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Today is our first big day with everybody
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We're going to read through the show, which is a weird thing to say, because it's been around for decades
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So here we are, all these years later, having our dream come true
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We have waited a long, long time. Finally, the day has come when we're able to put off Floyd problems
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On the one hand, it's a show we've done. On the other hand, I think we're both approaching it, like, as if for the first time
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It's a kind of riveting rescue story, and it's an expose about the media and about how we use tragedies for profit or entertainment in this country
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And most of all, it's the journey of a single dreamer, an individual with aspirations who encounters obstacles, and faces his own mortality and is really transformed by the experience
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This show is in part inspired by how much information and tone and emotion
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and you can find in just one line of music. As the siblings, we have Jason Gote as Homer
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We have Lizzie McAlpine as Nellie. And of course, we have Jeremy Jordan as Floyd Collins himself
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And I think their electricity together on stage is going to be something very special
