Changing Lives

It's Olivia Keating of Broadway Mania and we're here for the opening night of Eleanor, the Eleanor Roosevelt musical, starring the incomparable Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman

Let's talk process

When I'm in character
I go insane
I stagger, I stammer, I sob
I make the audiences feel my pain
And if they don't leave depressed
Then I've not done my job

Each time I've found a role like Eleanor
The artist inside of me thrives
I put on my wig
And those prosthetic teeth
And know I'm changing lives
By the time I get tuberculosis in Act Two

Even the people who are dead inside

Will Shout
Bravo!
On Cue

The first review is in!
The New Jersey Star-Ledger

No, don't tell me
What does it say?

It says we're a hit!

We're a hit and I think we deserve it!

That's for sure

Also it means that this tour de force
Will not be forced to tour

To Eleanor!
May she run for eternity!

To Eleanor!

Here's to a show that's so inspiring
It's almost too much to sit through
And if we've won that might mean one more thing

That in ten years or so, we'll do Eleanor 2!

I can predict what the reviews will say
Before the next note has arrived
It's ground-breaking

Earth-Shaking

Life-affirming

Breath-taking

Gut-wrenching

Heart-aching

In two words it's

History-making

That's why every actor strives

For congratulation
And compensation
That comes from nightly
Changing Lives
It's just what we do