Im onstage for nine minutes, so I watch the show a lot.
Three times a week I sneak into the audience.
No one had even really heard the music before.
Credit: Joan Marcus
There was such a sense of event around the show, even as we were in previews.
I mean, President Obama came to the fifth preview of the show the fifthpreview!
We hadnt even opened yet, and the President was in the audience at our second Saturday matinee.
We had heard like three days before that he was going to be in the audience with his daughters.
They said theres going to be really heavy security, and just to be aware.
They closed down 46th street completely.
No one could leave until the President had left 46th street.
But right before the show began, they were like, Hes coming back at intermission.
He told me I had a beautiful voice!
Which was really nice!
He shook everyones hand.
He was so generous.
And when Michelle Obama came when we were Off-Broadway, and it was the same thing.
They came with so much love and respect and generosity.
I was just freaking out that Beyonce was there to begin with.
Because that was my No.
Im obsessed with her.
Im a deep, deep Beyonce fan.
And Beyonce and Jay Z came together.
And she was like, Were you the king?
I was like, Yeah, and she was like, You were fing incredible!
I have such deep regret because there are so many things that I want to say to Beyonce.
Beyonce is such a life-changing kind of person.
But she was so effusive that I just turned red.
I just started laughing.
I didnt know what to say.
And then she sort of looked me up and down and just said, I saweverything.
And thats when the ground opened up and I fell into my grave and died.
A tombstone went up and it said, Cause of death: Beyonce.
That was just the end.
