On the Record with 'MJ: The Musical' Star Ilario Grant

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00:00Hey, what's going on?

00:01I'm Elario.

00:02I'm playing the role of MJ in MJ the Musical at Her Majesty's Theater from September.

00:06I'm at the Music Room in Herd for Rolling Stones, so let's check out some of their records.

00:10Boom.

00:13Earth, Wind & Fire.

00:16This group is iconic.

00:18My mom used to play all of their music while cleaning up on Sundays.

00:22Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire is actually in the show.

00:33There's an interview Michael did when he was talking to an interviewer and he said Fred

00:38Astaire called his house after the Motown performance of Billie Jean and said that he did amazing,

00:45which is so iconic.

00:46Fred Astaire calling your house.

00:47What?

00:48Mariah Carey.

00:53Funny story, she saw me on Broadway as MJ and I met her and shook her hand and she is fantastic.

01:04Michael Jackson's Off The Wild album.

01:06Michael Jackson is just an iconic figure and, I mean, what is there not to like about this?

01:15And all of these songs, most of these songs are in the show, in MJ the Musical.

01:20Don't Stop Take It Enough, Working Day and Night, She's Out of My Life, I Can't Help It.

01:25So this goes down in history.

01:28Yeah.

01:29We should play something.

01:32That's nice.

01:34All of them.

01:35You should have a littleijn.

01:36Yeah.

01:37Don't you.

01:38Going off the list?

01:39You're on hä.

01:40Burn out.

01:41You live.

01:42Don't you share today.

01:43Soft.

01:44Even bit em 드 resellant, Alabama, Colorado, California, California, California, California, California.

01:53See you there, in Texas.

01:54Thank you for sharing and having Sagittarius in the city.

01:55Good.

01:56Good.

01:57Good.

01:58Good.

01:59Good.

02:00Good.