Posted by Agnes
on 12/31/2008, 1:45 pm, in reply to "Back from Jim's Holiday Show! Jenny's report..."
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Jenny, As usual you took us right along to the show, thanks. I am glad that you got to speak to Marla. Tired was my middle name when I was pregnant. lol. Agnes
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: First of all, please forgive me for two
: reasons.... 1) it's late and i'm tired and
: 2) I'm pregnant and my memory isn't working
: quite the same way these days...
:
: So this was my first time being inside of
: Sardi's and I really loved the atmosphere!
: You just feel like you're
: somewhere...important when you walk inside.
: The show was upstairs on the second floor
: and when I arrived, I was greeted by a huge
: line of people waiting to be seated. While
: standing in said line, who appears? Jim!
: Just walking around, mingling with the
: crowd, talking to the people he knows. That
: was fun to see.
:
: So finally I was seated (not at the bar
: where my ticket was for...woo!) and then I
: waited and waited and waited for the waiter
: to come. There was supposed to be a $25
: minimum for food/drinks, but he didn't come
: til the very last minute! Strange. But
: they're busy, I guess...
:
: James started at about 5 min to 9. The
: place was fairly well packed... I'd say
: about 50-60 people were there. He opened
: with "This is the moment" and then
: went into a christmas song (there goes the
: memory....). Then he talked a little bit
: and sang some more and talked and then taked
: about Jane Eyre! He was mentioning how
: every character he has played on Broadway
: either dies or gets horribly mamed.... he
: started out with talking about how as
: Rochester his house burned down and he was
: horribly burned on one side and blind in one
: eye. But he was like -I got the girl,
: though, so it's ok! He mentioned that Marla
: was there (to major applause) and said that
: she was THE Jane Eyre... that the show
: wasn't called Jane Eyre and Rochester...
: that it was Jane Eyre. Then he talked about
: the poster for the show and how it had a
: huge, beautiful picture of Marla front and
: center and a tiny little blurred image of
: him in the back. He then sang some more
: and then introduced a young duo (girl and
: guy) to sing "Baby it's cold
: outside." He talked about how he's
: always wanted to help people and he's gotten
: a lot of help along the way, so he wanted to
: give young people like them a chance to
: perform in an arena they might not normally
: get to perform in.
:
: Then one of his co-actors (forget his name!)
: from Tale of Two Cities (i think... oh geez)
: came and sang a song, and then he introduced
: Marla! Woohoooo! It was quite the
: introduction, too. I believe his exact
: words were... "And speaking of a lot of
: pooping..." hahaha. He joked about
: how he thought of her as more of a sister
: and how they are always joking around with
: each other (about poo, apparently....lol).
: So then he brought Marla up and they joked
: around a little and then he said that they
: weren't going to be singing any songs from
: Jane Eyre (to which the audience let out a
: laaarge awwwwwwww). Then Jim said that they
: didn't have enough time to prepare a song
: together with the musical director, so marla
: would be singing by herself.
:
: Marla (who got her hair cut short and looks
: fabulous!!!) was wearing Jeans and looked
: great... she talked about wearing her
: Hanukkah socks (which inexplicably had a
: pair of teddy bears on them) and how she
: wanted to sing a song that was near and dear
: to her heart this holiday season. She sang
: her song - it's hard to be a Jew on
: Christmas. It was really funny and made the
: crowd laugh. After the song was over, they
: went into a whole south park bit about
: (forgive me, I don't watch the show....) Mr.
: Hankie poo? Someone sounding like that?
: Jim did a little bit of his gypsy character
: and then said he just used the voice of mr.
: hankie for that whole part.
:
: The only other mention of JE was when Jim
: said one night, he was downstage and instead
: of saying his lines, he kind of said
: something like "Blah blah blah
: blah." He was like - the magic of live
: theater! He said after he said it, he
: looked over at Don Richard who was totally
: cracking up.
:
: He talked a lot about his other shows and
: his daughter (and tons of poopy diapers) and
: his wife and his mother (They were very,
: very close) and living in LA and shows he's
: done in California and Assassins and Frank
: Wildhorn and how much we are all the same
: people and how he's been labled as dark and
: brooding on broadway. He talked about his
: audition for Assassins. He talked about
: visiting his in-laws in Hawaii, about how he
: met his wife doing Carousel.
:
: There were many audience interaction bits...
: he had everyone sing along to Mele
: Kalikimaka (hawaiian "Merry
: Christmas") and had different tables
: sing different parts of The Twelve Days of
: Christmas. That was funny and everyone
: enjoyed themselves.
:
: Ok... I'm starting to fade. I'll just end
: with this. He sang that Christmas Josh
: Groban song (escaping me right now... but
: it's been on the radio every five
: seconds..."If you just
: beliiiiieeeeve").. and it was AMAZING.
: 10x better than Josh Groban. That song and
: him singing O Holy Night were worth the
: price of admission alone. O Holy Night is
: my favorite Christmas song
: (Kathey...remember when we were going to do
: that CD? I thought of you when he sang
: this!) and he NAILED it. I'd even go so far
: as to say that was my favorite all-time
: version of the song.
:
: Afterwords I got to talk to Marla for a few
: minutes, which was fabulous as always...
: such a great person. The line to talk to
: Jim was too long and I was tired, so off I
: fled into the night....
:
: It was a great show!
:
: Jenny
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