I remember two performances that have stuck with me for a very long time. The time I played Annie Sullivan in Morning After the Miracle with Kevin and the time I played the wife in the Crucible.

Fantastic performances the first time on but again never really sure that I would be able to duplicate them if I had to. But each time I did the performances,I was the same person, with the same feelings, coming across differently, just like each of us in real life. Do you think that someone with ALS would be able to think, breathe, walk, etc the same way each day? Nope. The disease would affect you differently each time, depending on stress, days events, lack of sleep, having done too much the day before.

I am sure you did justice to Annie each time, just differently, the same way “she” would have been herself in real life.

YOU ROCK!

(Of course, it is always helpful to have good direction and a decent script/message to portray too.)

you were amazing both times and you didn’t let anyone down at all! I think that when you have an awesome first experience where the charactor touches you the way Annie does it is sometimes hard to recreate it your own mind a second time but that is happening only in your mind, not in the audience. John and I heard wonderful comments for both performances- have no worries, they were both great! Thank you so much for a great show, I know you touched many, many hearts Sunday.

Melissa – Hopefully I can get to that soon, Ive got the whole idea in my head, just having a bit of trouble getting it down on paper!

What is this? Is it the beginning of a story or the continuation of a story? Will you finish it? Please do!

That’s cool! You never know who is into what kind of music, and then again, I’m constantly surprised by how wide people’s tastes really are.

I will do that then – I will email you some stuff, with some YouTube links if they exist (nothing like a video to go with it).

I am the same – I listen to whatever seems appropriate for my mood at the time, so it can swing wildly throughout the day.

I have what has been called a very “ecclectic” collection of music, I like most everything and have all sorts of genres on my Ipod. I agree, inspiration does come from so many places!

I’d love you to send me some interesting words! Who knows what could come of them!

I listen to music like that (and stuff that is considered much less accessible to the general listener), and it is sometimes a shame that people can’t take the good from it – because we can find inspiration from so many places.

(I could send you some interesting words some time, if you like, that may give you some inspiration.)