It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.
My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.