{"id":5928,"date":"2022-09-24T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2022-09-24T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:06:33","slug":"invitation-to-the-picture-show-09-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5928","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to the Picture Show \u2013 [09\/24\/2022]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a light…over at the Frankenstein\u00a0Place…<\/em><\/p>\n

Over a decade ago, I walked off the stage for the final curtain call of Kaleidoscope Theatre\u2019s production of The Rocky Horror Show. I had no real idea at the time, that it was to be my last live show for 12 years. I didn\u2019t know that I would look back on that production and feel physical pain at times because of the fact that it became a closing chapter.<\/p>\n

So many things happened after that. What was supposed to be a flexible job with the cruise line became a full-time, long-term, commitment for my life. The initial promise I was given to flex around local performance commitments vanished when the corporate team changed and I realized \u2013 perhaps too late \u2013 that there is never any flex for any life outside the line.<\/p>\n

Too short for the cast onboard and never home for audition season, I faced the cutting truth that my days as any kind of performer\u00a0 – even a community one \u2013 were over.<\/p>\n

And then Covid hit. And the line shut down, and my job folded, and immigration happened and life\u2026spun out of control for a long and challenging time\u2026<\/p>\n

And when the world finally stopped spinning quite so fast, I steadied myself, and found myself \u2013 at 39 years old \u2013 looking at the audition notice for VOS\u2019s new staging for The Rocky Horror Show. And I thought\u2026why not? Why not try? If I even make the chorus, at least I will have done something<\/em>, at least I will have walked back out there again and tried<\/em>, and after all this time, that alone would be worth it.<\/p>\n

So Amras set up the camera and the tripod, and I dug out the voice (though my range has suffered from a decade of lack of use), that I used to welcome people to the Science Fiction Double Feature Picture Show all those years back\u2026and when, after multiple takes, I was finally satisfied with it\u2026pushed send.<\/p>\n

And got a call back for Magenta\u2026<\/p>\n

And a second call back\u2026<\/p>\n

And then found myself staring in shock at the email that offered me the part. Not as big a part singing wise as I had ten years ago (I mean, only the Usherette can sing the opener, and I had that chance a long time ago \u2013 time for someone else to don that pillbox hat and rightly so), but a named lead<\/em>\u2026a fantastically fun part to play\u2026<\/p>\n

A lead\u2026after ten years\u2026<\/p>\n

There was a point when I was in the midst of the dance call, when I *felt* my body remember what it was supposed to be doing, I *felt* that part of my brain wake up and shake itself down and go \u201coh, you need me now? Kay\u2026let\u2019s do this\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

And I find myself remembering what one of the cast members onboard said to me ages back when I had just finished sitting in at the piano bar<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know this<\/em> is what you\u2019re supposed to be doing right? This<\/em> is who you are. Don\u2019t ever let them take that from you\u201d<\/p>\n

Welcome back\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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