Dang, TonyJ, that’s some sports royalty! As for your high school career, it far surpasses mine. I began as Moth (the lowest ranking fairy in Titania’s court); ensemble in MY FAIR LADY, BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS, THE TROJAN WOMEN, ANDROCLES AND THE LION; the oldest of James Thurber’s batty aunts in JABBERWOCKY; the Nurse in a weird “sequel” to ROMEO AND JULIET called JULIET IN MANTUA; and the twin highlights of my brief stage career were Grandmother Tzeitel in FIDDLER and the female lead in a short play, set in Anglo-Saxon England, by Christopher Fry called THOR, WITH ANGELS.
My senior year, I got to adapt, direct, and star as the Wicked Witch in a twenty minute show of THE WIZARD OF OZ (we reused the lion from Androcles), which we then performed at two nearby elementary schools. My best buds playing the flying monkeys, who turned on me after the curtain calls. Nothing like having a mob of the ten-and-under set screaming for your blood! I may not have gotten many cheers in my brief time on the boards, but, by God, did those tykes boo!
Laura, watching as the brush fire season takes off... |
