The Show Is On!...With A Stomach Ache!

Happy to announce this morning that our premiere that was canceled yesterday due to snow is on today! However, I was not happy to wake up this morning with a bothersome, upset stomach! Though I am quite certain that I will be fine by 2pm, when our performance begins, these little predicaments always remind me that we artists are human (even when we try as we might, not to be)! And that the magic of the theater is alive and well! You know what they say..."The show must go on!" And no one is the wiser that you are running a 103 fever, or that your hamstring has a rip, or that you have a piece of dust floating around in your contact lens that is driving you MAD! Actually, I think that when these things are thrown at you, it makes you focus in on what you are doing that much more, and though you may not remember it, due to the NyQuil you've been taking all day, the outcome is usually surprising!

I remember one performance in particular: I had food poisoning that day, and had no idea how I was going to drag myself out of bed to do the show. But as always, I did. I have no idea what happened on stage, I just know I kept whispering to myself before the lights came up, "It's only an hour of your life, it's only an hour of your life!" And the lights did come up, and I did dance, and afterward, my mother said, "Well, I think that's the best you've ever danced that piece!"

And that is one of the things I love most about being an artist...I can think of no other profession (for myself) that would motivate me more to press on through the discomforts and stresses that life hands us all. After all, this is what keeps me grounded.... And there are people waiting!!!

~Cara