![]() After 3 weeks of being called back, CANDI was selected and she appeared in the very first reality movie of the week ever. Years later CANDI lined up at 6am to audition at the Debbie Reynolds’s Studios in Los Angeles in the hopes of being selected to star in an NBC/Dick Clark movie called Reaching For The Stars. Overheard by laughing producers, she was given a speaking role in the next episode, and the next one and she earned her AFTRA card. Seizing a moment, CANDI made a beeline and did her best impression of Nell singing Ain’t Misbehavin’. Under threat of expulsion from the lot CANDI was not to talk to Ms. ![]() Her famous adlib “Open! Open! Open!” made her easily recognizable.Ī cousin who was stage manager on the hit TV show, Gimme A Break, starring Nell Carter, cast her as an extra. Many people remember CANDI as the spokesperson/crazed shopper from Mervyn’s Department Stores commercials. Lately, CANDI produced her own cabaret called, If She Taps, You’re F****d which won huge accolades and best Cabaret of 2015 from Broadway World. CANDI then worked with Ken Page again and with her choreographer from DREAMGIRLS, Michael Peters, along with Stephanie Mills in the Broadway Workshop To Sir, With Love.ĬANDI has opened as a stand up for both Howie Mandel and Joan Rivers in Los Angeles and performed on Tonight At The Improv. )Īfter DREAMGIRLS came the Broadway Workshop for Elegies: For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens directed by Ken Page. (Taking a chance and sneaking in is a theme in CANDI MILO’s career. On a break from rehearsing during her second season with The Rockettes, she snuck into a Broadway call for DREAMGIRLS, and booked the job, being selected personally by Michael Bennett himself and she was given her Equity card. When her stint on the seas ended CANDI was hired by Peter Uberroth to perform in The Christmas Spectacular in Los Angeles, with The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. From there, it was a summer at Disney World performing as the lead in Country Jubilee on the Tomorrow Land Stage, then being hired as the youngest guest entertainer by Princess Cruises. CANDI MILO began her stage career singing with Marriott’s Great America, at age 16.
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