Saturday, July 01, 2006

OH MY GOD …. IT’S MADONNA!

At our last Saturday matinee of the THREE PENNY OPERA as I am standing in the back of the house “ushering” -- not truly seating people; it’s just the word we would use when the cast mingled with the audience 15 minutes before the “places” call. We’d stand around in our ghoulish Punk/Goth/Issac Mizrahi costumes making the audience uncomfortable. It was actually a lot of fun!

So I’m at the matinee still recouping from Friday night out with Alan Cumming and and Thursday night til 6AM celebrating Cyndi Lauper’s birthday! As I am looking around the theater my eyes spot a small posse of people coming in as the crowd clears. Sure enough walking into the theater is Madonna escorted with two people and a body guard. My director Scott Elliot is by her side chatting with her. As they all walk by me she looks at me and says, “ Do you pay them to look like this?” Scott responds, “ Yes I do!” So they walk on and I am naturally freaking out that Madonna walked by me a foot away. As soon as I am able to poke Hattie Hathaway, a fellow actor in the show, to let him know that Madonna just walked by she walked by again obviously not able to find her seat.


She had on a cute sweat suit with a baseball cap and sunglasses she took off while inside. She took her seat and ate a little sandwich before the show started. She looked amazing!! She is tiny; she can’t weigh more than 100 lbs.


After the show she came back stage to see Carlos Leon (Lourdes’ father and the sweetest man you will ever meet!) She paid her respects to Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Jim Dale, and Nellie McKay. All the principals! I was in the hallway hoping to meet her. I have never been someone to chase anyone down for a hello or a autograph. But I did want to meet her. I was even holding my baby Chihuahua Tobi hoping she might say… ‘Awww, how cute. ’ But NO! She just walked by and I didn’t say anything. BAD EDIE!


I forgave her because she had a show in Connecticut in less than 3 hours. But I wasn’t the only one she ignored.


Flotilla DeBarge, another actor in the show, sporting a “Madonna Live” tank top asked, “Can I have a picture with you? Without missing a beat or even looking up, Madonna flatted said “NO,” said goodbye to Scott and Carlos and disappeared down the stairs and out the stage door. It was very funny!

1 comment:

Ron said...

Her, not you Edie!!