Earlier this month I went to see the final dress rehearsal of “Evita” at Circle Theatre. My friend Todd Lewis is playing Juan Perón in the wonderful production, but starring as Evita is Jolene Frankey, a woman I was doing a show with exactly twenty years ago. She was but a little girl in that show, and now she’s a grown woman, a mother and a superb singer and performer. To me it does not feel like that much time has passed… it’s startling. (Oh, and Todd isn’t so bad, either.)
It brought my thoughts since then back to that time. It was a critical point in my life. Through those five years of experiences I was able to enjoy life and conquer some of my innermost demons… but it came to an abrupt, painful end.
