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HELLO!! I'm Chelsea! I am the new blog person! I am super excited, because I LURVE Philip and Jessica, and I LURVE theatre! Haha! Well, I have no internet at my house, so I don't get on very often, but when I do, it will be good! So, yeah. that's all for now! Bye!
I Feel a lot Better
Now that I know that 9 to 5 will be replaced by Spiderman and Elf. UGHH. Broadway. *Dies*.
That is all.
Jess
That is all.
Jess
Now They Can See A True Show...
...because all those disappointed audience members who could not see 9 to 5 can now see Dog Sees God. Kidding, Jess.
Yes, today is sad that 9 to 5 will not be performing on the stages of Broadway for a while, but, if this provides any consolation, the sudden stopped project for Spider-Man is continuing at the end of the month. I guess that this masked superhero will make it to the great white way after all.
Jess - Break a leg with crew!
My birthday in 8 days!
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Yes, today is sad that 9 to 5 will not be performing on the stages of Broadway for a while, but, if this provides any consolation, the sudden stopped project for Spider-Man is continuing at the end of the month. I guess that this masked superhero will make it to the great white way after all.
Jess - Break a leg with crew!
My birthday in 8 days!
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
9 to 5 Closes
This is not an informative post. This is a Jessica gets her feelings out post.
9 to 5 closed today.
Up till today, I'd been so sorry for the entire cast and crew, out of work after today. It was awful. I wasn't that upset for myself, though, cause I knew I'd never see the show again [on Broadway], and esp. not with this cast. Just now, though, a huge wave of depression hit me. I've been following this show since casting was announced. I am a HUGE country music fan, love Dolly, love the movie. And, if y'all haven't figured this out yet, I'm a bit of an sjb fan... (and Megan- I looove her. :)) This show was incredibly epic in my life, cause it was everything I loved. I followed it through out of town in LA to opening on Broadway through when the closing notice was posted. As soon as we found out about closing (probably an hour or two after the cast, hahaha) we started a gazillion different projects to show our love. Not only have I followed it extremely closely, but I SAW it. I have been to NYC twice in my life, and once I was very young. 9 to 5 was the reason I went this summer, and I saw it twice. I can't imagine New York without it. The big video player and marquee in Times Square? That IS New York to me. I've offcially become heart broken.
Ok, enough of me whining, here's day four of my trip:
Birdland, Stephanie J. Block concert
Ok, the first story comes before Something Beautiful. Stephanie was introducing the song and talking about how the composer’s father had scoliosis and was attached to this tree in central park. He’d gotten a picture of it because it was gnarled and bent, but glorious (her favorite Word) and he felt connected to it. Then she went on to add, “And if I’m not mistaken, your (she was talking to the composer) mother is in assisted living and still has the picture of the tree… did I just make that up?” The composer must have nodded “yes” because she got so embarrassed and said, “See, that’s what actors do, we just create!” And everyone laughed.
Story number two: 15 pounds. Tory from 9 to 5 and Jennife Dinoia got up and sang it with her. The intro was her talking about how lucky she was to be married (she pointed out Seb in the back) and how awful dating is in New York City. Through the whole song, Tory (mainly) and Jennifer were throwing out hilarious comments (different from the CD.) When it got to the point where Steph sings, “I ran into him in front of Carmine’s with his brand new wife…” Tory goes, “what a skanky whore!” or something to that effect. Stephanie stopped and went, “We did NOT rehearse that. Look at this poor little girl *points to girl like 5 or 6 years old in the audience*.” It was hysterical.
Third (shorter) story: Before Never Neverland, Steph was talking about meeting Scott and hearing NNL for the first time. “When I heard that song, things moved inside of me… that sounds gross.” Hahaha. That was the end.
The encore was Life Starts Clapping. She said she wanted to send us back to the mean old city or wherever we were from with these words- with positivity.
After the show they announced that Steph and the composers would be over in a corner taking pictures, etc. I grabbed Sebastian [Arcelus- stephanie's husband, Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys currently] as he was trying to fight the crowd to deliver sharpies to Steph. I asked him to sign my Happiness [off Broadway show w/ a limited run- he and Hunter Foster had starred] playbill that I had with me. "Well, nobody’s signing anything till I get these to Steph." But he did anyway. I told him I'd never gotten to see Happiness and he's like, "It was a great little show, sorry you never got to see it." I told him I was leaving the next day, too, and couldn't see him in JB. "I know." I'd told him this at Broadway Barks, but we'd met for like 2 secs, so I didn't think he'd remember. He did.
While we were waiting in line, I started talking to Scott Alan (SUCH a sweetheart.) I told him that Keys and Dreaming Wide Awake [his two albums, gorgeous music w/ EVERYBODY (broadway-wise) you could possibly want singing on them] were both gorgeous and he said, "well, so is your dress so we're even." We talked about all the amazing people he's gotten to be on his albums, and he's like, "Eh, sometimes you just have to settle for hags like this one *points to Steph.*" We discussed Piece [his musical in the works] (nothing happening as of now- he wants to focus of album no. 3!) and how he started making connections in New York. Then we got a picture.
So. Then we got to Steph. I was with my dad, and when she saw us, she's like "Hi guys!!" Cause we had stage doored the day before and I told her we were coming. Then she complimented my dress too (new fav. dress! Hahaha) I put down all the things I was holding at the table she was sitting at and one of them was the Happiness playbill. She's like, "Did you catch Seb?" And I thought she meant in the show, so I said no. She got up and started looking around for him, and I'm like, "No no, we didn't catch him in the show, I found him here." "Oh, ok good… how do you spell your name again?” I’d never told her my name. Hahaha. “J-e-s-s-“ “i-c-a? Good, the normal way.” While she was writing, dad snapped a picture and she's like, "You're a good pop!" Then I gave her a cross necklace I'd found at Scottish fair near where we lived cause it reminded me of The Pirate Queen [a show about Grace O'Malley, an Irish pirate that was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, Stephanie had played Grace.] "Oh, thank you, it's beautiful!" *Hug* (Big hug <3) and then she hugged Dad. Then, we got an adorable pic of the three of us and left.
So ends the Broadway portion of our vacation. I saw my favorite actress four times and met her three of them in the course of a weekend. :)
Ps- Stephanie's album is called "This Place I Know" and you can get it on Amazon or itunes. If you don't want the whole thing, at LEAST buy 15 Pounds (Away from my Love) [hysterical], Never Neverland (Fly Away) [gorgeouuus (it's by Scott Alan and a dif version can be found on his CD Dreaming Wide Awake)], or I Will Always Love You [duet w/ Dolly, nough said.]
*Goes back to sulking about 9 to 5's closing.*
Till Latah,
Jess
9 to 5 closed today.
Up till today, I'd been so sorry for the entire cast and crew, out of work after today. It was awful. I wasn't that upset for myself, though, cause I knew I'd never see the show again [on Broadway], and esp. not with this cast. Just now, though, a huge wave of depression hit me. I've been following this show since casting was announced. I am a HUGE country music fan, love Dolly, love the movie. And, if y'all haven't figured this out yet, I'm a bit of an sjb fan... (and Megan- I looove her. :)) This show was incredibly epic in my life, cause it was everything I loved. I followed it through out of town in LA to opening on Broadway through when the closing notice was posted. As soon as we found out about closing (probably an hour or two after the cast, hahaha) we started a gazillion different projects to show our love. Not only have I followed it extremely closely, but I SAW it. I have been to NYC twice in my life, and once I was very young. 9 to 5 was the reason I went this summer, and I saw it twice. I can't imagine New York without it. The big video player and marquee in Times Square? That IS New York to me. I've offcially become heart broken.
Ok, enough of me whining, here's day four of my trip:
Birdland, Stephanie J. Block concert
Ok, the first story comes before Something Beautiful. Stephanie was introducing the song and talking about how the composer’s father had scoliosis and was attached to this tree in central park. He’d gotten a picture of it because it was gnarled and bent, but glorious (her favorite Word) and he felt connected to it. Then she went on to add, “And if I’m not mistaken, your (she was talking to the composer) mother is in assisted living and still has the picture of the tree… did I just make that up?” The composer must have nodded “yes” because she got so embarrassed and said, “See, that’s what actors do, we just create!” And everyone laughed.
Story number two: 15 pounds. Tory from 9 to 5 and Jennife Dinoia got up and sang it with her. The intro was her talking about how lucky she was to be married (she pointed out Seb in the back) and how awful dating is in New York City. Through the whole song, Tory (mainly) and Jennifer were throwing out hilarious comments (different from the CD.) When it got to the point where Steph sings, “I ran into him in front of Carmine’s with his brand new wife…” Tory goes, “what a skanky whore!” or something to that effect. Stephanie stopped and went, “We did NOT rehearse that. Look at this poor little girl *points to girl like 5 or 6 years old in the audience*.” It was hysterical.
Third (shorter) story: Before Never Neverland, Steph was talking about meeting Scott and hearing NNL for the first time. “When I heard that song, things moved inside of me… that sounds gross.” Hahaha. That was the end.
The encore was Life Starts Clapping. She said she wanted to send us back to the mean old city or wherever we were from with these words- with positivity.
After the show they announced that Steph and the composers would be over in a corner taking pictures, etc. I grabbed Sebastian [Arcelus- stephanie's husband, Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys currently] as he was trying to fight the crowd to deliver sharpies to Steph. I asked him to sign my Happiness [off Broadway show w/ a limited run- he and Hunter Foster had starred] playbill that I had with me. "Well, nobody’s signing anything till I get these to Steph." But he did anyway. I told him I'd never gotten to see Happiness and he's like, "It was a great little show, sorry you never got to see it." I told him I was leaving the next day, too, and couldn't see him in JB. "I know." I'd told him this at Broadway Barks, but we'd met for like 2 secs, so I didn't think he'd remember. He did.
While we were waiting in line, I started talking to Scott Alan (SUCH a sweetheart.) I told him that Keys and Dreaming Wide Awake [his two albums, gorgeous music w/ EVERYBODY (broadway-wise) you could possibly want singing on them] were both gorgeous and he said, "well, so is your dress so we're even." We talked about all the amazing people he's gotten to be on his albums, and he's like, "Eh, sometimes you just have to settle for hags like this one *points to Steph.*" We discussed Piece [his musical in the works] (nothing happening as of now- he wants to focus of album no. 3!) and how he started making connections in New York. Then we got a picture.
So. Then we got to Steph. I was with my dad, and when she saw us, she's like "Hi guys!!" Cause we had stage doored the day before and I told her we were coming. Then she complimented my dress too (new fav. dress! Hahaha) I put down all the things I was holding at the table she was sitting at and one of them was the Happiness playbill. She's like, "Did you catch Seb?" And I thought she meant in the show, so I said no. She got up and started looking around for him, and I'm like, "No no, we didn't catch him in the show, I found him here." "Oh, ok good… how do you spell your name again?” I’d never told her my name. Hahaha. “J-e-s-s-“ “i-c-a? Good, the normal way.” While she was writing, dad snapped a picture and she's like, "You're a good pop!" Then I gave her a cross necklace I'd found at Scottish fair near where we lived cause it reminded me of The Pirate Queen [a show about Grace O'Malley, an Irish pirate that was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, Stephanie had played Grace.] "Oh, thank you, it's beautiful!" *Hug* (Big hug <3) and then she hugged Dad. Then, we got an adorable pic of the three of us and left.
So ends the Broadway portion of our vacation. I saw my favorite actress four times and met her three of them in the course of a weekend. :)
Ps- Stephanie's album is called "This Place I Know" and you can get it on Amazon or itunes. If you don't want the whole thing, at LEAST buy 15 Pounds (Away from my Love) [hysterical], Never Neverland (Fly Away) [gorgeouuus (it's by Scott Alan and a dif version can be found on his CD Dreaming Wide Awake)], or I Will Always Love You [duet w/ Dolly, nough said.]
*Goes back to sulking about 9 to 5's closing.*
Till Latah,
Jess
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