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Hi, I'm Donna McKechnie, and these are my Broadway firsts
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What is your favorite Broadway show? Oh, Bye Bye Birdie. Actually, the one I was in. I hadn't seen a Broadway show. I was in one first
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But Bye Bye Birdie was the show that just, I went, okay, this is for real. This is for my life
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And Chita Rivera became, you know, my beacon. I had that record. I played that record and sang along with her
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So maybe she was my first vocal coach, I think. Yeah. What was your favorite Broadway show
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I guess when Cy Fure, after I auditioned for the Industrial, when they used to do Industrials, you know
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he said, would you like to do a Broadway show? And I said, absolutely
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And he said, okay, when we get back from California, we're going to start rehearsals
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And I went, oh, fantastic. I had no idea, even what a Broadway show was
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I was a little ballet girl. And I thought, oh, this is great. I'll have a job when I get back
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That's what I was thinking about. So I learned very quickly how exciting this was and how wonderful it was for me to be in that great show
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Pulitzer Prize winning show. It gave me a chance to get a paycheck and then, you know
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have acting and singing lessons. And I did that for two years. And yeah, that was I could go on. You have to stop
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Hmm. I don't know. That's a mysterious. Yeah, I don't know. But that's that's our life, you know. I don't know what's coming next
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But a lot of good things that I know
