If I was allowed to post from work (which I am not), I would send submit this post.
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This is just too too too (that is 3 toos) amazing! I can hardly believe it is true, but it must be, so there you are.I have spoken several times, at this site, about my close and personal friend, Sharry. Known locally as
The Legend (
a nickname given to her by her third husband, Aesop), Sharry has, over the years, played most of the great leading female roles around here from Mama Rose to Peter Pan to Fanny Brice. Last year, she was
my Dolly in, of course,
MAME.
Well, Tuesday morning, Sharry called me from work to inquire as to the name of my close and personal friend (
my words, not his), Bruce Kimmel. When I told her Bruce’s name, she said, “I knew it!”
As luck would have it, Sharry and her husband, Micheal, while visiting her sister and brother-in-law in California, decided to celebrate the brother-in-law’s birthday by going to see a woman they had met 10 years before while she was in FORBIDDEN BRAODWAY, perform in a new review, called (
wait for it)…………..
WHAT IF! The performer was Susanne Blakeslee.
During the course of the evening, they sat behind a very delightful gentleman from Florida who was visiting LA to avoid the hurricane. His name was
Michael Shayne. After the fabulous production, they stayed and chatted with Susanne and the entire cast, and then asked an absolutely charming man who was standing there if he would mind taking their picture. His name, as you may have figured out, was
Bruce Kimmel. She was so thrilled to talk to the man who had produced some of her favorite CDs of all time, as well as the director of what she called a truly superb evening of theater. She even got to have her picture taken with
THE Bruce Kimmel!!!
“WHAT IF… is a show that could run forever,” said the often critical, Legend. Her only regret was that she couldn’t go back and see it again and again.
