Peter Pan Goes Wrong - Episode 1, with Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill and Nancy Zamit
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This is the Mischief Makers podcast and I'm Charlie Russell, hosting brand new episodes chatting all things Peter Pan goes wrong, recorded on Broadway in New York City. We thought we'd record a couple of episodes from here to give you a flavour as to what's going on in the Mischief Multiverse in New York and basically about how we're having a lovely time. My first guest this week on the Posca. All the best, Charlie. On the Posca.
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We'll try again tomorrow. We're just a couple of guests on support guests. Oh, goes wrong. Oh, don't open it. I'm immediately regretting this. You've invited all of us now. Oh, I shouldn't have asked these guys. My first guests this week are very special people, but I'm going to let them introduce themselves because I keep not being able to speak. So who's here? Come on, tell me who's here. Hello, I'm Henry Shields and I'm a member of Mischief. I'm Nancy Zammit. Hi. And I'm Greg Tannehill.
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Oh, this is very exciting. Now, I know why we're here, but maybe some people, if they haven't listened to the podcast before, or if they're new to Mischief, don't know why we're all in New York. So Greg, why are we all here in New York in the first place? We're in New York to do one of our shows, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a show that we first did back in 2004? 13. 13. And the last time we all did it, us OGs, was 2000.
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2015. Yeah, I think it was. Did we shoot the TV show in 2016? That's right, we did the cheeky one. Well, this is perfect. This is bringing me on to what I want to talk about because some people don't know about the history of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which is now currently playing on Broadway, but it started back 2013, 10 years ago, at the Pleasance Theatre. Yes, it did. It was a sequel to The Play That Goes Wrong, an indirect sequel to The Play That Goes Wrong.
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And we wrote it while we were still doing Play That Goes Wrong at the Old Red Lion and then later on at the Trafalgar Studios. That's when we were writing Peter Pan. And then we first tried it out. I think it was the first, it was sort of Christmas, wasn't it? It was the first Christmas after we had gotten Play That Goes Wrong up and running. It opened on December the 10th. I remember this very, very, very specifically because I broke my foot on.
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December the 11th. Tell us about that, Nance. If you can bear it. We just did like, you know, a few weeks of lovely rehearsal. We made the show happen and figured it all out. And then we did one run of it. One performance. One performance for the public. Did I get a performance of the public in? I think so, yeah. Gosh. Yeah. And then I broke my foot in a rehearsal the day after, morning after.
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Just doing a simple little tink jump, wasn't it? Yeah, just jumping. You'll notice that when I play tink about now, I barely move my feet. Yeah. And there's a huge reason for that, because they just break easy, I guess. Oh my gosh. It was such an awful moment. Because we, like, in the lead up to it, we've been working, what, like, till the early hours of the morning, trying to build the set, paint it all, then we're putting it on, rehearsing, because it was back in the days when, you know, we were not, we didn't have as much support as we do now. And we finally put it on, and then you broke your foot.
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was awful. It was unbelievable. But I broke up with my boyfriend who wasn't incredibly supportive of my budding theatre career and met my husband. So, Emma Clowd. Does the ex get a mention on the post? Should we talk by name? I don't think so. I think that's not nice. Big shout out to... He has to see my face all over the tube. So it did it. That's revenge enough. I'm sure he listens to this. All right, so who does everyone play in Peter Pan Goes Wrong?
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I play Chris Bean, who is the head of the drama sizing. He has cast himself as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. I play Jonathan, the cornerly member, who is playing Peter Pan. I play Annie, who is playing... She basically picks up all the roles that weren't anyone else's. So I'm playing Mrs. Darling, Liza, Tinkerbell and Curly, the lost boy.
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But the whole gag is that I quick change between them. Yeah, that's very good. And I play Sandra who plays Wendy. Very fun. So after Pleasance, what happened after that? We... It went on tour, but we weren't in it. It did. We were doing something else at the time. I think it was the Play That Goes Wrong. We were busy with the... We'd just done the tour of Play That Goes Wrong. Oh, we'd done the tour, yes. And then we went to the West End and we didn't know if we were going to be in the West End for very long. So we thought we might be able to start that Peter Pan tour. But then actually...
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we ended up just recasting Peter Pan. We had a new cast with a lot of familiar mischief faces. Harry did that too. Matt Cavendish. Is that Leonie and Naomi? Leonie and Naomi, Laura Kerman, Fred Gray, Larry Pearce. I'm sure we're forgetting wonderful people. Oh, James Marlowe. Wow, what a hell of a cast. Yeah, it was amazing. No, it wasn't James Marlowe. It was, yeah, yeah. Was it Alex Bartram? No, James Marlowe was...
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He played Dennis. Yeah, Max. Oh yeah. He played Dennis, Max played Max. I'm so sorry. There's too many Dennis's, Max's, Michael's and... It has been a real journey. So there was a tour and various people played various parts. It was brilliant. It was. That was at a time, I would say, where we were still working out the script. So they all did very well selling what was at the time not our best material.
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I think we were still workshopping it, there were still large chunks that which have not survived to this day. And we were kind of writing and changing things on the go. And we were seeing them on tour and then going out scene doesn't work, let's rewrite it, let's rewrite. And then by the end of that tour, I think we had the script in a place where it was really strong. And it was ready to go into the West End, which is what happened next. And that's when we got to do it again, didn't we? Yeah. At the Apollo. Yeah.
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Did we do that? We did that after Bank Robbery, didn't we? No, just before. Just before Bank Robbery. We'd done a workshop for Bank Robbery. Oh my god. We'd done The Play That Goes Wrong. We did a four week workshop for Bank Robbery. Then we went into the West End for Pan and then started Bank Robbery in 2016. Because there was a time when we were doing Bank Robbery when Peter Pan was going with another cast and Play That Goes Wrong was going, right? Yes. So we had all three shows on in the West End at the same time, which was insane.
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Yes. When we... That was the end next year, yeah. Yeah, that was the year after. Yeah, yeah. So we were doing... We were doing bank robbery. No, we were doing bank robbery when there was three. I was like, what's happening? The shows all kind of leapfrog each other. Yeah, because we actually then did the BBC production of Pizza Bangos Raw. During bank robbery. Yes, that was it. That was completely crazy for your brain. Yeah, like we were doing one show in the night and then filming another one.
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No, we took a week off. We had one week off, but then we did have a week where we were, we had a week off for like rehearsal with the TV crew and working everything out. And then we had a week where we were in Pinewood during the day coming back to do bank robbery and we all got one bank robbery show off.
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Oh, yeah. Do you know we all were allowed one off. This is so funny, this podcast. It's like a bunch of old people trying to remember how they got where they are. I don't remember anything. Yeah, this is like an insight to the future when we all live in the same sort of farcical old people's home. There's one scene in Pizza Pan Goes Wrong that you can see in the BBC version where you can tell that I have had no sleep and I am not the present. Wait, which one, which one? It's when we, it's in the lagoon, when we arrive after having sung Yo-Ho.
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which we recorded at a slightly different time. The song finishes and the ship stops, and then it comes in close and you see Chris Bean with red eyes just going, ah, still night here. Really just an exhausted man for a five minutes. Is that the pirate? No, not that one, no.
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Because there's one scene where I finally get to play Keiko, the pirate. I don't know why I was doing that, but I was. You got your fake biceps in. But I was so overdoing it in the background of your good acting. Just like upstaging massively with these huge biceps. I'm sure it wasn't that good. I feel like it's appropriate to Annie, you know, she got the opportunity to play a pirate. She fully commits. Of course. And it was because we had the wonderful David Suchet, who was playing the narrator, but he wasn't going to play the pirate check out. That's nice. Oh, of course. There we go. I wondered why.
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was doing that. But that was a really interesting time, right? Because we'd not done TV before. And we, I remember thinking like, oh, we'll just film it in one go because, you know, we won't stop. And then we learned how that's really unhelpful for TV people and how we need to be able to stop and have cut points. And remember, there was, we did the nursery scene once in front of the TV audience. Adam
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vividly remember this. In the green room. In the green room, yes. Okay guys. Um, so you've been doing such great work in rehearsals and really, really adapting it well for TV, but what just happened now was insane. We were like, what is it? Yeah, you all need to calm down. You've lost your minds because apparently we were going like a mile a minute and everything was so quick because we were back in front of an audience. Yeah, probably true. Yeah. It was a fun time. But that's what Amy, that's what Amy said.
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when we went back into the play that goes wrong recently. Amy Milburn, yeah, exactly the same note. She was like, you guys are like, just lost your minds and like, you're not playing the reality of it at all. And it's a note that we give everyone all the time. We're like, just keep it real and like do that. And we just exactly didn't do that. No, when it gets to the moment it gets to you, doesn't it? It's just wild. But it was a fun one. And then that kind of led to, that TV show kind of led to more TV, which was brilliant. It did.
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So Peter Pan Goes Wrong led to Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. The BBC enjoyed Peter Pan and they said, what can you do again with Christmas Carol? And then Christmas Carol led to the Goes Wrong Club. Yeah. And now after all that, we are bringing Peter Pan Goes Wrong to Broadway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a long time coming. I know we thought we might've been going a while ago. Yeah, we've been trying to make it happen since we did play the Goes Wrong here. Well, because we had a theatre almost ready right after that Christmas, after we left the first time around.
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Because I remember I just had a baby and I was like, don't worry guys, I can definitely do the show, it's fine. And then looking back, I'm very glad that we didn't go to Broadway, that's Christmas. Yeah. I think it worked out in the end, but I know our producers have been working very hard since then to try and make it happen. So nice to be here now. There were so many years where I'd get a phone call and be like, it might happen. Just so you know, we'll let you know in like two weeks or so if it's going to happen. And I'd get a little excited and then.
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nothing would, no other phone call would come. And that happened so many times, or even this time I was like, yeah, it's not going to happen. I've completely given up hope. And then that phone call this time, I was like, my God. Yeah. No, it's always hard to believe because it's so, so difficult to get a show to Broadway because two major issues are getting a theater and they're often either booked up or left dark specifically because producers want to wait for the next big musical to come in.
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And it's also getting the money and it's always way more expensive than anyone thinks it's going to be, including us. We all, we all, it's going to cost this. And they're like, no, no, it's double that. You think it's going to be, it's way, way more. Wow. Yeah. But then it, it worked out. I can't believe it. I actually can't believe it. Can I just have a little moment because this is, I don't know what to dream of after this, I actually have no idea what to like, be like, oh, you know, what would be the best job ever, that.
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It's this. So I feel like the blues after this show is going to be hardcore. Cause like this has always been the thing that I've been waiting to do. I've been like, oh my God, can't believe it. Now we're doing it. And it's like, what do you dream of? I think we just probably all go somewhere to die. Little beach, nice little beach. A little beach together. I mean, I've got to say Backstage is really nice at the moment. There's this feeling, you know, we're all ready to go on or at the end.
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Even if everyone's really tired, everyone's quite just excited to do Peter Bang goes wrong. It is lovely. I love doing this show. It is my favorite one to perform of all the shows we've done. It's so much fun. And at the moment, all I dream of is staying here. Because you never know with Broadway. We may not. No, exactly. Yeah, we won't. But we can't, can we? Ever. We can't. Well, we are going to be kicked out eventually because we're British and they don't want us here.
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Very expensive to keep around. Yeah. There's a union and all that. Very good, very good. It's very strong, it's very good. Yes. But there's always the chance, you never know with a Broadway show, there's always the chance they close you, because Hugh Jackman wants to do a music. You never know. So, things pass, and bye. Every time people say Hugh Jackman, I always think that his name is Hugh Jackman. I know what you mean, I think that as well. Hugh Jackman. Yeah. And that's all I hear when I hear the words, no? It's up huge. I wonder if his friends know that. Hugh Jackman. Huge. And also he is huge. He is. Yeah.
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And huge, you know, also figuratively in terms of as a star. Sure, yeah. In every sense he is huge. Oh, huge. Come and see the show, right? Come on, huge. Don't kick us out with your musical. Yeah. I mean, I'd get it if I was an investor. I'd want to listen to that. But I just thought maybe it's worth mentioning that we haven't even technically opened yet. Oh, yes. We have a very long preview time, which we're still in, and our official opening is April 19th. Yeah. So, yeah. A week away? Just over a week away. From now when we are recording.
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We've had questions and stuff, people asking what it's like for us to re-rehearse it. And I suppose we've just talked, it's nice to do it again. But how did everybody find the rehearsal? Do you remember when we did the cry bit? I feel like we should talk about that. The first one, Charlie's looking at me like really concerned. No, it's a really nice thing. A crying thing? Oh yeah, I can't remember the crying. We did the first run through of it. And there's this bit at the end where...
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somebody, I don't know, spoilers, I don't know. Like somebody's reading the end section of the show and it's like really beautiful. It's a lovely moment. It's got a lot of heart in it, it's all gorge. And the Darling family are looking out and both me and Charlie in the first rehearsal run through that had gone, you know, average-ly. Just had a moment where we both just welled up. Just being like, I cannot believe we're about to do this on Broadway.
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And then we both looked at each other like, ah, I'm crying at you. Obviously I'm always crying, but like, yeah, it was so nice, it's so amazing. Well, that's why I always remember that, like the Apollo is that however the show had gone or like however I was feeling, you know, that last moment when you're looking out into the audience is a bit of a gift for an actor. You never get a stillness moment where you get to just be present and not worrying about the next thing. You just get to look out and go, oh, we did a show. And then I thought, oh, we're gonna get that. We're gonna get that on.
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Broadway. Every night I think that though. Every night I think, I can't believe we're here. And it's rare to do that in a job. But have you found it in terms of just remembering the old lines as a basic question? They were all there. They were all in my brain. Not for everyone. Not for me. Oh. I don't have lines in Act 2 so it's quite easy for me. That's true. You're mostly unspeakable. I just jingle. I couldn't remember the jingles at all actually. There you go.
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What about you guys? You have a lot to do? No, I don't know. Yeah, I think they're weirdly in my head when I came back. It was quite easy to put them back up and then I have a section of time where I don't have to say anything for a while. And yeah, I don't know. You had a great one the other day, Greg. We were doing a Neil Patrick Harris rehearsal. I hate to name drop, but I have done. And you weren't flying, Greg.
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Oh, yeah. And because you weren't in the air flying, you didn't say your lines. Oh, yeah. I was just very relaxed. I was like, yeah, cool. You guys have got this. Oh, yeah. I'm chatting something in midair right now. You've got to be in the air to remember what you're doing. It's all in the body. Yeah, I really enjoyed getting back to it. But also what I quite liked was getting the opportunity to kind of try and maybe do it better this time around. I have noticed even acting Wendy.
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I've been trying really hard. It's very good. I know I shouldn't admit to that, you know, like, oh, it sort of comes naturally. I'm just, you know, but no, I really tried. I really tried to be better. Come see this show so you can see if Charlie's better or not. I know. I mean, what if I'm not? Because I've tried really hard. It's going to be very disappointing. It's amazing. Are you kidding? It's incredible. I've enjoyed that challenge and the opportunity to go back to something and try and do it right there. That's nice. I've been trying to do it more stupid.
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Mm-hmm. It's coming across tried really hard. What's the thing with the shows like we never really stopped working on them and like even today we're just Refining things and changing things and whatnot. So yeah. Yeah, we're always striving to be better Do you remember what you've written shields? Oh, yeah, the lines came back. No problem. That was fine Revolve sequences. Well, we jazz them up a bit. So that was just adding more
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running for me. But no, I found it all came back pretty quickly. My endeavor this time round has been to just try and do as well as I did before, which is a weird way to look at it. But it was just like, I feel I was pretty good then and now I'm older and it's harder. So all the physical stuff, all the slips and falls, all the squeezing myself through a tiny crack, all those things are much more difficult and I'm injuring myself more often. So it was just about, you know, trying to
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to weather it. As someone at stage door, when we were doing stage door things the other day, there was a guy that was just like, I can't believe your body's holding out, all of you. And I was just like, kind of like at first I was like shocked, offended. And then I was like, fair enough. We're old and like, we're like pushing mid thirties and we're hopping around, like we're in our early twenties. And he was like,
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Basically like I can't believe how old you guys are and you're still doing this. And I was like, ah, yeah, fair enough. I'm basically held together with tape and glue now. Like it requires so much more attention and focus. I have my PT, Pilates, sleep, no alcohol, just trying to vocally keep yourself together, physically keep yourself together. When we're in our twenties, just running around, jumping off stuff. It was easier, but then you did break your foot. So, well, yeah, but that's my foot's breaking. I was still, you know.
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I was still cool. You were young, you were pissed. I was still hip and pissed, okay. I was just very brachy. Probably because I was so drunk all the time. We have talked about this though. The whole cast, everyone's like, oh, we're so much older and everybody's aged a bit apart from Greg Tannahill. Have you got younger? Just got a baby face, that's all. What's Ellie Morris's song for you? Little Greg does what he's told, never gets old, got a baby face.
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That is the song that is correct. Yes. Also you don't seem to be critiqued at all. I just find the wires do all the work. It's fine. The other day, I specifically noticed, I came into your dressing room and said, how are you doing? And you said, oh yeah, you know, just can't wait for these rehearsals and the day time to be over, I'm just a bit tired. And I'm stuck in my mind because I've never heard you say that before. I've literally never heard you say, oh yeah, I'm just a bit tired. I said, wow, even Greg, even Greg's tired.
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Yeah, wow. That is an insight actually. Yeah. I was actually just hungry it turns out. I just needed a sandwich for a sandwich. You are always hungry, that is the thing. That's the secret. Just keep eating. So we've also been working with some new people including Bartley Booze who's American who's from the Play That Goes Wrong cast. He's been fantastic. Incredible. I've enjoyed that. What a guy. And we've got Matt Cavendish. Harry's joining us here because it's the first time since Pleasance that I've done it with Harry.
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Yeah. Because he was then in the second, he was like doing the tour in the West End when we went in it, that's been fun. And then of course, we've got our new friend, Neil Patrick Harris, which is very exciting. It is. New best friend. He's my new best friend. He's been really great though, because he's like not, he's not come in with any kind of Neil Patrick Harris vibe. I'm a celebrity. But he's like talking about theatre, like he's so into theatre.
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theater and the craft of it and he wants to know about all of the beats and he wants to know about all of the like techniques and it's just really nice to work with someone that's like tell me everything Yeah, your secrets. I want to do them all with like a team instead of being like, yeah. Yeah, whatever I'm Neil Patrick Harris. Yeah, he really doesn't seem to have an ego about it and to be honest what struck me I was like, he's just kind of like us
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He's just like us. Oh my god, he's just like us. He's just a little bit better looking. That is the difference, isn't it? You kind of, you're in the room with him, you're just like, wow, what an incredibly handsome human being. Handsome, talented, but a real theatre nerd. Yeah, because he really cares as well. Like working with him and like just trying to refine the moments and the little changes we're putting in with him.
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He's, you can see he's like really wanting to nail it. He's like you said, he's not coming and going like, oh, I'm, I'm Neil Patrick Harris. Yeah. I'll do what I do. I know I've been the business. He did a very cute thing the other day. Oh, he was like trying to figure out how to fall off the ship when you tip it. And then he was like, have you seen my ship fall? And I was like, no, but I'll watch it next time. He was just so sweet and keen. I'm so sorry, Greg. Did I cut you off? No, no, you didn't. No, no, I'm just, no, yeah. Just saying he's, he's keen and he cares and.
With the physical stuff as well, he really wants to... He's super keen for it. I love Howard Pree. He was really... The phrase he used was, I'm horny for the second role. He did. Horny to be in the second role sequence. And he's fully in it. When I heard that, I was like, oh great, but also don't kill yourself, Neil, please. Yeah, we really don't want to be responsible for that. You are like the nation's sweetheart. We can't have this. I really enjoyed about him.
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is that we have worked with celebrities on and off before. And the typical attitude tends to be that they'll come in and they'll do that thing and they'll sort of deliver what they do and they'll do it brilliantly. And, you know, that's great. They do that thing, but he has come in and just being like, I'm an actor in the room. What do I need to do? And he's got ideas and things that he's adjusting to us rather than us adjusting to him.
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We are also adjusting to him a lot. We are adjusting to him. I'm also adjusting to that man. He makes me laugh. But he's also like someone who's... I love how much he loves it! He's so hands-free! I know, I'm fully in love. But with his ideas and stuff, he seems to... Like you said, he's coming in with ideas, but also saying like, if it works, it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't. He seems like he's not precious about them. He's up trying them, and if we need to remould them into something else, he's up for that, which is fantastic. But do you remember, it's like a pan thing, because Soushey was like that.
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David Suchet was like, okay, so I really feel with this speech, like, I've got to play it as truthfully and honestly as possible to really make the joke work. We were like, yes, David, yes, of course you are. David Suchet doing that speech was one of my favorite things ever. The Mr. Bumble speech. The Mr. Bumble. Oh, of course, yeah. What a masterful speech that was. And he was also, like, as you know, wanted to work on the craft and was talking about how he just started using an acting coach. And I think he was in his...
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70s by that point, maybe 60s saying, you know, I don't want to stop working. I don't want to stop improving. And I found it really inspirational. We've been very lucky with who we get to work with. Um, and then of course we're now in America, so the audiences are a little different. What do we think of the American audiences guys? I love them. They're so, they're so keen, but they also don't understand pantomime, which a lot of the jokes on the show are like pantomime based, but it just means that.
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There's no rules for what they shout out, which ends up being completely incredible because they're just screaming at you, Sheels, normally. And it's like, you just get such a good variation of like insults, basically. And then, and also like, they're really up for helping if like the nicer parts of them being really outwardly supportive is really sweet. They are. They're very different to UK audiences, which I didn't notice when we did Play That Goes Wrong, I think because of the nature of that show.
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Audiences just got there it goes wrong. They got murder mystery. It works the same UK and US This has been very very different and we I've seen a lot of the differences in American audiences watching Peter Pan I think they have a different relationship to Peter Pan They know it a lot better than yeah, it's yeah, they're quoting it. Yeah, because generally in the UK, it's a seasonal show Yeah, I'm not really and yeah, not often but in America is kind of whenever it's like they can put on anytime a summer Peter Pan crazy
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Yeah, but also I think there's this lovely sort of positivity that comes with American audiences, but it means that we as Brits enjoy making quite a dark joke, right? And we're quite like delving into the pain. And I've noticed that the Americans are like, no, no, thank you. This is a great example of the difference, right? The narrator line, and Peter plays with Wendy every single night in the UK, somebody would be like, wait, like it would just be ridiculous.
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And no one at any point has done anything in this country. Nobody is smarty. Yeah. But then I maybe told to Adam, the guy calling the show. I mean, how do we... PSM. Yeah, but for British listeners, how do we explain this? DSM. He's the person, I mean, even if you don't know anything, actually. So basically he's...
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He knows the show inside out and then he sits at the side. We've got all these cameras in front of him, like these screens, right? And he's pressing the buttons. They go, go, he's telling lighting to go at the right time, telling sound to go at the right time, telling revolve to go. And he's sort of the... The captain of the ship. There are a lot of cues call out in the show. Yeah. But like he, and I said, I made a joke to him. I was like, American audiences aren't dirty. They don't ever say Peter plays with Wendy. They don't think that's dirty. And he was like...
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Because boys can play with girls, can't they? I just took it so at face value what I was saying and I was like, oh, yep. It was just such a sweet response. Like they really, I think that's the difference is stuff like that. We expect things that have been happening for years with the UK crowd that just are much sweeter here. We have a long history of smut. Yeah, it's smutty. You smutty Brits. You smutty smut. I'm proud. But also like they love the success.
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They like when people succeed in the show and do well. And even I've noticed, which we never get in the UK, sometimes when you, Henry, are doing, trying to get the bottle open, he's got a hook on, he's finding it very difficult. Bridget audiences are just mean to you. They know that rule, they just are mean to you. I love hearing Americans go, you can do it. I believe in you and I think they're even nice to you as hook. They believe in me. It's such a weird response to a man who can't open a bottle.
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that he's trying to use to murder a child. Yeah, he's trying to murder a child, exactly. I believe in you. So strange. It's lovely, I'm really much pleased. Well, this has been very nice. Very nice talking to you. We actually have literally just done a matinee and we are going off to do an evening show. So we're going to have to call it a day. But just before we go, gang, I want to ask you if you have any tips or your best New York experiences in case someone's coming to visit New York, the beautiful city.
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I'm like, what would you suggest they do? There's always a tips bit and your stomach drops like, I've got to come up with a good tip. And I didn't even know what category of tip you were going to ask for and I still am nervous. It's open, so restaurants, touristy things, or don't have an open bag on the subway, whatever it is. What is something you've learned, something you might suggest? That just reminded me of a memory when I first came to New York as a 15 year old, actually. Oh yeah? Because I was just walking down the street. Looking down the street, you know?
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You look the same as you do now. Yeah, yeah. That's exactly the same. Imagine it. Same height and everything. But I was just walking down the street and then a guy just kind of walks next to me and just hands me my wallet and he's like, don't carry it in your back pocket around New York. I was like, oh, thank you. He had just like mugged me and given back just to prove a point. And that was back in the days of me wearing real baggy jeans as well. So yeah. So you can feel him around your ass. I couldn't feel, yeah. Now I feel all of the ass tension.
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Skin tight. I'm super aware. Anyone else done anything nice? Tips. Alamo Drafthouse. I love it there. Oh yeah. Cinema. Where they serve you food. Which is, you know, it's a very American way of watching a movie. And I really like it. Where you can, while you're watching the movie, you can fill out a little menu. Someone will run along with some nachos. They scuttle, don't they? They scuttle along. Scuttle in the dark. Nancy, you introduced us to that last time. I think we go to the one in Brooklyn, don't we? Yeah. They're at the air.
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Yeah. Well, Brooklyn. Brooklyn. Me and Greg love Brooklyn. Speaking of Brooklyn, my thing would probably be there's a little Jewish deli called Myland Deli in Brooklyn, which is like amazing. Go there to eat, but also Coney Island. Go and watch Brooklyn Cyclones game because it's baseball, but
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If you don't like sport, it's still fine because the food is so good. And there's enough adverts during the baseball that it becomes hysterical. And I just can't get over how much advertising is in sport during the sport. And then if you go on a theme night, like I went to a Star Wars theme night one last time, and of the baseball, you get a ticket and it's, and sometimes they do Seinfeld theme nights, which is just amazing. And in between innings, people dressed up.
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as the characters from Star Wars or Seinfeld or whatever the theme night is, is they run onto the pitch and they do a scene, they mime a scene from Star Wars and then they go off and then the next, the next thing happens. And then you get a Jersey that's like themed for that. And it's just amazing. That sounds so good. It's just so America. And it's my dream to have a Peter Pan goes wrong theme night and we all run in to the baseball fields at Coney Island.
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Do a little scene from Peter Pan Goes Run and Go Off. All I want is the jersey. Yeah. There you go, Nance. Your dream, the next dream. Yeah, my next dream is Peter Pan goes roll. The night of Coney Island. And I'm going to bring you all down with me. That genuinely might be harder to achieve than Broadway. No, I think it's easy. I think it's good. We'll send some emails to our producers. Get the ball rolling. Ten years time, that'll happen. All right. Well, thank you all so much for coming. I'm going to leave you guys with a fact.
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about New York, because I'm a nerd. So, we all know it's called the Big Apple now, but originally it used to be called the Big Oyster. No? The oyster markets, it's huge. Oyster markets and all these things. Oh, you guys already knew. So the harbour was rich with oysters, apparently. They helped to keep the water clean, but were largely wiped out by over-harvesting and pollution. But there is a project focused on restoring the oysters to New York, which is very exciting.
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Yes. If you like oysters. Thank you so much. I love an oyster, so I'm having a great time. Thank you guys so much for joining me on the Mischief Makers podcast. And I look forward to making another one and reaching out to all our fans again. Take care guys. Bye.