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-Thank you for being here.
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And I'm so happy you're here with Cher.
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This is so cool and fun.
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Everyone explain who you play in "The Cher Show."
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-I play Star Cher, which is the more mature
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and wiser of the three, I guess.
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-Not as old as I am yet. -No.
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-Not yet, no. [ Laughter ]
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You're ageless. -Right.
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-You're timeless. -I love it.
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-But I'm lucky in the sense that I get to narrate
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a little bit and I kind of
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get to weave myself in through the whole show.
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The beauty of the three of us is it's not linear,
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so we kind of step in for each other
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when someone needs to be a little braver
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or when someone needs a bit of encouragement.
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But I do go from -- I don't know.
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What age were you at "Sonny & Cher,"
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which is this one? -Who's "Sonny & Cher"?
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--Well, the beginning -- Micaela's "Sonny & Cher"?
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I was -- -4.
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-Right? -I was --
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-Yeah. -Well, you start --
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-Suspend your disbelief. -It starts at me as 4,
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and it's brilliant. [ Laughter ]
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-Yeah. -She's talking to my mom
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and she's riding on a tricycle, and she goes,
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"I think I'm leaving," or I want to --
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-Yeah. -"I've learned enough,
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I'm leaving." And so -- and then we just go through --
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all the girls have a certain part.
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And -- but they do go in and out of each other because they talk
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to each other, like, you know, "Don't sweat the small stuff."
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-Yeah. -Or, "This is going to okay."
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-Yeah. -We call it Cher-apy.
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-Right. -Yeah.
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[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
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-You should. What Cher are you?
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-And then I'm Lady.
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So I'm sort of -- I'm when Sonny and Cher
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start to kind of mold into this sort of comedy duo
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and get that brilliant comedy dynamic.
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-Yeah, absolutely. -That is so specific
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and so awesome. -And all those Bob Mackie --
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-And, yeah, and then they go on to
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"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" and become -- like, you guys
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are now going to be in people's living rooms.
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-Oh. -Right.
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-Like, on a weekly basis.
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-And we have the action figures in my house.
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Yeah, absolutely. -Yeah.
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-We had some "Sonny & Cher" dolls
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during our rehearsal period that were sort of like our mascots.
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-Yeah. -Was there ever a part
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of your -- I mean, you see in the show,
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but was there ever a part where you go, like,
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"That's part of my career I just wish that didn't happen."
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Or, "I didn't like this part"? -Yeah.
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[ Laughter ] Yeah.
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There were certain parts that were really, um, difficult.
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And I was struggling. I mean, in the beginning,
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what happened, truthfully,
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one of the stories that is the truth, is that Sonny and I,
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we were really famous. And then we just --
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Our career just went off a hill, and we had no money,
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we had no job, and we paid the --
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We owed the government $278,000.
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And we just got in a car
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and headed towards Windsor, Ontario,
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and started our life again. -Wow.
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-And we were broke-ass broke.
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[ Laughter ]
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-And you had no -- you had plan on what to do next?
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-Sonny just said, "You're going to wear a gown,
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and I'm going wear a tuxedo, and we're going to just go there
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and we're going to see what can happen."
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And the people hated us. [ Laughter ]
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I finally got so pissed off -- -Yeah.
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-So I turned around, like sometimes you do,
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and started to make the band laugh.
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And the band would laugh at anything. So --
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But then we got really good.
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And Sonny thought, "This is great."
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So we started having this thing
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where we made the band laugh first,
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and then we started making the people laugh.
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And then the people started to love us.
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-Yeah, absolutely.
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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I mean, what would you want people to take away
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when they see the show?
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-I think -- I'm not exactly sure,
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but I think that you can just never give up.
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If I had to tell anybody anything.
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It's when you do the thing that scares you and you do it
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and you gut it through and you don't give up,
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no matter what people say about you.
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And people have said some pretty terrible things about me.
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And you just don't give up and you don't give up
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and you don't give up. Because then --
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-It'll work itself out.
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You have a great line in the play
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where you're talking to your mom.
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She says, "You better marry a very rich man."
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[ Laughter ]
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-"Mom, I am a rich man." -Yeah.
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-That's what Cher always responded.
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-My mom said that. -Your mom --
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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That's the best. And she goes --
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-No. So my mom once --
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I don't know what went through my mom's mind.
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She just had some sort of a blackout, and --
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And she was just talking to me about, "You know,
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you should be making movies, and you should be producing them
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and so and so and so and so.
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And honey, you should marry a rich man."
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And I just looked at her and I said,
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"Mom, I am a rich man."
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-I mean, if it gets that applause at the show...
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-Yeah. -It gets that applause
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every show. -Yeah.
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-Yeah. -Do you get nervous singing
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in front of Cher in rehearsals and when you're working on this?
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-No! -Come on.
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We did in the beginning. -Yes!
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-Of course, you're Cher. Of course we were nervous.
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-Yeah. -Yeah.
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-And, you know, there's still --
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now we have this beautiful sisterhood
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that we feel so blessed to have.
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But before, when you're playing Cher for Cher,
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and you've got to use the voice and you've got to make sure
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that you have all of the things that make Cher Cher
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in front of Cher, it's very nerve-racking.
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-Wow. If you're playing the drinking game,
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the "Cher" drinking game, you're wasted right now.
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[ Laughter ]
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But there's so much fun in the show and different things.
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I want to show -- you brought an exclusive clip to us.
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And give everyone a little idea of what they'll see
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when they go to "The Cher Show."
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Take a look at this.
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-♪ Do you believe in life after love? ♪
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♪ I can feel something inside me say ♪
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♪ I really don't think you're strong enough, no ♪
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♪ Do you believe in life after love? ♪
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-♪ You haven't seen the last of me ♪
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[ Cheers and applause ]