do you think that? i just think i m a hard habit to break. no. it s a song i feel coming on. and even more incredibly, you wore the same dress that you wore when you first married him. yeah. i had designed this beautiful dress. my daughter rachel helped me design it. she designs my clothes in the show. it showed up five days before the wedding in pieces. crazy. and four days, five days before i got my dress, i found out in my garage a box with my original wedding dress. i didn t even know i had it still, and so i took it down and i was having it, you know, dry cleaned and whatever, put away again because it had been opened. well, immediately i started crying because this dress was a mess, the one i designed and the lady who was helping me said where is that dress. it s at the dry cleaners. we said have you started cleaning it yet? no, we haven t. i said i need it back!
we just changed the show. we have a brand new show. well, i d say almost 80% is brand new. you can t take away some of the staples. what s the song that country rock and roll is what we re known for. but the ones we can t take out is what do we end the show with. may tomorrow be a perfect day he has no clue what that is. i love that one. sing the rest of it. may tomorrow be a perfect day sing it marie. i go through this every night. did you hear what he said? sing the last show. i said do you even know this song, i said be honest. he said, well, i never watched the tv show. piers, we never watch your show either. how do you feel? sing me this song. may tomorrow be a perfect day may you find love and laughter along the way get me finish the song. may god keep you in his tender
are. i like that. we know about the nutrition thing you do but what else do you do to keep in this kind of shape? well, i mean, i lost 50 pounds and i think the biggest thing is that when women kind of you get to a place in life where you take care of your kids, you take care of your husband, you take care of your parents, you stop taking care of yourself and i think it s important to. do you exercise? i do, yeah, i do. what s the future holding for you? how long are you going to be performing here for starters? until the end of this year. they want us longer but we ll see what happens. we ll see if he can handle it. is there any way you d rather be performing? there s all kinds of opportunities but what s different about now days than the early 70s is that things are apt to change quickly. it can change on a dime. so you don t lock the future too far in advance because there s so many opportunities. especially right now. with this wave we re riding with donnie a
that week a lady came through and gave me the best piece of advice. i asked her, i said does it ever get better and she said, no, it won t. and that actually was very comforting to me because and i never would have had that advice if i had just gone in my room. i needed to be strong for my children. i needed to show them you have to keep moving forward, and it was really tough. we do a meet and greet after every show where quite a few people come back to get autographs and sign the pictures and all that kind of stuff, get to talk to us. and it comes up nightly obviously. and the support and the storyings that people tell us. that s one of the he was my rock. the nicest thing about this gig is that those meet and greets after the show where you can have that one-to-one contact with the fan, with the public, that really have supported us we have amazing fans. you say donnie was your rock. in what way? well, you know, he could tell
you re spending too much money. too many lights. the set, the orchestra, the dancers, the multimedia. you re only going to be here six weeks. so marie and i stuck to our guns. we said this is going to be a great show. we re going to put everything into it. and you have to remember, we did our own things for many years. this is like the first time we ve worked together. for a long, long time. in a long, long time. so it s almost like i ll use the analogy of getting a value meal. somebody they get more than what they paid for. you come to the donnie and marie show. do you think you re not the last of because there s still some others around but of that old school ethic of doing these kind of shows when you see the young performers today, it seems to me they don t have that same ethic. i ll tell you what i feel is i feel very blessed that i got to grow up working with, you know, sam ni davmy davis jr., e presley. sinatra. right. and to learn, to watch, to be