Warnie

We're also joined by one of Australian Musical Theater's busiest leading men, Ben Hall.

You'll know Ben from Neighbors as Ned Willis, from Warnie as Mark Waugh, and from the stages around the country in Pretty Woman and Elvis: A Musical Revolution.

He's now taking on another real-life figure and legend in music manager Glenn Wheatley, also in Whispering Jack, opening this November at the Roslyn Packer Theater.

Thank you again for, for joining us, and, um, congratulations.

But you were-

Yeah, we just wrapped up

... you've also played, you know, Sam Phillips, uh, from Elvis, Mark Waugh in Warnie.

You know, I guess with that kind of mix of playing real life characters versus, you know, your fictional work, do you, do you kind of have a preference?

you.

Oh, Warnie got

Felipe ornery.

Yeah, I've never seen Felipe hide behind a mask.

It's like growing up in Barnes & Noble with no one to tell you to put anything back.

Jack and Warnie created their own imaginary world called Boxon, a land inhabited by talking animals who wore clothes, had political systems, and engaged in complex historical dramas.

Sound familiar? This was Lewis's first attempt at worldbuilding, decades before Narnia.

Box Inn was populated by anthropomorphic animals and its own geography and even had steamships.

Not figuratively, actually insane.

The man was later certified, and the school was shut down.

But not before young Jack and Warnie endured brutal beatings, inadequate food, and an education system that seemed designed to crush any love of learning.

It was basically a Victorian horror story, except it was real and it happened to the guy who would go on to write some of the most hopeful literature in the English language.

God.

I'd love to have Warnie there as well.

Warnie.

And then do we go...

I feel like...

It's a weird dinner.

It's a really weird dinner.

Ricky Gervais, Warnie and Jesus for Whipper, you wouldn't even make it to the second date.