ACTION!
awaiting
lights and cameras
Faces gleaming
Feet leaping
Treading the boards
Anticipating an audience
All voices calibrated
to the deaf grandma in the back row.
Adrenaline rushes.
Applause.
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I’m in Shuswap Theatre’s production of Mary Poppins. I’m Miss Lark and (in an amusing bit of type-casting) The Bird Woman. Our curtain rises in 19 days, but we’re already sold out. It’s been brilliant watching it all come together. Now the run-throughs begin: we’re counting down!
Shawn L. Bird 
You auditioned just for a Lark? The role is obviously for the Birds. 🙂
(There has to be SOMEONE to make such obvious wisecracks.)
Congratulations! Wish I could see the show.
😉
My third role is a statue that undoubtedly will wear bird poop. Far too much type-casting! 😉
At least you aren’t expected to fly — using an umbrella!
No, no. It’s all about the KITES! 😉
This bird and flying thing really got over the top!
🙂
It takes a lot of courage to get up on stage- at least for me it would.
I’ve been on the stage since I was 4. I don’t have significant stage fright or anything. Just the rush as you step. Mind you, singing a solo is slightly more terrifying than choral singing, dancing, or acting. 🙂