iTunes Exclusive Episode Moonshine That Hee Haw Musical

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Three-four of these we've done.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something.
And this particular episode is no different.
But let me introduce you to the other gentleman in the room with me currently.
Oh yeah, I should probably introduce myself as well.
My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast.
And I don't, I can't really say I've ever lived in the country.
Been there a few times, but never lived there.
But I have lived in the town we talk about a little bit in this particular review.
Right across the desk for me is my co-host.
And a man that a lot of people think may have grown up in the country.
But I'm not counting that.
He is Chad, welcome sir.
Who would think that?
Well given one of these big landmarks in this town,
people that don't come to this town may think it's a little country.
Yeah, yeah, this is true.
I'll settle a lot in the military.
Also across the desk for me is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man at the country is no stranger to.
Because he's been a lot of time and big Scott country, by the way.
You may know him is fun, don't go.
But his mom and even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford, welcome sir.
And don't forget about the cowboy state of Wyoming.
That's what I'm saying.
It's a guy from Montana.
Oh really?
That's Montana.
I thought there was that whole region.
Oh no, no, big Scott country.
That's Montana.
Okay, fair enough.
Montana Wyoming.
Today we are reviewing a stage production,
which had its world premiere.
Never before seen people.
You're getting this bad boy fresh off of its second performance in the history of ever.
Live the Dallas theater center currently, and we'll be touring around the country at some point.
Yeah, the wily theater.
Yeah, that's the Dallas theater center's that whole area.
But the wily theater's specifically.
It is called moonshine that he hummusical.
You heard me correctly.
We are bringing back he-ha people.
Now, for those of you that may not be educated in the ways of the world.
He-ha was a variety show.
What's the usage had early late 70s, early 80s?
Yeah, mid to late 70s.
Which was kind of like a black variety show.
Yeah, it's, you know, laughing with corn.
Basically.
You only way you can really describe it.
I touch in that way.
Oh, they do run a corn field.
I know, but you know,
and a B.R. 549 point in your way.
Yeah.
It's even built right home with the hat that had the price tags still on in Grandpa Jones and
Pete your sample.
They even did a reference to it.
If you remember in Bubba, Bob Brain.
Yes, they called it.
Yee-ha or something like that.
The original release was in June 15, 1969.
And wow, it goes that far back.
Until when?
September 19 1992.
But they had breaks and stuff, but yeah.
But yeah.
You know, the mid 80s and stuff.
But basically, in 69s when he started.
I mean, back home in my home,
there's, you know, there's God, there's football,
there's NASCAR, then there's he-ha.
There's no figure eight racing.
Or maybe don't forget about farming, though.
Yeah, but he-ha.
He-ha's in that top level.
So basically, we take the he-ha formula.
Again, it was a variety show.
So there wasn't a lot, you know,
but there were little guests come on, like, for instance,
ladies and gentlemen, Conway, Twitty.
Uh, kind of like the Muppet Show.
Yeah, too.
But different genre.
I didn't have puppets on that thing.
Oh, I-
They're just, they're very, once in a while.
I just remember they animated Dawns.
I enjoyed the show when I was younger.
But we've brought it back in the form of a musical.
Now, the musical doesn't take on the variety show,
the others.
Actually a story here.
And, uh,
it is a story of Misty May.
Uh, a girl that lives out there in the country
and decides that she wants to get out of the country
and go to the city
and try to find out who she is.
So she moves to the huge mecca of Tampa, Florida.
T-T-O!
Keep telling yourself that-
Hey, I live there.
It's-that's a bustling metropolis, sir.
I don't care anybody says.
So it's football teams not doing real well.
Right now, that's a whole different deal.
Where in her travel, she meets Gordy.
Now, remember the joke you used to tell
back in the day about a guy making a movie
and he named all these people on the last name.
Like, we got De Nero.
No, like Robert De Nero?
They're like, no, Steve De Nero.
He works in a, uh, a sears over at the mall.
And you get all the end of the jokes.
Like, and we've got Gule and they're like,
Robert Gule and they're like, yes.
No, it's a fictional, so-
So town of Cornfield County.
Cornfield County.
What the case?
Not the case.
It's case.
So when I say in this particular production,
playing the guy she meets in the city
by the name of Gordy, who's a little shady.
When I say Guarini and you say Justin Guarini,
I say yes.
The runner-up of the original season of American Idol
is in this.
The loser to Kelly Clarkson is all you really need to remember.
I suppose I can call on a loser
because the kids cut out a knee.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not saying that he's a loser.
He was-
He was the runner-up.
He lost to Kelly.
Is what people are.
He is the runner-up to Kelly Clarkson.
They did that horrible film together
from Justin to Kelly.
He had that Corbin blue hair do from high school musical.
But he's kind of bounced back.
He's got a lot of Broadway.
He's currently featured in those Dr. Pepper commercials.
It's pretty-
I mean, a little sweet.
And so now he's in this.
And so she decides that she really wants to be with him.
And so she brings him back to Cornfield County.
Yep.
To meet her family and friends.
And he's going there because he finds out
that there might be some money in it for him
if he marries her to pay off a gambling debt.
Exactly.
I mean, do we really need to go deeper than that?
I mean, that pretty much covers it.
But before we begin.
We have a very, very new friend,
Katherine-
Kind of a new old friend in a way.
And something from-
She's with the-
With the-
With the-
The Darth Vader Center and the Wiley Theatre.
So, uh, this is the first production with, uh,
with her and we can't think her enough for inviting us to this thing.
And could not be a nice relationship.
She's a very nice lady.
Nice to meet you today.
Thank you so much for inviting us for looking
for it.
A lot more productions.
Really enjoyed having her with her.
And having her invited us and having met her and stuff.
Enjoyed that.
And a big fan of the Wiley Theatre.
Oh yeah.
So you'd like a textural wonder in many, many levels.
Beautiful theater.
Beautiful theater.
Beautiful.
They had the stage done up in, and plywood.
Which is kind of cool.
Yeah.
Uh, this is-
I-
I got to figure out how to even start this review.
Going into this, I think I had the same thought that-
Oh, I don't know.
Everybody had walking in this.
He-
He-
On a musical.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You try to be open-minded because you're just like,
okay.
But in the back of your mind, you're going,
how are they going to pull this off?
Because in the age we live in,
this is not the 70s.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a whole different age.
And if you- those shows wouldn't fly if they were done today.
I mean, you know, like, like, don't just told us.
The show ended over 20 years ago.
Yeah.
It's not exactly in the front of people's minds.
And it started over 40 years ago.
Yeah.
But you walk in.
And the curtains look like they're made of really big bandanas.
And the stage looks like a stage you would see, like,
in a barn production somewhere.
Like, like, last year was describing about a Mickey Rooney film.
Hey, my uncle Jeff's got a barn.
Let's put on a show.
Yeah.
And it's just one of those things you walked in and you're like,
okay, I can see where you're going with this.
And still not sure what I'm about to sit through,
especially, you know, living in the very definition of a red state.
You know, the Bible built.
But what I got was thoroughly enjoyable.
Uh-huh.
This far exceeded my expectations.
Well, the ball was pretty low.
Yeah.
But again, we came in so cold.
Right.
But there were a couple of moments where you were just like,
got a, got a, got a tread lightly here.
Got a tread lightly here.
But, and they did it in such a way that I could not stop laughing.
It was done so tongue and cheek that they knew they weren't going to offend anybody
with some of the country bumpkinisms,
because they presented it to you in a way.
I'm like, look, we know this is stupid.
And we know this is not the way people are.
But you know, it's a he-ha thing.
So we're going to roll with it.
It was kind of like the way enchanted.
All, all it was was Disney making fun of itself.
It really, you know, that's an excellent point.
That's the, this is the enchanted of the country music.
They added so many little comedy bits that you had to think of to actually get,
which I loved.
And they still kept the essence of what he ha was.
When you had early there, it was just,
But you had the grandpa character.
You had the junior junior or the junior of junior.
But the junior junior junior character that kept on the whole,
the junior isms.
Yeah.
I think if you could hold your dog in your hands, you own a cat.
You know, those kind of things.
We got the hay grandpa, what's for supper.
Yeah.
You got Lulu, you got big pearl.
I mean, I mean,
I mean, his characters.
Lulu and big pearl.
Is that what the older ladies name was?
Well, many pearl was just many pearl.
Right.
But Lulu, you get those characters.
You know, but Lulu wasn't originally.
And she was the big, big old girl on the original cast.
But she didn't look like this.
Oh, no.
Brother.
And you get the story told by two guys that should be in the next Jack's
Links commercial.
I truly believe they need to take those two guys and get them a deal with
Jack links because they would fit in those commercials.
They're basically the Timon and Pumba.
They really are of this thing.
And what I really liked is you had people that were playing instruments,
but they were actually playing them.
Like one of the mountaineers really played that banjo.
There was, I ever saw him playing the banjo.
I actually saw him sitting in the back.
Next to the band on top of one of the boxes.
Playing harmonica.
No, but he played banjo because when you looked at it,
I could see the cord that came off the banjo.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
There was one scene, which I put my written review at the clubhouse.
That is our website.
Right after the intermission.
They started playing a great musical
tune.
But with about every tool from the garden shed or the garage.
The kitchen band is what they had.
Exactly.
I mean, they had John.
I was a junkyard.
I was a junkyard.
Well, it depends on where you've had that.
My grandparents had that.
Yeah, the pitchport.
They had the ice tray.
The ice tray.
The ice tray.
Everything in there.
But the band in the back.
I got to go to that band.
That band sounded incredible.
They were crushing it.
They were placed just right throughout the whole where they put them and how they
left him there.
It was perfect throughout the whole production on the band.
I thought from a technical standpoint, everything was spot on.
Sound was great.
Yes.
Lighting was spot on.
Especially a couple things with the old Justin.
Yeah.
I thought they would change the how they could change the mood with the lighting.
I thought it was great.
But those couple sees what Justin just blew.
Oh, yeah.
The running gag.
Yeah.
I'm not going to spoil it.
But just watching the people within the show.
I'm reacting to that gag.
I'm like this again.
Or where is all that light coming from?
It's everything was so well done here.
I would have sworn.
Like if I didn't know the world premiere of this thing was last night,
the night before we were recording this.
You were to sworn that this had been around the country a couple.
Yeah.
That's why everything was spot on.
And we heard about this production like six months ago, I guess.
Yeah.
But it was going to happen.
And it was going to premiere here.
And we were like here.
Yeah.
You know, because one of the things you said is I was.
You were surprised it didn't premiere.
It's like the grand old opery.
And my response to you was well,
maybe they're just trying to get the kinks worked out.
They could have reviewed this thing right on the grand old opery stage.
Yeah.
And it was dead on.
We even got hoot nanny for good to say.
And everything for me worked here,
which leads us into the performances.
I cannot give you a performance that was not top notch here.
From the time the lights went down to the time the lights went up.
Everybody was rock solid.
And the opery is involved in this thing.
Oh, there's no doubt in my mind.
No, Steve, you can and president of the opery entertainment group.
He reproduced the thing.
I mean, Rose Hemingway, who plays Mr. May, crushing it.
Totally crushing it.
You might have seen it on Broadway and been as the player.
And Justin, you know, he his experience.
I think really showed in this play.
He, I think he, he found a very good niche.
What you talked about, we talked about on the way home from seeing this thing.
How he's probably doing the right thing in the screen.
I'm very happy.
He's where he belongs.
He kills that.
Ken Clark, who played Bucky Jr.
Opposite of Mr. May.
Beautiful chemistry between them.
Yeah, if you really, really worked palpable.
It was genuine.
If you go to my, again, written review at theclubhouse.com.
That's our website.
My two minor roles who were, I have to give a shout out to is PJ Benjamin, who played Grandpa.
He was great.
And Kevin Calhoun who played Jr. Jr.
And also the dogs.
So is he the one steam where the dog went in and started looking to moonshine.
But guys started laughing.
I'll be, but, but Junior Jr.
Played and looked the role of the perfect redneck from what you imagined from the Jeff Fox
or the, you know, you might be a redneck.
My favorite scene with Junior Jr.
City Hall.
Oh, yeah.
Sign here.
Sign here.
Sign here.
When you see this thing, you'll understand.
Empire member.
There's, I mean, there's nothing.
I, I can't give you a weak link in this thing.
It just, I mean, there's nothing about this that didn't just crush.
And one thing I want to talk about is the props and everything and how they, the
the usage of the stages and how they changed them and everything.
How they rolled out so fast and easily and the, the store looked incredible.
The beauty salon.
The, the, the, the home steady could say with grandpa's house there.
And how fast it came out and how you felt like you moved from location to location.
I was, I spent the entire production trying to figure out how they were getting them off the stage
because I kept looking for like tracks on the floor.
Oh, there was a look for lines coming off the side.
See anything.
Yeah, they're all just starting moving off.
I'm like, how they get these things off the stage.
Well, they had, they're on that movable platform, but I don't know how they're getting out.
But yeah, what is that moving?
Yeah, who knows?
What the heck was pushing or pulling those things?
Even they did get with the city, you know, the, the curtain that came down, showing, you know,
your home, home stopping around Tampa there.
But, um, the, the, the property does utilization was incredible in this thing.
And they were, that really blew me away.
And again, the, the musicians in the background amazing did a great job.
And it made you feel like you're listening to something that he, how I'm using that, you know?
Everybody from top to bottom on this thing.
Top notch.
Ryan Nixon who played Lulu.
That's, uh, she gets my vote.
With, along with Kevin Kayhoun.
I mean, they weren't just, there's nothing about this that didn't make me go.
This is awesome.
I mean, I can't.
Yes, you say the bar was low when we walked in.
But even I think if we had set the bar high, it's still would have exceeded expectations.
And, and don't get me wrong.
The only reason I'm saying the bar is low is because we knew Jack.
And we knew Jack about what we were going to see.
I mean, for all we knew they were going to be reenacting old TV skits from the Yogy.
Right.
Oh, I, I knew there was a story to it.
I had to write about that, but I didn't know.
I mean, I mean, just that they could have gone that route.
Some girl wants to leave her a little hick town.
And she gets picked up by a producer of the He Ha TV show.
I thought maybe that's what they were doing with this.
And, I mean, you could have, and I don't know if this is a, a plus or a minus,
but you could probably take the He Ha name off of this thing.
And it's so would be good.
And it would still be good.
You know, if you could have gone through our references.
There would be good.
But I think it's enough.
He Ha to be considered within the He Ha universe as odd as that is.
Okay, but it had enough references to the show that if you were a fan,
you could catch stuff.
That was my phone that I forgot to go on vibrate again.
Ooh.
But that's okay.
People need to know that ESPN sends me things.
It makes me feel important.
Uh, because nobody else gets those alerts.
Exactly.
That was a text message directly from ESPN.
Yes.
It wasn't the app.
No.
There were so many things in this film that made me feel.
Think, I mean, of this production,
I apologize.
Um, that may be think of back home in shared Wyoming where I was born.
I mean, it all of the interrupt the cherry moon premiere part.
Yeah.
I mean, it just, it's, it's, somebody's guys remind me of my uncle Willie who's still there.
But I mean, you want that southern redneck or the country.
They did it good.
And I found it no offensiveness in this me being a man born from Wyoming in, you know,
and also Montana growing up in that thing.
Even people there, I think would get a chance.
And I think it's because your tongue is so firmly implanted in your cheek that they present it to you in a way that there's no,
if you're offended, then you probably don't to check yourself.
But we have to warn them there are some swear words.
Oh, yes.
Don't bring the kids because you're not a little kid.
It's not the little kid.
There is a heavy sexual in you.
No, no, no, no, no.
If you bring the little kids, you're going to have a very long conversation on the way.
If you wouldn't bring your kids to the best of the whole house in Texas,
don't bring them to this either.
That's a fair comparison.
And I really do think that if you're looking for an heir to the throne of best little
whole house, this I think is kind of like the spiritual successor because it's in the same vein.
I mean, let's be honest with you that.
It's in the same vein.
If you were entertained by a whole house, you'll get a kick out of this.
I really do think that you would enjoy this.
All right.
Anything else before we get to the final analysis, gentlemen?
I just, I was so surprised in very pleasantly.
Yeah.
So incredible.
All right.
The way we do the final analysis on this show.
We don't give you letter grades, thumbs up, thumbs down, stars, numbers, whatever.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire is better than that.
Now, since this is a stage production, the way we rate it's going to be a little different.
It's still two questions.
Question number one is, would you see this production again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But in this case, instead of how would you see it,
we're going to say, where would you sit?
Because that kind of dictates how far you'd be willing to go to see this.
So don't let's start with you.
Would you see this production again?
Yes, I would.
In a heartbeat.
Were you sitting?
Me?
I would recommend first off any word in a theater where there's an open seat to get this thing in.
Yeah.
But you know, because with there's the lower floor, the mid floor, the back floor, then there's the level two, level three, level four.
I would like to sit in a center of level two in a back.
What can straight out the thing?
Just as elevated, be a little bit elevated.
But don't get me wrong.
If there's an empty seat in this thing, and there's only one in here going and see this thing,
take that seat.
Take whatever you can to get into the building.
All right, Chad, would you see it again?
Yes, absolutely.
Were you sitting?
I'm done wherever I can.
Wherever I can find, wherever they can find a place to put me.
My butt will be shining that seat, because this thing was a blast.
I would call it.
And I would love to take a huge group of people with me.
Call it a sweep.
But if you could sit anywhere, what would you want to sit though?
Pretty much where we sat.
Oh, no, it was was.
Every sat was what stage left about two thirds of the way back in the lower section.
Center Orchestra.
I mean, we were, we were in some prime.
Yeah, the mid section.
We had a great point.
We had a great sound field.
But we're just like, get in and see this.
Yeah.
Make it a clean sweep.
I would see it again.
Just get in the building.
It plays here in Dallas through October the 11th.
Yeah.
And before we, we got to thank Katherine so much for inviting us to this thing.
It's so nice meeting you and we're looking forward to long relationship.
And we can't take you now.
If you also, the Dallas theater center in a wily theater.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This is playing through the wily.
I said October 11th.
Today's for my birthday.
And that's also my wedding anniversary.
So see this thing.
See this.
If you're in Dallas when it comes to your town.
Go see moonshine that he taught musical.
You will not be disappointed.
You're going to have a great time.
You're going to laugh.
You're going to have a little bit of hitting in the fields.
It's pretty awesome.
Yeah.
This is going to be traveling.
We know.
So if you're not in the DFW area, if this comes to your, you know, it can be two years from now.
But just remember this review and get in and see this thing if it comes to your area.
Even if you don't think this is your thing.
Oh, yeah.
It's a lot of fun.
It really, really is.
All right.
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Do I need to go any deeper than that?
Let's be real.
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Why?
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