[OLIVIA KEATING, spoken]
It's Olivia Keating of Broadway Mania and we're here for the opening night of Eleanor, the Eleanor Roosevelt musical, starring the incomparable Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman

[BARRY, spoken]
Let's talk process

(sung)
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

[DEE DEE]
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

[BARRY]
Even the people who are dead inside

[BOTH]
Will Shout
'Bravo!'
On Cue
[BARRY, spoken]
The first review is in!
The New Jersey Star-Ledger

[DEE DEE, spoken]
No, don't tell me
... What does it say?

[BARRY, spoken]
It says we're a hit!

(sung)
We're a hit and I think we deserve it!

[DEE DEE]
That's for sure

[BARRY]
Also it means that this tour de force
Will not be forced to tour

[DEE DEE, spoken]
To Eleanor!
May she run for eternity!

[ENSEMBLE]
To Eleanor!
[ALL]
Cheers to a show that's so inspiring
It's almost too much to sit through
And if we've won that might mean one more thing


[BARRY]
That in ten years or so, we'll do Eleanor 2!

[DEE DEE]
I can predict what the reviews will say
Before the next note has arrived
It's ground-breaking

[ENSEMBLE]
Earth-Shaking

[BARRY]
Life-affirming

[ENSEMBLE]
Breath-taking

[BARRY and DEE DEE]
Gut-wrenching
[ALL]
Heart-aching

[BARRY and DEE DEE]
In two words it's

[ALL]
History-making

[BARRY and DEE DEE]
That's why every actor strives

[ALL]
For adulation
And compensation
That comes from nightly
Changing Lives

[BARRY, spoken]
It's just what we do