July 31, 2025 • 4 mins
Our good friend Todd McKenney joins us in the studio to chat about his role in Cats the Musical and his greyhounds!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app And
Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's Kenny as we Live.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And how do you have time to come in here?
Aren't you performing every night for cats?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, but this is the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
But what don't you have to rest your instruments? Don't
the rest of the time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I call it the gift.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, No, I put the gift aside to come and
speak to you because a friend of the shows.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You're in the bosom, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Because I read the Beyonce when she trains to go
on stage she runs on a treadmill singing to keep
up her fitness and things. And then you hear that
Mariah Carey has to sleep with Humidi fires and things
like that. Do you have to have a regime because
you're in for a long run, you must have to
look after yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh yeah, well we do. Yeah, regular maintenance.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
As I get older, I've got regular sports, sage and
a regular osteo E. I do it every week actually,
because I'm crawling around on my hands and knees in
lycra which is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Again, And what about the show? What about the show
Cats during the day.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Cats the film was rightfully laughed off the cinema screen.
I don't know if you saw it, but Cats the
Musical has a very special place in our hearts, doesn't
it does.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's like a nostalgic piece now because it's been around.
We've just celebrated forty years. We celebrated with the original cast. Actually,
so we opened exactly forty years after the original in
the same theater, the Theater Royal, and we had this
massive celebration. But there's a reason for it. It's a
magical show. It seems to be the show that people
(01:51):
love to sort of, you know, put shit on. Really,
but people, for some reason, I think with Andrew Lloyd
Webber shows like to kind of diss them.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I don't know. I think this has got legs
and I don't know why that makes you play in it.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I play the fat cat in act one, which is
buster for Jones, who is the aristocratic fat cat with
a monocle. And then in the second act I played
the geriatric, broken down, old theater cat who just wants
to talk about his life and time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you switch roles. In the old days, do they
used to have because these days it's lean time, so
you have to They did have two different characters playing,
because now in the future will just be one person
you doing every cat.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, that's it, and that's right in the third act.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You sit on the window sill on mix yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I did that at interval.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And you're not on hard times because I saw on
Instagram you're selling furniture. You're selling a lounge.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm selling a loue. You're still selling it. No, no, no,
I found a buyer for it. I bought a lounge.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I bought it from the furniture warehouse YEP, where everything
looks small because you've got nineteen foot ceilings, and so
I bought it without really having spent much time in
my new place. And then it arrived and it takes
up the whole place. So I had to try and
get rid of it. But I decided to go for
a novelty color. I went for a ming blue, which
(03:11):
nobody wants.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So you managed to offload it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I gave it away for free lady who is having
hard time.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And she's color blind.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Color come with a mottoman yeah me on man's and knees.
In likera, you put your coffee on.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
My back to go from talking about cats to dogs.
I know that greyhound adoption is something that's very close
to your heart.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
How are your dogs going dead? Thanks for bringing that up.
We left on a high looks, so so I went.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I was doing wicked in Brisbane and the veteran I
left Nancy Hayes' name was. I left her here because
she's getting old. She was fourteen and she loved the
dog walker who had another greyhound, and so I left
her rather than travel her. And Hayes is an actor.
She is an actor. And Hayes is a very friend
of mine. She's an actor of a certain age. My
(04:11):
stage mother, how does she feel that you have got
a dog called? Well, she didn't like the fact that
I put it up on line that Nancy Hayeser died,
So that afternoon she called me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She said, Toddy, I'm really sorry for your bereavement, but could.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You please take that post down because my phone hasn't
stopped ringing?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And I'm like, well, who rings a dead person?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And then we got it back by the way it
says it here. For tickets to Kats, head to Todd
mckennie dot com dot are you see him not playing
one but two roles. Todd, thank you for joining us.
I shut the door on the way out.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Were good man,
My Heart podcasts, hear more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app And
Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's Kenny as we Live.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And how do you have time to come in here?
Aren't you performing every night for cats?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, but this is the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
But what don't you have to rest your instruments? Don't
the rest of the time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I call it the gift.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, No, I put the gift aside to come and
speak to you because a friend of the shows.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You're in the bosom, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Because I read the Beyonce when she trains to go
on stage she runs on a treadmill singing to keep
up her fitness and things. And then you hear that
Mariah Carey has to sleep with Humidi fires and things
like that. Do you have to have a regime because
you're in for a long run, you must have to
look after yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh yeah, well we do. Yeah, regular maintenance.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
As I get older, I've got regular sports, sage and
a regular osteo E. I do it every week actually,
because I'm crawling around on my hands and knees in
lycra which is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Again, And what about the show? What about the show
Cats during the day.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Cats the film was rightfully laughed off the cinema screen.
I don't know if you saw it, but Cats the
Musical has a very special place in our hearts, doesn't
it does.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's like a nostalgic piece now because it's been around.
We've just celebrated forty years. We celebrated with the original cast. Actually,
so we opened exactly forty years after the original in
the same theater, the Theater Royal, and we had this
massive celebration. But there's a reason for it. It's a
magical show. It seems to be the show that people
(01:51):
love to sort of, you know, put shit on. Really,
but people, for some reason, I think with Andrew Lloyd
Webber shows like to kind of diss them.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I don't know. I think this has got legs
and I don't know why that makes you play in it.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I play the fat cat in act one, which is
buster for Jones, who is the aristocratic fat cat with
a monocle. And then in the second act I played
the geriatric, broken down, old theater cat who just wants
to talk about his life and time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you switch roles. In the old days, do they
used to have because these days it's lean time, so
you have to They did have two different characters playing,
because now in the future will just be one person
you doing every cat.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, that's it, and that's right in the third act.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You sit on the window sill on mix yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I did that at interval.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And you're not on hard times because I saw on
Instagram you're selling furniture. You're selling a lounge.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm selling a loue. You're still selling it. No, no, no,
I found a buyer for it. I bought a lounge.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I bought it from the furniture warehouse YEP, where everything
looks small because you've got nineteen foot ceilings, and so
I bought it without really having spent much time in
my new place. And then it arrived and it takes
up the whole place. So I had to try and
get rid of it. But I decided to go for
a novelty color. I went for a ming blue, which
(03:11):
nobody wants.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So you managed to offload it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I gave it away for free lady who is having
hard time.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And she's color blind.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Color come with a mottoman yeah me on man's and knees.
In likera, you put your coffee on.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
My back to go from talking about cats to dogs.
I know that greyhound adoption is something that's very close
to your heart.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
How are your dogs going dead? Thanks for bringing that up.
We left on a high looks, so so I went.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I was doing wicked in Brisbane and the veteran I
left Nancy Hayes' name was. I left her here because
she's getting old. She was fourteen and she loved the
dog walker who had another greyhound, and so I left
her rather than travel her. And Hayes is an actor.
She is an actor. And Hayes is a very friend
of mine. She's an actor of a certain age. My
(04:11):
stage mother, how does she feel that you have got
a dog called? Well, she didn't like the fact that
I put it up on line that Nancy Hayeser died,
So that afternoon she called me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She said, Toddy, I'm really sorry for your bereavement, but could.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You please take that post down because my phone hasn't
stopped ringing?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And I'm like, well, who rings a dead person?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And then we got it back by the way it
says it here. For tickets to Kats, head to Todd
mckennie dot com dot are you see him not playing
one but two roles. Todd, thank you for joining us.
I shut the door on the way out.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Were good man,
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