Sugar Saves the Day
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I was scanning some pictures for a friend today and I came across this letter. It totally made me smile:
“Thank you SO much for making sure I got onstage, and didn’t have a breakdown.”
This little love note was written by Miss Megahan Markert. We were in “The Rink” together at Theater Latte Da…and during a performance one night…she was backstage being a chatty Cathy and suddenly I heard some familiar music. “Meaghan, aren’t you supposed be onstage in a second?” Miss M was not wearing her roller skates. (The girlie kind that lace halfway up the leg.) The color drained out of her face and she immediately started to cry. “What am I going to do? I can’t go out there like this!” I dragged her up to the stage all the while shoving her little feet into the skates. “Yes you can!” I said not tying the skates…just frantically stuffing the laces into her socks. “Now stop crying and get out there!” And away she went.
I’d like to think that I was in drag during this backstage drama. But, I wasn’t. The picture above is of Meaghan and I backstage. I played the role of “Sugar” in one of the flash back scenes. I must say that “Sugar” is one of my favorite costumes to date.
Where, oh where, were the Ivey Awards back then?
