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Prize Fighter

August 18th, 2009

I mentioned last night that I spent the first performance of “Chrysalis” backstage.

In addition to our wonderful moment together, Scott and I got to see our actress Hanna warm up.

The play starts with Millie (Hanna’s character) in a white robe.

Hanna sat in the robe backstage before our show. She arranged her accessories for later in the show. Paced back and forth a bit. And then began moving around to relax and loosen up her body a bit.

Hanna was doing windmills with her arms (rotating from the shoulder and making a full circle with her arms) and then leaned forward a bit, as if she was ready to jab.

It was in that moment that I’d seen the prize fighter in her. It was in that moment that I fully appreciated who this woman was. Where she had been to get to this point (she’d been a dancer for many years until she was injured and could no longer dance… she’d lived in Mexico for a while and traveled quite a bit) and where she would be in a few moments — out in the ring, up on stage, still going, still fighting after all these years.

She gave a wonderful performance, better than anything I’d heard in rehearsal. It came to her, all at once. In front of the audience, her adrenaline kicked in, and she gave it everything she had.

I can’t wait to see her do it all again on Wednesday night.

Click here for your tickets to Wild Night #2, this Wednesday, 9/19 @ 9pm.

–Sue

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