{"id":517,"date":"2010-10-19T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=517"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:55:51","slug":"fall-in-love-with-julia-murney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Fall in Love with Julia Murney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the tail end of my hardcore Renthead days in 2000, my love of Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs brought me to an Off-Broadway show written by Andrew Lippa called The Wild Party<\/em> where I was first introduced to what Seth Rudetsky<\/a> refers to as the \u201csassafrass\u201d belting prowess of Julia Murney<\/a>, who played Queenie and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance. She made her Broadway debut in Lennon<\/em> (2005) and played Elphaba in both the National Touring Cast of Wicked<\/em> and on Broadway. She has also performed off Broadway in The Vagina Monologues, A Class Act, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, First Lady Suite,<\/em> and Time and Again<\/em> (Lucille Lortel nomination) as well as in concert at Joe\u2019s Pub, Feinstein\u2019s, The Kennedy Center, Caramoor, Town Hall and Birdland as well as with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and Steven Reineke and the Cincinnati Pops. Her debut solo album, I\u2019m Not Waiting<\/em>, which is gorgeous, was released in May 2006 and tomorrow night, Tuesday October 19th at 8:00pm and Wednesday October 20th at 2:00pm and 8:00pm, Julia Murney is performing with Jennifer Laura Thompson with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in a concert called Broadway Divas at Roy Thompson Hall<\/strong>. I had the great pleasure of chatting with Julia on the phone last evening.<\/div>\n
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Amanda Campbell (AC): Okay, this is the question I ask everyone I interview: Who are you? Where are you from? And how did you get so talented?<\/div>\n
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Julia Murney (JM): (laughs) Wow. What questions! Who am I? I couldn\u2019t possibly begin to answer that, but when I figure it out, there are some people that I need to tell first, but then I\u2019ll let you know. I\u2019m from New York City. I grew up there. And (laughs) I tend to believe that talent is in the ear and eye of the beholder\u2026but I think I got some talent from my parents. They\u2019re musical and I have to give some props to Miss. Morris, my Intermediate School Choir teacher. I started to sing in the choir. And, yeah. That\u2019s about the answer I\u2019ve got.<\/div>\n
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AC: How did you team up with Jennifer Laura Thompson to do this Broadway Divas concert?<\/div>\n
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JM: Well, it\u2019s a long story, but the short version is that Steven Reineke, who is conducting the concert, and I sort of made up this concert format when Kristin Chenoweth<\/a> was going to sing with the Cincinnati Pops and she fell ill, and so on really short notice Megan Hilty and I, along with Steven, made up this show to perform instead, and Steven and I got interested in the idea of it and so now I\u2019ve pretty much done this made up show with a bunch of different women all over the country. The idea is to have one of us who has played Elphaba (in Wicked<\/em>) and one of us who has played Glinda and it basically comes down to me performing with whoever is available. I recently got to perform with Stephanie J. Block, which was so great because we never get to do anything together! And she is, as you likely know, amazing.<\/div>\n
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AC: I love how you talk about the \u201cgreen girl sisterhood\u201d of all the women that have played Elphaba and how you have forged these bonds with one another. It seems like people are always looking for a scandal or feelings of competition, it\u2019s nice to see that you\u2019re so quick to help one another.<\/div>\n
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JM: I feel like the Internet will take care of those comparisons. If the people on the chat boards want to be competitive about it, if that is their hobby or whatever, they will do it. And I know that I\u2019ve been on the receiving end of some of that criticism, of not being some people\u2019s favourite witch, and some of what they write on the boards is really harsh. So, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t read the chat boards, I don\u2019t have the skin that you need for that. But, I feel like we (the actors who have played Elphaba) can be comrades in this shared experience, and I have met girls who I had never met before because of this role. I was eating in a restaurant once and Carmen Cusack<\/a> was there and she looked at me and mouthed, \u201cJulia?\u201d and I was like, \u201cCarmen?\u201d and we got up and we hugged in the middle of the restaurant as though we were best friends, because we had both done this thing that only a few other people had done and know what it\u2019s like.<\/div>\n
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AC: That\u2019s great. I read that Idina Menzel and Eden Espinosa<\/a> offered some advice and encouragement when you were first starting as Elphaba, after you left the show did you get an opportunity to give advice to some of the girls who played the part after you?<\/div>\n
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JM: Yeah! I guess! The Elphabas usually communicate through email because when you\u2019re doing the show, you can\u2019t talk (laughs). I had conversations with Kerry Ellis<\/a> and Mandy Gonzalez<\/a> and Nicole Parker. Nicole, for example, I didn\u2019t know her at all before she was cast in Wicked<\/em> and now we\u2019re friends. I mean, we\u2019ve never worked together, but I got to know her through Wicked<\/em>. The conversations usually start from someone asking, \u201cHow did you do this?\u201d because the role is so challenging and we all have secrets that we use to help us grapple with her, vocally and otherwise, and even though the advice doesn\u2019t always work for every girl, I\u2019m always happy to share.<\/div>\n
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AC: What types of songs are you and Jennifer Laura Thompson going to be singing in your Broadway Divas concert?<\/div>\n
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JM: I guess the songs are all under the guise of being the songs that the divas in the show would sing- not \u201cdivas\u201d in the negative sense, diva as in the idea of that grand, magnetic singer. Diva in that way.<\/div>\n
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AC: Yeah, I can\u2019t imagine you or Jennifer Laura Thompson being divas in the negative way.<\/div>\n
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JM: Yes, we\u2019re going to have a huge fist fight and hair pulling in the middle of the show!<\/div>\n
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AC: Are you going to sing \u201cLoathing\u201d? (Officially called “What is this Feeling”)<\/div>\n
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JM: No. (laughs) That would be funny. There are so many great songs in Wicked<\/em>, we could sing the whole show\u2026 but I think that if we sang \u201cLoathing\u201d instead of \u201cFor Good\u201d\u2026 I feel like people really want to hear us sing \u201cFor Good\u201d because it\u2019s such a lovely number.<\/div>\n
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AC: You were actually the first person to sing \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d in New York in 2002; how did that come about?<\/div>\n
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JM: There was this concert at the Duplex, and I think it was a tribute night for Stephen Schwartz and he said, \u201cif you want you can have this number from my new show” but he insisted that I be the one to sing it. And I\u2019d known him from awhile back, but of course even before he was \u201cthe guy who wrote Wicked<\/em>,\u201d he was \u201cthe guy who wrote Pippin<\/em>\u201d, \u201cthe guy who wrote Godspell<\/em>, and a bunch of Disney movies\u201d so it was a crazy honour to have him choose me to sing that song.<\/div>\n
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AC: How did you first meet Stephen Schwartz?<\/div>\n
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JM: I did a show- oh gosh, a long time ago, it must be thirteen or fourteen years ago called Snapshot<\/em>, which was a bunch of Stephen Schwartz songs rethought, all pre-existing and trunk songs with a new book and Stephen worked closely on that and actually, Andrew Lippa was the musical director, and that show did many things for my life.<\/div>\n
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AC: And, was that how you ended up getting involved with The Wild Party<\/em>?<\/div>\n
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JM: Essentially, yes! It\u2019s a longer tale than that, but Andrew had just started writing Wild Party<\/em> and he was the one who fought for me to get to do it, and we went to a place called the Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre Centre in Connecticut where we workshopped it and then we did a few readings and then luckily it came to New York.<\/div>\n
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AC: I remember listening to The Wild Party<\/em> in High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia-<\/div>\n
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JM: Wow! I\u2019ve been there! It\u2019s beautiful!<\/div>\n
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AC: Really?!<\/div>\n
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JM: Yes, I was there seeing a show that Tracy Michailidis did somewhere actually.<\/div>\n
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AC: Oh! Did you see Into the Woods<\/em>?<\/div>\n
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JM: Yes!<\/div>\n
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AC: Wow! Yeah, I think there was just a small group of my friends and I in Nova Scotia at that point who knew what The Wild Party<\/em> was\u2026<\/div>\n
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JM: It only takes a few.<\/div>\n
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AC: *grins* I was wondering, since Idina and Taye (Diggs) were in The Wild Party<\/em>, you must have gotten a lot of Rentheads coming to see the show\u2026<\/div>\n
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JM: We got some Rentheads and also Taye had just helped Stella get her groove back, so we also got a lot of giggling ladies, who were just excited to be so close to him, because the MTC is a small theatre and the audience is really close to the stage. So, yeah, we did get some cross over play. I think if we did the show today we\u2019d probably get some Shrek<\/em> fans.-<\/div>\n
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AC: You would get ALL the Wicked<\/em> fans!<\/div>\n
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JM: Oh, yes. Of course! I don\u2019t think the MTC could handle the show now, Idina\u2019s star shines so bright.<\/div>\n
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AC: The star power of the two of you together… You should do the show again just for that\u2026 you would sell it out completely.<\/div>\n
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JM: (laughs) That show was so much fun to do. We just had the best time doing it; we all got along so well and just had a ball every single night. Actually, the cast, thirteen of us, all went on vacation together after the show closed. We just didn\u2019t want the party to end.<\/div>\n
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AC: Where did you go?<\/div>\n
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JM: We went to the Dominican Republic.<\/div>\n
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AC: Oh, fun! I read that you love Bette Midler and were a little obsessed with The Divine Miss M<\/em> have you gotten a chance to meet her?<\/div>\n
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JM: NO! Oh my goodness, I would love to meet her!! I have met many people that sort of, have stopped me in my tracks. I got to work with Tyne Daly a few months ago\u2026 and, he wouldn\u2019t know me if he fell on me, but I met Paul McCartney and that was really neat. But, I haven\u2019t met Bette, she\u2019s sort of one of those people that if I met her, I don\u2019t think that I would know what to say!<\/div>\n
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AC: I know exactly what you mean. I read that you met Bernadette Peters<\/a> when you were six.<\/div>\n
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JM: Yes, I did! How did you know that!?<\/div>\n
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AC: I did some research!<\/div>\n
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JM: Yeah, my dad was in a show with her called Mack and Mabel<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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AC: I love her.<\/div>\n
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JM: Yeah, she\u2019s kind of amazing. She is also just so beautiful. It\u2019s incredible to see her up close, her skin is so perfect, and it\u2019s because she never ever goes out into the sun and if you never ever go out into the sun, your skin will stay like that forever. She is stunning.<\/div>\n
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AC: Yes, she is. You made your highly anticipated Broadway debut in a show called Lennon<\/em>, based on the music and life of John Lennon. There\u2019s been a real trend toward \u201cJukebox Shows\u201d or musicals using pre-existing music since the success of Mamma Mia!<\/em> and I just was wondering what your thoughts about that are.<\/div>\n
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JM: I think that there\u2019s room for all different kinds of shows. I don\u2019t think that it should be American Idiot<\/em> or Promises, Promises<\/em>; I think it should be American Idiot<\/em> AND Promises, Promises<\/em> AND Million Dollar Quartet<\/em> because they are three totally different shows. I think that if you have a quality production, a show that, in some way, leaves people changed from the way they came in, it doesn\u2019t matter how that change has come about, whether it\u2019s because the audience is on a high from the music, or whether they were moved to cry or think or laugh. There is something magical about live theatre, it is not the same as a movie, because the audience has entered into an unspoken agreement that they are going to sit there for however long the production is, and they are going to watch without distraction and enter into this world with the performers. However,\u00a0with modern audiences, there are now often distractions, people have their cell phones on, or they are recording the show, all of which is obnoxious if only because it is distracting to the performers; well, it\u2019s obnoxious for a number of different reasons, but that is the primary reason. People honestly do not seem to understand how dark it is in the theatre, and they think, \u201cOh, I\u2019m just gonna check the time\u201d on their phones\u00a0and then I see this one huge shining light and I wonder, \u201cIs someone recording me? And then I’m like\u00a0\u2026 Oh, wait, is that my line?\u201d And I\u2019ve gone out of where I\u2019m supposed to be. And I feel like, there is something exciting about being able to share something on YouTube, and certainly I would never have gotten fan mail from Croatia and Tokyo, which I have gotten, if it wasn\u2019t for videos being put up on YouTube, but at the same time, this moment in the theatre isn\u2019t meant to be filmed. If you\u2019re just watching me sing the end of \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d going up in the Cherry Picker- and you\u2019re not even seeing the whole song- just the last few bars, and if I\u2019m having a day where my voice is feeling especially exhausted- I feel like, sometimes that can get scrutinized when, if you saw it as part of the whole evening, you wouldn\u2019t notice it as much. But, at the same time, I can\u2019t stress enough how appreciative I am that I have people in Croatia and Tokyo who are watching the videos and buying my album- but there is something about the people who are there and they are revelling in the experience and when Idina Menzel- someone they adore- walks out onstage\u2026 or when someone they have never heard of before walks out onstage and sings or dances and that changes someone for those two hours and at the end they\u2019re like \u201cI love this performer!\u201d that<\/strong> is really cool.<\/div>\n
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AC: I think Toronto audiences may be a bit better at not recording things than in New York.<\/div>\n
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JM: You don\u2019t get it as much at the symphony concerts because it\u2019s all music and you can\u2019t really hear a cell phone ringing over an eighty five piece orchestra. But, in a musical you have silences, breaths, acting\u2026 and that\u2019s always when the cell phone will ring.<\/div>\n
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AC: Yes. Always. Can you talk a bit about your album, which I love?<\/div>\n
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JM: Oh, wow, thanks. It\u2019s called I\u2019m Not Waiting<\/em>. It was really great to have done it before I started in Wicked<\/em> because I was able to sell it in the lobby of the theatre. It\u2019s a compilation of songs that I love; it really doesn\u2019t have an overall theme beyond that. All the songs are ones that I really love to sing. Now I\u2019m trying to get together more songs that I\u2019d like to sing\u2026 well I have so many of them, I\u2019d really love to do another album, but they\u2019re expensive. I didn\u2019t actually bring any with me to Toronto, because I had to deal with the taxes and stuff and that was really confusing. But it was really neat to know when I was doing the show and the concerts, that I had sold, maybe, 40 CDs to people who probably never would have found them otherwise. I don\u2019t know if they get them because they like my voice, or they like the songs I sing, but I like thinking that people will buy the album and listen to me singing \u201cPerfect\u201d and go, \u201cOh, I like this song. Who is it by?\u201d And then they\u2019ll look and see it\u2019s written by Tom Kitt, and then they\u2019ll look him up and hopefully go see Next to Normal<\/em>. It all feeds itself, I think.<\/div>\n
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AC: I love the song \u201cI\u2019m Not Waiting\u201d so much.<\/div>\n
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JM: Yeah. Andrew Lippa wrote that for me, which is amazing.<\/div>\n
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AC: I read that Dot in Sunday in the Park with George<\/em> is your dream role, which I love because that\u2019s my favourite show.<\/div>\n
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JM: Oh, yay!<\/div>\n
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AC: If you were playing Dot, who would be your dream Georges?<\/div>\n
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JM: Bryan D\u2019Arcy James. (laughs). I\u2019m trying to think of men off the top of my head\u2026 Bryan, or\u2026 Norbert Butz\u2026 or\u2026 gosh. There are so many, I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m drawing a blank. Somebody smart, passionate and who can sing and act. Although, he\u2019d have to have three names. Harry Connick Jr. Does that count as three? Kind of. What\u2019s Hugh Jackman\u2019s middle name? (laughs)<\/div>\n
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AC: Are there any shows on Broadway now that you are especially excited about?<\/div>\n
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JM: Um, sure. All kinds of them! Do you mean ones I\u2019ve seen and loved?<\/div>\n
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AC: Yeah.<\/div>\n
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JM: I loved American Idiot<\/em>. I really, really, dug it. As soon as the curtain came up and that girl was upside down I was like \u201cyup, I\u2019m in.\u201d Um, this show has been around for awhile, but I love In the Heights<\/em>, and The Scottsboro Boys<\/em>, I haven\u2019t seen it since it\u2019s moved to Broadway, but I saw it when it was downtown and it and Susan Stroman really knocked my socks off. Also I have a special crush on John Kander\u2026 I will marry him someday. I am also, I think like everybody, really curious about Spiderman<\/em>. I want to see it! I think it will be nothing less than spectacular. I also really want to see A Life in the Theatre<\/em> with Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight. Patrick Stewart is one of my favourites, I think he is brilliant and T.R. Knight, I don\u2019t know if he would remember me, but we knew each other a little bit, in that we would say hello, before he became famous, and I have sort of been admiring him from afar ever since. I\u2019m also excited to see Elf<\/em> because my friend Sebastian (Arcelus) is the Elf! He was my Fiyero in Wicked<\/em>. There is so much, I\u2019m always so interested to see what happens on Broadway!<\/div>\n
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AC: Hunter Foster made a Facebook group<\/a> awhile back that received some media attention advocating for returning the Tony Awards broadcast back to Broadway performers, I was wondering what your opinion was on this subject.<\/div>\n
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JM: I\u2019m not on Facebook, but I did read about this, and I don\u2019t usually get involved in these sorts of discussions, but I will say that I think that Tony Awards Broadcast has to speak to many different masters and that if they were a dinner and a smaller evening of celebration, it would be different, but as it stands right now, they are on a network and I\u2019m sure that NBC insists on certain things. Yes, I think that the people who won Tony Awards last year should be presenting to this year\u2019s winners, just like they are at the Oscars, but the question is\u2026 is that feasible when the network has to be looking out for their ratings? Then, the opposite argument is just let it be on a theatre channel and let it be a party for theatre people, and I\u2019m all for that too. But, the fact is that Broadway is a business and it\u2019s a product, or we are attempting to turn Broadway into a product, when in fact, Broadway is actually a combination of many tiny things. \u2026 By and large, any movie and TV stars that I have encountered or heard about working in the theatre are lovely, hard working people. The only thing that makes me lose my patience is when people expect some sort of special treatment. The best example is when I was working on a concert of Chess<\/em> and Josh Groban was performing, and he was really out of his element, it was basically Josh and all these Broadway people who were used to just throwing up these concerts, and he could not have been lovelier. He was so open, and on his gig and he was like, \u201cOkay, show me how to do this!\u201d As long as that\u2019s the experience, I think that\u2019s great. I also think, and I\u2019ll go on the record as saying that I think that what Hunter was saying got twisted somehow into a pretzel that he did not mean for it to be. I think that what he was saying initially got interpreted in a far more negative way and that the Internet can be like a gossip mill, where if we know that we\u2019re reading something in The National Enquirer<\/em> or in US Magazine<\/em>, we may not put too much faith in what we read, but on the Internet, where we see so many pages flash by so fast, I think people sometimes forget where they read things and then they start just saying, \u201cOh, I heard blah blah blah\u201d and very quickly something that was misinterpreted or unreliable quickly is being told as fact. I know Hunter Foster and he is not at all a vindictive or mean human being. I think his initial impulse was more about wishing that those of us who are the real workhorses of the community could have a way of being more recognized.<\/div>\n
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AC: I agree with you, I think that\u2019s exactly what Hunter meant. So, my last question is, I read somewhere something about you having\u00a0a pancake party and I\u2019d like to know what a pancake party is!<\/div>\n
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JM: A pancake party is when I have people over, people that I love and who are very dear to me, and I make them pancakes. It\u2019s not a euphemism or anything. It\u2019s just a really special day that kicks off the new year and I invite people hoping that they\u2019ll bring people that they love who I don\u2019t know, and it\u2019s just a really happy day of carbohydrates and bacon.<\/div>\n
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Sounds delicious and delightful, just like Julia Murney. Go see her concert, buy her album<\/a>; fall in love with her if you haven\u2019t already. She is the real deal.<\/div>\n
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Tue. Oct. 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM. Wed. Oct. 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM.\u00a0Wed. Oct. 20, 2010 at 8:00 PM. Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street). “Julia Murney and Jennifer Laura Thompson, stars of the hit musical Wicked, join Steven Reineke and the TSO for a concert of diva showstoppers from Broadway, including popular favourites from Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago<\/em>, and Phantom of the Opera<\/em>. Pops concerts highlight popular music with an orchestral flair. Each entertaining performance features well-known tunes from near and far.” For tickets <\/strong>visit this website<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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