The Comfy Corner

I'm a bit of a crazy person when it comes to meeting celebrities. In my mind, I always picture myself coolly walking up to them and striking up a really casual/intellectual conversation about their work or whatever, but it usually ends up with me saying something really weird and unrelated like "You have great legs!"

This is all to preface a celebrity run-in I had the other day at work. I went up to the host stand and the host was like "The witch from Wicked is here somewhere!" I started jumping up and down like the birds of paradise or something. The hit Broadway musical, Wicked (The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz), is making a two month residency in Boston and everyone at work knows that I'm kind of obsessive and crazy about everything musical-related, so they all got really excited for me, but I couldn't seem to find her anywhere. I resorted to the fact that she probably just got take-out or something (Elphaba has a busy life after all!). But then, all my dreams came true.

I walked up to my next table and sure enough, there she was, green paint skirting the edges of her faces and black fingernails. My heart skipped several beats and I was like "So...you're in Wicked?" (DUH!!!). She was like, "Uh, yeah." And then I turned into a bumbling idiot saying things like "I've seen Wicked like four times and you're the best Elphaba ever!" I kept unnecessarily refilling her water, joining in on their conversation ("Yeah, what crazy weather! So randomly cold, OMG!") and when she left I slipped in a cutsie little, "Break a leg!" just to show off my theatre-saviness.

I had heard rumors that she wasn't a very nice person, but I'll be the first to say that she was very nice (putting up with all my weirdness ) and she tipped well. She did have crazy eyes...but I guess anyone would if they had to belt high G's suspended 30 feet in the air 8 times a week. My only regret is that I didn't get a picture with her to share with all of you. I might make that my project for the next month. Stay tuned for that one. :)