Corporate Entertainment Interview - Broadway Michelle Blakely

Michelle Blakely is only an actress who has worked on Broadway alongside Bernadette Peters, and Rosie O'Donnell. An alum of many of our corporate events, we met with her in his life reflecting on Broadway.





FLOOR: You have been fantastic Annie Get Your Gun. As has been occurring in a musical beloved opposite Bernadette Peters?


MB: Bernadette has always been one of my idols. In one of our scenes, got the giggles after flubbing a line. Some ofVoices began to stage "break" and laugh with her. I was in stone and the last to resist until he was tired and joined at this point, the audience applauded wildly and grinning with joy. E 'was really a moment of genuine Broadway.





FLOOR: That's funny! May you always a great response from the audience, or sometimes it's annoying when people sing or clap with your song?


MB: The interaction with the public, theThe most fun part of the implementation. Both participants in a group of scientists, bankers, brokers and doctors, are interacting with the public moments of pure energy. They feed the public and, in turn, feed on you. If you have the synergy is very powerful. It 's definitely an experience that you get in a movie or TV!





HOB: Speaking of film and television, how do you feel the audience reacts entertainment, live shows, filmed whenseem to be more frequent?


MB: At the reception after our last event for Citi, I am a man who had never seen a Broadway show, they met. He said he was aware that there is entertainment for the whole evening, but was amazed at how surprised he committed during the performance. It 'been completely impressed with the talented singers and dancers, and end up singing and bopping to the beat!





FLOOR: Have you ever had an experience like everything with an audience?

MB: One of the groups, which was really cool in my head, a public film Bayer Company in Colorado Springs, from which many of Germany. Before going to Colorado, I was worried that our show does not translate. But the public has been estimated in one of the most vocal and the audience I have ever had with a corporate event. After the finals, the CEO made an impromptu speech on our performance and how wonderful the magic of Broadway has influenced his life. It 'was very movingNight for all of us.





FLOOR: It seems like a fantastic evening. What are your favorite Broadway?


MB: There are so many memories I have of brilliant performances I've seen on Broadway. Jennifer Holliday Bringing Down the House during a matinee of Dream Girls, Lilly Tomlin just mesmerizing audiences with her one-woman show, looking for signs of intelligent life ... turn himself recently noted in The Color Purple star Fantasia. I am constantlyinspired and reminded why I live theater pulled.





PLAN: A final question, what song Broadway feels a personal connection?


MB: The song "Something's Coming" from West Side Story is very special to me. It's about how you never know what the future holds, and it is wonderful, is waiting around the corner. I feel that encapsulates the world of entertainment, and human experience. is the power of the unknown future and hopefullyfor a better future.





Michelle Blakely Broadway include Annie Get Your Gun as standby for Bernadette Peters, and later co-starred Ms. Peters as "Dolly Tate," Grease "with Rosie O'Donnell as" Patty Simcox "and understudy for" Sandy ", by Tom O 'Senator Joe Horgan Dorothy Kenyon, "and the international tour of the Grand Hotel as" Trude ". His films include You've Got Mail, Mr. Jealousy, and has been the pride of a child.

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