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.
Hey, I'd buy a Professor Bhaer action figure! He could stand next to my Johnny-Depp-as-Captain-Jack-Sparrow figure... that's not odd or anything... :-) And the M&M Mobile sounds QUITE entertaining! :-) And you DO have an extremely engaging personality, otherwise all of us Little Women Fans (we DO need a collective name, Katie Beth!) would not keep returning to read your exciting posts! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Katie Rose | June 15, 2006 at 08:51 PM
Katie Rose I can't post before you do! It's not the 1st time I read Mr.engaging-personality's posts and wait until you reply to do it myself.
Good thing you had fun doing press :D, but I still wouldn't like waking up at 6.30! Thanks again for your posts.
Posted by: kk | June 16, 2006 at 01:52 PM
I've begun getting email updates about your performances in LA... it's ONLY six hours away!!!! :-) Well, I'm negotiating with my parents, but know that you have a devoted fan in the process of trying to come see and support you all again! :-) (It would make my third time! Woohoo!)
Posted by: Katie Rose | June 24, 2006 at 10:40 PM
*so jealous*
Posted by: kk | June 24, 2006 at 11:51 PM
You definitely do have an engaging personality...for all of the reasons posted above. I am seriously in post-Little Women mourning. It's truly dreadful. Bombay Dreams just pulled in (and out, thankfully) and now we have Les Mis (which everyone knows is fantastic, but I've seen it two hundred thousand times.) I miss your show! On another note, I am so so jealous about the M&M truck. That's pretty ridiculous. Hope all the cast is doing marvelously!
A devoted marcher
--Kb
Posted by: Katie Beth | June 25, 2006 at 06:50 AM
ahh! that sounds like so much fun! i actually did have the amazing oppurtinity to meet julie and totally know what your talking about! i met her at the master class in cleveland and when i came to the show a couple days later she was nice enough to meet me by the stage door and give me a complete backstage tour as i was completely speechless about because little women and the dream of one day play jo is pretty much my life.. and just standing center stage up there was so surreal!! anyways.. done gushing.. the point is.. the fans will miss her too!!! :'(
Posted by: Lindsey | July 09, 2006 at 10:53 PM