"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I saw her Grease pre-Broadway and she was in the moment and the show was much more fun than I expected it to be. As I recall, after the show was open in NYC there were some pay discrepancies and Rosie was pissed that the Weisslers wouldn't give the Sandy a raise above scale even though the show was doing really well. She notoriously walked through the show and I believe Musto even called her for a comment and she said something along the lines of "Yeah, I was pissed."
She has also said in interviews that she gets bored doing the same thing eight times a week. So, although she obviously loves Broadway theatre, she's not really cut out for the job.
She also spoke about her boredom doing Grease extensively on her talk show. It was a source of frequent jokes between she and John McDaniel, who was either the Grease conductor or a musician in the pit (I forget which).
Phil should just buckle down at that university he attend and write a show for Rosie. Then invite her to come out to Pennsylvania for the weekend and perform it.
If she was bored doing Grease, why does she want to continue returning to the theater? That's what it is, you play the same thing for eight shows a week.
What did she say about being bored in Grease? It's not like Patti LuPone singing her big number in the first ten minutes of Les Miz and then sitting in her dressing room for two hours.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Way back when sillyphilly first reared[?] his obnoxious youthful head, I[think] I was the first to exchange words with the young man--where's my Tony?
It has been fascinating to watch along the way just how many other contributors 'sp' now agitates.
Like a lot of youth today, it is all about them, we can do no wrong, we are always right, and absolutely no respect for elders [unless they get get them free tickets to Broadway--at least I SLEPT with producers to get mine !].
So philly, the longer you keep spreading your ignorance and saying so many silly things on here, your ego will be totally uncontrollable. I am sure you must have an orgasm everytime someone responds to your 'sillyness'--you love the attention.
Continue to love and support theatre but think before you type.
Maybe the tree that Cinderella's mother lives in. She's one of my trinity - Brian Williams, Britt McHenry, and Rosie O - when they come on the TV, I turn the channel.