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Feed Me, Seymour: Little Shop of Horrors Comes to 7th Street
A 1200-pound puppet in two massive crates. A first-time actor at age 54. A female voice for the traditionally male Audrey II. This is not your average Little Shop of Horrors—and that's precisely what makes it special.
The creative team behind 7th Street Community Theater's upcoming production sits down to reveal how they're transforming this beloved cult musical for their intimate stage. Director Juan Luis Torres and his cast—including Derek Ashley-Macumber (Seymour/Costume Designer), Mark Agers (Mushnik), and Adam Carl-Payton (Orin)—share their personal connections to a show that has captivated theater lovers for generations.
What emerges is a fascinating look at the balance between honoring tradition and introducing fresh perspectives. While audiences will get the professional-quality puppets they expect (arriving in two enormous crates weighing 400 and 800 pounds), they'll also experience innovations like expanded roles for the urchins and thoughtful color theory in the costumes, with greens representing envy and reds symbolizing sin as the plant's influence grows.
The conversation delves into practical challenges unique to community theater: How do you fit a six-foot man-eating plant and a dentist's chair on a tiny stage? How do eight performers master complex harmonies when every voice matters? And how does a theater community rally together to make the impossible possible?
Most touching is Mark's story of auditioning for his very first show at 54, sitting with professional performers at the first table read, and thinking, "These folks have legit skills... this is not just a little fun thing." His journey represents the heart of community theater—a place where passion and dedication matter more than experience.
From inside jokes about troublesome vocal lines to the excitement of "Mother coming home" (their affectionate term for the plant puppet's arrival), the enthusiasm is contagious. As one cast member puts it: "It's a show you're going to want to see twice."
Get your tickets now for what promises to be an unforgettable, intimate encounter with a musical that reminds us why we love theater. Just remember: don't feed the plants!
Weekends April 11th through 26th $20 general admission -- $17 seniors and students
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That's what's sort of fun about it, right is there's an absurdity to it all and yet we're playing these parts that are just existing in that.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Steps to the Stage. A 7th Street community theater podcast.
Speaker 4:Hello and welcome to Steps to the Stage, the community theater podcast, where we talk to theater professionals you know and love. I'm Marlee Lane, your guest host, and today, for the next production, little Shop of Horrors, we have four very special guests.
Speaker 5:My name is Derek Ashton-McCumber, I'm playing Seymour Crowborn, and I'm also designing the costumes for the production as well.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, my name is Juan Luis Torres and I will be directing Little Shop of Horrors and set design and finger and everything.
Speaker 1:Hi, I'm Mark Agers. I'll be playing Mr Mushnik and hanging on tightly as we go.
Speaker 6:My name is Adam Carl-Payton and I am playing the dentist Oren.
Speaker 4:Amazing. I'm very excited for this production. I love Little Shop of Horrors, so I would love to start out with what's your first interaction with a movie, the musical, anything. So we'll start over here. What's your first time you got introduced to Little Shop of Horrors?
Speaker 6:Yeah, I kind of grew up a theater nerd, like probably everyone in this room, and my mom always took us to see shows and for some reason this was just the cult show everyone did in the 90s, I think. So I cannot count how many times I've seen interesting, good and bad performances of this musical Right, but yeah, I just knew it growing up as a kid and then obviously the movie was such a staple and then so many revivals over the years on Broadway, even off Broadway. Now it's just kind of cool to see the legacy continue.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if it was the very first, but it was, I think, close to the first musical theater production I ever saw at a local community theater. It would have been in the 80s, I guess, and it just, you know, just a fun show, right.
Speaker 2:So immediately captured your interest. Yeah, for me it was one of the first shows that wasn't Rodgers and Hammerstein, right Like. I grew up with the Sound of Music, you know, in Oklahoma, and then this show when I saw it randomly on TV I was like what is this? You know the rock and the period. I just love everything about it, you know. And of course, haneer Shrek, the Kid, rick Moranis yeah, it was just amazing. And of course, who plays? Oren the dentist?
Speaker 6:Steve Martin, steve Martin, how could I forget?
Speaker 2:his name Anyway so good and the music, it's just amazing.
Speaker 4:Amazing.
Speaker 5:The movie, of course, was my first introduction to it and I think I, you know, automatically gravitated to the storytelling. And then it was actually the first Broadway show that I saw with this original cast in New York, and so it's just always had a special place in New York, and so it's just always had a special place, and I've seen countless productions as well and different interpretations, and just always fall in love with it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I feel like it's a soft spot in every theater, kid's heart right For sure. It's just like it's like sort of Disney.
Speaker 1:There's like this sort of connection Totally.
Speaker 4:It's easy to grasp, but then also it's like cool and different. So, along the lines of all the beloved productions, there's lots of big names playing it off-Broadway right now. How is anyone can respond. How is your production kind of taking on such a beloved and special thing for theater people and you know sometimes that can be scary for theater people to be like this is an iconic role by an iconic actor or an iconic role even to be direct this show. So kind of how is, how is your experience with that? Do you have like a vision to keep it the same, keep it different, anything along those sort of lines?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So let's see, I'm just going to say, five years ago we were, we were, we were in the middle. Weren't you working with? I think, I think, I I was.
Speaker 3:You were supposed to stage, manage, or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that 25 years ago. It's so crazy, you know, covid 19. But so, going back to your question, um, we were originally going to make a puppet and we were going to do all of that. This time around, five years later, we're renting puppets from mti, which I'm very excited because I can't even imagine trying to put the show.
Speaker 4:That's always the big question. Oh my gosh, what are you going to do? Right and so like.
Speaker 2:so it's cool because people are expecting something, so they're going to get that the puppet, yes, yes. What's going to change is, instead of the male traditional character, we have a female. That's been cast.
Speaker 4:Very cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very soulful. So we're still going to get that, that element of just soulfulness and all of it that people expect, but with a twist right.
Speaker 4:Yes exactly.
Speaker 2:So I'm really excited about that and other things. We're kind of the urchins are like in every almost the whole show. They are nonstop.
Speaker 6:They are never off stage.
Speaker 4:And so in our version.
Speaker 2:We are going to have them even more on stage.
Speaker 3:I love that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you're going to see them even more and a little bit different. I don't want to give it away, but we are definitely going to it's a little special touch. Yes, we are going to give them a little twist on the story and really hope the audience catches it and it's like, oh yeah, because you know it's again. It's still sticking to what people expect, but we want to give them a little something, something.
Speaker 4:Always good. A little something, something extra. I love that. I love that. And from like an actor's point of view, costuming point of view.
Speaker 5:I think we are definitely going darker too. You know the show automatically has humor built into it, but I think, like one of my favorite things with it is that the characters aren't playing it down or playing it too silly, that it's honest moments and honest storytelling and that the way that events transpire is automatically funny in ways and also really dark and scary and there's elements of these characters that I think we all relate to in some way or another, but it just grounds it more and makes it a little bit scarier, because I love that it's.
Speaker 5:There's very few like horror musicals out there. You know we have Sweeney Todd and just a handful really. So this is kind of one of those that we can play with that as well. So for costuming, we're playing with color story a lot and so we're keeping things more muted in the beginning and then as things brighten up, you might notice a difference. Up you might notice a difference. And then there's also elements of like. To me, like green is envy and longing, and so we're playing a lot with that, and then also red as being that sinful color. So things start happening and we start seeing a little bit more of that color story throughout.
Speaker 4:I love that Amazing. You have anything.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I mean, obviously the Dentist is such a well-known character, iconically comedic by Steve Martin and so many other people, and it is a musical comedy but it's certainly rooted in a black and white film. You know it's such a dark original story and so, going in with that, I think myself you know my character is a very complex person with a lot of complex issues that I think have come more to light in recent years and certainly since all of this kind of was kind of just touched over, there's some darker themes and storylines and obviously personal situations, and we're addressing them as they're written because I think it's also special and important to voice those moments which help progress the storyline and the character development within all of us. So, like Derek said, I mean, we're really just living true to the text and performing it as these humans existed in their reality and the humor and the, that uncomfortableness and all of that that transpires from an audience standpoint is truly their vision of what we're living, not what we're performing.
Speaker 4:Yes, right, amazing, yeah, this is weird little things.
Speaker 1:Horror comedy You're a little weird yeah.
Speaker 2:You have to like grasp yeah. Alien plant.
Speaker 1:That's what's sort of fun about it, right is there's an absurdity to it all. And yet we're playing these parts that are just existing in that. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 6:And the audience is just the fly on the ball laughing at us, right Exactly.
Speaker 4:I feel like the audience with this show. They're like we're in it. There's crazy things happening, but I think lovable characters really does that For sure. So also along the lines of your specific production. This is a big production on a very little stage which is always a difficult thing to do, even acting wise and on the production side. So do you have any like how is your process? Transforming it to fit in our specific 7th Street stage?
Speaker 2:Well, interestingly enough, we're on day two on the stage.
Speaker 4:Oh, so yeah, we're really figuring it out in the moment.
Speaker 2:And it's crazy because you practice it, you know, and, and, and, and we're like, oh, we've got this green room with all this space, yeah, and. And I've been making sure I'm like y'all do realize it's not going to be all this space, right, once we get on stage, but also just building the set, the vision is there, you know, and we're like, okay, this square is one by one, but well, there are flats that take up three, four inches.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. And so then, slowly, now you lose five inches of space and we're like, oh shoot, and all those five inches add up, and so in our space we're having to modify blocking and then, okay, well, bum, number two. Why no number two? Now you're not doing that because there's no room for you to come through with a trash cart or something you know. It's just interesting and I think everybody's Last night was fun.
Speaker 6:Yeah, last night was fun. Like I had time to sit in the audience and if you're familiar with this theater, you know how intimate it is and this is the perfect show for it. We're a small cast, but it's a small us so well. And Derek and I were sitting there and we're like can you picture this plant? It's just going to be like in your face.
Speaker 6:Like these poor audience members are going to be in the shop with us. It's just thrusted so forward and into the audience. It's going to be a cool reality, I think, when it all comes together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and you know, and so, like you said, our stage is so small and I don't want to just have. I always like the challenge and I'm definitely not only challenging myself, I'm challenging my actor. You know the cast.
Speaker 4:It's a different type of act. I mean, it's not with a little bit yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:And then the audience too, because I to me the stage and lighting and sound they're also a character that puts together the show. So I definitely treat the set as another character in our production. Yeah, so I'm excited because I hope the audience is going to be like what on this little stage.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's going to be great. You can feel the excitement building. I hear a lot about, like you know, the teenagers talking about it, so I'm very excited. Speaking of the set, is there anything there, anything like different or you want to expand on it, or kind of like, what was your process getting to? Like what's going to work for this stage and work for my vision?
Speaker 2:oh man, I, because I grew up performing on this stage, I I understand the limitations and and and. Because of who is helping. A master carpenterenter is Paul Arson Amazing, oh my gosh. So he's just such an amazing and we have so many people that I've been able to work with, and every single person, you know they. In the end, we end up deciding okay, we can do this, or, if we can't, there's always a solution and we're always meeting in the middle and I love that. I love that. Yeah, sometimes the friction creates more creativity. You know, yes, yes, yes. So so, yeah, I'm very excited. Uh, we're getting to do a lot of the initial vision of, of um, of what we want for this show yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 4:Is there anything else from an actor's perspective about your process, about, like fun facts from rehearsal? How's it been going, really yeah.
Speaker 6:Would you like to spill your fun fact? Sure, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, my fun fact is this is my first show ever.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 1:And I'll say at 54. So you know it's been a long time coming, so it's just been. I mean, for me every minute is a joy. I don't know, they probably laugh at me because I'm having such a good time, but you know, it's been amazing to see, first of all, how much goes into making it work right. I mean, I think I always had a sense of that from the outside, but seeing it in person is amazing, and I was also. I haven't shared this with these guys yet, but the very first night of rehearsals, you know, I had an idea about what it would be like. And when I got, when I auditioned and got in, I thought, okay, good, I can, I can do this. Right, I've got. And then I sat down at that table and everybody started singing and doing their little parts and I'm like, oh man, like this is legit, like this is not, you know, a little fun thing that I'm doing as a side note.
Speaker 1:Like these folks have like legit skills and it was. You know, it was overwhelming in a very positive way. This is a great place and everybody is super supportive, which is wonderful.
Speaker 2:It's amazing. I've been sharing with people. You know we have our cast and I'm like y'all'all, our mushnik first show. Not only is it your first show, but you jumped in and you're like I'm gonna do this and audition for a musical. I'm like what so? Not only are you having to learn the theater language, but you're also having to learn a book, you're having to learn music, you're having to learn choreography. I mean whoa and killing it and killing.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, very impressive, very honored.
Speaker 1:I appreciate hearing that truly, because I'm working hard and I want to make you all proud. Oh, my gosh Already.
Speaker 4:I was very excited when I saw your name on it. Yeah, and I was, like you know, from the small part in Carrie.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, the voiceover, the voiceover.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like we're here and it's amazing and I love it. Well, you know.
Speaker 1:I went home after audition and having gotten the callback and I just told to my son, nico, who's in the children's theater, and I said look, it's a win Like whatever happens from here on out, it's already a win. I got up and I tried. I got a goal Keeps going yeah.
Speaker 6:And shout out to the girls who aren't sitting here with us. But I mean, this is a very small cast and we're just a very small part of it, but the girls, I mean incredible performers, incredible voices. It's just been really, really a fun process and, yeah, I just can't wait for you guys to see it, I know, you know, auditions were hard.
Speaker 4:I'm not going to lie the urchins. Yeah, this is people's dream role, yeah 100%.
Speaker 2:And you know, part of the process was like okay, everybody wants to play Audrey, everybody wants to play Seymour, everybody wants to play Oren, everybody wants to play Mushna.
Speaker 3:Hey it doesn't matter, I got it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:That's right If I was the only one that's fine.
Speaker 1:So like you, only one, that's fine.
Speaker 2:So, like you know, you have the people who made the callbacks and then I'm like all right, let's get in a room and we're all gonna read, we're gonna put together groups and groups so that everybody can see why people were cast in the roles that were cast because I don't want anyone to leave and be like, oh, it should have been me, it should have been me, you know, and so so it's really cool. I really enjoyed the audition process.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was cool to have everybody. Yeah for these beloved yeah they are an interesting yeah, interesting process, but then you get the best of the best usually.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's right but everybody did really well. It was such such a joy to to see a lot of the teens you know come and audition for the urchins and for every role, like it was cool. So we've got riley, who I guess is part of the children's theater.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we have some cool costumes. There's some teens that are like adult age now. I mean, you know, in between young adult.
Speaker 2:Right right, right that is cool.
Speaker 4:They're very excited, yeah.
Speaker 6:They're very talented being older now.
Speaker 2:I'm like God, it comes so easy to them yeah right, yeah, yeah, and that's the hard part, because, I mentioned earlier, they're in the whole show. Yeah, you got to work hard, Get the endurance yeah exactly, and they're singing and dancing and crossing here and blah, blah blah. But anyway, it's such a good show, I can't wait, can't wait.
Speaker 4:I can't wait either guys.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited.
Speaker 5:See you like three times, please do.
Speaker 4:Yes, I mean like three times, please do. Yes. Um, I mean, we sort of started talking about it, but also it's obviously a musical. So, like, how's the music going? Dance choreography any any insights into that?
Speaker 5:it's. It's a lot for everybody to learn and we have incredible uh kristin and kristin, uh kristin love that. Yes, we have, uh, kristin is our, our assistant director and choreographer, and then we also have Kristen Tucker, who we call Tucker, is our musical director, and so we all have a ton of music and lines and choreography to learn. It's a big show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been good, it's been amazing. It's a lot of material and very patient, you know, and everybody too, you know, because you know you learn your, yeah, can't forget, uh, um, but it's, it's a lot of work because I think I think everybody's doing great. I think everyone's doing great. We got through the like a third of the show last night in blocking and pretty good. So we're going to try to get it done as much tonight and hopefully the show will be blocked by the end of tomorrow yep, yeah, that's the glue right.
Speaker 6:So we know the, we know the music we, we know the dance and so that's just part of the process and that's the fun part. And the scary part is because you're in the car driving home. You're like what happened?
Speaker 3:Or is this going to be okay, and then you get up the next morning and you're like it's going to be fine, but putting that glue together is what this is the fun time, I think.
Speaker 1:And then we perform and it's like locked in our heads but it's so neat for me being my first time it's so neat to see it in pieces, kind of built right Like thinking about the music and the lyrics and how to do that, and then, oh, now we're dancing with that. Oh wait a minute. Okay, like I'm not, those don't go together yet, you know, and then we're on. It's fun, yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 6:It's coming together. It's the answer, right, right.
Speaker 4:No, I feel it. I feel it, I feel the creative energy here, for, sure it really is. I mean, we kind of spoke about it before. But as someone who does a lot of set design and I'm always like the puppet, like I want to hear more about the puppet. Oh my gosh, yes, or like how you got to getting it and like the renting process.
Speaker 6:It's on the way. It's on the way. It's on a truck right now.
Speaker 2:It's on its way. It should be here Thursday morning and it comes in two crates. One is 400 pounds.
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh. The second one is 800 pounds.
Speaker 2:So within those two crates we have four puppets that are called for the show. So puppet number one and then puppet number two, which is a Number one is like four inches, I think. Four inches, four inches, it's a little bit of four inches.
Speaker 6:They can't see us. Luckily, Isn't it about one foot four inches. That was not four inches.
Speaker 2:Probably Okay about a foot and a half, and then puppet number two is the hand puppet right. So Seymour gets to puppeteer that one. I just told it. I don't know what you're talking about. It comes to life, yeah, and then puppet number three is a four by four puppet. And then puppet number four is six and a half long, and that is the biggest challenge. Is that, yes, a where do we store? It right, right right. And so not only the six and a half one, but the four foot one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, four by four yeah.
Speaker 2:So part of the set design was building a platform where those could be stored during the show, and then we'll just basically open the back wall. It will have like sliding doors or something, and then we'll be able to um, to pull out the puppet, as they're called for. Yeah, yeah, and our shop opens and closes. Yes, so that's gonna be happening.
Speaker 2:Yes, our own little shop exactly, and so the um, hopefully our stage hand, our stage manager, is Laurie Deerts Chase amazing, yeah. So we plan on having at least three stage hands in the back, and so they're going to be as quiet as possible as we're changing, scene changes while the shop is closed and the show is still continuing. And that's what I love about this show the blackouts, they're really the. The show just moves. If you know the show, it just keeps moving. Very rare do you have a complete blackout blew out or whatever it's exciting, I'm excited, I'm excited for you guys to get the puppet and start working with it.
Speaker 1:It gets all people can talk about. That's the new element right.
Speaker 4:New cast member. Seriously, I'm like did.
Speaker 2:I answer right New cast member. Seriously, Seriously, I'm like did.
Speaker 5:I answer your question. Mother is here. Mother. When is Mother arriving? Mother is coming.
Speaker 2:On Thursday, we will get our hands on her.
Speaker 4:Yeah, has there been any like do you have a favorite song that you've worked on already? Like what's been a piece of the process that you've really found like, oh, I love this. I'm excited for people to see this.
Speaker 6:Well, I think we have a funny joke in one of the songs where it's just a hard vocal line and again there's only eight of us, six of us singing at one time. So, like, every single vocal line matters, we're not just in this huge ensemble.
Speaker 6:So if you don't stick, to your line like kristen, no like immediately yeah, and you're just kind of like looking up sheepishly, like, does she hear that? And she's like, but there's this one part, uh, in in skid row, that we just love to mess up and we're gonna kill it and it's gonna be fine. But uh, then we did choreography with it and then we had to, like somebody said, oh, let's start from there. I was like, oh, that's our favorite part.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 6:Let's layer on hard choreography and a moving door and our favorite vocal line to sing yeah. That's just like an inside joke that I laugh at every time it comes through the speaker.
Speaker 1:I love it. Do you have one? Well, I mean, the ensemble pieces are a lot of fun, right? So when everybody's just kind of moving around and in that tight space, it's just it's intimate and it's a lot of energy, so that's exciting. But you know, obviously with Derek getting to do, the Mushnik and.
Speaker 2:Me. Choreography oh my gosh, it's getting there. It's a great number. It's got a lot of fun parts to it. One of my favorites is Skid Row.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Kristen. She did just an amazing job just with the whole show, but it's been fun to get to know her and see her style and, yeah, put her own little spin on it. Yeah, the urchins are amazing. I love seeing them and what she's done with them too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is a cool part of the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah. They like wrote in and I'm like I love stuff like that yeah yeah, and I wanted to make sure we did the Broadway cast, the Broadway show version of it.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 2:So I'm really excited because it just has it's a brighter. I think it's yeah. As a performer, that's the show I wanted.
Speaker 4:That's what I wanted, I'm like we're doing that one.
Speaker 5:Oh, my God, it's like choosing my favorite plant, I have to say. Mushnik and Son is selfishly like such a fun dance number and a fun number you know to play off of. And I love the group numbers because it's, you know, getting to see everybody on that stage and like the finale is kind of one of those that you know I didn't think much about, but getting to put it with choreography has kind of really like made a special place in my heart.
Speaker 5:I really like that because it is like the first time we get everybody. Actually, no, it is the second time we get everybody on that stage the only two times yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would say those two, yeah, skid Row and Finale is the only time you see everyone on stage. Yeah, yeah, isn't that crazy, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's true, don't think about it, because there's so much going on.
Speaker 4:Exactly, yeah challenges you've had to overcome throughout the process.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say that. Yeah, every five minutes Anybody.
Speaker 2:I feel like I was really worried about the dentist's chair, which is something you don't know we automatically go to the plant. Oh my God, it's the hardest thing. But at the same time I was like, oh, you need a dentist's chair, not yeah, and then our little stage. It's like where do we put that dentist chair, like all these little things that, um, fortunately, um, we've got it covered.
Speaker 6:I'm really excited it's such a pivotal piece to that final scene of oran's, obviously, when you get to the dentist office and you kind of see him in his element, like if there's no chair, like everyone knows where they're at. But it's such a fun scene for us to to act and use that chair as kind of like a third character in that scene. He's on it, I'm on it where I perish near it. Spoiler alert everyone listening knows yeah, the chairs is a cool element that you don't really think about.
Speaker 2:Props, Props are huge, oh my gosh. Upland High School just did the show not too long ago and Michelle Richardson, who's part of the Cinecubic Theater life. She's sent an email right away and was like if you need any of them, they're yours. And we took advantage.
Speaker 3:We literally took.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Almost every single prop, you know. So it's so prop heavy. Yes, it's crazy, but it's amazing, I love it. Yeah, that's been a challenge.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 6:It's feeling like all the elements are coming together and it's going to fun to actually meet the faces behind the names and see the longevity of their support here of the theater. It's just been a really cool added bonus to me.
Speaker 2:And it really takes a village.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Julie Moore is our production coordinator.
Speaker 2:Just the text messages, the emails. So much Just the rehearsal space and sharing that with the previous show and then the show after us, and so it's fun. It's a fun piece of the puzzle. It's another piece of the puzzle. That is crazy, but it's fun. In the same vein, Exactly Well.
Speaker 4:thank you everybody for chatting with me today. I'm specifically very excited for this show so I was like this is the perfect guest host for me to be part of. Do you have any parting words of wisdom, or any? What do you want the public to know about the show?
Speaker 5:Don't feed the plants.
Speaker 4:Oh you took mine.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I don't know. It's just fun. Just come and have fun, we're going to have fun, so I mean, you can't walk out of here without smiling, and we do that every night, so hopefully the audience gets to do that too.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a show you're going to want to see twice. Right, that's that kind of show.
Speaker 4:Get your tickets Everybody.
Speaker 2:They're on sale now. I get to see it ten times and I'm going to love every minute of it.
Speaker 4:Well, thank you so much guys. Thank you, marley, everybody listening. Go buy your tickets now. This is going to be I feel like this is going to be the hit, the hit of the season. I feel the excitement brewing, I feel the creativity. So thank you so much for talking to me.
Speaker 2:Everybody, thanks for having us. Thanks, Marley, yeah thank you.
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