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Well, good morning, Laurie. Good morning, Ray. Today we have Laurie Roldan.
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Yes. And she's our guest this morning. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
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Yes, I have been. Well, I'm a singer, obviously. I have had a passion for singing
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since I was born, basically.
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I've been I grew up in a house where my dad was a clarinet player and was always
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playing and inspiring me with a lot of the folk music in the late 60s, early 70s.
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And so I got really inspired by that.
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And I grew up laying next to my parents' speaker singing to the Carpenters' Records.
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That's how I learned to sing. I loved it. So I started at 10 years old.
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So you were born to sing. I was born to sing. I came out singing.
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Most of us came out screaming you came out singing
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came out screaming and singing i think i just love it
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well singing is controlled screaming i've been told anyway so yes yes i haven't
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i've heard that too yeah and so i started singing you know when i was little
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and then i i um really i was very shy when i was young and i i started to learn
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how to play the guitar at age 11 and you know sing some
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of the folk and, you know, pop at the time.
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And I just developed, you know, a more of a love for music and that genre,
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a lot of the seventies music, you know, and loved it and started singing in
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talent shows and then did shows in high school and went off and just have always
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done musical theater, cabaret, inspirational music.
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But this show that I wrote and that's really my heart is my passion in my life
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right now. Tell us about that.
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Yeah. So about, I don't know, So it's been, it's been, you know,
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obviously like all shows, it takes a while to write.
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And I worked on this show for about seven years.
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And I, what happened was I was, I have twin daughters, actually,
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I've got three daughters, but my twins just turned 25.
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And when they were going off and I was bringing them to their college auditions,
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I was, you know, just watching them.
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I was so proud of them and watching them audition.
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And they're all, we're all musicians. We're all singers and musicians.
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And so I had been studying with my, my vocal coach at the time.
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And he said, Hey, your girls are doing, you know, this new, why don't you look
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at doing something yourself?
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Why don't you do a, do your own one woman show?
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And I had, I thought, wow, that's, I never really thought about, you know, about that.
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And I, and I said, well, if I do that, that's a great idea.
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If I do that though, I really would like to do something inspiring,
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you know, something that would inspire people because I, you know,
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I like to sing music that has a story that has a message that inspires people.
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And so after many, many.
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Well, after a lot of time thinking about that and processing,
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talking with fellow actors and writers, and I basically, you know,
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he said, think about the people that inspired you when you were younger.
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Who, who really was your, and I said, well, the most influential for me growing
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up, the one that I loved the most was Karen Carpenter. her.
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I knew all their songs. I knew every single song by heart.
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And as I had been singing in shows myself, I had had a few people comment,
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hey, you have a similar sound to Karen.
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And so during my life, I'd had a few reviewers say that.
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And so I just took all of that and I thought, well, maybe I'll write.
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And so at first I'm thinking, well, am I going to write a show?
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What's the show going to be about. But after writing a little bit about maybe
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Kieran's life, a little bit about my life, and then going back and forth,
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I really decided through read-throughs and all of that, my friend said,
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hey, we want to hear your story.
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We know Kieran, so we want to
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hear your story. And so it became a cabaret concert, which is what it is.
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It's a cabaret with I have banter about my life.
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And through the Carpenters music, which everybody loves and knows and And so
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each song has a story, rainy days and Mondays, top of the world.
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I talk about my life through the show, through their music.
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And you're no stranger to the stage. I mean, you've done a lot of musical theater, right?
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Yeah, I've done a lot of shows. I'm a San Francisco, East Bay, East Bay gal.
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Yep. Been in a lot of shows, done a lot of concerts and things,
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sang with the Diablo Symphony a few times, different symphony gigs.
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And yeah, lots of music. Yeah.
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I was watching some of your videos and you do have a similar sound to Karen Carpenter.
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Thank you. It's quite touching. Oh, well, thank you.
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It's really, you know, I just have this, I've just, I've always felt this kind of connection with her.
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So thank you. I love it.
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So this is my passion. And really, the big overarching theme for my show is
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that I want to inspire people to never give up on their purpose and their passion
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in life because we all have our gifts,
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you know, and that's really my main message in my show that I'm hoping to convey.
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And it seems that I've had a lot of, you know, good feedback that people do get that.
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They want to, you know, they get inspired and that's what I want to do.
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Well, I think that's a great message right now because.
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I know personally, I am friends with a lot of performers and a lot of them have
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lost sort of lost their passion through the COVID crisis and also all the political
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strife that's been going on.
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Yeah, it's hard. I don't know if you've experienced that at all.
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You know, I actually was getting ready to debut the show in like 2020.
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And of course, like a lot of people, then it was it was delayed.
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So, yes, I've experienced that. And it made it even more empowering to me to
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pursue this and never give up on this dream.
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And yeah, when I debuted at the Lesher Center in 2021,
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people were just starting to come out again, you know, and they really were,
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you know, I think it was something that, you know, it's a good thing for people
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to be reminded that, you know, it's never too late and reminded of your gifts
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and stay focused on that because we all have our gifts.
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It's so important because we also don't know, you know, when we do these shows and we all,
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you know, we want to, we inspire each other, but we also don't know maybe what
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we're going to say or what song is going to cause somebody to pursue,
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you know, more of their own, you know, their own show or writing their own thing.
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And I know I have a few friends that have done that through,
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through me doing this. They have been inspired to do their own shows.
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And so that's, that's really, that makes me really happy. Yeah.
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And also just people who may have an interest in art in another form or just camping.
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I don't know, whatever, backpacking, you know, anything that fulfilled our dream.
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Oh my gosh, it's whatever. And I say this in the show, it doesn't matter.
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Maybe your own life doesn't directly involve music, but it can always have harmonies
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and melodies that set your soul aglow and lift the hearts of others around you.
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Yeah yeah i grew up with that music as well and karen carpenter was such a huge
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influence i mean on me in my life just her well you know there's a couple things
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i mean just the tone of her voice,
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and then just and the lyrics of the songs yeah just so they just get to you you know so yeah.
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It's cathartic. People sing along. People have told me they hear Rainy Days
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and Mondays, and I have a story about that song, and then I'll sing it.
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Everybody goes back, and you would too. You go back to thinking about your life
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at that time, or you have your own story, but it's kind of cathartic for people.
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Now, do you know if she wrote those songs, or did she do it in collaboration with her brother?
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Or network i i do they a lot of songs
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were richard did write a lot of songs but they
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also have songs that were written by you know a lot of different people
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as well so it's i don't think she she wrote
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any but i know that he richard did but yeah it's a lot
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of a lot of material like like we've only just begun
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was a crocker bank commercial and that song
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and i didn't remember that yeah i didn't
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realize that was from the bank yeah it was and
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then it became this big hit you know obviously they took it and it was like
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amazing and that you know people you know that's just people just get really
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emotional with that song and me too because it's just you know it was every
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wedding in the you know 70s or whatever so many people had that but that was
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it was a bank commercial and and so funny.
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That is that is funny wow well it
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just goes to show you that if if you have that that unique
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talent you could probably sing the phone book and get
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people to break their hearts anyway well
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you know again it's it's i'm glad i'm so i feel so blessed to be able to you
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know have have come this far in doing this and i i'm just excited to do more
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and more with it and bring it to bigger audiences i wish that cabaret shows
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the talking part of cabaret wasn't called banter i hate that word.
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No, I mean, I know it's kind of weird.
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That's what we kind of use in the business, you know, like that was my banter,
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but I don't, I don't think that the audience sees it as banter.
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It's part of what really makes Cabaret wonderful.
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Yes, because it's unique, you know? And so this is my, my unique story.
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It's my life story. So it's, it's more than yeah.
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Banter. It's actually a story about me and some different stories for each song,
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you know so i go chronologically in my life and i
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talk about the stages in my life through the songs
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so yeah yeah ups and downs
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i guess oh yeah if it's karen carpenter but but i i have a really inspiring
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ending it's a little kind of a surprise but it's a very inspiring ending and
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and just that's there's yes just like life ups and downs but we want to like i say stay focused on the
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positive parts you know you don't want to get stuck in those
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we you know we're in you're in the negative sometimes but
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you want to always hopefully learn something or you know
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we we focus on the on the positive parts of lessons learned
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yes yeah and you you have some guest stars in your show i do i have some great
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i have a great band i have guest stars i've got my friend jordan smith and i
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have Debra Del Maestro and Monica Slater. And they're phenomenal.
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They're wonderful. I just reversed with them this last weekend.
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And my musical director is Mr. Brett Strader.
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And I have, I, he's wonderful and has been with me at the beginning of this
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project. And I love that we collaborate well together.
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He's a very talented director and musician. So, and then I have a Michael Henning
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on drums and Aaron Germain on the bass.
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So wonderful. Yeah. I know Debra. I don't know the other people,
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but I do know Debra. Yeah. Yes. She's great.
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So I'd like to feature, you know, part of my message in the show again is,
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you know, never giving up and pursuing it and featuring everyone
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has a gift and featuring people i do that in my
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show so i i want to be able to
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share the stage and feature everybody a little bit so i like doing
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that are there kids in the show too yes oh is that the surprise i wasn't that's
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okay well it's in the press release it's in the press no it's not a surprise
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i have a really amazing kids ensemble it's no the ending is as a little surprise
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but it's but it's okay there i'm just so happy.
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It's, it's been a vision for my show. I've had these kids cause you know,
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when the carpenters did shows, sometimes they would have the kids choir in there.
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And so I had these, these kids sing and they're, they're really,
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they just, they're the highlight, the big highlight, a big highlight of the
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show. And I love having that. It's great.
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I have a couple kids that have kind of toured around with me and this time I
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will be having those featuring those girls along with some of the 42nd street moon kids,
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kids on ensemble as well so oh yeah
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because they have a big school there yeah so gary stanford is is helping with
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that and we'll be featuring some of them too so how come i don't know you i
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mean like i've known gary for 30 years and i don't know you yeah i'm so glad
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yeah i haven't known you but yeah.
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Oh well yeah yeah have
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you done this show before or is this the premiere
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of it oh no i have done done the show i oh i debuted the show
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in 2021 at the lesher center for the arts i have
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done the show again at the lesher i've done the show in lafayette at town hall
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theater i've done it at the el campanel and so yeah i have yep i've done the
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show about three or four times so yeah looking at now it's going to be at the
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at 42nd street moon at the what do they call it the gateway the.
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Yeah. It's changed. I can't even remember the name. Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah. The Gateway Theaters. Yeah. On Jackson Street. On Jackson Street. Yep. Near downtown.
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Yep. Near downtown. So I'm excited to bring it to San Francisco and have some
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new folks come see the show and get my message out more and more. Yeah.
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Now, you sing with your husband sometimes?
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I do. I do. My husband is, well, he lived 30 years in New York.
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He went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and he's a great actor and
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singer, and I love to sing with him, and we really enjoy that.
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So we do concerts and gigs and things all around the Bay Area as well.
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What's his name? Dan Roldan.
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That's a great name. Yes, it's a great name, Dan Roldan.
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He loves to sing about that. I know. Dan Roldan.
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Wow. He spent 30 years in New York City and did some on and off Broadway and
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lots of acting and voiceovers and stuff. So yeah, we love to sing together. We do.
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Do you ever get to sing with your daughters? I love to sing.
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In fact, one of my daughters has been in a show. I have three daughters,
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Charlotte, Bridget, and Natalie.
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And one of my daughters is in New York right now. She is in Manhattan and she
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just got her equity card.
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She's off doing shows and things. And my other daughter has a music degree and she's great.
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They're all, of course, unbiased, but they're amazing singers. They're very talented.
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And my third one's talented, triple threat too.
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And they're all just yeah we sing
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together one of my daughters sings in the show occasionally and i
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love that it's great it's right and i'll
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i'll eventually like the super talented people all
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move to new york and new san francisco and then they come back here and that's
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guest artist yes yes yeah so are you going to continue doing this for a while
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or oh yes i'm I'm actually looking forward,
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like I said, to bringing the show to a new audience, a little new demographic out there.
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I would like to bring the show to New York. And that's where I have some friends
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there that I'm looking to present the show there at some point coming up,
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hopefully in the next year or so.
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Yeah, I'm looking at other venues and other areas to do the show and bring this
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great music and inspiring message to people.
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Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah.
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Well, it's been great talking with you, Laurie. thanks so much ray
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thank you i'm looking forward to meeting
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you in person too so yeah i i i will be there unless i'm the only reason i'm
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hesitating is that i'm going to yellowstone and i'm not sure if it's at the
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same time so if i'm not in yellowstone i'll be there all right well i hope you
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yeah i hope definitely i'll see there it runs for two weeks so yeah so what
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are the dates let's Let's tell everyone the dates here.
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It's August 17th, Saturday night, 7 p.m.
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And August 25th, 3 p.m.
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And the other thing that's really important for people to know too,
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is that this is a benefit concert.
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It's not just, you know, me bringing
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the show, but it's actually a benefit concert for 42nd street moon.
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You know, theater world has really been hurting, you know, since COVID also.
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And so we are, we are wanting to bring, you know, bring an audience to,
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to support 42nd street moon too.
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So please, you know, come and get a ticket and see the show and support 42nd
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street moon and come see my message and hear this great music and sing along.
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We love it. Yeah, they need that. They're a great, they're a gem here in the Bay Area.
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And they've fallen on some somewhat difficult times financially,
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I think, because of the virus. So the virus, COVID.
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I know. Yeah, so that's great that you're doing that. I went to the Reef concert
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last night. That was fun.
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Fine. The benefit for a project. Yes, I read about that.
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Yes, yes. Yes, and you had, I saw, Lawrence was posting to some people,
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Lisa Roman and Debbie, you light up my life.
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Debbie Boone. Debbie Boone, right.
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You light up my life, Debbie. I was like, I was reading that.
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That's wonderful. All of them are great. Yes.
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I saw Lisa in Phantom.
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Me too. Yes, I saw her. Way back in the old days. Yeah, way back in the old days. Yeah.
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Some friends in that show. So she was on the show last week.
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Oh yeah. I think I, yes, I think I knew that. Oh, that's fantastic.
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I love it. Well, I am so grateful. I really appreciate you, you having me on
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and I can't wait for you to see the show.
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You know, I can't wait to meet you and, and just to talk to you more about it.
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And I'm, I'm really honored to be able to be at 42nd street moon and collaborate
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with them and do this and have a great time.
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So great. So we have Saturday, August 17th, 7 PM.
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And Sunday, August 25th at 3 p.m. at the Gateway Theater, which is at 215 Jackson
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at Battery in San Francisco. Yes. Come out.
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And great. Thanks, Lori. Thank you so much, Ray. Have a wonderful day and I
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will look forward to seeing you soon.
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You too. Take care. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye, you too. Bye.
