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word MOM isthe AFTER PURSUING a show-biz career in the Big Apple, New Jersey– born Sue Fabisch moved to Nashville to try her hand at songwriting. The Costco member, who jokes that she has “four kids if you count my husband—they’re 8, 12, 15 and 49,” remembers the advice she heard about songwriting: Write what you know. “At that time I had two kids and a lot of laundry, and so what I knew was motherhood,” says Fabisch. She went on to pen more than 40 songs about the subject, which she eventually turned into a one-woman show, with performances around town. In 2008, she paired up with GFour Productions, the team behind Menopause The Musical, and created a four- woman show, aptly titled Motherhood the Musical (
www.motherhood themusical.com). Based on the perspective of four differ- ent women, each at different stages of motherhood, the show tells tories every mother can relate to. “It’s all fair game,” says Fabisch. “You can’t make this up. It has to happen to make it good.” The musical, which opened with a sold-out premiere in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in fall 2010, includes 18 original tunes, including “Not Gonna Take It Anymore,” a song about mothers on strike; “I’m Danny’s Mom,” a heartwarming bal- lad; and the hilarious “Costco Queen,” which Fabisch co-wrote with Ilene Angel, a fellow Nashville songwriter. (View it it on You Tube; search “Costco Queen.”) “The song came about while we were talking about everything we buy from Costco,” says Fabisch, who admits, “If I were really rich, it’d be scary if I walked into Costco
JENNIFER BOXLE Y
“He just looked at
me and smiled and
said, ‘Well, you should do that.”’
SOON AFTER HER marriage in 2005, Potomac,
Maryland, Costco member Danielle Tate went
to the Department of Motor Vehicles with a
form she had found on its website, all filled
out and ready to go to change her name.
The result is
MissNowMrs.com. For a fee,
brides, and anyone else who needs a name
change, can fill in personal information and
the site will prepare name-change forms for
“I waited in line, got up to the desk, and
the clerk said, ‘This is an outdated form. I need
you to go to the back of the line and fill out
this updated version.’ I waited another two
hours and they said, ‘You brought your mar-
riage certificate but
not your certified mar-
riage certificate.’ ”
Social Security, the Internal Revenue Service,
passports, voter registration and much more.
Tate estimates the service saves users an
average of 13 hours of work.
a k from Miss to Mrs.; I
poor man asks, ‘Do we
And, if things don’t work out, there’s a sis-
ter website, Get YourNameBack.com. “Enough
ladies emailed, saying,
After three trips,
“I came home and
said to my new hus-
band, ‘Why isn’t
there a website that
does as much of this
for you as possi-
ble?’” says Tate.
‘I don’t need to go
from Miss to Mrs.; I
need to go from Mrs.
to Miss.’
BLAKE NE WMAN
“My husband
walked in and saw I
had divorce forms all
over the place. The
poor man asks, ‘Do we
need to talk?’”
(Mrs.) Danielle Tate and husband, Culin
—Steve Fisher
100 ;e Costco Connection MAY 2012
Moms in
Motherhood
the Musical
Motherhood
writer (and
Costco queen)
Sue Fabisch
After the wedding bells
VICKIE PE WI T T PHO TOGRAPH Y
… I would just buy everything.”
Fabisch even made her husband
take her to Costco to celebrate her
40th birthday. “I was just jonesing
for that pizza,” she says. “And it
was, like, $7 to feed everyone and
then we walked around and got
the samples too. It was comical.”
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