Bobbie Eakes Interview (Tulsa World)

Source: Tulsa World

Interview: Busy Bobbie Eakes
By CINDY ELAVSKY

Published: 6/7/2009 5:27 AM

While “All My Children’s” Krystal Carey always seems to have her hands full – whether it’s juggling men or juggling secrets – her portrayer, Bobbie Eakes, is a pretty busy woman herself. Only Bobbie isn’t up to no good – she’s making beautiful music.

Since June of last year, Bobbie and fellow soap stars Kassie DePaiva (Blair, “One Life to Live”) and Kathy Brier (ex-Marcie, “OLTL”) have been performing to packed audiences as the Divas of Daytime.

This year, the Divas will also be featured performers at the Country Music Association’s Music Festival Saturday and a few accoustic sets throughout the weekend.

Bobbie explains how the Divas came about: “I had been wanting to put a group together for a long time. My first idea was a group where I’d be the only girl and have a couple of soap hunks, where it would be a girl and a couple of guys. At the time, Vincent Irizarry was one of the guys I was talking to, and he was in L.A. doing ‘The Young and the Restless.’ It was logistically hard to get everyone together, because the people I wanted to use were spread out. Then I thought, ‘Why not three girls? It would be cool to have a trio.’”

Bobbie didn’t have to look far to find her musical accomplices. “I immediately thought of Kassie and Kathy, because I had done duets with both of them. They were excited about the idea – the enthusiasm was there, the availability was there, and we were all on the same page about it.”

Performing with the Divas is, as Bobbie says, “an absolutely a joy. We just laugh all the time. We laugh at what we say, and we also get a kick out of our songs. Singing together in the three-part harmonies that we’ve put together just really seems to work. It’s very rewarding.”

Fans who want to catch the Divas in concert can expect one main thing: fun. “The show is mostly music – with songs most people recognize from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s – with between-song banter. We also do some current stuff with maybe a few original songs tossed in there. It’s the kind of show that you can sing along to. You come away feeling that you’ve been to a party.”

Meanwhile, Bobbie has been very busy on “AMC” with her firecracker alter ego, Krystal. “When I was Macy on ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ I didn’t work near as much as I’ve been working since coming to ‘AMC.’

“Immediately I was so fulfilled with the character. In the beginning, Krystal came in swinging pretty hard. Now she’s pretty much woven into the Pine Valley scene, and she’s a little bit subdued. She’s definitely very layered, and they continue to write very interesting stories for her.”

Krystal presently has her hands full with two big stories: the discovery of a long-lost daughter, Babe’s fraternal twin, Marissa, and the murder of Stuart Chandler.

Bobbie explains: “The murder story line is a big story line, but it is also happening at the same time that Krystal is having her daughter story line with Marissa. Krystal is implicated in the murder; a lot of people are implicated. There is a lot of action, and the show is moving really really fast, so hold on!”

“AMC” airs at noon weekdays on ABC, channel 8.