I was a grade school music teacher in New Jersey playing the title role in Little Mary Sunshine in a community theatre when a producer of an Equity summer stock company came backstage and said, “You should audition for our chorus next season.”
I did and I got the gig; I did eight shows in nine weeks and Meg in Brigadoon when somebody got a Broadway show. I got my card after all of it and two years later, I gave up my teaching tenure.
