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What is your favourite musical of all time?

• Cheryl: I have too many to mention. I could name 50 very easily, so…
• Lyndon: Let’s try and go for one.
• Cheryl: The one I listen to, the soundtrack, most often, is Hairspray, probably, and I also love Les Misérables, but I can’t watch it because I cry too hard.
• Lyndon: I saw Les Misérables, I think a lot of people loved that musical. I actually did enjoy it, I have to say, with the big barricades, and the drama, on stage. I used to go with my mom. My mum would take me to see musicals, and although I hated going, I used to love it, in the end, when you have the music and the ambience.
• Liz: Where did you see the musicals?
• Lyndon: I don’t know. In Convent Garden or somewhere like that I think.
• Liz: In London?
• Lyndon: In London.
• Cheryl: There is a very famous theater in Atlanta called the Fox Theater, and it’s built to look like an Egyptian temple and the sky is, the star pattern in the sky is supposed to be exactly the same as it was in, whenever the year was supposed to be. They copied the star map and that’s where I’ve seen several musicals and it’s just…it’s an experience. It’s not just musicals.
• Lyndon: And what about you Liz? What's your...? If you had to, 'cause you don’t look like you like musicals that much… But if you had to, what would you pick?
• Liz: I like Grease, and when I was little, the first musical I ever saw was Annie.
• Cheryl: Ah yes!
• Lyndon: Annie?
• Liz: Annie. You know Annie? Tomorrow, tomorrow…
• Cheryl: The sun'll come out.
• Liz: We’re gonna sing now…
• Lyndon: Come on! Go ffor it!
• Liz: Maybe not. When I was little, I had to learn, I think, a poem from Cats, you know that..?
• Cheryl: T S Eliot.
• Liz: Have seen that musical?
• Cheryl: Yes, Cats is one of the longest running musicals on Broadway and in London and I just read that they are making into a movie. And they’re not using Broadway actors, like… They’re using Hollywood stars, like…James Corden is going to play a cat, among other people, and it’s very interesting, I saw the cast list, but he’s the only one I can remember.
• Liz: So, it’s not animated. They’re actually…
• Cheryl: Yeah.
• Liz: Are they going to be in cat costumes?
• Cheryl: Yes. It’s supposed to be a complete re-enactment of the play, but, with stars from Hollywood, learning how to be Broadway stars, basically. So I look forward to seeing that.

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