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 And just like in the movie I
got to sing "Old Black Magic." This is "Cheri�s " favorite number and she thinks she is singing it as well as any of the musical performers she has seen on the big
screen...so she sings it from her heart but her talent doesn�t match her desire. To me its the most brazen moment of the whole show because you are center stage singing your heart out but making sure it does not
sound too good...I choreographed the moves and believe me I made it look like it was coming directly out of Cheri�s head and how fabulous "she" thought it looked...wearing the ripped fishnet and the little
costume that she carried in her suitcase.... Oh, it's a moment.... the first time I did it the cast was there and no one laughed about halfway thru the number they began to giggle and I realized I was on the right
track.....phew!
Playing Bo was Jonathan
Haglund. We had an excellent onstage chemistry and the audience gave us standing ovations during the run.... in fact in a note I recently got from the artistic director John Sbordone,
"Bus Stop" was the only sell-out for the entire season.
Well, in live theatre their is almost
always "a fly in the ointment," in our case a cast member's wife left him just one week before opening and we all helped him survive because "the show MUST go on."...or as Charlie Brown would have
said..."Good grief!"
Theatre reviewer, Bob
Feldheim wrote "Annie Gaybis stars as Cheri. Ancient City theatergoers were recently treated to her stage craftsmanship as Maggie in last year�s 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.' Here,
no surprise, she blows the roof off the place with a dynamite performance that culminates in her all-stops-out rendition of 'That Old Black Magic."'
Can a girl get much happier reading
this????? Yes, I was Cheri in polka dots and red lipstick in both mind and spirit and I sure am glad that it came across...Yee-Hah!!
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