Another Meeting with Shirley
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: happy
Last night I saw Shirley in concert here in Sunlakes. It was her second appearance here (brought back by demand-- last year's concert was over-sold). We had great seats, row-F center section. First they showed a video of her past career, opening with In search of the PF- Shirley-- leading into her movie career, and ending with a "melody" of the many actors she had movie-kissed. Frank Sinatra sang "Have You Seen Miss Jones" during the movie clips.
Shirley came out wearing black pants, sweater, and beaded jacket, and did her usual melody of her musicals. She sounded wonderful on As Time Goes By & Can't help Lovin’ that Man of Mine.
Her patter between songs hasn't changed, although she did say that she has 8 grandchildren between the ages of 26 (Caitlin) and 1 (Roan) (in fact, she mentioned that Roan's christening was that day- she came to the concert right after the ceremony.)
After the show, she came out to sign autographs & sell her CD of Shirley Sings, & her DVDs of her movies. I asked her to autograph her cd of the combo Shirley Jones/Jack Cassidy music & told her it was to be auctioned off on EBay for Jack's Walk of Fame star fund & she wished us luck. I posed for a photo with her, but it was a bit blurry, so after re-setting the camera, & waiting patently in line for others to talk to her, I explained what happened & she posed for another with me.
The woman who runs the Friendship Club, which sponsored the concert, has asked me to assist her with publicity for Patrick’s up-coming appearance in February, which I’m looking forward to.