by patricia on February 9, 2012
At the end of last Friday’s show, Rosie finally addressed the non-audience changes on The Rosie Show. With the recent shake-up at OWN, Rosie took a few moments to address the questions from twitter. Change was here. Like many of us, she enjoyed the one-on-one interviews much more than the old format. Doing a daily performance was even harder now that she was out of practice. More importantly Rosie told us “it doesn’t feel real for who I am today.”
The intimate conversations take the show to a whole new level, one that many of us appreciate. However, it also killed the dreams of many viewers. I believe this is where the push back came from. Viewers inability to be a part of the magic or to experience it, has been lost.
For years my mother dreamed of seeing Rosie and Oprah. She always considered Rosie her fourth daughter. Luckily Rosie never met my mom in person, because I am certain she’d be my mom’s favorite black sheep of the family. I’m not willing to lose that title. After many years, we finally made both of my mother’s dreams come true…all within a week. I posted the story long ago which includes the Oprah piece but didn’t share a smaller detail. Standing in the theater, front seat center for Fiddler on the Roof, I turned around to take in the moment. I was so nervous that I dropped our front row tickets under the stage. The one memento we had. I was tempted to crawl under the stage in desperation even in heels and a skirt, but the show was starting. Although I lost our tickets, my mom smiled the entire show as she watched her daughter on stage. My sister and I sat there knowing we made our mom’s dream come true. It was incredible. She had her moment that we will never forget.
So maybe The Rosie Show can have specials a few times a year and invite loyal viewers to the show. Maybe a Christmas giveaway, a holiday variety show, a summer fieldtrip with all of us going on a cruise, a packed movie theater to view a new documentary, a special honoring mothers…it doesn’t take much. Let us get excited about the possibilities. Do anything that keeps the dream alive for viewers like me and my family.
Although I don’t need ticket stubs to relive our Rosie Fiddler on the Roof moment, I hate that other moms like mine will never get a chance to have that same experience. So please OWN, take this into consideration. A couple of live specials a year will mean all the difference to so many. Just think about it.
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by paula on October 10, 2011
EXCITED! Today marks another day for me in my journey with Rosie and Oprah. It’s amazing how so many important lessons and memories in life I can attribute back to them. They are amazing women…who you don’t even have to say their last names and you still can evoke a feeling…or a memory. So, excited is the only word that I can think of as the countdown begins for their first night together on the Oprah Winfrey Network…and maybe a little veclempt too.
For a long time I’ve known that Rosie has helped make me a better daughter. By her sharing about losing her own mom so young and with seeing how important being a mom has been to her, she has definately influenced me to enjoy every moment that I have with my OWN mom. Stop and listen. Appreciate her. Hug her. So, when Rosie announced on her blog back in the summer of 2005 that she would be joining “Fiddler on the Roof”, I scooped up 3 FRONT ROW center tickets for Saturday night, made the reservations from Florida to NYC and told mom, “You are going to your first Broadway show.” The entire performance, my sister and I sat on each side of her and I held her hand, smiling and silently thinking how lucky I was to be there…and how wonderful it has been to have a mom like her…
But…as fate would have it, it wasn’t her first Broadway show. It was her second…because Oprah announced that she was bringing ”The Color Purple” to Broadway in early fall that same year…and as luck would have it, at the VERY LAST moment we were able to get tickets for opening night. We watched as David Letterman walked Oprah over in the prettiest chocolate dress with a purple belt and then, we sat in the VERY LAST row…at the very tip top of the theater. And as my sister and I sat on each side of my mom, I held her hand silently, believing that all dreams are possible…and how strong and powerful and smart my mom has lived her OWN life…and how lucky I am to have a mom like her.
So, my love for Rosie and Oprah runs very deep. They are two women who have taught me a lot during my journey…and I look forward to sitting tonight along with my sister and beside my mom, watching both the premiers of The Rosie Show and Oprah’s Lifeclass on OWN…and taking in how lucky I am to be right here at this very moment, as part of this journey…and how wonderful it is having my mom right here along for the trip.
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