a little bit wicked

I just finished reading Kristin Chenoweth's A Little Bit Wicked. Her last words "Life's too short. I'm not." summed up what the book was all about. Her autobiography taught me to live life with the most compassion I had inside of me and let no one stop me or make me doubt my limits. She explains how important it is that we take in life for what it is, and that everything happens for a reason. As a "small town boy wishing to make it on Broadway" mind set I've got going, every page was flooded with juicy information I wanted to sink my teeth into. I love when the Broadway pro's dish out their experiences in the biz. Hearing the stories, the bad and the ugly, reassures me that I'm not all too crazy for wanting to make a life out of this. She mentioned that if you look at the poster for Wicked you can see a hint of green in Glinda's eye, I had never noticed it. She goes on to explain that in everyone of us we're a little bit wicked, in our own ways. No one is perfect. You cant expect anyone to be "the good". It's the balance of nature I guess. One day I hope I have the privilege of working with Miss Chenoweth, or at least with people like her. You know, show people. She talked about something in her book that really interested me. When she was doing The Apple Tree, the older Broadway veterans would talk about how they remembered when theatre was a way of life, rather than a job. I'm going to try and hold on to that frame of mind throughout my life dancing and singing from stage to stage- it's a way of life.

from that dancer guy you,
Tony