Little Women Show Blog

Garbage Party

Just came back from my first "Garbage Party".  Its a great tradition whereby people on tour about to move on to the next city, bring all of their uneaten food and we throw together whatever ingredients to make food for a party.  I've never been to one, but I had a great time (I was going to write "I had a blast" but I'm over 35 and that would just be pathetic) and Eleanor Norton (no nickname to date), Orlando, and I took a dozen eggs, a pound of cheeses (plural), pounds of vegetables, and a hint of cinnamon (Orlando's suggestion) and made a frittatta.  If you don't know what that is, its a big omlette that you bake.
At first I was worried that the egg hadn't cooked enough and that I would risk salmonella if I ate it (everyone else did, I didn't share my fears.  Lesson: don't eat anything the cook won't eat) but it was delicious and, so far, without health repercussions.  Found out that Renee doesn't understand the sun dried tomato, it upsets her like an eclipse upset the Aztecs.

Our musicians are leaving us.  Here are their names, I know I'm going to miss someone and if I get your instrument wrong, don't complain: I didn't have to even mention you.
Chris Miele-reeds
Sheila Abate-French horn
Claudia Chopek-violin
Orlando WonTwentyDollarsFromMeAtPoker (found out he was half Puerto Rican tonite, explains the cinnamon)-Viola
Kevin McManus-trombone
Stephen I'mFromVirginiaButIDontWantPeopleToThinkI'mAHick

SoISayI'mFromDC-I forgot what he plays but he used to cause trouble with Eleanor, who plays the cello on that side of the pit, so I'm going to say woodwinds.

You all were great, you know that.  The musicians on our tour add a great energy to whatever we were doing and we will truly miss them that are leaving.

The one's that are staying, well, they're nothing but trouble...

Alright then,

Its clear that this show has enough devoted fans (who come on this site) and the group is, shall we say, exclusive enough that if any of you out there are in a position to see the show again (fyi, DC from 6/26-7/24) you will get a PERSONAL backstage tour from me and a chance to meet Ms. McGovern (who is an actual angel) and all that nonsense.   Heck, I'll throw in dinner after whatever performance you happen to see!

To reiterate: If you post on this site, and you can make it to a show, I will attempt to arrange all of those glittering experiences for you.  So write to the webmaster at LittleWomenonBroadway.com and he'll forward your email to my address. 

I guess I need to put the disclaimer in there that if anyone, in my opinion, turns out to be crazy, or if someone who knows about these things advises me that this is an unsafe idea, then we're gonna forget it.  But I'm just puttin' it out there...

-V

Press Day

Yesterday I did a press all morning here in Cincinnati: the FOX morning show and two radio interviews.  It was a surprise that they asked me, let's put it this way: the Professor Bhaer action figure is not selling as well as the Marmee in flying battle armor.  The lovely Nancy Parrott picked me to do the interviews because she reads this blog!  Fancy that, she's gotten the mistaken impression that I've got some sort of engaging personality.  Poor kid.
Nancy picked me up (in a Caddy, thank you very much) and took me to the tv station, and when we pulled up, the M&M mobile was there in the parking lot!  It was awesome and the girls who were driving it let me have a look inside and everything.  Let's put it this way, no gps.  Actually, I'm not sure they even had a cd player.  But man, they had a load of chocolate in that thing.
I was waiting in the green room and one of the other people being interviewed walked in and it was Sharon Wheatley.  Now Sharon and I go WAY back, we both worked on my first paying job back in '91.  She's just written a book about called "'til the fat girl sings" about her experience being an overweight teen whom everyone said would never make it, to being in THREE Broadway shows!  Sharon is a good egg and she's not used to talking about herself this much but people are emailing that she's really helping them with their own weight issues.  She and I went back and forth, just like old times, and she even managed to get Sheila Gray (my interviewer) to give me a little grief.  It was great, I love doing press.
Then I went and did a taped interview with Mark DeWitt WAIFand then did a live interview with Kelly St. James on WAKW.  That last one I was worried about.  I'm kind of gregarious and that can rub people the wrong way, but I don't really have another setting.  WAKW is a Christian station and I had this image that I was going back into the Catholic school that I'd left 30 years ago.  Let me tell you how wrong I was.  Kelly St. James gave as good as she got, (why are women always hassling me ;-), and the front office girls at the station are having a ball behind their desks.  I've been glad to be wrong few times in my life, and this is up there.
Like I said, I love doing press.  If I gotta get up at 6:30, I'm glad its cuz I'm gonna have fun.