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Episode 5 Part 2

When New York Came To Australia

16th of May

2 New Email Messages:

Jeff From [title of show] he's seen the latest episode, he loves where it's going.

The second has been marked as Junk Mail. It says [tos] in the title, but it's from someone I've never heard of before. A random fan? Hey I'm on a mac, it's not like I'm about to get a virus, I'll check it out.

To that stage in my life it's possibly the greatest thing to have happened.

It's from a guy called Kris Stewart, he's a producer of [title of show], people may know him as the co-founder of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, he's an Aussie, a Melbourne Guy, he's out here working on WICKED.

We planned on doing a WICKED themed episode.

Emails darted back and forth a few times that night. I was bouncing off walls and couldn't stop grinning all night. Could this possibly be happening??????

I told Jarrod, Jarrod was excited, I told Cath, she was excited, damn  I even told my current bosses and they were excited!

Saturday was the next day, we were going to film in the city, I wondered if Kris would be free and if he wanted to do a cameo. He was up for it. It was going to be a fantastic day. We planned on introducing Matt to the show as well which was going to be good.

Then it started raining! Which was great (note sarcasm)- filming in Melbourne, on a FREEZING day, with cars splashing through puddles. All the theatres were pretty much closed, but we filmed outside anyway, and we couldn't make it in time to the Princess Theatre to see the one that would be open, it currently is home to 'Guys and Dolls'.

We visited the 'Three Weeks In New York' promotion and were slightly let down, but we did meet Elmo and Abby Cadabby from Sesame Street (see above photo). After all this we headed down to the Melbourne Arts Centre to meet Kris. He was great! We loved talking to him (Jarrod was super excited because Kris had met Tartaglia) and we even managed to film inside...even though there were some ushers looking like they were ready to pounce on us and the video camera, tearing all our hard work to shreds. Kris was at the time working on a WICKED rehearsal, three other shows were playing at the Arts Centre, it was the most alive that we'd seen the city all day.

A new star was born, Ollie my dog. Clear limelight hog, even Kris thought that he was the best part of the WHOLE episode. I think Matt and My rip off of the WICKED logo is pretty cool- this is but one of the cool things you can do with an Albino friend! And meeting Kris and having him cameo was absolutely awesome. I didn't think we could top that effort. This ep was cramazing!

235 views so far for part 2, only 3 comments, 4 five star ratings and 1 amazing day! Jeff summed it up nicely in an email to me 'this is a small-ass planet isn't it?'

Jarrod was about to get more excited, Jeff said he'd pass the eps onto John Tartaglia. He may have fainted, he may have exploded, he may have been bouncing off the walls. It was all so unbelievable.