ldyjocelyn Posted June 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 8 minutes ago, Mik4clay said: I hope it goes well!!! 🙏🏻 Good luck to Clay and the whole crew in Pittsburgh 🙂 Im going off grid for the week, up on the Canadian border to camp. Save some good Drowsy stuff for me! If I hit some WiFi, I’ll check in. I wonder why yesterday’s interview doesn’t show up on that link above (bubba show podcast)? Plz send along if u can ..thx ❤️ Will do! It may not be at that address, but someone at CV said they are working on audio, and I will make sure you get it! Have fun! Sometimes it's good to be off the grid... 1 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 From the Pittsburgh CLO: Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 From Paige Davis's Instagram Stories. Clay's done this before, and it's so cute. She also posted the picture of her and Clay that he posted earlier. Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Digital Playbill: https://www.pittsburghclo.org/uploads/media/Summer_Season/2022/SUMMER_22/DROWSY/PCLO_2022_DrowsyChaperone_Program-DIGITAL.pdf Pictures of the entire show here: https://www.pittsburghclo.org/shows/the-drowsy-chaperone# Link to comment
jmh123 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Thanks for all the scoops, ldyj. I love this from his bio: "Additional 2nd place finishes include: The Celebrity Apprentice in 2012 and the NC 2nd District US House race in 2014." 1 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Clay did an Instagram Live last night along with posting this video and one other on his IG feed. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfF9yOSoMoy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfF9PIzI-CF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 From Paige’s IG stories. She likes Clay, haha. Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 Review of the show, and it's fairly good! Clay Aiken returns to Pittsburgh for CLO's quirky Drowsy Chaperone Full text in the news section. Link to comment
cindilu2 Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 tap tap tap... Is this thing on? Howdy y'all! 1 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 cindilu! Good to see you! Link to comment
jmh123 Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 cindilu2, hey - long time no see!! Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 It's a sad, sad day...and that's all I'm going to say about that. Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 I'm going to summarize here what happened yesterday with Clay and Drowsy, in hopefully general terms. Clay was out for yesterday afternoon's performance, due to COVID protocols. However, there was a bunch of mixups involved with this, and eventually Clay was cleared to perform last night, with just minutes to spare. I am not positive, but I do believe he's performing both shows today, which is the final for this run. Sounds like it was a MESS. To use Clay's phrasing...bless their hearts. Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 luckiest1 from CV allowed me to post her recaps from this weekend. She was able to see him several times over the weekend, including the last two performances yesterday. Quote Clay was fantastic in todays matinee performance. Our seats (row DD) turned out to be front row on the right side!!! Best view ever. He actually crossed the stage a lot and his expressions are hilarious. He ad libs something different in every show. This afternoon at the beginning, when he asks if anyone remembers the Drowsy Chaperone play, a few of us said yes and he said something like I knew eventually youd say yes!. AND Quote We attended last nights show. Sorry we didnt report in sooner. We had 3rd row balcony seats. After two shows down close to the stage, I really missed being able to see all of Clays expressions. But we got a nice overview of the whole stage and noticed a lot of little things with the set and supporting cast that we had overlooked before. Clay, of course, was brilliant. The audience just eats him up. I cant say enough about his comedic timing. When he was mopping the stage after the spit take scene, and explaining the similarities of pornography and musical theatre, it was fairly quiet but I guess one man down close reacted, and clay pointed at him and said he knows. 😂My favourite numbers are the Toledo Surprise when Clay dances, and the Monkey on a Pedestal when he shadows the bride, mouths the words and sings a couple of them. And the end, after the power goes out and the super comes to fix it. You can hear a pin drop while he is so sad, despairing about everything, and then starts to quietly sing a few of the lyrics, until the cast comes back to life and Robert Martin offers him his hand and Clay jumps up. He makes me tear up every time, he is so convincing!You know, last week on the way here I thought four shows might be overkill, but now I wish there were more. I am so glad I came and I cant thank Clayitagain enough for getting us such great seats. She and Claymatron and I have had such fun (barring those few crazy hours on Saturday during the clusterf***). The Drury is such a great hotel, this is my second time here (first was Grease) and I hope Clay didnt burn any bridges so he can come back for another production next year. I think he shines on the stage.ETA: last night the bed got stuck after the scene with Adolpho and the Chaperone. Clay tried to lift it but had to abandon it and continue on with his lines. The actors eventually got up and ad libbed their way off stage. We were laughing so hard. 🤣 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Back to political Clay for a second. This is a fun mention, and I remember really enjoying the HTHAWGGA podcast with Mr. Frum. Link to comment
Mik4clay Posted June 28, 2022 Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 Well, of course I had to go back and listen to the Frum podcast. Yep haha one of the best! My son just texted me that Howard Stern wants to run (for Prez) in 2024... jeesh, don’t know if I should laugh or cry. I’ll do both 😭 Link to comment
beanerknits Posted June 28, 2022 Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 Mik4clay... Ditto here on replaying Frum podcast....wonder if he'll eventually return to (same or in some form of) it on weekly basis... Link to comment
Mik4clay Posted June 28, 2022 Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 I would be down for that! A better word that Clay kept using in that podcast was ‘dickishness’ 😛haha.. Lord, I miss him Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 Geez, now I've got to go back and relisten to the Frum podcast again. Oh, the torture. I do wish he'd pick up the podcast again, but I'm really not sure he wants to return to it again. I just hope that whatever he finds next...he's happy. 1 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 I've missed a couple of Instagram posts from Clay! The first one is a video, which is funny. If you can't see it, let me know and I'll summarize. https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXng7wMKgK/ The other is this: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfb_WdrOoBs/ Link to comment
Mik4clay Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 Ruuuuben!🤣🤣 Can the pitch of Clay’s voice get any higher? 😆 I think not 1 Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted June 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 Clay also tweeted the NC Public School benefit. Link to comment
ldyjocelyn Posted July 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 I hope everyone had a safe Fourth of July. Not feeling real patriotic tonight, but.... Link to comment
Mik4clay Posted July 5, 2022 Report Share Posted July 5, 2022 It’s sad that we have to worry about going out to attend an event with our community. Sad that I actually thought about that happening today as I stood with my little granddaughters.. because I seriously did. So shocked when I got home to see that it did happen. A tragedy that must be stopped 😢 I hope we all can keep the patriotism in our hearts.. because we must! 🇺🇸 Watching a Capitol 4th and wishing Clay would sing Link to comment
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