Shaun and David Cassidy: From Heartthrobs to Broadway

Ever wonder how two brothers can make their way from teen heartthrobs to Broadway stars?  Strap in for a wild ride as we unravel the intertwining careers of Shaun and David Cassidy.  In our latest episode, we're peeling back the layers of Cassidy charm, talent, and perseverance that catapulted them to stardom.  From their early roots in TV with their hits The Partridge Family and The Hardy Boys to creating waves in the music industry, the Cassidy brothers were no strangers to the limelight.

Hold on to your seats as we compare and contrast the different trajectories these brothers took.  From David's breakthrough in The Partridge Family to Shaun’s  success in The Hardy Boys, we discuss how these stepping stones launched them into formidable careers in music and acting.  We also delve into their intriguing relationship, revealing David's Big Brother influence on his younger brother Shaun.  Get an insider's look into their shared experiences and unique journeys.

Finally,  we unveil how these teen idols  transitioned to Broadway,  and  examine how their stardom evolved.  Reminisce with us as we recall their memorable performances in Blood Brothers and the indelible mark they've left on the entertainment industry.  No Cassidy fan would want to miss this rich slice of nostalgia, so join us in celebrating the awe-inspiring careers of Shaun and David Cassidy.

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Shaun and David

Speaker 1 0:00

But David and Sean's career was not that Honey. Boy started in 77, culture family ended in 74. So we were like oh my God, that's that David.

Speaker 3 0:12

Cassidy from Back to the Day.

Speaker 3 0:31

Welcome to the Sean's Quest Society podcast with your host myself, penny, cindy Day, madonna and Doris, and I invite you to share our love and enthusiasm for all things Sean Cassidy, from his teen idol days to his recent adventure back on the road again. Please join us for our stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create a Sean's Quest Society podcast. Well, welcome back, listeners, to another episode of the Sean's Quest Society podcast. Today is going to be a lot of fun and we're going to be talking about the brothers and not, like the Groucho brothers or whoever they were back in the day, the Jackson brothers the Osmond brothers.

Speaker 2 1:20

These are different brothers.

Speaker 3 1:21

Yeah, we're going to talk about different brothers, the teen idol brothers. They're heartthrob brothers. Let's see who would that be? How about they have a same last name? Let's think about it. How about Sean and David today? Sean and David, Let us talk. Sean and David. What a special relationship they had, they did, they did, and I love it when Sean gives him tribute in his concerts.

Speaker 3 1:43

Oh, yes, I mean that is the best, yeah, but we're going to kind of go back to their beginning and where they started and kind of how they followed each other, with David starting in TV as a young age and then Sean starting TV at an older teenage age.

Speaker 1 2:00

Yes.

Speaker 3 2:00

And then same thing. So David then started with music, sean starting with music. They both did more than just the Hardy Boys and the Partridge family. David 1968, dragnut, you know he started TV at a really young age, you know, before he became Keith Partridge and the Partridge family, which is one of our favorite roles, yeah, yeah, he started very young.

Speaker 1 2:26

He was a little boy and he looked like a little boy actually when he started the Partridge family in the early, early episodes he did.

Speaker 3 2:35

But those early TV shows you're mentioning name off a few, while I mean Dragnut, the Survivor in 1969, ironside Adam 12, bonanza Marcus Welby MD.

Speaker 1 2:49

If it was on TV he was on it, he was in it Mod Squad.

Speaker 3 2:53

you know all that was before the Partridge family. So I think he really wanted to be an actor. But you know, I mean Liz goes on and on and on. He was in Blossom. I mean, do you guys remember watching?

Speaker 2 3:04

Blossom yes, but I don't remember him in there, I never saw it or I forgot I saw it.

Speaker 3 3:09

Yeah, sean, you know, went on to follow in his footsteps with TV appearances and TV shows. And you know, we know Sean as the hunky detective Joe Hardy. Yeah, joe Hardy.

Speaker 1 3:22

Now, penny, did Sean have a? I don't think Sean had like a list of pre-Hardy Boys TV that he actually got to do. Is that correct?

Speaker 3 3:32

That's correct. We already did in season one. You know some of our favorite shows that Sean did. He did not appear in like Bonanza, adam 12, a lot of them did. But I do have a fun fact for you here Sean and David both did appear in Alfred Hitchcock.

Speaker 2 3:50

Yes, yes, they did. We know, we mentioned Sean in there, but David did it too.

Speaker 3 3:55

Yeah, david was in a series. That's very good, that's a good fact, I didn't realize that I never saw it. Now I'm going to have to go look for it. I know I'm going to have to watch that one too. And so the brothers had so much in common from their TV, their acting debuts. And let's talk about their music. From well, sean started singing before David, didn't he? Yeah?

Speaker 4 4:16

right, dave. Yeah, he was with Sean. He was like 13 and he would do this in LA with his friends. He started a band at age 13.

David and Shaun Cassidy Correlation

Speaker 3 4:25

Oh yeah, what was it called Longfellow? Yeah, longfellow's yeah yeah Game.

Speaker 1 4:30

I have a question yes, so there was Sean Cassidy, all of 13 years old, singing in LA with his band. Wasn't he a little too young to be getting in those bars, because usually you do LA like, I think, a sunset strip.

Speaker 3 4:46

I don't think there's a need.

Speaker 4 4:47

Well, he had that big brother. You know that he watched, so that made a difference too, and that's why we're talking about David and Sean, how they correlated with each other. It's watching that big brother. My little sister used to watch me. Same idea, same thing.

Speaker 1 5:01

What about the records though, Dave and David?

Speaker 4 5:06

They both did really well. Like David sold three soundtrack albums, 24 singles, 12 studio albums, three live albums, and Sean did five studio albums he did something live like that too and then 17 singles. They did so much together from. You know Sean watching his brother. He was a mentor for his brother. David was.

Speaker 3 5:27

That's for sure. Yeah, definitely yeah.

Speaker 4 5:31

These teen idols all have very similar paths and they get them. You know, they get them while they're young and then they condition them, and Cindy and I talked about this and that makes sense and that turns them into an idol. But if you think about it, they all had a similar upbringing, with brilliant parents and supportive families. And then Cindy and I were talking about how we wish that David and Sean had put one together, even though they did Broadway together.

Speaker 2 5:56

Oh right, they didn't do an album together. No, they didn't.

Speaker 4 5:59

They only sang together when they did the Broadway, but at least I got to perform together there. But we wish they had done an album together.

Speaker 3 6:07

They would have been nice. Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, my God. But speak of acting and TV and stuff. I don't think they ever even acted together on a TV show that I could find. But Shawn did create Ruby in the Rockets and you know so, and David was, you know. He started on it and Shawn produced it, so he wasn't in it.

Speaker 2 6:28

Yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 3 6:29

I wasn't in it, so I thought that was a lot of fun too, yeah you know, and again there was music in it that Shawn, either you know, helped where I eat or did the instrumentals. It was like a family collaboration because Patrick was in it.

Speaker 2 6:43

Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 6:44

Ryan. Ryan was more behind Doing a set yeah, doing the set but surely even made a guest. She did, yeah, guest appearance. And there is the grandmother to Ruby. She did that was fun, but it was only one season.

Speaker 2 6:56

I think right. Yeah, it only was one season, but you know, back to it was fun?

Speaker 3 7:00

Yeah it was, it was a lot of fun. But back to you know the Partridge family and that started in 1970. And then Shawn and the Hardy Boys. What was that? 77?

Speaker 2 7:10

Yes, yeah, I think January 77 was Hardy Boys starting that year. Yes, it was.

Speaker 1 7:16

And I made this mention one before on our podcast that we were so young that we didn't realize. It seemed like it was a million years later, but David and Shawn's career was not that.

Speaker 2 7:30

Hardy Boys started in 77.

Speaker 1 7:31

Right, the Partridge family ended in 73. 74. So when we were like, oh my God, that's that David Cassidy, from the day when it was only three years later, it did seem like a lifetime.

Speaker 3 7:44

Yeah, like we're just saying that I think David groomed the path for Shawn, but then Definitely yeah, but you know, shawn is always more the big brother. He just he always seemed like the older brother the big brother.

Speaker 1 7:58

But I didn't know until.

Speaker 3 7:59

I think, Darius, we were talking the other day and you told me that David was eight years older than Shawn. He's eight years older and I thought it was just like maybe four or five, but I didn't realize it was eight years, yeah.

Speaker 4 8:11

David was the older brother, but I didn't know how many years until I started doing a little more research. But David recorded 10 albums when he went to his job and they didn't even know that he could sing Right. But that's yeah, they knew then because he took off in the Partridge and that really helped him when he said I yeah, I think I love you. That really you can?

Speaker 3 8:31

Yeah, sure, but there was a lot of them. Yeah, I don't know. I know Shawn was nominated for awards, but I don't know that he ever won one.

Speaker 4 8:40

Yeah, shawn said he didn't have the drive to be. You know what David was, but he was ready for it if it did come his way. But then David got tired of being in the public eye. He actually in retrospect they wrote this, this is quote that he got tired of the girl groupies and they were the ones that got him most Right and so it drove him crazy. He said they wanted him to be Keith, they really wanted him just to be Keith, so it bothered him. But I thought, you know, he had his own talent, naturally, but that's probably what drove him away and them towards him. But Shawn was always saved by different things that he watched his brother, david, go through.

Speaker 3 9:17

He learned from his brother. Yeah, but you know Shawn and David, with their singing and their acting they were totally different.

Speaker 1 9:24

Oh, yeah, yes.

Speaker 3 9:26

You know Keith Partridge being almost like a teen idol in the Partridge family.

Speaker 2 9:30

It just developed into that.

Speaker 3 9:32

Yeah, you know where Shawn was, a boy detective. But yeah he also developed into a teen idol with the Hardy Boys because he started singing on the show and everything.

Speaker 2 9:45

And did you know why Shawn wanted the Hardy Boys really bad? Because his dad was in Colombo.

Speaker 3 9:49

Oh, that's right, Murder mystery, murder mystery. I remember that.

Speaker 2 9:53

So, shawn, when this came along for Hardy Boys, he really wanted it yeah.

Speaker 3 9:57

Yeah, and didn't I just say that David did a show in Colombo?

Speaker 2 10:01

I'll have to look again and just be sure, yeah, because their dad was on there a lot.

Speaker 1 10:05

To Dan's point, what she was saying about David gave out recording and the whole business as a matter of fact.

Speaker 3 10:13

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 10:14

Because David Cassidy did not want to be Keith Partridge. Yeah right, His audience could inseparate the two characters, the man from the character, because it was so closely related that this guy was a singer on a TV show.

Speaker 2 10:31

But it was just that machine. But you know, but I'm not even talking about the Teen Idol machine.

Speaker 1 10:37

I'm talking about how girls feel, how they felt.

Speaker 4 10:40

So guess what he did? He traded all these girls for 17 horses.

Speaker 3 10:44

That's what I was going to say. He actually, when he gave that up, he did what he loved. He bought race horses and raised horses and pretty cool. But yeah, I found, within a year of its premiere, cassidy. Cassidy was a multi gold, multi platinum certified recording artist and a millionaire with a fan club membership outnumbering those of Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

Speaker 4 11:08

Oh, I had that too. Yeah, the records. I was going to talk about that with the records because I think so new that I had to learn when I saw about the records that it was Elvis Presley, that he was right up there with them and the Beatles. Even he had a bigger fan club membership than even the Beatles or Elvis Presley, yeah, yeah. So I had three you know multi platinum albums, many top 10 hits, and Cindy and I were talking about how they, both Sean and David, were at that Houston's.

Speaker 1 11:43

Have you seen that? Yeah, we're talking about that.

Speaker 4 11:46

And then they both, both of them at New York's Madison Square Garden. Both of them sold out in both of those places.

Speaker 1 11:54

It's huge when you sell out the darn.

Speaker 4 11:56

Yeah, and both brothers were that's how you put them together too that they were. They were huge. But to put David Cassidy there, as with the Beatles and Elvis that he had a bigger fan club. Penny and I both realized that is huge, and David was the world's highest paid performer. By the age of 21 he had the biggest fan club. Like we said, he broke the box office records at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 2 12:27

Wow. Yeah, he mentioned Sean how he felt when Sean finally made it to go to Madison Square Garden. Oh my god that his brother did it and he's like now I'm here.

Speaker 3 12:36

I mean, yeah, I'm having both of them having top TV shows and then going to Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 2 12:43

And didn't David say well, Sean said he got into being a teen out because it was a good way to meet girls.

Speaker 3 12:48

Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, yeah, and then he was running away from them.

Speaker 4 12:53

I think he's running away from him.

Speaker 2 12:54

Yeah well, you can only handle so much of that, I'm sure. Oh my god.

Speaker 4 12:59

Well is is. Sean's out there now. He's out there touring now, so who knows what'll happen with this? I'm going to Texas and I get to be on the same front row again.

Speaker 1 13:10

I'm so excited Sean will keep growing well, you don't have any more fun facts about I mean the, the relationship, the comparison, I should say, of David and Sean and their music.

Speaker 2 13:25

Well, I was thinking about their first singles. Didn't you have information on their first singles? Well, with their singles.

Speaker 4 13:30

I know with David, I think I love you was Amazing, I mean, that just took off. And then with Sean, I know that. How do you say that? Come on girls.

Speaker 3 13:53

Run.

Speaker 4 13:54

That was. That was huge too, and those singles just took off on them.

Speaker 2 14:15

So they both have gold records yes yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 14:20

Mm-hmm talk about big brother and little brother.

Speaker 3 14:22

Yeah, you know, back in the day I mean I don't, I mean I've heard the gold records and stuff back in the 70s. But now you hear about platinum, double platinum, but did they have like platinum and stuff back?

Speaker 1 14:33

Yeah, if you saw platinum, you were, just you were. I don't even know if you cause gold was huge, yeah, gold that.

Speaker 3 14:42

That's what I, that's right.

Speaker 1 14:44

Back in the 70s you were doing something Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4 14:48

Well, even what, like you guys were talking about this, the do run run. It actually was number 17, even on the German charts in April of 1977, right, and this was the same year, david Cassidy song Getting it on the street reached number 12.

Speaker 3 15:06

Yeah, and the same chart Run run yeah number one.

Speaker 4 15:11

Yeah on our us billboard hot 100, so that was really neat.

Speaker 2 15:16

They run the chart together.

Speaker 4 15:17

Yeah, and Sean recorded this song in 1977. His version hit number one as we were just saying that, do, do, run, run.

Speaker 3 15:27

Yes.

Teen Idols and Broadway

Speaker 2 15:30

Yes, and I love that at the end of his shows he sings that yeah, and I have a little tidbit too, but it says David Recalls that his half brother was beginning to get interested in acting because he hung around the Satellite while they're doing the Partridge family and they try to discourage it. David said no. His mom said no, you're too young. So apparently Sean couldn't even go on any auditions till he was 18. Was that a school?

Speaker 4 15:54

Yeah, yeah but at 13 he started doing his record, or is his? Yeah, at 12.

Speaker 2 15:59

Yeah, and at 12 he got a. He got a guitar. His first guitar was at age 12. So, they were trying to push him away.

Speaker 4 16:06

Yeah, yeah, if you think about it, that all of these guys that we've been talking about, including David Mm-hmm, they all come from parents that are quite talented, but their parents were supportive.

Speaker 2 16:16

Yeah, sometimes in a family like that, when your family is that business, sometimes you just go into it. So he just kind of followed the family business, right?

Speaker 3 16:24

fun fact though, on the Ruby in the Rockets. Do you guys know what David's name was? And Ruby in the Rockets?

Speaker 2 16:30

can't think of it.

Speaker 3 16:31

David Gallagher. Patrick who's Patrick Gallagher? I just thought that was fun, oh so they use the real names used to real names. Yeah, they used to real first names.

Speaker 2 16:41

I'm wondering how Shirley got to use her real name in the parts family but David didn't. How come they use Shirley's real name?

Speaker 1 16:46

They didn't want it to be the Cassidy family. When you write a TV show and you got so many people from the same family, you don't want everybody using their first names because you already had these girls. Getting David Confused with Keith, yeah, and you imagine if he used this real first name, that's true. Just wouldn't right.

Speaker 3 17:11

It would have been a train wreck of all kinds of proportions for sure, yeah, but if you think about it, the name Shirley was popular in that day, yeah, and so maybe that's why they kept that. Oh, remember her first name was Connie. Oh yeah, remember that first episode that we found Connie. It was Connie, it just didn't fit her.

Speaker 2 17:28

I guess that's why they kept sure she's a Shirley.

Speaker 4 17:31

Shirley is a Shirley.

Speaker 2 17:33

Yes for sure. All right, All right now on to the next phase of their careers, which was the T Nidall status. So they get into these TV shows. Then they do all their records. The records start going and guess what? It vamps up into their T Nidall status. So David, of course we talked about he went crazy with being a T Nidall. That was actually happened unexpectedly Because he did not plan for this to happen. But I think Shawn may have kind of known it was gonna happen. When Sean started it.

Speaker 1 18:01

Oh, I think he saw it coming, especially when the law of publication started.

Speaker 2 18:06

Right, he was next on the train. He knew that eventually this was gonna happen. So I think he had a little bit more idea that this was the future. But David had no idea, right, so this blindsided him. But, sean, you know, he went into the T-Nitle status knowing from David what he kind of could expect from it. So both T-Nitles and I don't know not for very long though, like maybe three, four years- yeah.

Speaker 2 18:32

Sean didn't write that T-Nitle train for a long time. No, and David too. He was done by 74. He's like I'm done.

Speaker 3 18:38

I don't know, do people ride that train longer than three or four years? That's hard, I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 18:42

That's a hard schedule. You know TV shows and concerts.

Speaker 1 18:46

How could you be a T-Nitle more than the years that your fans are teens?

Speaker 3 18:51

That's the whole. Thing.

Speaker 1 18:52

You gotta, you can't. You're gonna grow up, and so are they Right.

Speaker 3 18:57

But yeah, look at how old we are and we still follow our T-Nitle.

Speaker 2 19:00

Well, that's why Sean says we're, we just, we're just continuing from that.

Speaker 4 19:04

We're so thankful, aren't we, that that not only that we can see Sean, but that we have made friendship through Sean.

Speaker 2 19:10

Yeah, he said. He also said our relationship was not finished, was not done, Like he was continuing this relationship that he thought was very special.

Speaker 3 19:19

Right, right.

Speaker 2 19:20

All right. And then, after T-Nitle status, what happened?

Speaker 1 19:22

Well, they went to Broadway. They went to Broadway and it was inevitable. Think about it.

Speaker 3 19:29

Oh my, their parents.

Speaker 1 19:29

Shirley.

Speaker 2 19:30

Jones and.

Speaker 1 19:30

Jack. Cassidy you can't. And David his mom, evelyn Ward.

Speaker 3 19:35

Yeah, oh my God, I love her, you're not gonna not be on Broadway somehow.

Speaker 1 19:39

Right, right, your little kid, and you're standing in the wings and you're watching your dad do this and you're, you're just all it's in your blood.

Speaker 2 19:49

David was little too, like he was three or four, and he said that's my daddy. Yeah, on the stage In the wings backstage.

Speaker 1 19:55

That's little Watching that. So we knew that eventually Sean and David were going to wind up on Broadway and thank God they wound up together.

Speaker 2 20:06

Yes, yes, david talked Sean into doing blood brothers.

Speaker 1 20:09

Yes, david, talks on and to do blood brothers.

Blood Brothers Memories With David Cassidy

Speaker 4 20:12

So nice of David.

Speaker 1 20:13

Sean, I am so grateful that he did blood brothers with his brother and I really wanted to see that show. But then he started working on his TV show American Gothic and what and tour with love.

Speaker 2 20:28

Yes, he had other projects going on, so he was kind of hesitating to do it, but I think now he's realizing it.

Speaker 1 20:33

I'm glad I did that, but I I had my ticket, bought my ticket and everything. At the time Danny Danny Bonaducci was working in Chicago at a radio station called the Loop and he had a lunch with David Cassidy to meet and have lunch with Danny and David. And I got tickets and I got to have lunch with Danny and David and about 20 other people and we it was the night of blood brothers was get this September 27th it was day that is I think he is that?

Speaker 1 21:09

Yeah, so there we were having lunch and I yell out because I'm so shy there is a, it's a live broadcast. It really is a radio station live broadcast with David Cassidy and about 20 people, and I yell out happy birthday, sean, as you would out of nowhere. We all would. David Cassidy goes. Yes, today is my brother Sean's birthday, and we are saying happy birthday to Sean.

Speaker 4 21:39

Oh, you wish you had that recorded?

Speaker 1 21:41

I do I wish. I asked Danny for it several times, but they never got me that too. Wow, that is awesome. That was the first night I went. The second night I went, I had my tickets. Like I said, I went and there was a David's wife at the time was Sue.

Speaker 3 22:01

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 22:02

David had brought Sue with his son Bo. Bo was like five and it's kind of funny because we said David watched Jack at four or five. Right, Well, there was Bo watching David.

Speaker 1 22:17

Oh right, right and David brought Bo and they were outside the theater and I was standing there waiting with my ticket to go in and Sue came up. She remembered that I was the crazy one. He yelled a happy birthday. She just came over and said hi, and everything. That was nice. It was a really good time. I enjoyed that. That is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite memories because I got to have lunch with David Cassidy and Danny Bina Ducci and see blood brothers on Sean Cassidy's birthday.

Speaker 2 22:52

Oh, my memory. And why was Danny there? Why was he having this lunch?

Speaker 1 22:55

Because Danny worked as the morning guy on WLUP the Loop and it was a promo Promo for the radio station. Well, danny, you won't have David Cassidy come to town and not put him with Danny.

Speaker 1 23:07

Right, so I saw them in concert together before they said well, let's do this lunch and invite some listeners and give out some tickets to blood brothers. And there it is. Oh, so you get your ticket for free. I had two tickets when I bought and I didn't realize they were going to send us all to see blood brothers. Oh, ok, that's much fun. As I had having lunch with David Cassidy, I had more fun seeing him and blood brothers.

Speaker 1 23:40

Blood brothers was such a good play. I saw it three times, twice in a big theater and once as a high school production and I have to tell you, if you haven't had a chance, you should see blood brothers. I'm going to tell you what Wikipedia says about blood brothers. Then I'm going to give my little synopsis and I'm not going to give away the ending, so there will be no spoiler alert here. So blood brothers is a musical with book lyrics and music by Willie Russell. The story is a contemporary nature versus nurture plot revolving around fraternal twins, mickey and Eddie. I'm going to start right there. That's the gist of the show, but the show is so much. There are these brothers who were born fraternal twins. They were both, I should say, born to Mrs Johnston.

Speaker 1 24:49

But Mrs Johnston was poor, her family was poor. She had a house full of kids and a husband who left her when she was pregnant. Well, she didn't know how she was going to feed another kid. But she found out she was pregnant with twins and she worked for Mrs Lyons, who was really rich and lived on the other side of town. And Mrs Lyons wanted a kid and couldn't have one. So Mrs Johnston found out she had twins but she could really raise one more kid. They made a pact that Mrs Johnston would give Mrs Lyons one of her sons, and she did. She gave birth to twins and Eddie, who was at work. Lyons, the rich kid on the other side of town, went to Mrs Lyons.

Speaker 1 25:49

Well, mrs Johnston continued working as the maid for Mrs Lyons while raising her son Michael, who she called Mickey. She noticed one day that Mickey and Edward were getting close as friends and this kind of upset Mrs Lyons. So she fired Mrs Johnston and told her to take her son and never come back. Well, she did that and they didn't see each other anymore. Time goes by, the boys get older, they're in school, they realize they had the same birthday and they become friends. They make a pact that they are going to be blood brothers. Mrs Lyons is starting to realize her son is getting close to Mickey. She is going insane and she doesn't want her son getting close to Mickey because the secret will come out that they are brothers. And Mrs Lyons told Mrs Johnston, if they ever found out that they are brothers they will die. I'm going to leave it at that, I won't spoil the end. But that's how they become blood brothers. You got to see it. It really truly is a great show.

Speaker 3 27:22

Tell me, it's not true, say I only dream. And morning will come soon. Tell me it's not true. Say you didn't mean it. Say it's just pretend. Say it's just the end of an old movie from years ago, of an old movie with Marilyn Monroe.

Speaker 2 28:25

I went to two shows also and that we didn't know each other back then.

Speaker 4 28:29

Did you get pictures?

Speaker 1 28:31

Oh, I have my pictures. I've posted my pictures before on my social media. Me and David and Danny.

Speaker 2 28:38

Yeah, I wish I knew you back then, Darius, because we did so many similar things together. That's amazing, that you guys all went to the same shows.

Speaker 3 28:44

And in the same places, yeah.

Speaker 2 28:45

Yeah, so I went to two shows also, but it wasn't on the same days. Oh, I think it was different days. I think we were on that October date together, october 10th or something, I think I went to one.

Speaker 1 28:57

I think that's the day I was there, my second show.

Speaker 2 29:00

Okay, all right. So the first show I get tickets for my husband and my daughter. We're going to go as a family to go see it because I had just gotten married. So I don't my husband think I'm running for David Cassidy. So we go do the first show. But then I got tickets again for another show and me and my friend went to see the show and this time we waited after the show in the lobby and there's people standing around hoping to meet him and stuff, and we don't know what's going to happen. But all of a sudden David Cassidy walks out and he's greeting the people in the lobby, which I've never seen before. Usually these people go out the back door, but he comes out the lobby and starts talking to us. So we got our picture with them and we had a nice conversation with them and I think that was the last time I saw David. Was that back in 94. Wow.

Speaker 1 29:44

So I have pictures of that. That was a great, great show. I really love Vlad. It was really good it was. It was such an emotional, good show it was, and I wish I could have seen it with Sean, but I'm not too upset that I didn't.

Speaker 2 30:01

Yeah, I was upset that Sean didn't come with because I was hoping to get my my ideal picture Sean and David together. I was looking forward to it. I knew they were in New York but Sean couldn't move to the show in Chicago because he had to go do Finish his project, the American Gothic.

Speaker 4 30:17

So he could not be Sean.

Speaker 2 30:18

Yeah. So then, whatever stand in or whatever, took Sean's place in Chicago and unfortunately I didn't get that picture, but I got one with David, yeah. So they, they did wind up together on Broadway, oh it was great they did and it was a very good show. I would recommend it to anybody.

Speaker 1 30:35

Yes, If you guys can imagine this, I think he's thinking of making the magic of a midnight sky show into a Broadway production.

Speaker 2 30:47

Well, they had a special relationship and I think at the end day Sean was with them.

Speaker 1 30:52

So it all, it all ties full circle yeah. They do have a very special. David and Sean had a very special bond and I'm really glad that we got to do this episode on David and Sean.

Speaker 2 31:04

It feels, like Sean said, not many people get to experience that T-Nital status and he can relate that with his brother. That's their special thing together, exactly.

Speaker 1 31:14

Yeah, so the biggest T-Nitals David and Sean Cassidy.

Speaker 4 31:18

And then when he talks about his brother and his shows, he becomes very teary-eyed during that time, yeah.

Speaker 2 31:23

There was actually another song he was going to sing, but he said he couldn't get through it. You ain't heavy, you're my brother. He couldn't get through the song without crying, so he switched it to I'll Meet you Halfway.

Speaker 4 31:32

Yeah, because he's his best friend.

Speaker 2 31:34

Yes, yes, we all feel it when he sings that song, don't we? Definitely, most definitely.

Speaker 4 31:38

But what an honor to David from Sean to go out now and do this and his honor part of it.

Speaker 2 31:44

Yeah, you're right, and this kind of in his honor and it kind of ties it all up. There's the summary of their relationship together.

Speaker 1 31:50

Right they were. I don't think anybody else will ever be able to say that they were two of the America's top T-Nitals.

Speaker 2 32:01

I mean, can you think of any? Even the Osmans were not like that way. No, they were a group. So that's always the Sean.

Speaker 1 32:07

Cassidy, sean and David.

Speaker 2 32:10

Yeah Right, even Michael Jackson didn't have a brother at his status. No, no, that he was at.

Speaker 3 32:15

But Sean and David kind of managed each other. Sean and David, yeah, they did.

Speaker 2 32:17

They sure did. That was awesome. I mean, Patrick could have followed them too, but Patrick said no to T-Nitals.

Speaker 3 32:24

Yeah, he went straight to.

Speaker 2 32:25

Broadway they were after him. That's not the. Cassidy, it's been three years. Patrick wanted to do theater.

Speaker 4 32:31

Theater yeah, but I think it was really nice that he showed up at the concert that we were at for Sean, but then that was the concert that Sean was honoring his their brother, david.

Speaker 3 32:48

I'll meet you halfway. That better than no way.

Speaker 2 32:56

Must be some way to get together.

Speaker 3 33:05

Ain't there some way? I know that someday.

Speaker 4 33:14

We just might forget our forever.

Speaker 1 33:26

We could go on all day talking about Sean and David. We really love them and they truly were and always will be blood brothers. Why don't you tell us which brother made your heartthrob?

Speaker 3 33:43

Thank you from the bottom of our Teen Dream Hearts. Keep on crushing.

Speaker 1 33:47

Always believe in magic.

Speaker 3 33:49

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Speaker 1 34:02

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Speaker 3 34:07

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