This is going to be more of an experience. There will be a lot of great clips, footage and photos. OK, not quite , but almost. Honestly, I saw the fans grow up. They really, really love me. So the dancing and the songs were very rudimentary. I was thrilled. In the beginning it was pretty amateur. We started out so simple and so easy. The shows got better and better. Every year we added a little more. We added more sets, more dancers, more singers. It felt bigger and bigger and more and more professional.
By the last show, it was ready for Vegas. It was really good. Which was a bummer because just when it was getting super good I quit. It was a very collaborative endeavor every year to put together a show that the fans would like and that would make me look good.
It was really fun just working with all the people that did the sets and the music and the costumes. It was like making a movie or a TV show, but only in a few weeks time. You know, start it, boom, do it. Putting those together was a blast. I loved doing that and the audience always really loved it. You can imagine the traffic from Hollywood. Man, it was like a two-and-a-half-hour schlep. Then I had two hours of makeup. It was really hard to hang it up.
So I threw on a bathrobe and it was just really, really moving. Very much like the end of an era. It was just getting more difficult to do. The energy that you have to expend. Especially if you do two or three of them a night. It kicks your butt. I wrote my autobiography, which became a New York Times bestseller.
And doing lots of appearances. I did a podcast already this morning. I have two more podcasts coming up this week. And then a bunch more jobs. Mostly, my income is all based around my licensing and merchandising of products.
