The Circle Of Life

Isn't it funny how life is cyclical? I was going through my digital pictures I have stored and came across this picture from 9 years ago. It's a picture of me at the Aronoff Theatre in Cincinnati posing in the lobby with the big cardboard cut out for Miss Saigon. I was a Junior in college and we were in town performing with the Cincinnati Pops. The second national tour of Miss Saigon happened to be playing in Cincy at the same time so a group of us young and eager kids went to the Aronoff to catch the show. Playing Kim that afternoon was Alex Lee Tano, who I would end up playing opposite when I did my Gateway Playhouse production. Who would have thought it possible that I would be playing the very same show, in the very same theatre, 9 years later? Thanks for a glorious two weeks Cincinnati- it's been real and your town has been oh so hospitable.