the original jennifer lopez was born in puerto rico and became the first latino on broadway she helped introduce the law in flavor to the stage and set the foundation for latinos to come after mr barrett tell me how did you get the chance to research she was living in las vegas and we went to las vegas interviewed her and she was a great interview she remembered everything sometimes you remembered too much it some of like she had a very fiery personality she lived up to her  name of the latin bombshell completely when did she come to the united states they came in the one nine hundred twenty s and they came primarily because her mother thought she'd take her children to america because they could get a better education there and they came obviously on a series on said i just wanted to be the first person off the boat when we got to america because when she was a child she'd see the boats go by when she was living in puerto rico and she didn't know what america was but she knew she wanted to go somewhere someplace new puerto rico ha girls and that was a collegiate musical it was a set in the college somewhere in new mexico and she played a visitor primarily at the college she was in a student she played as she had she a couple of numbers by  was written by richard richard rogers and lawrence hard and was produced by george abbott and they were titans in the theater at the time and much of her activity on stage was presenting herself a sort of a spitfire and very active and that was very much how she performed at the same time that she was on broadway she was appearing on fifty second street at la congar the nightclub and that was where she discovered as the arnaz how did her family feel about her being a performer she came from a family of i think five children and she was she didn't she wanted to perform and her mother to her family didn't want her to be a performer because that was considered immoral at the time and she was very very attack attracted to being a performer and she danced even as well at five years old in puerto rico she recalled that she would dance for pennies and our mother would be a writer for dancing but she collected the money and she saved the money disregarding her mother very important role for her she said she had a secretary who said you'd be good for the role of what is that i think that's a drink i don't know what that is and she talked to her friend george abbot the producer who made the connection with the to the producer the director of the show josh logan who said i think it would be wonderful for the role as fate would have it james michener who wrote the tales of the civic which is the book because i was based on originally often yes in fact she talked about that quite often she said when she went to hollywood and made a couple of films she had to speak sort of hollywood's version of latin language and she said you know i don't in new york the other band was playing just fine too he was famous for his tongue goes we true very popular in those days they also had a girl a puerto rican singer and dancer who had an exciting act and fit it perfectly into my condo thing she could shape better and faster than anybody i had ever seen before afterward and international one desi also wrote it is book too many girls opened in new york and october fourteenth one thousand nine hundred thirty nine at the i had never even seen a broadway show and here i was opening in one with a score by rodgers and hart direction by george abbott the show was great all the advertisement in the theater program telling the opening night crowd of too many girls that their second still and i were opening at the club immediately after the last curtain as soon as they finished the title song too many girls too many girls we did the finale and dio second i went to like oh my god june twenty first twenty