Michael Arden

He had seen me in, at times they were changing, this Twyla Tharp debacle I was in on Broadway, and said, hey, I'm directing Barbara's European tour.

Il Divo had done the tour with her in the States.

But for some reason, I think they probably couldn't afford Il Divo for the European tour or didn't want to pay Il Divo their quote.

So they had this idea to have her perform with what was called the Broadway Boys.

And so it was four guys who had been on Broadway.

Some, you know, Hugh Pinero would play the Phantom, Sean McDermott, Peter Lockyer, you know, kind of classic.

And I was going to be like the kid, like the young one.

I was, God, I was like 24, 23.

And so we like rehearsed with a 60-piece orchestra, which traveled, by the way.

We had our own plane of like a full-size plane filled with an orchestra and crew.

And Liz Calloway, incredible Liz Calloway, teched the show with us and sang all of her songs.

And so we like rehearsed the show, kind of teched the show in some like warehouse in New Jersey.

I don't remember.

And then flew to Zurich.

I think it was our first stop.

And I think I met her maybe there.

Like as we sound checked and started that tour, we played eight cities in two months, only did like 10 shows.

It was the greatest gig of my life.

I mean, it was like two shows a week with Barbra Streisand, 60 piece orchestra, 30,000 people in the audience and singing some of the best songs ever written.

Come on.