Archive for March, 2008

JLY COMES TO SAY GOODBYE

WHAT A GREAT SURPRISE AND TREAT. JOHN LLOYD YOUNG AND HIS GIRLFRIEND ALLISON, CAME TO THE MATINEE YESTERDAY. I USUALLY DON’T LIKE TO KNOW WHO’S IN THE AUDIENCE, AS IT TAKES ME OUT OF CHARACTER…BUT SEBASTIAN LET IT SLIP THAT HE WAS OUT THERE YESTERDAY, AND HE WAS THERE, TO SEE ME IN THE SHOW BEFORE I LEFT.

INSTEAD OF BEING SELF CONSCIOUS, I WAS SO HONORED, AND TOUCHED…THAT IT MADE MY BREAK UP SCENE AND ‘MY EYES ADORED YOU’ ON THE STAIRS MORE POIGNANT, AT LEAST FOR ME.

HE LOOKS WONDERFUL, HAPPY, PEACEFUL. ALLISON TOO. I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO AUDITION FOR HER A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ AND THE WAY SHE SET UP THE AUDITION ROOM…THE WARMTH, WELCOMING, PROFESSIONALISM AND FUN…WAS SO FREEING FOR AN ACTOR…I HAD THE BEST TIME

I GOT TO SPEAK WITH BOTH OF THEM FOR AWHILE AFTER THE SHOW…AND, GOSH, IT JUST MADE ME MISS HIM, BUT VALUE THAT TIME WE HAD…HE’S AUDITIONING A LOT AND ACTUALLY HAS A CALLBACK FOR A NEW PILOT…SO KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED TO SEE HIM ON SCREEN. OK GOT A SHOW TO DO…9 MORE…..AND COUNTING.

ALICE’S TEACUP LUNCHEON

Laura, Kathy and Wanda and I got together for a final high tea date at ALice’s Teacup on the UWest SIde. They have the best warm pumpkin scones with clotted cream in the world. They always have a choice of about five different daily varieties…and really I could just live on the scones and a bowl full of the clotted arteries/cream…SO delicious. Everything in the sweet room is inspired by, of course, Alice in Wonderland. The room is filled with mommies and daddies with their little girls, and grown ups wanting to engage in whimsical fairy tales, and sweets.

We had a great time and I’ve loved getting to know Wanda, Kathy and Laura these past few years. Definitely friends for life..

1000 Broadway Shows

OK HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES, COURTESY OF WANDA LIBARDI..SINCE I FORGOT MY CAMERA. RICK ELICE, MARSHALL BRICKMAN AND BOB GAUDIO THREW THIS WONDERFUL PARTY CELEBRATING OUR 1000 PERFORMANCE, GRAMMY GOING GOLD, AND ME GOING HOME..LOL.

IT WAS AT THE PALM RESTAURANT.ON THE WAY OUT THAT NIGHT, JUDY GAUDIO SHOWED ME A FANTASTIC RENDERING OF FRANKIE AND BOB, AND UNDERNEATH THEM THE 4 BOYS WHO PLAY THEM ON STAGE.. SO IF YOU GO IN THE RESTARAUNT LOOK FOR IT.

RICK GAVE AN AMAZING SPEECH , ALMOST 6 PAGES LONG..THAT ONLY CONFIRMS HIS WIT AND BRILLIANCE AND UTTER STUTTERING AND STUPIDITY IN HIS PRESENCE ..LOL.HE HAS THE LARGEST HEART IN THE WORLD.. IT WAS SO NICE TO TALK ONE ON ONE WITH EACH OF THEM, AND THE PRODUCERS OF THE SHOW WHO CAME AND THE USHERS, WARDROBE, HAIR ..EVERY DEPARTMENT. IT WAS LIKE BEING AT YOUR OWN FUNERAL , AND HEARING NICE THINGS SAID ABOUT YOU…BUT YOU’RE ALIVE….AND HOW APROPOS CONSIDERING IT WAS EASTER SUNDAY…. ENJOY …JENNIFER

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I’M GOING TO WRITE ABOUT OUR 1000 PERFORMANCE/PARTY AT THE PALM, WHEN I GET SOME PHOTOS.. IT WAS FANTASTIC.. RICK ELICE, MARSHALL BRICKMAN AND BOB AND JUDY GAUDIO THREW IT FOR US.RICK GAVE A 6 PAGE TRIBUTE TO WHY JERSEY BOYS IS STILL HIP AND A HIT…AND BOB SHOWED US THE GOLD GRAMMY AND A RENDERING OF FRANKIE AND HE, AND THE 4 BOYS ON THE WALLS OF THE PALM.

I THINK MY DENIAL IS FAST FADING AND IT’S STARTING TO SINK IN I ONLY HAVE 2 WEEKS LEFT.. BEFORE WRITING MORE YOU CAN CHECK OUT PHOTOS OF THE PARTY ON broadway.com     JUST LOOK UNDER PHOTO SECTION ABOUT OUR 1000 PERFORMANCE….XOOX JEN

getting a taste of being out of show

What a bummer.All the boys were sick last week ,and some of our stage hands have been sick for months it seems. Well finally I caught some bug. I’m relieved it didn’t happen during my cabaret shows. ANd I’m so thankful that this Sunday is NOT my last show..cuz I missed Tues, Wedmatinee,Thurs and tonight.

I’m really getting a taste of what it’s going to be like not doing this show at least at night.I miss the cast already.I came back Wednesday night because my friend ,who’s broke, flew out here from LA to see me in what she thought was my last week. I hate going to work sick too,cuz I know they’re thinking like me, STAY AWAY AND DON’T SNEEZE ON ME, lol.

ANyway Happy Easter …and see you for the final countdown…

OK I GOT GOOD NEWS AND SO SO NEWS

Mary Delgado

NOW, THEY’VE ASKED ME TO STAY FOR 2 MORE WEEKS IN THE SHOW. SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, MY LAST SHOW IS APRIL 6 2008. SORRY TO ANYONE WHO GOT TICKETS FOR MARCH 23…BUT LOOK AT THAT, JUST LIKE EASTER SUNDAY, I’M ALIVE AND STILL PRESENT IN NY!!!

BELIEVE ME IT’S A SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT. BUT OUR PRODUCERS ARE GENEROUSLY PUTTING ME IN A HOTEL FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF APRIL AND REARRANGING FLIGHT/TRAVEL PLANS. AND TAKING CARE OF ME VERY NICELY, I MUST SAY. THIS NEW MOVE HAS MIRACULOUSLY BENEFITED TIM AND I.

ALSO THAT NIGHT OF MARCH 23 OUR WONDERFUL RICK ELICE, ALONG WITH MARSHALL BRICKMAN AND BOB GAUDIO ARE THROWING US A HUGE PARTY. ON THE NOTICE IT SAYS “TO CELEBRATE OUR 1000 PERFORMANCE, THE CAST RECORDING GOING GOLD, AND TO SAY FAREWELL TO NAIMO”

SO I GET TO HAVE A PARTY THROWN BY THEM AT A WONDERFUL PLACE…RIGHT AFTER THEY ALL RETURN FROM LONDON’S OPENING AND BEFORE THEY GO TO VEGAS. LIFE IS GOOD… NOW I REALLY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THIS PACKING..

LOVE YOU ALL , JENNIFER

OH AND PS. APRIL 6 ALL THE BOYS WILL BE BACK FROM VACATION, SO YAHOO (CHRISTIAN, AND BOBBY).

two weeks to go

HI JUST A LITTLE GREETING

TIME IS FLYING BY…I CAN’T BELIEVE IT. I THINK I’M IN DENIAL , AS A FEW BOXES ARE STACKED BY MY DOOR ..I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I’M GETTING ALL THE THINGS I’VE ACCUMULATED OVER 2 AND A HALF YEARS, BACK TO CALIFORNIA… UPS? FEDEX? THE GOOD OLE POST OFFICE?? AND ONCE I MAKE THAT DECISION..HOW THE HECK AM I GOING TO GET THE BOXES THERE?? LOL.. IVE ALREADY PULLED SOMETHING SLIGHTLY IN MY BACK… SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO GIVE IT ALL AWAY… EXCEPT MY POPCORN MACHINE.. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT..

A NEW MARY HAS BEEN CHOSEN. BUT I CAN’T SAY WHO TILL THEY SAY I CAN. BUT SHE STARTS REHEARSAL TOMORROW.AND NOW I HAVE TO CATCH UP AND SAY GOODBYE TO A LOT OF FRIENDS HERE. OH BOY…LET THE GAMES BEGIN…

PS ..THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BEAUTIFUL COMMENTS ON LINE..I WILL SAVOR THEM ALL…

BYE BYE BABY, BABY GOODBYE

It is with much love, pride, memories to last a lifetime, joy, bittersweetness, peace and blessings of Des, Rick and Marshall, and our wonderful producers, that I’m leaving JERSEY BOYS. And some of you thought I couldn’t keep a secret!!! After much pondering, and bi-coastal phone calls with Tim, we’ve given it much thought, prayers, tears, and it’s time.

As some of you know,Tim and I were trying for a family since we got married in 2003, but I kept getting jobs that took me away from him.”The Full Monty Nat’l Tour, Jersey Boys in La Jolla , and than here On BROADWAY!!.

So tick tick, we’ve been going through the adoption process and it’s come to a point where I need to actually be living with my husband, LOL, Tim (if I can remember what he looks like) and be in our house for the next level in this journey.

I don’t think I can put into my words what this amazing ride has been like. I had never originated a role before..I thought playing Eponine in Les Miz would be the high point of my career, and than along came Mary.

To create something with the writers and the director and choreographer and music director from it’s conception?? unbelievable..and I never dreamed it would escalate to these heights.

To record the cast album and have strangers and family hear me on something that has won the Grammy, gone GOLD, perform on the TONY AWARDS at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, to meet the celebrities who I’ve grown up emulating, to establish relationships with new friends, some for life both in the cast and fans/friends,to have kissed 8 different Frankies (and secretly score their expertise) and conclude none compares with TIM’S, to have had so many occasions to dress up , be girlie, be silly ,be photographed, be BOTOXED (just kidding), to adore Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, to cherish Des and his indefatigable spirit, to have witnessed Ron Melrose work so hard in La Jolla and now to reap the awards, to have been molded by Jess Goldstein, and crowned by Chuck LaPointe and nightly Amy…to have been guided by RIchard Hestor, and now Michelle Bosch and received house seat requests and weekly salary funds from Sandy Carlson, to have shared a cramped dressing room with Heather, Erica and Sara and crazy Kelly…to have had the great joy to swear on a nightly basis, and to change costumes 18 times, and to have met and known Frankie, Bob and Judy ….to have had the opportunity to bring my mom and dad, family and almost all 17 nieces and nephews into NYC and La Jolla to experience this theatrical wonder…

LIKE I SAID, WORDS CAN’T EXPRESS MY PRIDE, HUMILITY AND GRATEFULNESS.

TO SAY GOODBYE, I SHALL NOT, BUT EASTER SUNDAY WILL BE MY LAST SHOW, AND I CHOSE THAT BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS NEW LIFE, UNEXPECTED JOY AND MIRACLES. MAY EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU EXPERIENCE THAT TOO..AND I THANKYOU FOR THE BLESSINGS YOU’VE GENEROUSLY BESTOWED ON ME THROUGHOUT THESE 3 YEARS OF JERSEY BOYS…..XOXOXOXXO JENNIFER AKA MARY DELGADO