00:00Well, that's the great thing about creating a show.
00:09That's why I said I wanted to be a part of it, because I could create the role.
00:13And that means that you're informing the script, the music, the choreography, all the action.
00:21So when somebody else steps into the shoes that you've, you know, established, that's
00:26your creation.
00:27And that's the wonderful thing about getting an opportunity to do a new musical, there's
00:31lots of times.
00:32So I knew that when this opportunity came, obviously I couldn't say no to the part that
00:36literally a million girls would kill for.
00:40But I knew that, what to expect, I knew it was going to be chaos, because it always is,
00:44with a new show.
00:45There's just so many changes, your brain has to work so fast.
00:49To create these characters for the stage, we have to look at the real world.
00:52And for me, it was looking at people like Andre Leontali and, you know, Edward Enfield
00:56from British Vogue, and these are very successful black men working at the peak of fashion.
01:04And so reading their books, reading their biographies, watching YouTube clips of them
01:09speaking about their lives, that I was able to draw on the inspiration from these men
01:14and bring them closer to me and the character Nigel, to be able to portray Nigel, my version
01:19of Nigel.
01:21In Hatchdon 1, we are doing a period piece.
01:24So we are telling a story that isn't 2024.
01:28We are setting this show in 2005.
01:32That's the story we're telling.
01:33But also on the flip side, we haven't included the lines, there's just some lines we just
01:42haven't included, because we just didn't find them necessary.
01:45We found a way to...
01:47They weren't funny.
01:48They just wasn't funny.
01:49Yeah.
01:50It just was too far.
01:51It just wasn't nice.
01:52There are really nasty things that Emily still says in the show, but we've tried to find
01:57a balance, I think.
01:58Amazing.
01:59He's so supportive of what we're doing with his music, and it's been great to be able
02:06to bring not only his music to people for the first time, but also because he's got
02:10such a distinct signature on his music, as soon as anything starts, people who are fans
02:16of Elton John, which I think is basically everyone who's ever lived, will hear the music
02:21and any memory that they have associated with Elton John, I think comes flooding in.
02:24And that's such a...
02:25I mean, it's kind of great, because it means as soon as you start doing it, people go,
02:28ah, they can relax, because they know they're in capable hands, because he's a musical genius.
02:32A million girls would kill for this job.
02:38Do you read Renly?
02:39Not often.
02:40Hello?
02:41One no-foam skimmed latte with an extra shot, three drip coffees with room for milk, searing
02:45hot and I mean hot.
02:46You're one in danger.
02:47That's all.
02:48You're one in danger.
02:49That's all.
03:16You're one in danger.
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