Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) With Pics!
Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) With Pics!
#0Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) With Pics!
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:54am
So last night was amazing! First of all, I get to the carlyle and I just love the place. It is amazing. Everyone sitting around us starts to talk and we are all excited. Everyone knows theatre and its great. Maria was amazing! She was so poised and hit every note and just superb. After the show we talked for a while, and I gave her my scrapbook which she fell in love with. She was so touched and gave me a huge hug. Her cellist even took a picture of her and I with the book for something she's making for Maria. It was amazing that I got to meet her and see her amazing peformance.
This is the most amazing thing though. Before the show started, a man sitting by me, who I had been talking to told me to look who just sat down. Stephen Sondheim was sitting 15 feet from us! I stopped breathing. It was incredible. To be in his presence. After the show I got him to sign my Passion C.D. and Passion Program from London. You could tell he doesn't like big attention, but he was very nice and gracious. I was shaking and I couldn't believe I was talking to Sondheim. Maria took the scrapbook over to show him and he was really impressed.
So not only last night did I meet my favorite performer, I met my favorite composer, and I am still in shock. It was an amazing night and I will not forget it. I have one really dark picture, which I wish I could've redone because you cannot really see us, but I will post that and pictures of autographs when I get back from New Orleans Monday (I leave today).
Well I am in shock! Thank you to all who contributed fan letters to the book. She loved them!!!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Updated On: 5/29/06 at 07:54 AM
#1re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 8:09am
whoa!
that sounds awesome.
CQ is tres jealous
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#2re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 8:48amWhat an awesome night!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#3re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:06amIt truly was amazing.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#4re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:13amGood for you! After all your hard work, you deserved something extra special - and I'm glad you got it!
#5re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:19amAww thank you so much! This night will go down in history for me!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#6re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:23amWell said, Bennett.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#7re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:49pmI was there last night too! Did you go to the 8:45 or 10:45?
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#8re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:09pm
LUCKY YOU!
I am so happy for you...isn't she just so sweet?
#9re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/29/06 at 8:44pm
I was at the 8:45.
Now I will post my wonderful autographed items! and my very dark picture of maria and me (I thought the flash was on! 
!!)
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#10re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!)
Posted: 5/29/06 at 8:59pmYou know if you go to the 8:45 they let you stay for the 10:45 for free...at least thats what she told us...
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#12re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/29/06 at 9:21pm
Okay here they are
Me
Terribly dark picture of maria and I! If anyone can use some program to lighten this I'd be forever greatful!
WIW London and NY signed Programs!
Sondheim signed my passion program from London!!!
signed by Maria
Lady in the dark signed c.d.!
Such an amazing night! I met my favorite performer and favorite composer in the same room. The best was seeing Maria and Stephen interact. And she brought the scrapbook over to him and he loved it! Stephen Sondhime loved my scrapbook! AH! So it was amazing and Maria hugged me three times.
I started crying during the concert during "sunday in the park with dot" sequence because she started crying and she just looked at me and smiled and it was amazing.
Her cellist took a picture of me and her holding the book for something she's making for Maria and it was such an amazing night! Thanks to everyone who contributed to the scrapbook.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
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Posted: 5/29/06 at 9:25pm
oh...............my................god..........I refuse to talk to you ever again
Just kidding
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#14re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/29/06 at 9:26pmWhat an amazing opportunity, to meet Stephen Sondheim. You met a legend (but you know that). Very cool.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#15re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/29/06 at 9:28pmThat's crazy. Glad you had a good time!
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Posted: 5/29/06 at 9:47pm
Amazing is the only sufficient adjective I can possibly think of! 
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#17re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/29/06 at 10:02pmwow! i love Maria's new CD. i can't even imagine what it must've been like to meet Sondheim! that had to have been surreal...
#18re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 1:12amI bought the CD online, I hope i like it too.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
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Posted: 5/30/06 at 6:51am
I still need to get the c.d.
It was so cute. She was so modest, she didn't want to plug it and her cellist was like "maria, they can buy the c.d.!"
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#20re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 10:49am
You're pretty much S.O.L., kid. These are as good as they get...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#21re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 1:10pmThank You for Sharing!
#22re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 5:28pmThank you so much for brightening the pics, they look so muchg better! and you can see maria holding the book!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#23re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:13pm
If you haven't gotten the CD, it's on iTunes. I got it...due to my suffering of "instant gratification disease"
Yeah. Search 'Maria Friedman'
#24re: Maria Friedman Last Night (And a BIG surprise!) Pics Added!
Posted: 5/30/06 at 7:33pmI want to buy the real thing. As much as I love itunes, I love the inlet photos etc. even more.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
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