Bette Midler, Lilly Tomlin, Toni Basil,& Dame. HUSSY POWER AT HAIRSPRAY

I had the most fantastic experience of my life ( second to meeting my lover) at the Friday night performance of Hairspray. ( and Marc; I am going to choose to believe you planned this) Seated right next to me in row D was the divine one Bette Midler, accompanied by Lilly Tomlin, and coreographer to the divine one Toni Basil. They were very nice. And very into the show. Starting alot of the applause and friendly to anyone who approached them. But I tell you; just as I thought the Hussy energy couldn't get any higher; the delicious ( and thats the perfect word for him) Jim Vukovich ripped into the act 2 intro and every man, woman, and person with a pulse was pounding with desire. A fantastic conductor and a hot man. The usual hussys were also in their usual fantastic form; starting with Mr Villanch, Marissa, and especially (and I am bias) Susan Cella. After the show we were escorted ( ok ; we tagged along) with the divas backstage. It was really cool to see how nice they were with the cast. I had my reunion with Susan Cella and her dog Bella Cella. It was so good to see her. We then grabbed the sexiest dresser, assistant, and confidante Bruce Villanch has probably ever had; a stud called BYRON BATISTA (former headliner of the now defunct Revolver club) and his equally charming stud muffin of a husband and proceeded with some of my friends (the hussettes) to the trashiest, sleasiest, gay bar we could find in hollywood "The Spotlight Lounge". After a few spirits ( not a place for Mojitos), Byron proceeded to demonstrate his pool playing skills. It was amazing ; because he would hit the balls and pull bags with "blue" magazines in them out of the air at the same time. Well at least we also got some good literature . By the time I left ( I think it was 2 am) they were all still playing pool. I finally made it home by 3. What a great night. To the entire cast and producion team of Hairspray ( and I know you all read this board when you can pull yourselves away from the off-topic board)... You are all FANTASTIC. Thank you.

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 03:52 PM

i'm glad that you had a great time and got to go backstage. lucky!!

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DAME - That was such a nice thing to say. (blush)

Diva, let go of my Tony!

Jim, whats the Tony from?

Theater diva,
What did you boys do to Jack?

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LOL. Honey; wrong Jack. I meant Jack from Friday night. I heard after I left he passed out.

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Sounds like you had a terrific time, Dame - and even topped Liza! I love me some Bette M. !

I sat in the 3rd row at Madison Square Garden for Bette's concert...it was tremendous !!!!

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Updated On: 8/1/04 at 08:56 PM

Dame-

I saw Bette's show in Atlanta back in January. She was phenomenal! Truly a triple threat!

Are you on american? cause if you are.. your going to be there for a while. And honey; I behaved with my usual elegance. I told her to stop leaning into my seat! (right) . Get here safely. Theres lots of stories waiting for you here.

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Actually; he passed out.

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From what I understand; it was the bar. And poor Tom had that hustler hitting on him and he was all alone with Jack. And they had to walk from the bar to the reastaurant where we had gone before the show because his car was parked there. The evening went from bette Midler to this. Oy.

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