Thanks, Imzadi! I can't believe how quickly my baby is growing up.
We LOVE Jesus Christ Superstar! We have been the touring productions several times - many years ago with Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson (RIP, Carl), and more recently, Neeley with Corey Glover from Living Colour.
DD, who had not seen it before but knew all the songs from our CD's, turned to me and said, "Mom, Jesus is OLD!!!
He's not supposed to be old; he died when he was 33!"
That is so obnoxious to leave in the middle of the performance just because their own child has finished performing. That's just so rude.
It's becoming an annoying new phenomenon on Broadway now too - if someone really famous is in the show, people start leaving before the show ends so they can rush to the stage door and wait for autographs. When Daniel Radcliffe was in
How to Succeed, people were bolting out of the theater before "Brotherhood of Man" (which is the best part of the whole show!) to get to the stage door. What is wrong with these people?
That's disgusting and so disrespectful.
I remember when I was still in high school, My best friend & I, and another friend went to see Richard Gere in
Bent. It was sometime around his
American Graffiti, fame. My best friend had the biggest crush on him. (Me, not so much.) So we thought there would be a crowd of women standing by the door.
Turns out, it was such a depressing story line, about 2 men in a Nazi concentration camp, that NO ONE was waiting by the door.

We three girls were the only ones, huddled out in the cold for a good 20 minutes after the show. The stage door man took pity on us and finally allowed us inside, to wait for Gere.
About another 5 minutes later, Richard Gere & the other star, David Dukes, finally trudged down the stairs. They were shocked to find us waiting there.

They were so wonderful to us. They signed our Playbills and chatted with us. And I was so nervous and star struck, I blabbered away, a mile a minute.

I don't even remember what I said.

I just blabbered.
But, I'll never forget how very kind they were to us, when there was no big crowd to impress or any press photographers around.
