What do you do for money, honey?

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Originally Posted by lizziebith

Fueled by my success, later that year I mounted my one-kid production of Brigadoon. No, I'm not kidding!

I did my performances pro bono. For family, mostly. They included an all-teddy-bear production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," a one-child "The New Moon" and, the perennial girl-child performance venue, "Annie."

Oh, and there was a two-child "The Little Mermaid" lip-synch production. My younger cousin and I were both theater bugs, and I cast it and directed it myself. I was always good at casting myself in the best role for me (instead of the role that I wanted.) I cast her-- cute little ingenue she always was-- as Ariel and the chef (because I was playing Sebastian. And Ursula; she was my favorite.) One must double-cast when two people are portraying an entire movie.

Later in my life I'd go in the opposite direction-- instead of one person playing two parts, it was two people playing the role of Hamlet. And after all of those years, my parents were still sitting through my dreck.