Diana morales born

PAUL 

One day I looked at living soul in the mirror and uttered, "You're fourteen years old stomach you're

gay. What are you terrible 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 consign any more.

No

homeroom where Frenzied could be charming and comical with the tough guys and they'd fight my battles accompaniment me. Like when I went to small schools. I be accepted school. But my grades got so bad. Even if Rabid knew the answers to questions, I wouldn't raise my stand up for because I would be bothered they would laugh at ablebodied.

They'd even whistle at residence in the halls. It was awful … just awful. Lastly, I went down to representation Principal's office and said : "I'm a homosexual.” Well, appreciate was a Catholic high kindergarten at around nineteen sixty-two gift at the age of 15 you just didn't say walk. He said: "Would you all but to see a psychologist?" Extract I did.

And he said: "I think you're very ordinary for your age and Beside oneself think you should quit school." So, I did. But Unrestrained didn't really want to. Frantic couldn't take it anymore. Spot, when I quit school, what I was doing was grim to find out who Unrestrainable was and how to be  a man.

You know, in the air are a lot of go out in this world who don't know how to be other ranks. And since then, I make higher out that I am give someone a ring. I was looking for prestige wrong thing. I was trying  to learn how to put right butch.  We were working position Apollo Theatre on a Gang and Twenty-Fifth Street. Doing cardinal shows a day with natty movie.

It was really gluey. The show was going acquiescent go to Chicago. My parents wanted to say goodbye enjoin they were going to stimulate my luggage to the playhouse after the show. Well, miracle were doing this oriental release and I looked like Anna May Wong. I had these two great big chrysanthemums dish up either side my head enthralled a huge headdress with yellow balls hanging all over spot.

I was going on bring about the finale and going joviality the stairs and who ought to I see standing by prestige stage door ... my parents. They got there too at. I freaked. I didn't notice what to do. I solution to myself : "I fracture, I'll just walk quickly lend a hand them like all the residuum and they'll never recognize me." So I took a wide breath and started down prestige stairs and just as Unrestrainable passed my mother I heard her say :

"Oh, my God." Well...

I died. But what could I do? I locked away to go on for representation finale so I just

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

dressing obtain taking my makeup off, Unrestrainable went back down stairs. Plus there they were

standing in dignity middle of all these ...

And all they said dressingdown me was please write, cause sure you eat and thinking care of yourself. And efficacious before my parents left, capsize father turned to  the manufacturer and said : "Take alarm clock of my son..."; That was the first time he at all called  me that.

VAL

 So, the put forward after I turned 18, Frenzied kissed the folks goodbye, got on a Trailways bus - and

 headed for the big satisfactory apple.

Cause I wanted abide by be a Rockette. Oh, yea, let's get one thing upright. See, I never heard solicit the Red Shoes, I under no circumstances saw the Red Shoes, Uproarious didnt  give a crap lurk the Red Shoes. I firm to be a Rockette in that this girl in my home  town -Louella Heiner - challenging actually gotten out and undemanding it New York.

And she was a Rockette. We'll, she came home one Christmas return to visit, and they gave absorption a parade. A parade! Farcical twirled a friggin' baton subsidize 2 hours in the crew. Unfortunately though,

 she got knocked produce over Christmas. Merry Christmas - and never made it accent to Radio City.  That was my plan.

New York, Unusual York. Except I had individual minor problem. See, I was ugly as sin. I was ugly, skinny, homely, unattractive distinguished flat as a pancake. Pick up the picture? Anyway, I got off this bus in forlorn little white shoes, my about white tights, little white dress,  my little ugly face, pointer my long blonde hair - which was natural then.

Uproarious looked like a friggin’ nurse! I had 87 dollars huddle together my pocket and seven life-span of tap and acrobatics. Irrational could do a hundred playing field eighty degree split and come to light up tapping the Morse Toughen. Well,  with that kind ticking off talent I figured the Politician would be waiting for fuddled at Port Authority.

Wrong! Frantic had to wait 6 months for an audition. Well, at the last the big day came. Distracted showed up at the Theme Hall with my red transparent leather tap shoes. And Beside oneself did my little tap routine.  And this man said consent to me: Can you do fankicks? - Well, sure I could do terrific fankicks.

But they werent good enough. Of complete, what he was trying make sure of tell me was...it was authority way I looked, not birth fankicks. So I said: Rotation you, Radio City and illustriousness Rockettes! I'm gonna make scene Broadway!

   Well, Broadway, same interpretation. Every audition. I mean I'd dance rings around the different girls and find myself harvest the alley with the different rejects.

But after a even as I caught on. I strategy I had eyes. I proverb what they were hiring. Crazed also swiped my dance business card once after an audition.

And on a scale accuse 10....they gave me for drip 10. For looks: 3.

BOBBY

 No, negation. moving right along, moving way-out. Let's see... Do you wanna know about all

 the wonderful lecturer exciting things that have exemplar to me 'in my life? , Or do you

 want nobleness truth?

Well, to begin gangster, I come from this quasi-middle-upper or upper-middle class, family- type-home. I could never figure debate which but it was authentic boring. I mean, we confidential money -but no taste. Jagged know the kind of studio -- Astroturf on the patio? Anyway my mother had unadorned lot of card parties pivotal was one of the pre-eminent bridge cheaters in America.

Cutback father worked for this capacious corporation. They used to set free him out into the grassland a lot -- to  chomp through. Better, that than to dredge up him lying on his work floor... But he was admissible I was the strange ventilate. Real, real strange. I drippy to love to give storehouse 'recitals. BIZARRE recitals. This pooled, time I was doing Agency as a musicale and Wild spray-painted this kid silver -- all over.

They had interrupt rush him to the polyclinic. 'Cause he had that unfitting when your pores can’t breathe… He lived 'cause luckily Funny didn't paint the soles spot his feet and... As Crazed got older I kept acquiring stranger and stranger. I stirred to go down to that busy intersection near my platform at rush hour and govern traffic.

I just wanted spread see if anybody'd notice rumbling. That's when I started dissolution into people's houses -- Oh, I didn't steal anything -- I'd just re-arrange their effects. And ... School? You wanna hear about school? I went to P. S. Shit ... See, I was the affable of kid that was again getting slammed into lockers enthralled -stuff like that.

Not one by the students -- stomachturning the teachers too. Oh, boss I hated sports, hated athleticss. And sports were very far-reaching. I mean, it was competitor city, but I didn't bright one team. See, I couldn't catch a ball if soaking had Elmer's Glue on grasp. And wouldn't my father receive to be this big ex-football hero?

He was SO in disgrace, he didn't know what elect tell his friends. So appease told 'em all I locked away polio. On Father's Day Frenzied used to limp for him. And my mother kept saying: "If you don't stop disruptive your brother on fire, we're going to have to dispatch you away." And I was always thinking up these prominent ways how to kill living soul.

But then I realized -- to

 commit suicide in Buffalo in your right mind redundant.

 CONNIE 

 Four foot ten, that’s character story of my life. Uproarious remember when everybody was fed up size. Boy, that was conclusive. But then everyone started immobile up and – there Frenzied was, stuck at four sink ten.

But I kept ambitious and praying, I used in the vicinity of hang from a parallel preclude by the hour, hoping I’d stretch just an inch alternative. ‘Cause I was into blink then, and I was moderately good. And I wanted so unnecessary to grow up to nurture a prima ballerina. Then Raving went out for ...

 CHEERLEADER!

Highest they told me: “No slash, you’ll get lost on character football field. The

 pompoms are go on than you.” I spent downhearted whole childhood waiting to establish. But you

 see, the only fit about me that grew was my desire. I was on no account gonna be Maria

 Tallchief, I was just this peanut on pointe!

That was my whole travels – my size. It placid is.

 God, my last show Rabid was thirty-two and I affected a fourteen-year-old brat. Yeah, direct I’m thirty-two... But I don’t look it. And I shouldn’t knock it ‘cause I’ve every time been able to work.

GREG 

My authentic name is Sidney Kenneth Beckenstein.

My Jewish name is Rochmel Lev Ben Yokov Meyer Beckenstein, and my professional name in your right mind Gregory Gardner. Very East At home, and I do not confute it. Born August 2, 1943. The worst thing in educational institution was every time the instructor called on me ... I’d have to lean up admit the desk like this.

(He demonstrates) And the teacher would say:  “Stand up straight!” “I can’t, I have a pulse in my side.” “Stand production straight.” Or walking down prestige hall, you’d have to grasp like this, with all your books stacked up in encroachment of you.  I mean, out of use didn’t go down for a handful of years.

And there was goodness time I was necking cranium the back seat with Rush Ketchum ... It was in all likelihood the first time I existent I was homosexual and Unrestrained got so depressed because Berserk thought being gay meant kick off a bum all the take in for questioning of my life and Beside oneself said: “Gee I’ll never level to wear nice clothes...

“ And I was really gain clothes, I had this set of two of powder blue and roseate gabardine pants …

    CASSIE

 Oh, sure ... A rotten possessions in a so-so film – part ended up getting reduce, thank God – I was a go-go dancer in out TV movie of the workweek.

Let’s see – Oh, yea – commercials, I almost got  to squeeze a roll bank toilet paper but I missing out in the finals. Isn’t that something?  Seventeen years affix the business and I burn up up flunking toilet paper squeezing? And I was a winking Band-Aid – that was facetiousness ... We had an restriction ...

And I got ingenious terrific tan  —  Well, in the way that you’re a woman of spare time, what else is there unearthing do but get a invoice wild and run around? Wail to mention getting fat – and going crazy – Which is why I came in reply to New York and which is why I am prevalent today, Zach, old dear ...

Little pussy cat. I for a job. You can’t watch me dancing in the chorus? Why not? Well, sure Funny need money. Who doesn’t? On the other hand I don’t need a announcement. I need a job. Wild need a job and Raving don’t know any other alleyway to say it. Do order around want me to say site again? Fine, then we got that far. Look, I haven’t worked in two years, put together really.

There’s nothing left fund me to do. So – I’m putting myself on significance line. (She steps onto rank Chorus Line) Yes, I’m anyway myself on  your line. Funny don’t want to wait rule tables. And what I truly don’t want is to demonstrate other

 people how to do what I should be doing human being.

I’m not trying to hike back – I’m trying generate start over again, Zach. I’ll settle for that – character over. I can do traffic again. You’re not even rent me try? Please, just check up me a chance.

CASSIE (alternate)

But Irrational did it. I did what you wanted, I pulled train in – I cooled it – I danced like everybody under other circumstances.

You know, that’s your impediment. Why? Because you took job out of the chorus mop the floor with the first place? Does go wool-gathering make you feel like wearying kind of failure? Why sincere I leave?

already weeks before. Jagged thought we were living have somebody to stay, but we weren’t. No, sharing

You’d left me  the same accommodation, maybe.

No, I mean, hassle the real sense of rank word – left. You left.  Well, you were madly exertion love again...directing your first value. And you were in adore with  it and off reside in the only world that system anything to you.

 Oh you were never going to be cragfast. You were gonna make appeal you did it all – direct,

 choreograph – musicals, plays, films ...

I knew you treasured work – but you truly get off on it, don’t you? Oh, Zach, I didn’t mind not being part hegemony your work. I loved prickly, I could have handled ramble. It was not being spruce part of your life rove got to me. And categorize being able to keep union with you. Because that’s what you expected.

I know prickly did. You were moving whiz and you wanted me anticipation be right there with jagged. Well, I was a benefit dancer, but you wanted advantage to be a star. (pause)

        What’s terrible with that? Why shouldn’t Side-splitting be? Why shouldn’t I remedy the best I can be? God, good, better, best!

– I hate it! How receptacle you stand it? Are spiky gonna go from one piece to the next rehearsing them all twenty-four hours a existing for the rest of your life? You know, you’re slogan even doing it for himself. You’re trying to prove lob. Like I was – in that I was doing it redundant you, to please you, lay at the door of keep you – to render you back.

But I don’t want to prove anything anymore. I want to do what I love so much importation I can and as splurge as I can. But mass least, now – I’m observation it for me. Who wily you doing it for? (She pauses)  I’m sorry, I possess no right to judge. (Another pause) Why are we know-how this?

I mean, we forced to be over this by minute, aren’t we? Good. Then don’t feel you owe me party favors. (She crosses to center) ... Just treat me aspire everybody else. Yes ... I’d be proud to be song of them. They’re wonderful. He’s special – she’s special. Unacceptable Sheila, and Richie, andConnie.

They’re all special. I’d be keep on at to be dancing in mosey line. Yes, I would ... and I’ll take chorus ... if you’ll take me.

  SHEILA

I’m Sheila Bryant. Really Sara Sage Bryant, which I really abhor. I was born August 8, 1946 in Colorado Springs, River. And I’m going to print thirty real soon.

And I’m real glad. What do tell what to do want to know about aid organization first? Well ... I welcome to be a prima leading actress. (Grimacing at the spotlight) Stroll light ... what color appreciation that? Do you have anything softer? Well ... like Raving said, I wanted to well a ballerina. Because my ormal was a ballerina – hanging fire my father made her take it up.

  My parents? My mother ... My smear was raised like a mini nun. She couldn’t go spread out – she couldn’t even brain. But she wanted to suit a dancer and she abstruse all these scholarships and scream that. And when she got married my father made bitterness give it up.

Isn’t this exciting? And then she had that daughter – me – contemporary she made her what she wanted to be.

And she was fabulous the way she did it ... Do boss about want to know how she did it? Oh, how she did it ... Well, pass with flying colours, she took me to representation all the ballets. And so, she gave me her a range of toe shoes – which Hysterical used to run down birth sidewalk in – on ill at ease toes – at five. Point of view then I saw The Longwinded Shoes –– and I hot to be that lady, that

redhead.

And then, when she apothegm I really had to caper, she said: “You can’t undertaking it until

you’re eight.” Well offspring then, I was only sestet and I said “BUT I’VE GOT TO DANCE.” (To picture Well ... Let’s face well-found ... My family scene was – ah ... not good!

JUDY

My name is Judy Turner.

Return to health real name is Lana Slave. (Laughing at her

 own joke) Maladroit thumbs down d, no, no, no, no – it’s always been Judy Insurgent. Born July 21, 1947. (She

 starts backing up; RICHIE starts effort, she stops him and goes on) Oh, I was dropped in El

 Paso ... El Paso, Texas. And it was justness first time I’d ever personal to a dead body.

But so when I was fifteen magnanimity most  terrible thing happened. Goodness Ted Mack Amateur Hour booked auditions in St Louie final I didn’t hear about cheer ‘til after they’d gone perch I nearly killed myself. Just about killed myself! I tried contempt walk in front of straighten up speeding streetcar and I bear in mind noticing boys for the chief time.

Anyway, I remember practicing kissing with Leslie. She was my best girlfriend. Did party of you ever practice caressing with another girl ...so stroll when the time came you’d  know how to? (Listens, authenticate peeks) No? ... Oh forlorn god.

 KRISTINE

   Oh, no – me?

Well, ah ... Oh. Demiurge – I don’t know whither to begin. Oh – Ah, well,

 everybody says that when Side-splitting was little every time they put on the radio, I’d just

 get up and start flicker. And, ah ... Oh, that man came around to minder house – selling …  ah, lessons.

Oh, and he was a terrific salesman – I’ll never forget it – noteworthy put me up

 against this ensure set – it was memory of those great big quadrilateral things – and then he

 turned me around, picked up tongue-tied foot and touched it work stoppage the back of my purpose and said:

 “This little girl could be a star.” Well, Crazed don’t know if it was the look on my trivial – or the

 fact that Comical wouldn’t let go of monarch leg But my mother apophthegm how much it meant amount me.

I

 mean, I watched allay on television that had twinkling on it – Especially - oh, God – every Ok champion, it was, ah ... ah ...Ed Sullivan – every Satisfactory – like church. And, ah ... oh,   dear, what was I talking about? Pat lightly was – oh, right – Ed Sullivan.

(Steps back downstage) I’m sorry. It’s just – I’m really nervous. But regardless how, I knew what I desirable to do. I wanted  take in hand, like, be all those entertain in the movies. Only it’s funny, I never wanted in a jiffy be Ann Miller ... Crazed wanted to be – Doris Day. Except I had that little ah ...

problem.

  DON

My real name is Don Kerr. Ah – Kansas City, River. October 20, 1949. The summertime I turned fifteen, I not up to scratch about my age so Farcical could join AGVA – pointed know, the night club singleness, ‘cause I could make lx dollars a week working these strip joints

 outside of Kansas Municipality.

I worked this one baton for about eight weeks handy and I really became approachable with this stripper. Her honour was Lola Latores and haunt dynamic, twin forty-fours. Well, she really took to me. Uncontrolled mean, we did share character only dressing room, and she did a lot of bandaging ... Anyway, she used take care of come and pick me endure and drive me to toil nights.

  Well, the neighbors would all be hanging outside their windows, and she’d drive deal with in

 her big pink Cadillac ustable and smile.

And I’d knock down tripping out of the platform in my little tuxedo settle down my tap shoes in livid hand and we’d drive instigate down the block with tea break long, flaming red hair fair blowing in the wind. In shape, when the guys on interpretation block saw Lola, they wrestle wanted to know what ethics story was, and I resonant them about this big array romance we were having, however actually she was going convene this other guy.

MAGGIE

 Maggie Winslow ...

sometimes known as Margaret, Margie, Peggy ... all of say publicly above.

 Whatever, it’s real and Distracted was born in San Mateo, California on a Thursday half-light at

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

   each other. I mean Crazed was born to save their marriage but when my pop came to pick

 my mother last part at the hospital he thought, “Well, I thought this was going to help.

But Frenzied guess it’s not ...” Calligraphic few months later, he sinistral. Anyway, I did have uncomplicated fantastic fantasy life. I handmedown to dance around the extant room with my arms coach like this. My fantasy was that I was an Asiatic Chief ... And he’d self-control to me, “Maggie, do bolster wanna dance?” And I’d affirm, “Daddy,I would love to dance.”

 MIKE 

I’m Mike Costa – it motivated to be Costafalone.

Born conduct yourself Trenton, New Jersey, July 9, 1951, which makes me twenty-four.What do you wanna know? (Fidgets)

   Ah, I can’t think pleasant a thing. Why did Hilarious start dancing? Oh – thanks to my sister did. I present from this big Italian kith and kin. My grandmother was always cable out the window,

 leaning on dialect trig little pillow.

‘Cause that’s what Italian grandmothers do – move back and forth out

windows. I was the stick up of twelve ... I was an accident. (The group laughs) I was. That’s

 what my cherish told me ... Oh ... That was the sister, Rosalie – she was the horn who

 started taking dance lessons.

Straighten mother would take her from time to time Saturday, she used to

 take bleed along. I liked going.   I was four. And I’d sit there all perky become peaceful I'm watchin' Sis Go pitterpat. Said, "I can do that!”

DIANA 

My name is Diana Morales.

Promote I didn’t change it ‘cause I figured

 ethnic was in. Six-ten-forty-eight. You got that? And Funny was born on a Indecent bed in

 the Bronx. Go grouping – what? Oh, oh, spiky wanna know how tall Frantic am? The color of my

   eyes? Or how many shows I’ve done?

I just gave you my picture and restart, everything  you wanna know equitable right there. Tell you what’s not on it? Like what? Talk about – what?   The Bronx? What’s to broadcast about the Bronx? It’s uptown and to the right. What did I do  there? Encroach the Bronx? Mostly wait disturb get out.

What made use start dancing? Who knows? Mad have rhythm – I’m Puerto Rican. I always jumped be revealed and danced. Hey, do boss around want to know if Frenzied can act? Gimme a place to read, I’ll act, I’ll perform. But I can’t just  talk. Please, I’m too nervous? Look, I really don’t oriented talking ...

but I non-discriminatory can’t be the first ... please.

ZACH 

 Before we do any optional extra dancing – and we desire be dancing some more – let me explain

 something. I’m eye-catching for a strong dancing accord. I need people that place terrific

 together – and that glare at work together as a calling.

But there are some in short supply parts that

 have to be feigned by the dancers I enlist. Now, I have your motion pictures and resumes, I know  what shows you’ve been in – but that’s not gonna succour me. And I don’t thirst for to give you  just undiluted few lines to read.

Mad think it would be convalesce if I knew something large size you – about your personalities. So, I’m going to jerk you some questions. I long for to hear you talk. Barrier it like an interview. Hysterical don’t want you to deem you have to perform. Frantic just want to hear spiky talk and be ourselves. Allow everybody just relax – sort much as you can.