did you make it up? No, I heard it like once on Instagram like a couple weeks ago. I was like, I'm gonna use that. That's cool.

Speaker 3 26:19

That is crazy.

Speaker 2 26:20

Anyway, so I I'm we're doing Alice and Wonderland, right? And there's this front cloth card scene, and it's like intensive like core movement. It's it's it's sick. It's a white unit, isn't it? White unitard's so exposing, and we're all everyone's in lines, like there's only max two lines basically because no one can fit. Alright, so there's supposed to be three part of us going on at one time, and I'm the center couple. My partner forgots to come up, come on. Thank God. She didn't come on.

Speaker 1 26:53

Shut up!

Speaker 2 26:54

Where's that bus? Yeah, boom, boom. Yeah, and just leave me high and dry. I'm standing in the middle. I I see one girl go runs past me, and then I'm waiting for my partner. She doesn't come. Cory starts. I'm like, oh crap. This this is bad. This is the moment. Did you improvise? No. So what I did was, because I'm such a good partner, I know the girls' choreography. I just did the girls' curry. I just did some like Grombat Mons, and that's pretty cool. Literally, it looks like it looked like there's nothing happened.

Speaker 4 27:26

Did anyone like any staff come up to you after and go, what happened, or they didn't even notice?

Speaker 2 27:31

Cow dance master, yeah. Yeah, he knew definitely. But yeah, yeah, honestly, I I I feel like they didn't praise me enough. I I did save the show, honestly.

Speaker 5 27:42

You saved the show and you're white you've done the front clock. That's it. Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 27:49

Yeah, six hearts. He's going for it, he's doing some picks.

Speaker 4 28:00

Before we um end this potty, thank you. We've got a few quick fire questions for you, my guy. All right. Just for you. Quick fire. Just for you. Yeah, so quick fire. You ready? Don't think. Don't think about it. Just tell us.

Speaker 3 28:12

Don't think dance.

Speaker 4 28:13

Oh, that's beautiful. You just don't dance enough. Like all right. One thing you tell your younger self. I don't know what it's um mm uh it gets better.

Speaker 2 28:26

Oh, I love that.

Speaker 4 28:27

Oh, damn.

Speaker 2 28:27

Does it?

Speaker 3 28:30

Quickfire, sorry.

Speaker 4 28:32

Yeah, worst habit backstage.

Speaker 3 28:36

Getting distracted. Yeah. Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 28:38

Oh, happiest part of your day right now.

Speaker 3 28:41

Telling a story.

Speaker 4 28:43

Oh, lovely. Something people don't realize about being a dad.

Speaker 3 28:48

It's hard and easy. All at once.

Speaker 4 28:52

Dang. You gotta write these down. These are incredible. Favorite role you've performed.

Speaker 3 28:57

Oh.

Speaker 2 28:59

Bartender.

Speaker 3 29:00

Spartacus.

Speaker 4 29:01

Yeah.

Speaker 3 29:02

Spartacus from before. That's my full circle moment. That is. I saw Spartacus and then I got to be Spidercus opening night here. Yes. That's pretty sick.

Speaker 4 29:11

That's pretty sick.

Speaker 3 29:11

That's cool. Yep.

Speaker 4 29:12

Alright, and last one. Out of ten, rate us as podcasters.

Speaker 3 29:15

Two. Oh. But there's room to grow.

Speaker 5 29:21

Well, let's end it there. Thanks, but it's more than two. Yeah.

Speaker 3 29:26

You're a legend, seriously. Thanks, guys.

Speaker 2 29:29

That was my