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“I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.”
“Supergroupies don’t have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.”
“I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.”
“And I’d watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.”
“I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.”
“I sing ‘Nessun Dorma’ when I warm up backstage.”
“I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals – my parents were singers.”
“What you don’t see backstage is what really controls the show.”
“I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.”