After Ripa told viewers on Monday’s (March 9) Live with Kelly and Mark that her and Mark Consuelos‘ son Joaquin told her to wait until opening night to come see his Broadway debut in Death of a Salesman, she shared a proud mama moment on Wednesday’s episode, having decided to go see him perform in previews on Tuesday night (March 10), whether he liked it or not.
“I didn’t ask for permission. I just went. I’m like, ‘You know what? I’m a ticket buyer too, and I’m going,'” she teased.
Consuelos, who was able to see Sunday night’s (March 8) opening preview performance and also joined Ripa at last night’s show, told her, “You said I undersold it.”
While Ripa said she “believed” Consuelos, she was under the impression that he was “just being like a proud dad.”
“It was unbelievable,” she gushed. “The entire production is incredible, and just to see Joaquin up there took my breath away.”
Ripa and Consuelos also sang the praises of “geniuses” Laurie Metcalf and Nathan Lane, as well as Ben Ahlers, Christopher Abbott, and director Joe Mantello. However, Ripa was reminded of something Consuelos said on Monday’s episode.
“It’s like you said, it’s Death of a Salesman,” she explained. “It’s right there in the title. Death of a Salesman. It’s not a comedy.”
Consuelos chimed in, “Although there are a lot of laughs.”
Ripa agreed, “There are a lot of laughs. There’s a lot of laughs. But Death of a Salesman. And I didn’t understand it when you said it, but I smiled my way through the whole thing because just to see our kid on stage just thrilled me.”
“It’s crazy, right?” Consuelos asked.
Ripa echoed, “It’s crazy. It doesn’t make any sense.”
She also said she and Consuelos “saw people there who knew Joaquin since he was born.”
“And we were talking about it, like, if you had told me when he was a newborn, ‘Oh, 22 years from now he’ll be starring on Broadway in Death of a Salesman,’ I would’ve thought you were on drugs,” she quipped.
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