"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." Proverbs 13:12
If this comes off as me taking this monumental memory lightly, I apologize...It's just the Irish Pub below is blaring Benny and the Jets at high decibels and my ecstatic energy can not be harnessed and tamed for an allotted time to stare at a blank screen.
Tonight marks my theater debut in Manhattan. And a stellar one at that. If someone would have told me I would be drinking hot coffee with the director, rehearsing all day to take the barren stage at 45th Street Theater in front of a live audience on a Saturday night, my heart would have quietly exploded with pangs of wishful thinking...
But tonight under the dimmed house lights, performing Sex, Relationships, and Sometimes Love, I received instant affirmation that I am on the exact path I have sought after and prayed about my entire life. (Not to mention, my husband was beaming ear to ear in the front row)
I've been bitten and I can only pray I am never cured.
Applause all around...
"The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff who escorts you out of town
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the customers won't come
There's no business like show business
Like no business I know" Irving Berlin
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff who escorts you out of town
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the customers won't come
There's no business like show business
Like no business I know" Irving Berlin
Do you think there's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York?
Congratulations, Rachael!!! I'm so happy for you!! Continue to break a leg! :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent! So glad it went well. Sorry I missed it (next time I'll be there!).
ReplyDeleteYour rise to the stage in New York City was hard won. The hours you put in setting the camera up in front of the large screen monitor in Indiana, watching your dad, Charlie Teer, set the stage for Bethel's Youth Groups, Community Theater, The She Bops, the play you cut your teeth on at Georgia State, (sorry about my part in that), Your live reporting on TV 2 in St. Thomas. The early morning radio show and the characters you created to make the Morning Guys job easier. My darling daughter, a promise of God, you deserve to hear last night's applause over and over again. I am so very proud of you. And I love you.
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