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I'll bring the hammer down If you are hearing the sound of my voice, it means the following conditions have been met At least once in your lifetime You have listened to the clubhouse podcast Your one-stop shop for all things, sports, and entertainment live every Sunday night At 70's turn for Pacific, which we appreciate But it also means you subscribe on iTunes Because it's time for another Atons Explosive The 194th one of these things Ever closer children, ever closer Welcome My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast And I just like to say, Merke I am not alone for this particular episode Jordan and me across the desk as he tends to do Is my co-host And a man That was negative six When what happened We're going to talk about happened He is Chad, welcome sir Thank you for acknowledging Also joining me across the desk as the official fact of checker of this show And a man Who is a president in his own mind You may know him as fond Don Go, but his mom and even Don Port I'm going to call him Don Port, welcome sir Oh, the president of Montana population team That's right You are a leader of men Yes I am And sheep What are nervous? Hello Whenever we do one of these, it is to review one of something in this particular episode Is no exception We are here today to review a stage production called All the Way Now playing in two different places Yeah Here in Dallas where we record our show And in Houston at the same time Of course, I have this whole thing Yes We have to thank Katherine Mason Everybody at the Wiley And also the Dallas Theatre Center for Magnus to this thing Absolutely We love those people over there Thank you so much God of some great seats for this particular performance I can play She's so good Thank you so much Katherine All the way Written by Robert Shinken I hope I'm even in the ballpark on that Close enough Here's what you need to know November 22nd, 1963 America changed forever And so to the world And that is where this particular production begins As LBJ is sworn into office After the assassination of John F Kennedy It takes you through the next year of his life He's leading up to the elections in 1964 As he deals with his own legacy But more importantly, deals with the civil rights movement We're going to say this up front Normally at the Wiley you would see a production That might run an hour and a half This is a two and a half hour production Plus a 15 minute intermission So be prepared for that going and going in For two and a half hours For me Welcome internet Let's go all the way You're welcome For me this didn't seem like two and a half hours It starts out kind of slow But once it starts moving It moves very quickly Don't worry I was your film case I agree with you on that We're exactly on that But I still thought it was long I could tell it was long You knew it was long Okay, Chad I was getting a little bit of fatigue Three Yeah, but you know Just just Run after the animation It's like this chair was really starting to hurt my back I could tell I've been sitting there for a long Because I didn't get up I just kind of sat there And then probably a mistake Don't worry I thought the pacing was good I like what it was And all that stuff in the plot in the help Float but it was long I was very intrigued by the story As it progressed Because the way they staged this thing It was very very interesting Which I agree There's not a lot of set movement The only thing that would be moved or chairs And there's like there is a backdrop That changes rarely But it does and then you've got a bunch of pillars In front of that and in front of that You have the desk in the oval office And then kind of a table with It's kind of a small meeting area You call it that serves different purposes At different times for the production The transitions I thought were really good I don't forget about the TV though There was a TV over on stage right That would show certain things Yeah stage right It's how you when you face the audience Okay On your right Chad You're at the theater background I believe that would be staged left Okay so it wasn't staged like that I always get the audience to spacing at a stage So that's what you call it That's how you know the difference Okay I don't see the way around Look at me Not knowing stuff Oh Who would have thought But The transitions I thought were well done Because we had was really moving Were the chairs But it really changed the dynamic Of the scene depending on who was there When you feel you're going from location Location even though they didn't use that whole part of the stage Like you're in an oval office She knows the oval Right But then when they go to like a meeting Or something like that In your mind you take out that back desk You take out that TV And you're just in that small area with the table Which I really enjoyed So going from location location was done Great with minimal props or anything else And I thought the way they they worked In how telephone conversations were done Oh yeah As LBJ is on the phone He's the only one that has the full phone Everybody else just kind of uses the receiver as they walk in Where You get the impression that he feels like he's talking to that person And they're in the room And that's kind of the dynamic But you know they're on the phone So they're nowhere near each other I really like that dynamic Yeah Because they almost got face to face Oh yeah they're making eye contact While they're having that phone I really really dug that Yeah It was really really dug that Because the first one I'm like Is he supposed to do that And then as he kept doing I'm like okay So that's how this is supposed to be done Okay LBJ played by Brandon Potter And here's my thing with this I don't know that he really favored LBJ But the performance was so good I didn't care You don't I mean You have it There's a great like historical quotes They're like right Which I knew YouTube You and I talked about during the day About the pants Fitting Which is now came out famously Yeah Yes, yes But we're for word One thing which I really enjoyed though Going into this was If you're in my written review at www.clabasplacas.com That is our website I put on there how they had two Different scenes going sometimes Because there was an issue with the civil rights People that died And they were doing that within real time In the back you see them pulling out the bodies And they called the White House They found the bodies Yeah Yeah, they were kind of sure you what was going on In Mississippi and the background Or Alabama Rather than about the cause As a Mississippi But how the columns They're in the back The columns But how you can see two different things going on at the same time I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed that I did as well I thought And one didn't really take away from the Oh no They both broke it very well But again, I thought potters Performance was phenomenal Oh yeah Even though he really didn't Favorite LBJ to me His charisma and his His deliverance Delivery Was strong It was so strong It made me More invested You think he was too Brash in the character No, I'm just saying physically There wasn't a favor there For me He's the one thing He's one of it though Really? Yeah, because it's just He's an incredibly capable actor We've seen this guy before And I just I think that the youth His youth kind of took away From him selling the role to me See, I'm totally opposite of you Yeah, I got you looking He disappeared in it And it made the performance Was so good Your right There is a youth factor there That was a little weird But his performance Was so good It kind of removed it for me Also Playing Dr.

Martin Luther King Junior Sean Hamilton Now you talk about killing Wow Good Lord I mean Whatever he's even meeting With his staff All of those actors Were amazing There was a beautiful Organic chemistry there And even You know, as as Hubert Humphrey And Don, you're going to have to help But played by Shambly Ferguson Yeah, his interactions With Martin Luther King Were so Like I totally bought it Because there was that level of And there was that level of animosity But respect at the same time Like Dr. King knew that Hubert Humphrey Was doing everything he could But he didn't think he was doing enough still And Humphrey is like, look, I'm doing everything I can You've got to help me out here And King's got the whole know You need to do what we want you to do I thought their chemistry on stage Was really really good And something that I thought could Was going to get buried a little bit Was Sean Hamilton who plays Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was sharing the stage with Hassan Alameen We've seen multiple productions at the while And he had just played Martin Luther King In the mountain top Just months before this Barely You know, it's still fresh in everybody's memory And that had to be kind of intimidating For Sean Hamilton to take that role And share the stage with Hassan Alameen After playing it so Elequently Because I mean, just the right It was ridiculous on how great he was Um And he was able to Forty's own path In playing that And a very iconic role that people had been Had under a Had under a magnifying glass Especially ever since Selma was released Also a fan of Leah Spillman playing Lady Bird Did she play Lady Bird? Yeah, she did.

Yeah, she did. The thing when you when you look at the castle scene here This is a very small cast And you have everybody Almost everybody Outside of Brandon Potter Playing multiple roles And what really impressed me there was How they were able to play multiple roles And separate the roles Where if you're not really really really paying attention You don't realize it's the same actor Yes, right into the costume I make up the apartment Yeah, for making that work And I like how the the The costume was Era of specific I mean the clothes they wore during this production Were what they wore back then Seventeen people in the whole cast And there's probably about 50 characters Yeah, my two leading Non-leading role shout outs Which I put in my view Goes to one Guy played Humphrey's Ferguson Yeah, but also who played his top eight Walter Jenkins Stephen Michael Walters Because this is Manorism of getting called and being Just degraded by Johnson during the whole play Yes, he ripped on him So that was yeah that he played a really great role Kind of felt bad for the Yeah, yeah Yeah, you kind of felt bad for anybody That had to cross paths with Johnson And that was in that first year You know Frightened in the show The Justin Timberlake of our show Charlotte Parker LBJ is one of her least favorite Presidents and she is a history buff Yes, she is And that's saying something Come from the native text and Talk about a native text and president And it comes across that way You Potter really plays LBJ I don't think he plays him in a negative I think he plays him real And then you want to talk about the technology That works itself into this thing Four of the pillars are used To kind of help you keep the timeline Straight because they have projectors All over the over the The theater that project You know even for the people sitting on the sides They have projectors at an angle So they can see what the people in the center See as well Because at first I thought Wow that projectors off center I'm like oh wait no There's people up there that you see this There's my question Have all the roles The one I was missing which I didn't see All right, I don't remember Which kind of surprise me was property They I think they kept bought that they mentioned Bobby a lot But you never see a month But I don't know that you really Needed Bobby because Bobby would Bobby's impact would come later But still at that time I mean if you really look at what happened It is especially what the day Kennedy was assassinated He was trying to figure out ways where he became By the presidents to Johnson And make no mistake But that takes place It starts immediately on the plane After in the aftermath of doubt You're here with a gunshot Yeah Yeah Yeah But I think But she was reference to like she hates my gut Bobby hates my gut Yeah I think every Kennedy hates my gut I think the reference is made We're enough to not you I didn't do that I still think it was should have had a minor role Him in there Because they did you know talk a few times They weren't touched a lot Even during this During this time period Well then it kind of starts becoming a different story Yeah And I also think There There was a piece of this I felt that was unnecessary When we talk about Dr. King's personal life I know where you're going with this And I don't know if you don't know I'm not going to ruin it for you But there's a part of his personal life That they bring in to play that I had had this story Continue to another six months I think that would have come That would have been more aproposed Deal with Are you talking about the thing?

Yeah Yeah It comes to fruition Right at the end Yeah Why did we go here? But it sets it up through the whole thing And to stop the story At election day There's no real payoff Right there's no payoff Again If you were told this story Over six more months Then you could have dealt with that It's just not going to happen The only thing it really does is give you The motivation Of Jagger Hoover Which I thought he was really good too Play by Kieran Finally Who also played Senator Bird There's a couple of references in there To Hoover Very, very veiled Thinly veiled But if you don't know what's going on You really don't know Not really thinly Talk about how do you know Question is yes Okay But overall I really thought that was funny That was funny That was that Overall I thought this was really really strong production And coming up in May HBO is going to do a film of this play starring Bryan Cranston Who's been doing this on Broadway And has one Tony's for it And playing Dr. King is going to be one Anthony Mackie Which I can't wait to see It's got a phenomenal kick It's got a huge cast on it So it tells you that there is weight behind this production And the fact that it's playing both Here and in Houston I believe that the alley theater Isn't that worth playing in Houston?

I've got my press kit right here Do, do, do, do, do, do I just, I just had an I lost it Yeah, the alley theater So, and right now They even extended the run in Dallas An extra week into April 3rd Really? Yes And now it's that when we got there that night Is there anything else we need to go over Before we hit the final analysis It's not a musical So we don't have to talk about the music No All right Let's talk about the final analysis The way we do the final analysis on this show We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down We don't give you numbers We don't give you letter grades We don't give you stars Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire They want us to go deeper So we will I'm going to ask these gentlemen two questions Question number one Would you see this film again? Answer is no Production I'm so used to saying film But this stage production If the answer is no, then we're done here If the answer is yes Then the follow question is Where do you want to sit to see it again?

The widely theater is not a huge theater But there's enough of a difference in the Seating that you can differentiate So don't let's start with you Would you see this again? Oh yeah Where do you want to sit? Well we had incredible seats there But I would want a different angle Okay I would want to sit on the second level On the left So you're looking like down at the desk I'll try to hit I think that would be great The table in But we had cripple seats I'm not going to lose Yeah But I think it'd be kind of a good angle Be up a little bit And then be able to look and down Straight the table and the desk Chad I see this again Yeah I would I want to sit a little bit higher myself Because that entire scene Where LBJ is kind of like I don't know if I want to do this anymore He's getting ready for bed He's got a mic close on I could not see a thing I think it's because where you were Yeah You were on the right side We were on the left side We could see pretty much all that I couldn't see anything I would see her back And that was it I would definitely see this again I would recommend it Sit anywhere you can Yeah This is one of those productions But if I had that I would still recommend it Yeah And I think it's culturally significant to see it in this town Absolutely I mean it's got direct ties into it So Especially in an election year Yeah Exactly you know And there are some parallels there They kind of get thrown out there Okay Roy Wrap up again We have to think Catherine And everybody at the Wiley So good Yeah Thank you so much for the advice And if you see me on social media You might see me sitting behind a certain desk With a certain seal on the floor In front of me Remember kids Don't be evil It is all the way Currently playing at the Wiley Theatre And Dallas and the Alley Theatre In Houston the Dallas run Through April 3rd I'm not sure about the run The Alley Theatre But check it out for tickets Find it when it comes to a city near you Gentlemen Let's do the plugs Visit our website www.theclubhousepodcast.com Find out everything you need to know And some stuff you know Please like our Facebook page Look up the clubhouse podcast On Facebook Put the word podcast on the end Or something completely different Follow us on Twitter at clubhouse show You can follow me on Twitter If you'd like I'm a yes that Rob Irvin That is spelled E RV I am at chat in PG69 I'm at Fondango And if you email me at Don at theclubhousepodcast.com Email Don for information on how we can come to a live show At your particular establishment If you listen to a very early A recent show episode 629 We made an image or announcement about a live show Coming up You can email me if you'd like Questions, comments, concerns Tell me to go out and say And I am Rob at theclubhousepodcast.com I'm chat at theclubhousepodcast.com Charlotte Parker is on Pinterest Because we are morally obligated to say that Jules Wannick, what do you think?

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