Valisia Lekae Little in 110 as Snookie today (7/15)

Her OLD MAID was CRAZY at yesterday's matinee.


She didn't come out after the show. I thought she usually does after matinees?

She's always brought tears to my eyes with it, but today I was bawling. The woman next to me reached in her purse and gave me a couple of tissues. Off the hook!!

She did on Mother's Day. I don't know...I thought she usually did too.

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Awww! She jumped ~ literally ~ into the car today. To head off to the airport.

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I saw this show on friday. I wasn't expecting much, but I was blown away. I LOVED it!!!

Wasn't she out for a couple of performances after her father died?

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She hasn't missed any. If Audra were going to miss a performance, Roundabout would just cancel it and offer refunds/exchanges.

I'm going to see it for the second time this Wednesday night from a splash seat! I'm so excited!

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I was at yesterday's matinee too! It was heaven! I can't believe she's gotten even better from when I saw the show right after it opened...but she has. Old Maid was out of this world and damn did she just rip into that song like it was no one's bussiness. I was also crying my eyes out. I really liked the understudy for Snookie, not that I didn't miss Carla but Little seemed a little more subtle and human in the part. I was wondering if that was her first time on. She did a great job either way. Bobby Steggert just gets better every time and Audra's chemistry with Steve Kazee is just as intense as before. I just can't wait to see it one more time before I go home. I'm such in awe of this performance that she gives EVERY night. She's inccredible and even in a hurry she was so nice at the stagedoor. I really hope everyone can catch this show before it closes.

ps. Lonny Price was there too and before the show I just wandered over his way and thanked him for such a beautiful, touching production and he was so kind and appreciative.

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Any chance Audra will be back around the 17th or the 18th because I'm seeing the show on one of those days? At this moment, the reprise of The Rain Song popped up on my iPod shuffle.

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So there's hope?

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I was at the July 15th matinee also, and I think Little's performance is waaaaaay better than the original cast member's performance, which struck me as irritatingly over-the-top. With Little in the cast, and the rest of the wonderful cast in place, this matinee performance was stronger than the one I saw toward the beginning of the run. The folks around me, who were seeing it for the first time, were cheering and crying at the curtain calls. And La McDonald was fantabulous once again, and, yes, even better than that in "Old Maid." It is an amazingly vivid performance, and one that rivals Ebersole's--if ever there were a reason for a Tony tie it was having these two performances in a single season.