yes, i would prefer to be sleeping right now but since i’ve been awake so long, i thought i’d tell you this one thing. before my show on new year’s eve i was sitting in the women’s dressing room at the arts center. i’d gotten there early and was dressed and ready to go really early because i usually am early for things because i hate to be late. i wasn’t going on till eight, and i must have been ready by seven, including tiger pants, big blonde hair and false eyelashes. you’ve seen the photo of the tiger pants. i have a photo of the whole outfit, but i’m not about to get out of bed right now to put it on my computer.
but anyway, muni was going to perform at nine o’clock, so i figured the muni people wouldn’t show up till it was almost time for me to go on.
but fairly early, a girl appeared with her mother. the girl was probably in high school, pretty, long hair, sparkly flats that i liked a lot. the mother seemed like the quintessential stage mother. they sat and talked a lot and i didn’t even listen to what they were saying because i was trying to FOCUS on my own stuff. i did hear them talk about auditions for “chicago” (this summer at muni) and that seemed slightly premature to me.
but like i said, i mostly didn’t listen.
but at one point the mother said to me “are you going to dance?”
i told her no, i do comedy.
the absurdity of her question didn’t fully register with me, i mean i thought about it for a minute but i wasn’t paying much attention to them.
but tonight i was lying here thinking about that and i had to laugh – what kind of dance did she think i’d be performing in the tiger pants? did she think i was going to do an exotic dance? a tap dance? some ballet? modern dance? belly dancing?
nobody’s ever going to look at me and mistake me for a dancer. although i am a good tap dancer, even though i haven’t done it in quite a few years, but i’m sure i can remember the tap moves and i’m actually thinking about taking lessons again if i can find some.
but what was she thinking?
what kind of dancer?
during the show i did mention the bad ballet i did last year in “you can’t take it with you,” and i demonstrated some of my bad ballet moves, which i’m good at. but i’m sure that’s not the kind of dancing she was thinking of.
after the show the mother passed me in the hall and told me i did a good job. i thanked her. i thought it was nice of her to say anything since i’m sure she was very very focused on her lovely daughter.
maybe next new year’s eve i’ll do some dancing.
goodnight,
grace right before sunrise.