Journey's Neal Schon with the person he's lovin', touchin', squeezin'—Michaele Salahi
Journey (aka, the group calling itself Journey in spite of Steve Perry's absence) is said to be making $500,000 for a Mitt Romney fundraiser in Florida. Romney's spox says no money was paid, and Journey says no political statement was intended.
Someone's lying, because there is no reason to do the fundraising gig if not for love or money.
Couldn't wait to see the first Broadway revival of Evita, starring Argentinian actress Elena Roger, international superstar Ricky Martin and Broadway vet Michael Cerveris, so I didn't—we snapped up tickets to the final preview performance last night.
I'd never seen the show on stage, but was of course familiar with the movie and, in advance of Madonna doing Evita, I'd bought and absorbed nearly every possible incarnation of the songs—Julie Covington, Elaine Page, Patti LuPone, Korean Evita, disco Evita. Still, it was a total treat to see and hear the show in the flesh.
José and I had great orchestra seats which were, unfortunately situated in front of a group of ladies—a couple of generations—who sounded like they'd never been to a Broadway show before and were apparently missing the gene that tells even the ignorant that you're not supposed to openly chat throughout a performance. The youngest one, a girl in her twenties, was giddy about Ricky Martin, even going so far as to say she hoped he would shake his bon bon (which he absolutely did during "Waltz for Eva and Che").
