John Tartaglia's Final Performance
John Tartaglia's Final Performance
#0John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:37pm
20 minutes until curtain...
:prepares tissue box:
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#1re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:39pmAw...We'll he's been great in it! Hope his last performance goes well!
#2re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:44pm
My only solace is Barrett taking over in two days.
But I hope Johnny has an AMAZING night. He deserves it!
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#4re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:49pmI wish him all the best and pass the tissue box!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#5re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:50pm
I almost got to go, but that didn't work out. Oh well.... I have a certain small festivity planned for this evening, anyway. 
#6re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:52pmooo what is that emcee?
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
TheGirlinTheFrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/26/04
#7re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:53pmWHY DO YOU SIGN ME IN WITH THIS USER NAME!!!
Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance...
I AM NOW "TGIF!"
Updated On: 1/30/05 at 06:53 PM
#8re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:54pmEmcee, did you try lotto there today instead of Rent?
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:55pmi was just going to post the john thread, but im glad it has already started! about seven minutes till curtain...broadway is losing a great performer tonight, but hopefully he will be back very soon. when i found out john was leaving, i knew i had to get tickets, and i did on the 20th. i am so glad i did decide to go because that is a performance not to be missed. i will be seeing avenue q again in march, but it will not be the same. can you guys let me know how barrett is? im sure he's really good...anyway, thanks john for being so amazing and for being probably the nicest performer i have met...ahh i love him!
#10re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:56pm
BARRETT = AMAZING
...that is all.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
stacey717
Featured Actor Joined: 10/27/04
#11re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:58pm
Two minutes...
I can't believe it... and wish I'd seen the show earlier so I could have seen it more than once with him in it... but I did get to see him in it, so yay for that. And I wish I could have gone tonight...
He'll move on to even more, another solace..
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:59pm
i remember when john first came out on stage...what a great moment...it's about to happen for the last time...oh dear 
#13re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 6:59pm
ohh johnny. jtags. jt. jtizzle. jtart
ok im done
but ill REALLY miss him. he's amazing
awkward.
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stacey717
Featured Actor Joined: 10/27/04
#14re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:01pm
Do you hear the Ave Q theme?
His many nicknames hehe...
#15re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:04pmI'm listening to the Ave Q theme right now. I decided that since I can't see it, I'll just listen to it. :'-(
HROK?
#16re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:08pmI am also listing to the q cd. Ahh how i love that show and John and the rest of the cast!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#17re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:09pm
we'll, the shows a good 10 minutes into it...i wish i could have seen john before he left i'm going at the end of march...so close!
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Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:10pmit sucks to be all of us who are not at this show!
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#19re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:12pm
I got the chance to see the show in October and Johnny was AMAZING (as was the rest of the cast, of course). I got to meet him afterwards and he was just the sweetest person. He even apologized for taking so long to come outside. And did anyone else see the ginormous water bottle he has?
Oh wow... I'm going to miss him so much - even if I have only seen the show once!
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
Alix7272
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#20re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:02pm
*cries* for some reason i kept thinking that his last show was on the 31st - tomorrow, and now i'm so upset b/c i wasn't prepared for this. well, i wish him all the best afterwards. i can't wait for reviews and pictures.
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#21re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:02pm
*tear* all the best for the future...
He really is such a sweetheart...
"I am unfinished- I am diminished
With or without you..."
#22re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:12pm
*cries*
I did the same thing for Idina's last. Regretted not going, and wasn't sad until it was actually the day of. I'm such a nerd.
#23re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:13pm
*cries*I wish him all the best, and he WILL move on to greater things, although he was amazing in Avenue Q. He's such a sweet guy and I wish him the best with whatever he does, and I know he wont be out of the spotlight for long.
<3John Tartaglia<3
I hope there are pictures from his last performance :)
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What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#24re: John Tartaglia's Final Performance
Posted: 1/30/05 at 8:16pm*Sigh* I wish i was there right now. John's performance was incredable and he was such a nice person at the stage door.
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