Another Opening Another Show

Another Opening, Another Show.  I am grateful to my daughter Danielle for guiding me back into the world of performing.   About  5 years ago, Danielle signed me up for a group called Basically Broadway, and encouraged me to start singing again.  Then two years  later she encouraged me to audition for The Reagle Music Theatre's summer shows.  And now here I am today enjoying my summer by performing in my fourth Reagle Music Theatre show, Bye Bye, Birdie.   I'm having a blast.

When I was 18 and fresh out of High School, I went off to College thinking that I was one day going to be on Broadway.  But like I tell my children all the time....life has many forks in the road and sometimes you don't always end up going down the path you set out to go down.  I went to one semester of College, got a lead in the Musical Grease, and had a great experience.  But I wasn't a great student, and I knew College wasn't right for me.  I was also very much in love with my now husband Donnie, so I dropped out of College, and we were married a year and a half later, and then six months after we were married, I got pregnant with Danielle.  In the next ten years I had four more children, and I loved being a wife and mother.   I never look back with regrets. I wouldn't change the path I ended up choosing for the world.   I may not have made it to Broadway, but I shared my love of theater and music with my children, and for over 26 years now (Danielle opened her first recital at the age of 2), I have enjoyed watching my children perform in many musical productions.  Danielle actually chose to follow the fork in the road that led her to New York to pursue her dream of Broadway.  Is she on Broadway yet?  No, but whose to say if that ends up being her true path in life....only time will tell.

Life is a series of Another Openings, and Another Shows, and they are not all theater related.  When I am surrounded by my children, and I see them all laughing and enjoying each others company, well that to me is a show worth watching.  When we drive to my sisters house for Easter all crammed into one car belting out the songs from our Godspell CD, that is a a show worth watching to me. I wish for my children many new Openings/Shows, may their forks in the road lead them down  the path of Joy and Happiness, and that they live their lives with no regrets.

I am no longer 18 years old, and the roles for me to play are of a different nature, but I am back up on that stage pursuing my individual thrill of performing.  For years, my kids were a great source of my joy and happiness and now that we all are older, we are all following our own dreams.  Mine have me back up on stage where I also love to be.  Thanks family for so many years and memories and thanks Danielle for pointing me back in the direction of performing, at this stage of my life.