![]() ![]() Bring Jan to Broadway! I also interviewed Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso who run Cast Party at Birdland every Monday night. We've already had Greg in Romance Romance, Marcia in Grease and Carol in a string of musicals during the Golden Age. That's right, she turned it down because her father knew it was going to clank! Was he a psychic? A mystic? Why would he think a full hour of the Brady Bunch dancing and singing songs like "Shake Your Booty" and a disco version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" would be a misstep? You may know that I have a whole show dedicated to deconstructing all nine episodes and here's a link to a little clip.Įve ended the interview with a performance of "When You're Good To Mama" and hopefully the Weisslers will listen when the show airs on Sirius/XM Feb. The rumor had always been that Eve couldn't do the TV show because she was filming "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway." Well, I finally got to ask her where she was during those nine delicious episodes and, turns out, "Dawn" was not the reason! She told me that her father knew Sid and Marty Krofft's oeuvre (they were the producers) and he told Eve that if she did it, it would be a low point in her career. The producers thought that if they got another girl with blonde hair, no one would notice.Īpparently, they had just seen the film "The Stepford Wives" and thought the country would fall for the ruse. Anyhoo, if you have any knowledge of the show, you're aware that the whole cast did it, except Jan. Even in the '70s it was too much for us to bear and, quite frankly, at that time the country was using a pretty low bar. Suffice it to say, it was cancelled after nine episodes. Of course, I immediately asked her about the "Brady Bunch Variety Hour." If you do not know, there was an hourlong series in 1977 that featured the Brady Bunch singing and dancing. Cut to one year later, she's doing Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage! Brava Secret-ing it, Oprah-style. I met her last year at Broadway Backwards and she told me that she wanted to do a play in New York. Well, yet again I got to meet and hang out with one of childhood faves: Eve Plumb! Yes, the Jan Brady and I chatted it up at my Sirius/XM "Live on Broadway" show. It's my way of counteracting what I think a lot of children are told, which is summed up by Cassie's line in "Hello Twelve.": Listen to your mother, those stage and movie people got there…because they're special. I want them to know that they can go from being a fan to one day being (some sort of version of) a peer. Then I tell them that I grew up and not only got to meet most of the celebs I loved while I was a child, but I also got to accompany them while they sang the songs I listened to relentlessly in my youth! I've played for Betty Buckley as she sang "He Plays the Violin," Patti LuPone singing "Anything Goes," Howard McGillin doing "A Man Could Go Quite Mad," Andrea McArdle belting "Tomorrow," Melba Moore sassing "I Got Love" and many more. ![]() I would fantasize about Fonzie coming over to my house or about hanging out with Patti LuPone. ![]() ![]() Oftentimes on my Sirius/XM radio show I give a special shout-out to children who are listening I tell them that when I was their age, I was like them…obsessed about celebrities. ![]()
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