Transcript of Robert Armin's
online chat with
Melissa Errico (September 29, 2003)

[Melissa Errico is a great typist and a terrific conversationalist.  Following a whirlwind tour of Europe and Greece, she finally found 90 minutes to join us for a chat.  Here are the results.]

[RobertArmin] Good evening and welcome to the Fynsworth Alley chat room.

[RobertArmin] It took us a few weeks of waiting but Melissa Errico is finally here.

[RobertArmin] Very dramatic things seem to happen in her life lately.

[RobertArmin] Hi, Melissa.

[MelissaErrico] dramatic, moi?

[RobertArmin] Tell us why you weren't here LAST week.

[MelissaErrico] I was in the Slovak Republic

[RobertArmin] And they wouldn't let you go?

[MelissaErrico] with the USA Davis Cup team, Andy Roddick, James Blake--tennis anyone?

[MelissaErrico] USA won, and it was a dog fight

[RobertArmin] And of course, your hubby.

[MelissaErrico] he is the captain

[RobertArmin] Not of the dog fight.

[MelissaErrico] we didn't fight, no-- love not war

[RobertArmin] You two make such a lovely couple. How long have you known him?

[MelissaErrico] we met when I was FIVE, in grammar school, he was my older brother's best friend

[RobertArmin] How sweet.

[MelissaErrico] When we re-met as adults (semi-adults), we remembered childhood stuff like our cats' names-- yeah its cute

[RobertArmin] I saw you on TV recently when you sang at the Open. He had very nice things to say about you, I must say.

[MelissaErrico] he is a flirt, which is cool. You gotta keep it interesting and keep the fantasy!

[RobertArmin] You sang one of the songs from your new album. Which, I think, was written by your brother...?

[MelissaErrico] He has that corny Irish thing going...you know how they love to be flamboyant with words? He embarrasses me!

[RobertArmin] cfritz wants to know: When did you re-meet?

[MelissaErrico] Oh yeah, my bro

[RobertArmin] Your husband, not your brother.

[MelissaErrico] We re-met in 1996 summer

[MelissaErrico] He has just had surgery, before Wimbledon

[RobertArmin] Has or had?

[MelissaErrico] He HAD, I mean

[RobertArmin] Oh, good.

[RobertArmin] And...

[MelissaErrico] It was a crazy time for him, like a dancer when they start to consider retiring

[RobertArmin] And it was love at first sight?

[MelissaErrico] I have to say I did like him right away when we re-met. When we were kids, I had a crush on this other dude

[RobertArmin] When I met Kristine it FELT like we'd known each other for years, so I know what you mean.

[RobertArmin] It just seems right when it's right.

[RobertArmin] So, I started to ask you about your brother's music...

[MelissaErrico] It was cool when I met Pat. I didn't know a lot of straight men, never mind really muscular boyish types who love ESPN, not usually my bad

[MelissaErrico] my BAG

[RobertArmin] which is a lead in to talking about your latest album

[MelissaErrico] Ah, back to the artsy men.... like my bro

[RobertArmin] Yeah, straight mean are hard to find (no pun intended) in musical theatre.

[RobertArmin] As my wife reminds me all the time.

[MelissaErrico] My brother...who is a straight man (a rocker)...wrote some songs on my album and appears in my band

[RobertArmin] Tell us about the direction your "personal" sound is going.

[MelissaErrico] I am also working with a new arranger, who is Vanessa Williams' arranger/producer, and trying to get some new groovy

[RobertArmin] It's definitely not theatre music.

[MelissaErrico] style into certain theater music I love, try to bring the quality of my album to some theater songs

[RobertArmin] But it isn't exactly rock either.

[MelissaErrico] I have two new arrangements going into my new JOE’S PUB shows, one is Sondheim and one is Lerner and Loewe

[RobertArmin] It would be great if you could attract more young people to listen to show music.

[MelissaErrico] you won't believe them, they are sensual, free, and have a rhythm....

[RobertArmin] Yes, you'll be at Joe's in, what, a week?

[MelissaErrico] A week from this very moment!!

[RobertArmin] Neato keano!

[MelissaErrico] OCTOBER 6th and 27th at 7:30

[RobertArmin] I may have to cancel next week's chat -- I haven't decided yet. I would love to hear you perform.

[MelissaErrico] I am trying to find my own sound, I really believe I hear it in my head

[RobertArmin] Well, you received some wonderful reviews for your solo album (which is on "another" label) even from theatre reviewers.

[MelissaErrico] I love guitar and I love percussion, soft and groovy sounds, gentle and a little hip....can theater music handle it?

[MelissaErrico] I am experimenting!

[RobertArmin] So I think you've found a great niche for yourself.

[MelissaErrico] Thanks, I do think its worth a try...

[RobertArmin] Theatre music encompasses ALL types of music.

[MelissaErrico] I agree

[RobertArmin] And lends itself to all styles of arrangements.

[RobertArmin] swendle writes: Hi Miss Errico.... met you at the stage door of High Society and you were so sweet! Anything on the horizon on Broadway?

[MelissaErrico] The real question is when you take musical theater out of context--- is my obligation to recreate the show (the character/period)? Or is it to explore the MUSIC purely?

[MelissaErrico] Hi thanks! Broadway? well... let me see...

[MelissaErrico] I am doing a reading October 13 of Cyrano, a new Frank Wildhorn musical with Doug Sills.

[RobertArmin] Terrific.

[MelissaErrico] And Robert A has an idea for me and Kevin Kline!!

[RobertArmin] I think you're almost any man's idea of Roxanne.

[RobertArmin] :-)

[RobertArmin] Ah yes, we must talk about that sometime.

[MelissaErrico] I do dream of doing Venus again

[RobertArmin] I've been trying to connect with K. Kline for 15 years.

[RobertArmin] Yes, when is the Venus album coming out!!!!!

[MelissaErrico] He has a big white beard right now, I saw him tonight at a party and we talked....he kept combing his beard with this little comb

[RobertArmin] He's about to play Falstaff!!

[RobertArmin] We're definitely looking forward to that.

[MelissaErrico] Yes, Kevin is really looking the role now

[RobertArmin] I do hope he NEEDS the padding, though.

[MelissaErrico] He has this comb, I think the beard must itch

[RobertArmin] Beards do that.

[MelissaErrico] you have one right?

[RobertArmin] Yup.

[RobertArmin] I heard you sing "Keep It to Myself" by your brother, Mike, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Cabaret

[RobertArmin] Ooops, that was supposed to be from cfritz!

[RobertArmin] He posted that

[RobertArmin] Hi, cfritz.

[MelissaErrico] That's a song that I think I want to dedicate to the gay community somehow

[MelissaErrico] It’s based on a poem, WARNING, by Jenny Joseph, from 1961

[MelissaErrico] Pretty much a freedom poem, about being who you want to be, not waiting another minute

[MelissaErrico] Hi cFritz

[RobertArmin] drsd2kill writes: Hello Melissa. I guess I'm one of your "younger" fans - I'm a 23 y.o. male who luckily caught you in "Amour" during previews. I'm sorry my next NY trip the week of Halloween doesn't fall when you'll be performing somewhere. But anyway... I was wondering if you intend on doing an album of Broadway songs? You could preserve a few of your numbers from "My Fair Lady," a cast recording of which I wish was made of the 1993 revival cast. I also suggest "Meadowlark"

[MelissaErrico] Are you an actor?

[RobertArmin] cfritz writes: nope - just a theatre fanatic

[MelissaErrico] Meadowlark has been suggested recently....

[MelissaErrico] I better check it out, I always thought it was too famous, but I think I better consider it...

[MelissaErrico] I do have a MY FAIR LADY arrangement going into my live show.

[RobertArmin] Meadowlark was "obscure" enough that Sarah Brightman included it on her album of songs that got away!

[RobertArmin] But that was quite some time ago.

[RobertArmin] Didn't you record something from My Fair Lady for Jay?

[RobertArmin] If not, you should have.

[MelissaErrico] Its not a typical version, not quite a recreation of my Eliza voice, instead its Higgins' song ACCUSTOMED... all groovy and hip, you will love it!

[MelissaErrico] I hope

[RobertArmin] Yes, I see you as a Henry Higgins kind of gal.

[RobertArmin] Many women sang that song in the 50 and 60s

[RobertArmin] drsd2kill adds: Melissa, I saw an early Sunday matinee of "Amour" while in previews and I left humming the score ("Other people's stories, other people's lives...") and even learned some of the lyrics. I'm glad a CD was finally made of the magical score, but I thought the show on a whole was just too "special" for Broadway and mass appeal. While you were performing the role, did you think it was too "special" to last on Broadway as well?

[RobertArmin] I LOVED Amour!

[MelissaErrico] Yes, I recorded a few Eliza tunes for him...(Yap). I also just recreated Eliza opposite John Lithgow this summer

[RobertArmin] In fact, if I may say, we voted for it for the score.

[MelissaErrico] AMOUR--ah my heart!

[RobertArmin] How is John? He is a very nice guy.

[MelissaErrico] Amour-- was it too special, did I know it?

[MelissaErrico] I think we in AMOUR knew that it was a risk

[MelissaErrico] we didn't think people would understand it

[RobertArmin] Don't mean to bounce all over the place here. Let's talk about Amour a bit.

[MelissaErrico] We knew it was tender at heart, not showy, not brightly colored, we just protected its essence and hoped for the best

[RobertArmin] My feeling was that the audiences liked it very much, but the audiences who hadn't seen it didn't know what to expect.

[RobertArmin] It wasn't all mushy romance -- it was very witty as well.

[MelissaErrico] I'd rather talk about AMOUR. John Yap is a record producer with two albums that I have recorded and have never heard!

[RobertArmin] !!! I Know.

[MelissaErrico] What else is there to say? I liked him immensely but would love to know what happened!!!

[RobertArmin] You were involved in Amour early on, weren't you.

[MelissaErrico] I did the first workshop of AMOUR

[MelissaErrico] and everything after....

[MelissaErrico] It was a long process

[RobertArmin] By the way, my question was about John Lithgow -- not Yap! :-)

[MelissaErrico] The first workshop and the final show are not the same musical-- so many changes! new songs!

[RobertArmin] cfritz writes: The Shuberts didn't keep it running long enough to find an audience. It wasn't that "far out"

[RobertArmin] I think they did chicken out too soon.

[MelissaErrico] Oh, by the way, I LOVE JOHN LITHGOW!!! Magical man! Great Higgins, great person!

[RobertArmin] If they had kept it running a bit longer audiences would have found it.

[MelissaErrico] I agree AMOUR got short-changed

[RobertArmin] :-) on Lithgow

[MelissaErrico] It’s such a bummer

[RobertArmin] I'm so glad that a cast album was made of Amour...

[MelissaErrico] I had to think -- when they told me they were closing it-- do I fight? Do I beg? Or just behave like a lady and care about it to the very end.

[RobertArmin] although I think your great moment of sublime joy was short changed on the album.

[RobertArmin] I'm talking about the can-can moment.

[MelissaErrico] What moment?

[RobertArmin] It's not there.

[MelissaErrico] Ah, the splits and cartwheels are hard to show / hear on a cd!! What do you mean??

[RobertArmin] Musically, the transition is not as exciting on the album as it was on stage.

[RobertArmin] Minor quibble, but that's how I felt.

[RobertArmin] Of course, one shouldn't really quibble considering how sublime the rest of the album is.

[MelissaErrico] I think you just got a flash of lace and legs!

[RobertArmin] No, I mean musically!

[MelissaErrico] I will listen and see...

[RobertArmin] But, the lace and legs WAS nice.

[MelissaErrico] The can-can by the way was not supposed to be in the show

[MelissaErrico] It was just a moment of sheer madness that happened in rehearsal

[MelissaErrico] I actually can take the blame.

[RobertArmin] Maybe that explains why it was cut.

[RobertArmin] for the album

[RobertArmin] No blame -- take the credit.

[RobertArmin] Which brings up an interesting point.

[MelissaErrico] The song is jaunty and ridiculous, and I started to hop around the room doing can-can moves!

[RobertArmin] You have something in common, I think, with Rebecca Luker.

[RobertArmin] You both play generally serious romantic leading ladies...

[RobertArmin] and rarely get to show just how "goofy" you can be in real life.

[RobertArmin] That moment in Amour was just such a moment.

[RobertArmin] It was quite a joy to watch you.

[MelissaErrico] There are some differences between us too-- she didn't do nudity in PASSION and I added it to SUNDAY IN THE PARK--

[RobertArmin] Really?

[MelissaErrico] I love her so much, but I do think I might have a more Mediterranean streak in me

[MelissaErrico] I did the whole Color and Light sequence nude in a tub, Sondheim even rewrote lyrics

[RobertArmin] Well, they should revive One Touch of Venus if that's something you might add. Definitely do big box office.

[MelissaErrico] I would love to sing THAT’S HIM in the buff, in bedsheets

[RobertArmin] Bring it on Broadway

[RobertArmin] I am dying to hear that album.

[RobertArmin] It has always been one of my favorite "lost scores." Thank goodness for Ben Bagley.

[RobertArmin] His recordings were about the only ones available for years.

[MelissaErrico] The book to VENUS is really a mess

[MelissaErrico] Its hard to know what to do with it

[RobertArmin] Well, I'm very good at rewriting old books.

[MelissaErrico] Great, lets do it

[RobertArmin] I've rewritten What Makes Sammy Run? which was a major mess.

[RobertArmin] Just waiting for someone to mount a full production.

[MelissaErrico] I haven't heard of it

[RobertArmin] drsd2kill asks: Have you seen any shows in New York recently that you particularly enjoyed - purely as a spectator?

[RobertArmin] Sammy is from 1964. Steve Lawrence and Sally Ann Howes starred.

[RobertArmin] Ran 540 performance then disappeared.

[RobertArmin] StevenD asks: Any chance of you ever doing a full Broadway disc? Maybe songs from roles you'll never get to play?

[MelissaErrico] I saw Liev in Central Park this summer, and I am a fan of his work

[MelissaErrico] Did you catch it?

[RobertArmin] Liked him, didn't like the production, unfortunately.

[RobertArmin] Too cutesy.

[MelissaErrico] I can't wait to see NEVER GONNA DANCE

[RobertArmin] I like my Shakespeare a little less Brooklyn.

[RobertArmin] Yes!

[MelissaErrico] I think there will be some great shows coming up....

[RobertArmin] I'm astonished that Karen Ziemba was cast in the "supporting" role. She's the greatest triple threat around!

[MelissaErrico] StevenD....I didn't see your Q until now...

[MelissaErrico] I don't know about committing to the "never gonna" idea yet! I want to find the roles I can play!!

[MelissaErrico] I might do songs that are men's tunes, that interests me....

[RobertArmin] Lainie Kazan once did a recording of Joey, Joey from Most Happy Fella.

[RobertArmin] It took on a whole new meaning -- like she was talking about what a louse her boyfriend Joey was.

[MelissaErrico] Its hard when you have a major record deal, with a big company...they don't really encourage just theater music-- I need to find a twist

[RobertArmin] StevenD adds: I was thinking more in that vein maybe On the Street Where You Live, things like that

[MelissaErrico] I have this version of ACCUSTOMED which I am so proud of...

[RobertArmin] Maybe you could do duets with more mainstream recording artists -- but with show songs.

[MelissaErrico] come check it out at JOE’S PUB this Monday or Oct 27th...

[RobertArmin] Get their audience interested.

[MelissaErrico] That's why I am working with this new arranger, Rob Mathes

[MelissaErrico] He was on stage with Bono (from U2) and Bono was singing Cole Porter

[MelissaErrico] It was the coolest thing ever

[RobertArmin] Yes, I want more "rock"

[RobertArmin] performers to record show tunes

[RobertArmin] but WITHOUT rocking them up needlessly.

[MelissaErrico] And I thought, WHO did those arrangements? WHO is that pianist? Well, now I am working with him!!

[RobertArmin] Sounds like you're on the right track.

[MelissaErrico] Rock singers have no vibrato in their voices, it sounds more simple somehow,

[RobertArmin] Let's stop a moment and talk a bit about how you got interested in singing and the theatre.

[RobertArmin] You started very young.

[MelissaErrico] all our theater training sometimes doesn't help

[MelissaErrico] Yes, I started young

[MelissaErrico] I was 18 in LES MISERABLES and played Cosette

[RobertArmin] But even before that, you were playing leading roles in school

[MelissaErrico] I was closer in age to Gavroche than Marius (the actors)

[RobertArmin] From Kim in Bye Bye Birdie to Dolly Levi!

[MelissaErrico] I was actually a cockroach in the Girl Scouts musical about Mexico-- La Cucaracha-- that was my break-through role

[RobertArmin] StevenD writes: Didn't you also play Eva in Evita in Summer Camp? Along with Jason Robert Brown.

[RobertArmin] !

[MelissaErrico] I was Eva and Jason was Che-- and we were 14!

[RobertArmin] Don't know how I missed that Cucaracha musical.

[RobertArmin] Ha.

[MelissaErrico] It was so bizarre!

[RobertArmin] You brought a deeper maturity to the role than even LuPone.

[MelissaErrico] Jason was really good

[MelissaErrico] I actually did a good death scene

[RobertArmin] lol

[RobertArmin] Excuse me, don't mean to laugh at your death scene.

[MelissaErrico] But my face gets red, and I didn't look like a dying woman

[RobertArmin] StevenD asks: How did the scene with Eva and the Mistress work out. Was she 8?

[MelissaErrico] The mistress was just short

[MelissaErrico] I'm tall and I could kick her *ss

[RobertArmin] You can say it here.

[RobertArmin] We don't censor!

[RobertArmin] But I get the idea.

[MelissaErrico] ass

[MelissaErrico] now I feel better

[RobertArmin] StevenD asks if it was like the movie Camp.

[RobertArmin] Good, let it all out, Melissa.

[MelissaErrico] ass

[RobertArmin] Go for it!

[MelissaErrico] CAMP was based on our competition, Stage Door

[MelissaErrico] we were the grittier camp

[RobertArmin] Are you talking about the performances or the sand?

[MelissaErrico] there was so much sex going on

[RobertArmin] And how old were you?

[MelissaErrico] it was like porn camp

[RobertArmin] This is getting interesting.

[MelissaErrico] I was really young, like really

[RobertArmin] In which of your camp musicals did you do a nude scene?

[MelissaErrico] I played Carla in NINE when I was 15 in a body stocking, totally insane dance moves

[RobertArmin] I can just picture you singing How Lovely To Be A Woman.

[MelissaErrico] Seth Rudetsky showed the video at his Chatterbox when I appeared

[RobertArmin] A Call from the Vatican at 15. Humbert Humbert would have loved it.

[MelissaErrico] I was also Hedy LaRue at 12!!

[MelissaErrico] From HOW TO SUCCEED

[RobertArmin] FranklinShepardInc asks: Are there any pictures of that production of Nine???

[MelissaErrico] I had to come out in a towel and high heels--It got such a roar!

[RobertArmin] He beat me to the question.

[MelissaErrico] I have some photos of NINE that are insanely sexy

[RobertArmin] Kris played Hedy, too, but she was a bit older... and taller... and, er, fuller.

[MelissaErrico] Kris?

[RobertArmin] My wife.

[RobertArmin] You met her briefly in Williamstown.

[MelissaErrico] Ah yes

[RobertArmin] FranklinShepardInc adds: Please, please put them on your website!! [the photos]

[MelissaErrico] I don't think I'll do that, but I would consider showing them to a fan backstage at a show if I knew they were coming

[RobertArmin] Well, you'll probably have fans at Joe's Pub.

[RobertArmin] Say, we need to stop a moment and give away a CD, now don't we?

[MelissaErrico] Or ask Seth to have me back!

[MelissaErrico] Seth likes gossip

[RobertArmin] Can you think of an interesting Melissa Errico type question to ask?

[MelissaErrico] Are you asking me? no

[RobertArmin] Yes.

[RobertArmin] Yes.

[MelissaErrico] What do you mean?

[RobertArmin] If you leave it to me, it gets VERY hard.

[RobertArmin] Ask a nice simple question and we'll give away a CD.

[MelissaErrico] Like a trivia question?

[RobertArmin] Yes.

[MelissaErrico] What classic role has Melissa recently reprised which she had already revived on Broadway?

[RobertArmin] For the Wall To Wall Richard Rodgers album, the first person who responds will win.

[RobertArmin] I know, I know.

[RobertArmin] Actually, FranklinShepardInc was first.

[MelissaErrico] Franklin--cool name--

[RobertArmin] He said Eliza Doolittle.

[MelissaErrico] Sondheim fan?

[RobertArmin] drsd2kill came in just a split second later.

[MelissaErrico] I can give them both BLUE LIKE THAT cds

[RobertArmin] Wow.

[MelissaErrico] email me their addresses

[RobertArmin] Okay, fellows. Send your names and mailing addresses to Fynsworth@showmusic.com.

[RobertArmin] And I'll pass it on to Melissa.

[RobertArmin] Such a nice lady.

[MelissaErrico] Thanks for giving a darn and spending some time with me...

[RobertArmin] And Franklin will also get the Wall to Wall album.

[MelissaErrico] ps-- if we are wrapping up, I am on MISS MATCH on NBC this Friday night

[RobertArmin] We have a bit more time.

[RobertArmin] I saw you last week!

[RobertArmin] You were so nasty.

[MelissaErrico] For anyone who likes Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal...Alicia is the BEST

[MelissaErrico] I was nasty?

[RobertArmin] Passing on Reg Rogers.

[RobertArmin] First he gets fired in Florida and then you reject him.

[MelissaErrico] Reg is a sweetie

[MelissaErrico] I warned him that musicals were hell

[MelissaErrico] I told him in the trailer to hang on to his hat

[RobertArmin] Are you on just one more week -- or is your character a recurring one?

[MelissaErrico] They are heaven and hell

[RobertArmin] Did you do the Miss Match before or after his Little Shop?

[MelissaErrico] I am on one more week for sure, and then I will recur later

[RobertArmin] It's a great character.

[MelissaErrico] They haven't shot much in advance, so they are waiting to see responses

[RobertArmin] I'll give you $2000 to find me a man!

[MelissaErrico] Its always good to play the lonely girl

[RobertArmin] That's a quote from your character -- not an offer

[RobertArmin] for those who didn't see the show

[MelissaErrico] She is a sexaholic in the next episode-- she loves both her choices-- and tries to balance them both

[MelissaErrico] Its about matchmaking

[MelissaErrico] And I like the chase and the game, more than I want a match

[MelissaErrico] I worked with Reg before he started rehearsals for LITTLE SHOP

[MelissaErrico] Has that opened yet?

[MelissaErrico] Any word?

[RobertArmin] Not yet. In a few days.

[RobertArmin] I actually went down to Florida to see the show.

[MelissaErrico] And?

[RobertArmin] Other than the cheesy production values, the cast was great.

[MelissaErrico] I am sure.

[RobertArmin] They shouldn't have been tossed out. Alice Ripley would have been brilliant in the role.

[MelissaErrico] I love Alice

[RobertArmin] Thank goodness I went down to see it.

[MelissaErrico] She is hot stuff, and she will find something else

[RobertArmin] I will always remember her performance.

[RobertArmin] The comments are adding up fast -- I didn't even see the ones that have rolled off the bottom of my screen.

[RobertArmin] "Franklin" adds: Thank you Melissa!!! (Could I have some Nine pictures with that?)

[MelissaErrico] good-- did you see her in the Sondheim festival, in Company?

[MelissaErrico] Hey Franklin!

[RobertArmin] drsd2kill adds: thanks for letting us know about MISS MATCH

[MelissaErrico] No photos but if you come to Joe’s, I will bring one

[RobertArmin] StevenD asks: Any chance Anna Karenina is going to get released soon?

[MelissaErrico] Dressed to Kill-- enjoy this Friday, I think its on at 8pm NBC

[MelissaErrico] Anna K is such a GREAT show

[MelissaErrico] I don't know when, but it won't be long

[RobertArmin] About Miss Match, StevenD adds: Your character sounds like Ado Annie meets Hello Dolly!

[MelissaErrico] They want me to do a sexy photo for the cover

[RobertArmin] I'll take the photo!

[MelissaErrico] Ado meets Dolly-- how so?

[RobertArmin] I used to be a professional photographer in California

[MelissaErrico] Contact Dan Levine, who composed the show and is producing it

[RobertArmin] I didn't get to see the Sondheim festival, unfortunately, but Fynsworth did release a recording of Alice singing Another Hundred People, fortunately

[MelissaErrico] If anyone sees MISS MATCH or comes to Joe’s, you can always write to me via my website

[RobertArmin] StevenD responds: Can't choose between men while a match maker is looking for men for her

[MelissaErrico] Then you can expound on Ado/Dolly....anything you like!

[MelissaErrico] Very true!!

[RobertArmin] Yes, it's melissaerrico.com. Clever name for that.

[RobertArmin] Sort of like robertarmin.com

[MelissaErrico] I am an originator

[MelissaErrico] I must say, I am starting to feel my jet lag!

[MelissaErrico] I came in just last night

[RobertArmin] Yes, we should let you go soon.

[MelissaErrico] I think I might have to sign off soon, yeah

[RobertArmin] It was so nice of you to agree to do tonight's chat.

[MelissaErrico] My husband served me dinner while I sat here!

[RobertArmin] Michael Cumpsty will reschedule soon, I hope.

[RobertArmin] What a nice husband.

[RobertArmin] Thank him for me.

[MelissaErrico] Sushi from the corner restaurant! salmon teriyaki, yum

[RobertArmin] Everybody is posting thank yous for you. Too many for me to transfer.

[MelissaErrico] now I am sleepy. We came in from Athens last night

[RobertArmin] Get some rest for next Monday night. At Joe's Pub.

[MelissaErrico] Did I mention that when the USA won the Davis Cup, we stole off to Greece for a few days?

[RobertArmin] You told me -- but not them.

[MelissaErrico] Thanks for everything. I feel rested from my trip (good to get away sometimes and clear the mind)

[RobertArmin] You're a lucky lady.

[RobertArmin] And a talented one.

[RobertArmin] All our good wishes to you.

[MelissaErrico] and I was really happy to come on line tonight

[MelissaErrico] Thanks. I appreciate it

[MelissaErrico] And I will see you soon I hope

[MelissaErrico] nude, or clothed

[MelissaErrico] me, I mean, I guess

[RobertArmin] I'll call you if I can come Monday. It depends on if I get a chat guest or not.

[MelissaErrico] I hope so

[RobertArmin] You DON'T want to see me nude, believe me.

[MelissaErrico] And thanks for letting me use curses

[MelissaErrico] very liberal

[RobertArmin] Once more, please!

[MelissaErrico] are you ready?

[RobertArmin] Yup

[MelissaErrico] set

[MelissaErrico] go

[MelissaErrico] ass

[RobertArmin] Ah, that's good.

[MelissaErrico] bye y'all

[MelissaErrico] keep in touch

[RobertArmin] Good night, Melissa.

[MelissaErrico] night

ROBERT ARMIN