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Posted: 4/3/05 at 3:30pm
WARNING: This is going to be a long post.
Again, last night I watched the final three episodes of THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW. Again, tears flowed from my eyes, poured down my cheeks, and disappeared as they fell off my chin.
Again, I proclaim my love for Rosie.
My life growing up was difficult. I wasn't a difficult person - living was difficult. I was just like any other kid. Why was I teased? But this is another story.
I had two friends. One, two. I could count them. The first is Brad - thank you for friendship. You were a semi-popular guy, yet you still were friends with me - a pure outcast, although I was just like any other kid.
My second friend is Rosie O' Donnell. She doesn't know me, but I don't need her to know me. I know her.
No friends, except for Rosie. Then later Brad.
Every day I would go home crying. I wouldn't do my homework. I wouldn't go to the kitchen for a snack. The very first thing I would do is run to my room and press rewind on the VCR.
My VCR was programmed to record two things: THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW and THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
After I finished watching them, I would have no life. I'd eat dinner, do homework, play videogames alone, and watch TV. ROSIE gave me a purpose to live. Not just a single purpose, but several.
I had always enjoyed the Broadway performances, and it rooted an interest in theatre. One show in particular made me say "it's time I go see a show!" This was 42nd STREET. Rosie mentioned it on her program, and it became my very first Broadway show. My parents didn't take me, I took my parents.
They both fell asleep somewhere near the end of ACT I.
I always saw the clips of her at the TONYS, but I never watched them. The first telecast of the TONYS I watched was in 2002.
I wanted to see them all! THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLE, URINETOWN, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, MAMMA MIA! But the show I ended up taking my father to was the revival of INTO THE WOODS. I also took my family to see the National Tour of MAMMA MIA! when it came to a major city close to where we moved to.
We moved from PA to NC. I got into a School for the Arts. I am now a college student studying Theatre. The Theatre communities I have worked with helped me grow as a person, not just an actor. I now have friends. So many that I can’t count. But I don’t need to count. It doesn’t matter.
I have my life, and it is all thanks to Rosie. How can you give enough thanks? How can you appreciate this wonderful woman enough? I love her – and that is how. Not a romantic love. Not a motherly love. Not a “obsessed fan club stalker” love. But a unique love. A love that says “because of you, I am alive today. You saved me. You are my hero. You are my Barbra Streisand.”
It’s funny. I recall a moment on her television show, and it chronicles my life. So now, here is a chronicle of just SOME of the posts I made here at BroadwayWorld which touched on my appreciation:
April 8, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=148580&boardname=bway
June 21, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=off&thread=207475
September 4, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=356028&boardname=bway
January 14, 2005:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=711002&boardname=bway
And today, April 3, 2005, I have created this post. And in a few months, I shall create another.
Looking back at my posts, one of my favorite things to stare at is this list:
Here is full list of Broadway performances:
Season 1:
June 21, 1996: RENT
June 28, 1996: SEVEN GUITARS
July 8, 1996: BRING IN DA NOISE, BRING IN DA FUNK
July 19, 1996: STOMP
October 16, 1996: SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
March 19, 1997: LES MISERABLES
April 9, 1997: ANNIE
May 12, 1997: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
May 23, 1997: CHICAGO
May 26: 1997: "BEST OF BROADWAY SHOW" (of that Tony season)
May 27, 1997: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
May 28, 1997: THE LIFE
May 29, 1997: STEEL PIER
May 30, 1997: THE LIFE
June 16, 1997: BRING IN DA NOISE, BRING IN DA FUNK
Season 2:
October 3, 1997: RIVERDANCE
October 21, 1997: RENT
November 7, 1997: THE LION KING
November 18, 1997: CATS
November 25, 1997: THE CAPE MAN
December 11, 1997: A STREETCORNER SYMPHONY
January 19, 1998: RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL
January 20, 1998: THE KING AND I
January 27, 1998: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
January 29, 1998: THE LION KING
March 9, 1998: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
April 16, 1998: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
April 20, 1998: CABARET
May 21, 1998: CABARET
September 3, 1998: SIDE SHOW
May 28, 1998: RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL
June 1, 1998: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
June 2, 1998: THE LION KING
June 4, 1998: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
June 5, 1998: "SALUTE TO THIS YEAR'S TONY AWARDS"
Season 3:
November 10, 1998: ON THE TOWN
November 24, 1998: PETER PAN
December 14, 1998: FOOTLOOSE
January 7, 1999: FOSSE
January 15, 1999: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
January 25, 1999: PARADE
February 5, 1999: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
March 12, 1999: FOSSE
April 2, 1999: CIVIL WAR
May 31, 1999: IT AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES
June 1, 1999: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
June 2: 1999: FOSSE
June 3, 1999: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
June 4, 1999: CIVIL WAR
Season 4:
November 1, 1999: KISS ME, KATE
November 3, 1999: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
November 8, 1999: PUTTING IT TOGETHER
January 28, 2000: RENT
February 1, 2000: SWING
March 9, 2000: AIDA
March 13, 2000: BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS
April 5, 2000: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
April 7, 2000: CONTACT
April 12, 2000: AIDA
April 20, 2000: THE MUSIC MAN
May 25, 2000: THE WILD PARTY
May 26, 2000: CONTACT
May 29, 2000: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
May 30, 2000: AIDA
May 31, 2000: KISS ME KATE
June 1, 2000: SWING
June 2, 2000: THE MUSIC MAN
Season 5:
September 8, 2000: CATS
October 13, 2000: THE FULL MONTY
November 1, 2000: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
November 16, 2000: JANE EYRE
November 17, 2000: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
December 11, 2000: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
March 14, 2001: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
March 22, 2001: A CLASS ACT
April 17, 2001: FOLLIES
April 19, 2001: ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
April 24, 2001: 42nd STREET
Season 6 (final season):
September 21, 2001: DREAMGIRLS
September 25, 2001: LES MISERABLES
October 2, 2001: CHICAGO
October 3, 2001: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
October 11, 2001: AIDA
November 2, 2001: MAMMA MIA!
March 5, 2002: ONE MO' TIME
March 19, 2002: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
April 18, 2002: OKLAHOMA
April 25, 2002: THOROUGHLY MORDERN MILLIE
May 2, 2002: INTO THE WOODS
May 14, 2002: THE PRODUCERS
May 22, 2002: ROSIE'S LAST SHOW, featuring Nathan Lane, John Lithgow, Vanessa Williams, and the casts from all current Broadway shows, including INTO THE WOODS, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, CHICAGO, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, MAMMA MIA!, OKLAHOMA, THE PRODUCERS, RENT, and more. Rosie opens the show appearing in Times Square, followed by performances in the streets from Broadway shows wishing Rosie a farewell.
There were over 100 Broadway performances, in addition to interviews and other musical performances not listed here, including Disney, Linda Eder, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Nathan Lane, Elton John, Chita Rivera, and more.
I shake my head in disbelief. No words I can come up with will express my love, appreciation, and gratitude for her. And not just the six years she has appeared on TV, but her life, her views, her passion. She is an inspiration that is the drive of my life. What I want to be.
To conclude this post, I have a final plea:
As I have been requesting since I became a regular to the Online world, I am in search of full episodes of THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW. Commercials are fine. I want from the intro to ending credits, each and every one of her shows. My life is documented in it.
PM me, or e-mail captainjamesh00k@aol.com (those are zeros).
To Be Continued...
Again, last night I watched the final three episodes of THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW. Again, tears flowed from my eyes, poured down my cheeks, and disappeared as they fell off my chin.
Again, I proclaim my love for Rosie.
My life growing up was difficult. I wasn't a difficult person - living was difficult. I was just like any other kid. Why was I teased? But this is another story.
I had two friends. One, two. I could count them. The first is Brad - thank you for friendship. You were a semi-popular guy, yet you still were friends with me - a pure outcast, although I was just like any other kid.
My second friend is Rosie O' Donnell. She doesn't know me, but I don't need her to know me. I know her.
No friends, except for Rosie. Then later Brad.
Every day I would go home crying. I wouldn't do my homework. I wouldn't go to the kitchen for a snack. The very first thing I would do is run to my room and press rewind on the VCR.
My VCR was programmed to record two things: THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW and THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
After I finished watching them, I would have no life. I'd eat dinner, do homework, play videogames alone, and watch TV. ROSIE gave me a purpose to live. Not just a single purpose, but several.
I had always enjoyed the Broadway performances, and it rooted an interest in theatre. One show in particular made me say "it's time I go see a show!" This was 42nd STREET. Rosie mentioned it on her program, and it became my very first Broadway show. My parents didn't take me, I took my parents.
They both fell asleep somewhere near the end of ACT I.
I always saw the clips of her at the TONYS, but I never watched them. The first telecast of the TONYS I watched was in 2002.
I wanted to see them all! THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLE, URINETOWN, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, MAMMA MIA! But the show I ended up taking my father to was the revival of INTO THE WOODS. I also took my family to see the National Tour of MAMMA MIA! when it came to a major city close to where we moved to.
We moved from PA to NC. I got into a School for the Arts. I am now a college student studying Theatre. The Theatre communities I have worked with helped me grow as a person, not just an actor. I now have friends. So many that I can’t count. But I don’t need to count. It doesn’t matter.
I have my life, and it is all thanks to Rosie. How can you give enough thanks? How can you appreciate this wonderful woman enough? I love her – and that is how. Not a romantic love. Not a motherly love. Not a “obsessed fan club stalker” love. But a unique love. A love that says “because of you, I am alive today. You saved me. You are my hero. You are my Barbra Streisand.”
It’s funny. I recall a moment on her television show, and it chronicles my life. So now, here is a chronicle of just SOME of the posts I made here at BroadwayWorld which touched on my appreciation:
April 8, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=148580&boardname=bway
June 21, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=off&thread=207475
September 4, 2004:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=356028&boardname=bway
January 14, 2005:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=711002&boardname=bway
And today, April 3, 2005, I have created this post. And in a few months, I shall create another.
Looking back at my posts, one of my favorite things to stare at is this list:
Here is full list of Broadway performances:
Season 1:
June 21, 1996: RENT
June 28, 1996: SEVEN GUITARS
July 8, 1996: BRING IN DA NOISE, BRING IN DA FUNK
July 19, 1996: STOMP
October 16, 1996: SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
March 19, 1997: LES MISERABLES
April 9, 1997: ANNIE
May 12, 1997: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
May 23, 1997: CHICAGO
May 26: 1997: "BEST OF BROADWAY SHOW" (of that Tony season)
May 27, 1997: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
May 28, 1997: THE LIFE
May 29, 1997: STEEL PIER
May 30, 1997: THE LIFE
June 16, 1997: BRING IN DA NOISE, BRING IN DA FUNK
Season 2:
October 3, 1997: RIVERDANCE
October 21, 1997: RENT
November 7, 1997: THE LION KING
November 18, 1997: CATS
November 25, 1997: THE CAPE MAN
December 11, 1997: A STREETCORNER SYMPHONY
January 19, 1998: RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL
January 20, 1998: THE KING AND I
January 27, 1998: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
January 29, 1998: THE LION KING
March 9, 1998: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
April 16, 1998: TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
April 20, 1998: CABARET
May 21, 1998: CABARET
September 3, 1998: SIDE SHOW
May 28, 1998: RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL
June 1, 1998: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
June 2, 1998: THE LION KING
June 4, 1998: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
June 5, 1998: "SALUTE TO THIS YEAR'S TONY AWARDS"
Season 3:
November 10, 1998: ON THE TOWN
November 24, 1998: PETER PAN
December 14, 1998: FOOTLOOSE
January 7, 1999: FOSSE
January 15, 1999: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
January 25, 1999: PARADE
February 5, 1999: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
March 12, 1999: FOSSE
April 2, 1999: CIVIL WAR
May 31, 1999: IT AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES
June 1, 1999: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
June 2: 1999: FOSSE
June 3, 1999: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
June 4, 1999: CIVIL WAR
Season 4:
November 1, 1999: KISS ME, KATE
November 3, 1999: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
November 8, 1999: PUTTING IT TOGETHER
January 28, 2000: RENT
February 1, 2000: SWING
March 9, 2000: AIDA
March 13, 2000: BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS
April 5, 2000: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
April 7, 2000: CONTACT
April 12, 2000: AIDA
April 20, 2000: THE MUSIC MAN
May 25, 2000: THE WILD PARTY
May 26, 2000: CONTACT
May 29, 2000: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
May 30, 2000: AIDA
May 31, 2000: KISS ME KATE
June 1, 2000: SWING
June 2, 2000: THE MUSIC MAN
Season 5:
September 8, 2000: CATS
October 13, 2000: THE FULL MONTY
November 1, 2000: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
November 16, 2000: JANE EYRE
November 17, 2000: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
December 11, 2000: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
March 14, 2001: SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
March 22, 2001: A CLASS ACT
April 17, 2001: FOLLIES
April 19, 2001: ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
April 24, 2001: 42nd STREET
Season 6 (final season):
September 21, 2001: DREAMGIRLS
September 25, 2001: LES MISERABLES
October 2, 2001: CHICAGO
October 3, 2001: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
October 11, 2001: AIDA
November 2, 2001: MAMMA MIA!
March 5, 2002: ONE MO' TIME
March 19, 2002: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
April 18, 2002: OKLAHOMA
April 25, 2002: THOROUGHLY MORDERN MILLIE
May 2, 2002: INTO THE WOODS
May 14, 2002: THE PRODUCERS
May 22, 2002: ROSIE'S LAST SHOW, featuring Nathan Lane, John Lithgow, Vanessa Williams, and the casts from all current Broadway shows, including INTO THE WOODS, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, CHICAGO, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, MAMMA MIA!, OKLAHOMA, THE PRODUCERS, RENT, and more. Rosie opens the show appearing in Times Square, followed by performances in the streets from Broadway shows wishing Rosie a farewell.
There were over 100 Broadway performances, in addition to interviews and other musical performances not listed here, including Disney, Linda Eder, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Nathan Lane, Elton John, Chita Rivera, and more.
I shake my head in disbelief. No words I can come up with will express my love, appreciation, and gratitude for her. And not just the six years she has appeared on TV, but her life, her views, her passion. She is an inspiration that is the drive of my life. What I want to be.
To conclude this post, I have a final plea:
As I have been requesting since I became a regular to the Online world, I am in search of full episodes of THE ROSIE O' DONNELL SHOW. Commercials are fine. I want from the intro to ending credits, each and every one of her shows. My life is documented in it.
PM me, or e-mail captainjamesh00k@aol.com (those are zeros).
To Be Continued...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
