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<\/p>\nThe funniest thing about these already-funny pictures is that I can’t quite remember what the joke was.<\/p>\n
I know it had to do with me singing “Anything Goes” and doing inappropriately-placed and badly-executed tap solos, as my boyfriend went off into gales of laughter. He would make me do it. Any time, anywhere. He never got sick of it. But I can’t remember where the joke came from, or what exactly it entailed.<\/p>\n
These photos were taken with the self-timer on my camera, and I remember it was a freezing cold day, and he was driving me to some huge audition in Boston, I think – some regional theatre cattle-call. And instead of getting into serious audition mode, instead of being all business … we spent some time in the parking lot taking pictures of me doing terrible tap solos in basically mid-sentence in my version of “Anything Goes”. I think we might have been imagining how funny it would be if I had gone up onto the stage for my audition and instead of launching into my Medea<\/i> monologue, or singing “Skylark” as planned – I started to do THIS. A capella. No warning.<\/p>\n
So inappropriate!<\/p>\n
What I love about these, so many years, later, is how hard he is obviously laughing.<\/p>\n
I also love how in one of the photos you can tell that neither of my feet are touching the ground. I am truly airborne in my absurdity.<\/p>\n
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The funniest thing about these already-funny pictures is that I can’t quite remember what the joke was. I know it had to do with me singing “Anything Goes” and doing inappropriately-placed and badly-executed tap solos, as my boyfriend went off … Continue reading