The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part 3 — Page 53

Anyone would win over Laura Bell Bundy. Seriously... who wants to look at


REALLY BIG

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I remember sitting in the theater the day after the Tonys, and I open my playbill and there's GIANT PICTURE OF David Hyde Pierce. I just started laughing... I mean, what can you do?

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The Curtains posters is worse for Raul, not for me. I can stop harping on Laura Bell Bundy any second now. I thought going to see Legally Blonde would cure me, like an arachnophobe going to a spider museum, but it did not.

I laughed so hard when I got to the theatre last week and saw that Curtains poster. At least it's not on the stage door, and in all of our pictures, looming and mocking Raul and our post-Tony pain. Even if I think that would be awesome, most people here do not.

Sorry to change the subject, but I just wanted to tell you about the Broadway Barks auction I won. It was for a stuffed dog signed by the cast of Company, and Raúl signed on the tummy next to this zipper thing, but it cracks me up every time cause he was the only one to sign under the dog. And in a very...um...awkward place. Others did sign on the butt under the tail too and it's just so funny.

It also came with a playbill signed by Raúl and he made a little doggie paw artwork on it, which reminded me of someone who got little dots with their autograph on the first part of this tread.

Sorry, just wanted to share that. It may up for not being able to stay after Company at the stage door Sunday.

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Updated On: 7/5/07 at 10:38 PM

Ok misschung, I'll tell that story. It was during previews of Chitty and Raúl kind of snuck out the stage door past all the kids and no one noticed him. And he came and stood right next to me. I was like, uh, uh, hi, uh, can I have your autograph please? He was probably trying to avoid this but I did manage to squeak out that I'd come all the way from Louisiana just to see him and he said sure. Only problem was he had a bag of cheetos in one hand amd his phone in the other. He tried to get the phone into the pockets of his shorts and was fumbling, so I said I'd hold it. So he traded me his cheetos and phone for the playbill and sharpie and signed it for me. Then he got mobbed when people recognized him. I was like sorry, he said, that's ok, and I ended up holding his stuff for several minutes while he signed for everyone(he didn't take pics with anyone though). I just felt honored to get to touch his stuff.

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Cheetos. It validates every single joke I've ever made about Raul Esparza.

but it cracks me up every time cause he was the only one to sing under the dog.

Did they use the Wicked cherry picker to elevate that dog to a place Raul could sing under it?

Updated On: 7/5/07 at 10:51 PM

I just felt honored to get to touch his stuff.

lol!

Cheetos? I thought chocolate was worse for your voice

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Yeah yeah, I meant SIGN. I went back and fixed it

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Chocolate is bad, but cheetos are worse... at least in my experience dealing with bitchy singers.

If we just made sure that it was Godiva Chocolate Liqour.. then we're set with a dead voice

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Heh, the first year I went to Bryant Park, I was walking around and I saw him eating pizza before the performance even though dairy is bad for your voice. He sounded great, so whatever.

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There was that thread a few months ago about what to eat before a performance, and I was surprised at how many people suggested pizza.

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Psh. How many people posting in the "bad for your voice" thread are performing 8 times a week on Broadway? People *here* freak out about smoking ruining your voice, but Broadway singers are keeping Marlboro in business.

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Updated On: 7/5/07 at 11:15 PM

Does spinach get you a voluntary?

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