13th July, 2009: it is not everyday that you see an appearance of a Grey’s Anatomy star on the Broadway stage. The fans with Chicago the musical tickets were treated with the above said rare combination as Chandra Wilson made her debut performance as Matron Mama Morton.
”I will certainly be grabbing a glass of champagne!” Wilson told reporters as she cut her way to the cast in the after-party. “I’m just happy that I sang everything that I was suppose to and feel very good that I didn’t mess up my lines.”
Her preparations were not complete before some very sound advise from one of her favorite sources, “My 10-year-old daughter [Joy] said, ‘Mom just don’t mess up.’ That was the advice she gave me and so that’s what I took with me on stage and it seemed to have worked.”
Her children Serena and Michael were not able to see their beloved mom on stage, but her group of friends and well-wishers, were the ones who kept the spirit alive with cheering her on through he discourse of her act.
”I talked with them during intermission on the phone and right before the show. They said you know what to do, you will be fine and that we are so proud of you,” Wilson spoke about her children.
As for reaction from the fellow cast members, “She was absolutely amazing,” Pickens told reporters. “She was perfect and should be very proud of her performance. I had a great time watching her.”
”I paid them lots of money for them to do [the cheering],” Wilson said with a smile. “I’m absolutely thankful they came out. We all try to support each other as much as humanly possible so to have them out there and have friends out there felt really good.”
”I’m still a little bit nervous like the show is still going on. But I can’t wait to do it all over again.”