Theatre Moments - 3 to get ready. . .

Here's some more special theatre moments shared by friends:

AMY
Playing Sister Amnesia in NUNSENSE II and doing the bingo game scene. It was always a scary scene for me because I'm not great at ad libbing and I have to do that scene all by myself and work with the audience.

I remember, one night, looking down and seeing a woman wiping tears of laughter off her face. And knowing....I did that.

BONNI
Not to repeat you, but I have to say that the ACL- Alternatives scene and "What I Did For Love" is now one of my fondest memories. Every night listening to Kelly deliver her lines about only having a few years left as a "chorus cutie" and questioning if she was "giving up or copping out" always brought me to an emotional edge, but the last night it was too much. I began to cry and could barely sing the song. Thank God for Max who was standing by me. We always shared many special moments during that scene, but that last night he sensed my emotion and gave me an extra hug and just held me there on the stage. God, that show becomes a part of you like nothing else... would to God that we could do it again...

Another favorite memory has to do with you Mr. Graham... and that is being cast in my first show: Joseph, which you directed. You may not remember, but where we met (at Whitworth in Suzanne's class) was the first time I had begun to dance again after having ended and ruined my classical ballet career two years previous via injury. Suzanne encouraged me to try theatre and you were gracious enough to cast me (though I had no idea you were the director when my mother forced me to go to my first audition). Yes the show was fun and all, but it was more than that... it was the beginning of me believing that I could still dance and that my passion for dancing didn't have to die just because of a stupid dancer injury... and that Broadway style dance was just as rewarding, if not more fun than classical ballet. The rest is history. I not only have had a string of great musicals, I also got back into ballet and performed a lead role this year in the Nutcracker.

BRANDON
I remember my first “big show” audition for Spokane Children’s Theatre. It was for Alice In Wonderland and Kasey happened to be the musical director. So, he started to play the music, and come to find out, the person who had played it for me before had done it a little different (surprise! lol) and I just got lost and really confused, along with being VERY nervous and I thought I had blew it! But, I made it! My first big role… Card/Door… lol

Another show I will never forget was Freeman Jr. High’s production of “Tom Sawyer” that I co-directed with my drama teacher in 7th grade. It was fun… but also kinda terrible all at the same time. It all went fine, for a Jr. High anyway, in the end and just prepared me for basically running the class my 8th grade year. lol

ANGELA
When I was a background performer in Romeo and Juliet in college, I played some female and some male characters with lots of costume changes. My best friend paid me a dollar every night that I wore a sock in my tights as a boy. I WAS RICH!

I was once in a children's show where I played a jack-in-the-box and my cruel director refused to make a hole in the back of the box for me to get out in between scenes. During one performance, I popped out of the box, toward the end of the show and got so dizzy I actually fainted. The kids in the audience were quite upset. That effing director STILL didn't put an escape hatch for me!