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David Reynolds
@Richard - complying with Bob's advice. Medic, Admlinistrator, President... how could I do otherwise!
@Nancy - good grief, the Dwarf business! I'd completely forgotten. You gave my acting career a start. I was at a City Council meeting to report out some commission business one Tuesday in the late 80s when Larry and Larry, a couple who had done a great deal for our city, announced to the meeting that they were producing and directing La Cage Aux Folles in community theater, the first amateur production, they thought. Could one of the Council take a walk-on part as a fisherman, to help show the support of the city? Council voted 5-0 to appoint the Planning and Zoning Commission chair in their stead.
The first rehearsal turned up short in the chorus line. So much for the fisherman. I became Mercedes, and required a good deal of coaching from our lead, Ginger Snap, about walking, walking in heels, etc. We may possibly have been the first; we were certainly amateur - Mercedes at least. Three scheduled performances extended to seventeen, overfilling the place time after time. Word got out from Mobile to New Orleans, dwarfing all previous Bay Saint Louis community playhouse audiences. So thanks, I think.
Larry died of AIDS in not too long. It turned out that producing Le Cage was a hope of his, and he knew that time was short. Larry, who directed, moved someplace north. It's all north from here. Hurricane Katrina took away the theater, with its pine boards and cozy lobby. Our Daughter is in her late twenties and lives in New Orleans. She was small enough then that I could hold her in one arm while the chorus line rehearsed. When she was six, she asked whether I still wore the high heels on occasion.
Your loyal and attentive Dwarf
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