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Well good evening! I'm Michael Longoria
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I'm Christian Hall. I'm Daniel Riker. I'm J. Robert Spencer. And we are The Midtown Men! Hello New Jersey
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June 20th, The Midtown Men, we are performing live at the Beacon Theatre at 8 o'clock
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That's how this is all starting. This is thrilling to be back, and we've been touring the country for the last five years
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with this singing group and our band. That's a different show. We've done about 400 concerts, and 400 concerts in the last five years
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so finally to have the big one and most iconic rock and roll venue in the country
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in New York City, The Beacon. For us to come back to our roots, which is where we first met 10 years ago on Broadway and Jersey Boys
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it's really amazing to be back. We have some iconic 60s legends that actually were recording artists in the era that we sing
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I mean, we sing all the songs of the 60s. So we have some people that actually had the original recordings
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going to get up on stage and they're going to sing with us their original songs. In addition to all the performers coming up on stage with us to sing
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there's going to be tons of show business icons in the audience and 1960s rock icons
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And to us, it is just going to be a celebration of our time on the road together
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and also of the era of the music that we pay tribute to in our show
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Our roots in the 60s, of course, came from our collaboration in Jersey Boys
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but that grew out into the real world, into artists of the 60s
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right when we hit the road as the Midtown Men. That family has just continued to grow, 60s Midtown Men
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and the love for this era just always is growing, and so this is just sort of an illustration of our relationship with some of these great artists
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It a special show because we going to be with all of our family and friends that we been in New York with for so long But we actually going to show everyone in New York what we been doing for the past five years We been taking this music of the 60s and reviving it making it new
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and doing brand new arrangements for our four voices. And we're bringing it back home
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We took great inspiration from the Rat Pack, you know, those kind of showmen of the 60s
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And these were guys that got up and they dressed really nicely
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they made fun of themselves made fun of each other and when it came time to sing the songs
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they took it really seriously and that's what we do we've done about 450 concerts now
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and I think this is really the perfect time at the end of our fifth year of touring
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to share with New York what our act is It's amazing to get the validation that we've gotten on the road from a lot of these original artists
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I mean, a lot of them have heard us sing their songs and are all very nice to us about it
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So we're so lucky, first of all, that they're cool with that. But to actually have them living and to be able to sit there and not only sing with us, as some of them are going to be doing on stage, but to sit there and watch us do the songs that they, you know, that was their heyday, that was their time
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To know that they're going to be out there in the audience is going to be big for us. You know, we're all creative partners and business partners
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Everything's 25, 25, 25, 25. And it just works so well that way
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And we have a slick team with Jeff V, who represents us through Rock House Productions
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and he comes from an amazing lineage of rock and roll icons as well
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His dad was Bobby B. from the 1960s. So if there's anyone that understands this business
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and how to route it, how to form it, and how to help us build it
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it been this incredible team we been able to piece together None of us had any idea when we were leaving the show that we would have this experience And so every week every day you know we learning something
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And that's been, I think, a very rewarding part about it is that you can always learn something when you're running your own thing and you're creating your own thing
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Taking that risk. Yeah. And we take so much pride that we come from Broadway, that we're from New York City
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We've loved sharing this show with stages and people across America because we're bringing
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what we've learned and what we've done in New York City to the country
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But really, even now, even at the Beacon this weekend and in our concerts across the country
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we're bringing that Broadway essence to our performances. The thing that makes us strong and some might say would make us go through weak moments
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is the exact same thing. It's a catch-22. too it's you got four different opinions right four very unique very individual characters people
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human beings who've grown up in different parts of the world and uh and that's a good thing because
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you're going to get four different viewpoints of what could possibly happen how could we possibly
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do it four different approaches that's an amazing thing the where it gets troublesome is that if if
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one person believes this is the way to go and then two people believe this way then it's it
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becomes a battle. And then what we've learned though in the past all years is how to negotiate that battle to keep morphing and morphing and morphing until you find that final product And that final product has a taste of every single person in this group And that what makes them a ton of cool
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You sugar spice. I'm sugar spice. I'm salty spice. It is. This is sour spice
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Sour spice. And he's old spice. And that's old spice. We really don't have a limit to how soon or how long that this can go on because it could
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Go on and hopefully it will continue to do as it has, which has been beautiful, organic and just, you know, a lot of fun
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One, two. Don, go away, I'm no good for you
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Oh, Don, stay with him, he'll be good to you. Oh, what a night
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Oh, what a night So what a night Oh, what a night
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