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“Dance Saved Her Soul”

We are deep into the creative sandbox that is our showcase in New York City at T. Schreiber Studios opening TONIGHT, May 15, 2026. Weeks of rehearsal building a new vision for Melanie Futorian’s words, which read like Shakespeare with its own rhythm, and using mime from our company of unique women playing various aspects of Mel’s soul. I am Mel who has been thru it all and come out the other side with humor, creativity and dance. All “unknowns” in this business — new in New York, but not new to the world of theater. Noah came off doing …

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TOGETHER WE MADE A DIFFERENCE!

The Episcopal Actors’ Guild’s “mini” A Chorus Line 50th Anniversary Tribute rocked Guild Hall on September 29, 2025. Our original plan went out the window with Baayork Lee’s desire to just sit, talk and reminisce. Boy was she right! We had no idea our life would resonate so strongly throughout the room and, on the larger canvas of theater life internationally! Yes! An actor’s life for me . . . And at this stage of our life, our history is the star. Just as our “Cinderellas of West 53rd Street: Stories from the Legendary Rehearsal Club” publication celebrates all our …

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After the ball is over . . .

Our Cinderellas danced and sang and shared heart and soul with all who came to celebrate the magic and publication of “Cinderellas of West 53rd Street: Stories from the Legendary Rehearsal Club! Now what? None of us like waiting for the phone to ring so we are all continuing to create while finding our next “Corner of the Sky” as Stephen Schwartz so brilliantly wrote for Pippin — and our “Rising Stars,” Julia Adams and Sofie Hans opened our Cinderella Cabaret with heartbreaking brilliance. Check them and all the other Cinderellas and Friends in this “teaser” video: My goodness it …

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Coming Back, Baby!

There is something renewing about a sunset. Brilliant colors reminding us of God’s natural beauty. Are we, as a nation, “coming back?” My optimistic nature doubts our ever returning to “normal.” I felt this way after the Aids Epidemic hit all our dancer friends. And I have to say, I was one of those “fearful” friends. My husband visited their bedside. He made sure he was walking in those AidsWalks while I held down the fort with two infant girls. We ALL walked the walk in later years, proud of our Broadway community rising up against a government that had …

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Pandemic Power

Labor Day without labor! For theater professionals, Broadway is still dark. Zoom rooms abound with play readings which, like sugar-free ice cream, is less than satisfying. As our world in America seeks to re-open, many are determined to live their best life while making sure they wear masks and avoid crowds. During the AIDS crisis, my husband and I watched horrified as many of our Broadway dancer buds left this world at an age clocking younger than our own two daughters living today! Looking back, we realize the timing for our decision to marry prior to the outbreak, ironically, protected …

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2017 Year of Abundance

It’s been quite awhile since my last post when the nation — at least those of us on both coasts — were anticipating Hillary in the White House. Now almost 100 days into Trump’s presidency, we’re all reeling from the forked tongue that has become our democracy. I, for one, am having a hard time hanging on to the belief that all is well. SOMETIMES I see our government supporting “right,” but more often than not, it does not. For instance, HOW in Heaven’s name is our government too dense to see the “right” in background checks on lunatics buying …

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Balance, Rhythm, Power

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”         Napoleon Hill    “They are all discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”   Francis Bacon    “The Possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.”  Emily Dickinson      Why can’t we imagine having it all?  We can.  Just not all at the same time.    How does Meryl Streep do it?  Well, I did notice she chose to make some really …

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