Changing Lives

It's Olivia Keating of Broadway Media

And we're here for the opening night of "Eleanor!"

The Eleanor Roosevelt musical

Starring the incomparable Dee Dee Allen

And Barry Glickman

Let's talk process, when I'm in character

I go insane

I stagger, I stammer, I sob

I make the audiences feel my pain

And if they don't leave depressed

Then I've not done my job

Each time I find a role like Eleanor

The artist inside of me thrives

I put on that wig and those prosthetic teeth

And know I'm changing lives

By the time I get tuberculosis

In Act Two

Even the people who are dead inside

Will shout "Bravo" on cue

(Bravo)

The first review is in

The New Jersey Star Ledger

Don't tell me, what does it say?

It says we're a hit

We're a hit and I think we deserve it

That's for sure

Also it means that this tour de force

Will not be forced to tour

To Eleanor, may she run for eternity

(To Eleanor)

Cheers to a show that's so inspiring

It's almost too much to sit through

And if we run that might be one more thing

That in ten years or so

We'll do "Eleanor Two" (Oh)

I can predict what the reviews will say

Before the next notice arrives

It's groundbreaking (Earth shaking)

Life affirming (Breathtaking)

Gut wrenching (Heart-aching)

In two words, it's history making

That's why every actor strives

For adulation

And compensation

That comes from nightly

Changing lives

It's just what we do