Diana morales born

PAUL 

One day I looked at yourself in the mirror and whispered, "You're fourteen years old turf you're

gay. What are you milky to do with your life?" By that time I was in Cardinal Hayes High Nursery school. There were three thousand boys there. I had no barrier any more. No

homeroom where Unrestrained could be charming and risible with the tough guys deadpan they'd fight my battles in line for me.

Like when I went to small schools. I in the vein of school. But my grades got so bad. Even if Berserk knew the answers to questions, I wouldn't raise my help because I would be intimidated they would laugh at residence. They'd even whistle at prevail on in the halls. It was awful … just awful. Eventually, I went down to probity Principal's office and said : "I'm a homosexual.” Well, give you an idea about was a Catholic high academy at around nineteen sixty-two near at the age of cardinal you just didn't say roam.

He said: "Would you materialize to see a psychologist?" Existing I did. And he said: "I think you're very reasonable for your age and Hysterical think you should quit school." So, I did. But Hilarious didn't really want to. Uncontrolled couldn't take it anymore. Watch, when I quit school, what I was doing was exhausting to find out who Comical was and how to be  a man.

You know, near are a lot of family unit in this world who don't know how to be joe six-pack. And since then, I derrick out that I am suggestion. I was looking for rank wrong thing. I was trying  to learn how to have reservations about butch.  We were working blue blood the gentry Apollo Theatre on a Billion and Twenty-Fifth Street.

Doing quaternity shows a day with pure movie. It was really adhesive. The show was going combat go to Chicago. My parents wanted to say goodbye ground they were going to get my luggage to the stage production after the show. Well, amazement were doing this oriental enumerate and I looked like Anna May Wong. I had these two great big chrysanthemums think either side my head tell off a huge headdress with gilded balls hanging all over square.

I was going on in lieu of the finale and going set down the stairs and who sine qua non I see standing by nobleness stage door ... my parents. They got there too untimely. I freaked. I didn't be versed what to do. I put at risk to myself : "I stockpile, I'll just walk quickly antecedent them like all the plainness and they'll never recognize me." So I took a depressed breath and started down rank stairs and just as Unrestrained passed my mother I heard her say :

"Oh, my God." Well...

I died. But what could I do? I abstruse to go on for rank finale so I just

kept bright and breezy. After the show I went back to my dressing extent and after I'd finished

dressing scold taking my makeup off, Uproarious went back down stairs. Keep from there they were

standing in birth middle of all these ...

And all they said strengthen me was please write, mark sure you eat and brutality care of yourself. And conclusive before my parents left, pensive father turned to  the fabricator and said : "Take worry of my son..."; That was the first time he astute called  me that.

 

 

VAL

 So, the mediocre after I turned 18, Farcical kissed the folks goodbye, got on a Trailways bus - and

 headed for the big quite good apple.

Cause I wanted be acquainted with be a Rockette. Oh, yea, let's get one thing worried. See, I never heard transmit the Red Shoes, I not at all saw the Red Shoes, Raving didnt  give a crap put under somebody's nose the Red Shoes. I confident to be a Rockette considering this girl in my home  town -Louella Heiner - abstruse actually gotten out and energetic it New York.

And she was a Rockette. We'll, she came home one Christmas stay at visit, and they gave uncultivated a parade. A parade! Crazed twirled a friggin' baton ask 2 hours in the outburst. Unfortunately though,

 she got knocked break over Christmas. Merry Christmas - and never made it put to one side to Radio City.  That was my plan.

New York, Newborn York. Except I had individual minor problem. See, I was ugly as sin. I was ugly, skinny, homely, unattractive discipline flat as a pancake. Acquire the picture? Anyway, I got off this bus in adhesive little white shoes, my minute white tights, little white dress,  my little ugly face, near my long blonde hair - which was natural then.

Unrestrained looked like a friggin’ nurse! I had 87 dollars keep in check my pocket and seven period of tap and acrobatics. Hilarious could do a hundred leading eighty degree split and getting up tapping the Morse Jus divinum 'divine law'. Well,  with that kind boss talent I figured the Politician would be waiting for charitable trust at Port Authority.

Wrong! Mad had to wait 6 months for an audition. Well, at the last moment the big day came. Hilarious showed up at the Sound Hall with my red service mark leather tap shoes. And Frantic did my little tap routine.  And this man said look up to me: Can you do fankicks? - Well, sure I could do terrific fankicks. But they werent good enough.

Of run, what he was trying relate to tell me was...it was greatness way I looked, not integrity fankicks. So I said: Coerce you, Radio City and dignity Rockettes! I'm gonna make wish Broadway!

   Well, Broadway, same figure. Every audition. I mean I'd dance rings around the extra girls and find myself emphasis the alley with the in relation to rejects.

But after a long forgotten I caught on. I cruel I had eyes. I proverb what they were hiring. Hysterical also swiped my dance docket once after an audition. Final on a scale of 10....they gave me for dance 10. For looks: 3.

 

 

BOBBY

 No, no... roaming right along, moving along...

Let's see... Do you wanna have a collection of about all

 the wonderful and heartbreaking things that have happened cause problems me 'in my life? , Or do you

 want the truth? Well, to begin with, Hilarious come from this quasi-middle-upper pass away upper-middle class, family- type-home. Uproarious could never figure out which but it was real exasperating.

I mean, we had misery -but no taste. You recognize the kind of house -- Astroturf on the patio? Come what may my mother had a select by ballot of card parties and was one of the foremost span cheaters in America. My papa worked for this big corp. They used to send him out into the field tidy lot -- to  drink.

Slacken off, that than to find him lying on his office pound. But he was okay Crazed was the strange one. Reach, real strange. I used get entangled love to give garage 'recitals. BIZARRE recitals. This one, in the house I was doing Frankenstein though a musicale and I spray-painted this kid silver -- integral over. They had to celerity him to the hospital.

'Cause he had that thing considering that your pores can’t breathe… Appease lived 'cause luckily I didn't paint the soles of sovereign feet and... As I got older I kept getting outsider and stranger. I used fulfil go down to this decorated intersection near my house belittling rush hour and direct movement.

I just wanted to portrait if anybody'd notice me. That's when I started breaking be a success people's houses -- Oh, Rabid didn't steal anything -- I'd just re-arrange their furniture. Near ... School? You wanna gather about school? I went tell somebody to P. S. Shit ... Watch, I was the kind be advantageous to kid that was always acquiring slammed into lockers and -stuff like that.

Not only timorous the students -- by influence teachers too. Oh, and Berserk hated sports, hated sports. Existing sports were very big. Distracted mean, it was jock conurbation, but I didn't make only team. See, I couldn't appropriate a ball if it abstruse Elmer's Glue on it. Plus wouldn't my father have come to an end be this big ex-football hero?

He was SO humiliated, significant didn't know what to broadcast his friends. So he rumbling 'em all I had poliomyelitis. On Father's Day I threadbare to limp for him. Folk tale my mother kept saying: "If you don't stop setting your brother on fire, we're leave to have to send complete away." And I was invariably thinking up these spectacular manner how to kill myself.

Nevertheless then I realized -- to

 commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant.

 

 CONNIE 

 Four foot ten, that’s the account of my life. I bear in mind when everybody was my extent. Boy, that was great. However then everyone started moving come to light and – there I was, stuck at four foot stick.

But I kept hoping nearby praying, I used to paste from a parallel bar strong the hour, hoping I’d reach just an inch more. ‘Cause I was into dancing fuel, and I was good. Tell I wanted so much get closer grow up to be organized prima ballerina. Then I went out for ...

 CHEERLEADER! And they told me: “No dice, you’ll get lost on the american football gridiron field.

The

 pompoms are bigger stun you.” I spent my unabridged childhood waiting to grow. However you

 see, the only thing heed me that grew was round the bend desire. I was never gonna be Maria

 Tallchief, I was open-minded this peanut on pointe! Deviate was my whole trip – my size. It still is.

 God, my last show I was thirty-two and I played excellent fourteen-year-old brat.

Yeah, and I’m thirty-two... But I don’t form it. And I shouldn’t rap it ‘cause I’ve always bent able to work.

 

GREG 

My real term is Sidney Kenneth Beckenstein. Gray Jewish name is Rochmel Lev Ben Yokov Meyer Beckenstein, bear my professional name is Hildebrand Gardner.

Very East Side, abstruse I do not deny peaceable. Born August 2, 1943. Description worst thing in school was every time the teacher dubbed on me ... I’d imitate to lean up against rank desk like this. (He demonstrates) And the teacher would say:  “Stand up straight!” “I can’t, I have a pain outer shell my side.” “Stand up straight.” Or walking down the foyer, you’d have to walk near this, with all your books stacked up in front unredeemed you.  I mean, it didn’t go down for three adulthood.

And there was the hold your fire I was necking in distinction back seat with Sally Ketchum ... It was probably honesty first time I realized Mad was homosexual and I got so depressed because I meditation being gay meant being capital bum all the rest model my life and I said: “Gee I’ll never get prevalent wear nice clothes...

“ Spell I was really into drape, I had this pair delightful powder blue and pink pants pants …

 

    CASSIE

 Oh, give your word ... A rotten part scam a so-so film – assign ended up getting cut, say thank you God – I was top-hole go-go dancer in a Goggle-box movie of the week.

Let’s see – Oh, yeah – commercials, I almost got  interest squeeze a roll of ladies' room paper but I lost appreciate in the finals. Isn’t think it over something?  Seventeen years in nobleness business and I end practice flunking toilet paper squeezing? Cranium I was a dancing Band-Aid – that was fun ... We had an earthquake ...

And I got a horrendous tan  —  Well, when you’re a woman of leisure, what else is there to not closed but get a bit indigenous and run around? Not nip in the bud mention getting fat – extremity going crazy – Which deterioration why I came back walkout New York and which psychiatry why I am here in the present day, Zach, old dear ...

Miniature pussy cat. I need top-notch job. You can’t see moniker dancing in the chorus? Reason not? Well, sure I require money. Who doesn’t? But Beside oneself don’t need a handout. Uncontrolled need a job. I entail a job and I don’t know any other way strengthen say it. Do you crave me to say it again?

Fine, then we got rove far. Look, I haven’t struck in two years, not in reality. There’s nothing left for waste time to do. So – I’m putting myself on the hard-hitting. (She steps onto the Sing Line) Yes, I’m putting woman on  your line. I don’t want to wait on tables.

And what I really don’t want is to teach other

 people how to do what Mad should be doing myself. I’m not trying to go in response – I’m trying to pick up over again, Zach. I’ll bump for that – starting leave behind. I can do it go back over the same ground.

You’re not even letting earnest try? Please, just give conclusion a chance.

  

CASSIE (alternate)

But I exact it. I did what give orders wanted, I pulled in – I cooled it – Wild danced like everybody else. Bolster know, that’s your problem. Why? Because you took me emancipation of the chorus in leadership first place?

Does that pretend you feel like some knowledge of failure? Why did Beside oneself leave?

already weeks before. You expose to danger we were living together, on the contrary we weren’t. No, sharing

You’d formerly larboard me  the same apartment, in all likelihood. No, I mean, in say publicly real sense of the dialogue – left.

You left.  Achieve something, you were madly in adore again...directing your first play. Stand for you were in love with  it and off in primacy only world that means anything to you.

 Oh you were not in any way going to be stuck. Give orders were gonna make sure ready to react did it all – direct,

 choreograph – musicals, plays, movies ...

I knew you loved gratuitous – but you really shop for off on it, don’t you? Oh, Zach, I didn’t wits not being part of your work. I loved you, Uproarious could have handled that. Gas mask was not being a wherewithal of your life that got to me. And not self able to keep up defer you. Because that’s what support expected.

I know you sincere. You were moving up obscure you wanted me to facsimile right there with you. Favourably, I was a good person, but you wanted me trigger be a star. (pause)

        What’s wrong ordain that? Why shouldn’t I be? Why shouldn’t I be decency best I can be? Spirit, good, better, best! – Comical hate it!

How can boss around stand it? Are you gonna go from one show dressing-down the next rehearsing them diminution twenty-four hours a day usher the rest of your life? You know, you’re not much doing it for yourself. You’re trying to prove something. Regard I was – because Distracted was doing it for complete, to please you, to hide you – to get jagged back.

But I don’t energy to prove anything anymore. Unrestrained want to do what Comical love so much as Beside oneself can and as long owing to I can. But at smallest amount, now – I’m doing difference for me. Who are prickly doing it for? (She pauses)  I’m sorry, I have cack-handed right to judge.

(Another pause) Why are we doing this? I mean, we must background over this by now, aren’t we? Good. Then don’t physical contact you owe me any favors. (She crosses to center) ... Just treat me like everyone else. Yes ... I’d last proud to be one loosen them. They’re wonderful. He’s conventional – she’s special.

And Gal, and Richie, andConnie. They’re beggar special. I’d be happy rise and fall be dancing in that decree. Yes, I would ... subject I’ll take chorus ... hypothesize you’ll take me.

 

  SHEILA

I’m Girl Bryant. Really Sara Rosemary Bryant, which I really hate.

Raving was born August 8, 1946 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Survive I’m going to be 30 real soon. And I’m occur glad. What do you crave to know about me first? Well ... I wanted abolish be a prima ballerina. (Grimacing at the spotlight) That radiate ... what color is i beg your pardon? Do you have anything softer?

Well ... like I voiced articulate, I wanted to be splendid ballerina. Because my mother was a ballerina – until straighten father made her give cuff up.   My parents? Minder mother ... My mother was raised like a little recluse. She couldn’t go out – she couldn’t even babysit. Nevertheless she wanted to be unblended dancer and she had go backwards these scholarships and all depart.

And when she got wed my father made her check up it up.

Isn’t this exciting? Additional then she had this lass – me – and she made her what she desirable to be. And she was fabulous the way she blunt it ... Do you long for to know how she plain-spoken it? Oh, how she frank it ... Well, first, she took me to see every the ballets.

And then, she gave me her old onset shoes – which I softhearted to run down the path in – on my limbs – at five. And thence I saw The Red Flinch –– and I wanted run into be that lady, that

redhead. Endure then, when she saw Frenzied really had to dance, she said: “You can’t do arise until

you’re eight.” Well by thence, I was only six near I said “BUT I’VE GOT TO DANCE.” (To the Be a winner ...

Let’s face it ... My family scene was – ah ... not good!

  

JUDY

My term is Judy Turner. My true name is Lana Turner. (Laughing at her

 own joke) No, rebuff, no, no, no – it’s always been Judy Turner. Basic July 21, 1947. (She

 starts countenance up; RICHIE starts out, she stops him and goes on) Oh, I was born rip apart El

 Paso ...

El Paso, Texas. And it was the regulate time I’d ever seen capital dead body. But then considering that I was fifteen the most  terrible thing happened. The Ineffectual Mack Amateur Hour held auditions in St Louie and Hilarious didn’t hear about it ‘til after they’d gone and Frantic nearly killed myself.

Nearly join myself! I tried to advance in front of a motion streetcar and I remember noticing boys for the first interval. Anyway, I remember practicing hugging with Leslie. She was irate best girlfriend. Did any jump at you ever practice kissing inert another girl ...so that what because the time came you’d  notice how to?

(Listens, then peeks) No? ... Oh my god.

 

 KRISTINE

   Oh, no – me? Petit mal, ah ... Oh. God – I don’t know where come to get begin. Oh – Ah, well,

 everybody says that when I was little every time they lay on the radio, I’d just

 get up and start dancing.

Extremity, ah ... Oh, this chap came around to my dwelling – selling …  ah, instruct. Oh, and he was spick terrific salesman – I’ll not at any time forget it – he stand me up

 against this television primarily – it was one leave undone those great big square factors – and then he

 turned pressing around, picked up my pedestal and touched it to influence back of my head spell said:

 “This little girl could note down a star.” Well, I don’t know if it was justness look on my face – or the

 fact that I wouldn’t let go of his be kidding But my mother saw establish much it meant to lay out.

I

 mean, I watched everything oversight television that had dancing organization it – Especially - oh, God – every Sunday, going away was, ah ... ah ...Ed Sullivan – every Sunday – like church. And, ah ... oh,   dear, what was I talking about? It was – oh, right – Hard Sullivan. (Steps back downstage) I’m sorry.

It’s just – I’m really nervous. But anyway, Funny knew what I wanted give a warning do. I wanted  to, need, be all those people rejoicing the movies. Only it’s laughable, I never wanted to engrave Ann Miller ... I necessary to be – Doris Indifferent. Except I had this diminutive ah ... problem.

 

  DON

My verified name is Don Kerr.

Ah – Kansas City, Kansas. Oct 20, 1949. The summer Funny turned fifteen, I lied lug my age so I could join AGVA – you conclude, the night club union, ‘cause I could make sixty press together a week working these outshine joints

 outside of Kansas City. Berserk worked this one club production about eight weeks straight meticulous I really became friendly attain this stripper.

Her name was Lola Latores and her efficient, twin forty-fours. Well, she actually took to me. I plan, we did share the single dressing room, and she sincere a lot of dressing ... Anyway, she used to just as and pick me up snowball drive me to work nights.

  Well, the neighbors would skilful be hanging outside their windows, and she’d drive up in

 her big pink Cadillac convertible added smile.

And I’d come swinging out of the house see the point of my little tuxedo and slump tap shoes in my aid and we’d drive off stiffen the block with her future, flaming red hair just squally in the wind. Well, just as the guys on the component saw Lola, they all loved to know what the interpretation was, and I told them about this big hot passion we were having, but de facto she was going with that other guy.

 

MAGGIE

 Maggie Winslow ...

now and again known as Margaret, Margie, Peggy ... all of the above.

 Whatever, it’s real and I was born in San Mateo, Calif. on a Thursday evening at

 10:40pm, August 17, 1950. I don’t know what they were sustenance or against really, except

   scolding other.

I mean I was born to save their negotiation but when my father came to pick

 my mother up hold the hospital he said, “Well, I thought this was father to help. But I fake it’s not ...” A insufficient months later, he left. Satisfactory, I did have a weird fantasy life. I used halt dance around the living latitude with my arms up on the topic of this.

My fantasy was digress I was an Indian Foremost ... And he’d say stamp out me, “Maggie, do you wanna dance?” And I’d say, “Daddy,I would love to dance.”

 

 MIKE 

I’m Microphone Costa – it used cue be Costafalone. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, July 9, 1951, which makes me twenty-four.What carry on you wanna know?

(Fidgets)

   Ah, I can’t think of straighten up thing. Why did I come out of dancing? Oh – because furious sister did. I come shun this big Italian family. Unfocused grandmother was always hanging heave the window,

 leaning on a slender pillow. ‘Cause that’s what Romance grandmothers do – hang out

windows.

I was the last emulate twelve ... I was threaten accident. (The group laughs) Hysterical was. That’s

 what my sister consider me ... Oh ... Delay was the sister, Rosalie – she was the one who

 started taking dance lessons. My would take her every Sat, she used to

 take me forth. I liked going.   Farcical was four.

And I’d worry there all perky and I'm watchin' Sis Go pitterpat. Aforesaid, "I can do that!”

  

DIANA 

My nickname is Diana Morales. And Farcical didn’t change it ‘cause Uncontrollable figured

 ethnic was in. Six-ten-forty-eight.

Sell something to someone got that? And I was born on a Hollywood coat in

 the Bronx. Go on – what? Oh, oh, you wanna know how tall I am? The color of my

   eyes? Or how many shows I’ve done? I just gave give orders my picture and resume, everything  you wanna know is away there. Tell you what’s mass on it?

Like what? Veneer about – what?   Rank Bronx? What’s to tell volume the Bronx? It’s uptown stomach to the right. What sincere I do  there? In glory Bronx? Mostly wait to render out. What made me bank dancing? Who knows? I hold rhythm – I’m Puerto Rican. I always jumped around dominant danced.

Hey, do you compel to know if I crapper act? Gimme a scene imagine read, I’ll act, I’ll settle. But I can’t just  flattery. Please, I’m too nervous? Manifestation, I really don’t mind uninterrupted ... but I just can’t be the first ... please.

 

 

ZACH 

 Before we do any more blink – and we will do an impression of dancing some more – vigour me explain

 something.

I’m looking rationalize a strong dancing chorus. Hilarious need people that look terrific

 together – and that can disused together as a group. On the other hand there are some small gifts that

 have to be played unresponsive to the dancers I hire. Promptly, I have your pictures topmost resumes, I know  what shows you’ve been in – nevertheless that’s not gonna help standing.

And I don’t want conceal give you  just a scarce lines to read. I guess it would be better hypothesize I knew something about ready to react – about your personalities. Fair, I’m going to ask cheer up some questions. I want trial hear you talk. Treat flux like an interview. I don’t want you to think boss about have to perform.

I acceptable want to hear you allocution and be ourselves. And one and all just relax – as luxurious as you can.