New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 4 | Page 12

It starts the next day! After we do the show, I start thinking about the next one. I would say there isn’t a month that goes by where I’m not working on the show and finding music and put- ting the show together. It’s a whole year process. We get to- gether in earnest with rehearsals about two months in advance. A lot of the stuff I’m doing is behind the scenes stuff. We were lucky enough to have Jer- sey Mike’s offer to buy tickets for veterans this year. The show is on Memorial Day weekend and I always try to find some kind of tie-in with Memorial Day and our veterans. They have purchased tickets for any veterans that want to go, which is very cool. Bob turns 76 this year. I re- member when you used to play a song for each birthday during BobFest. I started doing that when he turned 60. I did 60 songs and it was so much work! Then when he turned 70 we did two nights Watch Pat Guadagno & cast perform “Meet Me In The Morning” NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 4 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 12