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I love to tell this story. It’s about generous performers, actors and singers, and four degrees of separation. Greg (North) Zerkle directed a reading of my musical, The Glory Road in Los Angeles.
At the last minute, one of our actors had to drop out to take another role.
Brent Schindele said, “An actor I know is in town right now appearing in The Lion King at the Pantages. Let’s see if he can do it.”
Brent Schindele
Brent contacted Eugene Ware-Hill, who came over from The Lion King and without rehearsal, performed at our reading. He was magnificent.
Eugene Ware-Hill
Fast forward. Eugene is in Kinky Boots on Broadway. The Grand has a crush on a rock star, Brendon Urie who sang a lead role in the show this summer. Her girlfriend was traveling to New York and would get to see the show. The Grand couldn’t go. Heartbreak.
Brendon Urie
I asked Eugene if he could please get her an autograph. He did even more. He sent a Kinky Boots playbill with a personal note from Brendon addressed to the Grand. This treasure occupies the place of honor in her room.
Playbill from Kinky Boots
I think about how these four degrees of gorgeous proved what our grammas used to say, “Pretty is as pretty does.”
And wait – one more.
Edward and his grandpa, Colin Tribe
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