2011 Dream Role

When I was 15 I saw a production of You Can't Take It With You and I fell in love with it. Maybe it was the crazy family or they seeking after what makes you happy or the family or the humor. My favorite part was Penny aka Mrs Sycamore. Flash forward I was missing being on stage and I don't think I enjoy directing like I do performing. I enjoy it but I don't LOVE it. I saw that my neighboring city was holding auditions for the show I about back flipped. It is amazing when you know a role is perfect for you. You feel like you can slip into her and share her heart. I like it when you know what roles you are capable of and then bring your whole self. I adore Penny. I thought I have perhaps no chance. I have not done a show there before and I am not in the right age range and then little doubts creep in like if they have precast or only work with favorites like some theaters do. But I was brave and went for it. The audition was okay not my best but I got a call back:) Call backs were fun. I got to read Penny many times and once one of the powers that be slipped up and said "will you read Missy" instead of "will you read Penny" to another girl at callbacks. They had some good talent and I felt like I had maybe a 50/50 chance. Then the waiting about does you in. All worth it. Can't wait to work with Emily as my daughter Essie and Todd as the Russian! The director was great at callbacks I plan to learn lots from her. YIPEE!!

Relating the humorous encounter between a conservative family and the crazy household of Grandpa Martin Vanderhof. Grandpa's family of individualists amuses with their energetic physical antics and inspire with their wholehearted pursuit of happiness.

Grandpa walked off his job 35 years ago and has never regretted it. Penelope happily writes bad plays. Paul makes fireworks in the basement with an iceman who came eight years ago and never left. Essie pliés rather than walks. The one "normal" daughter, Alice, is engaged to Tony Kirby, handsome son of a Wall Street tycoon… whose parents are about to drop in and meet the family.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, the comedy went on to run 837 performances on Broadway