Yesterday's final two performances of the California School for the Deaf's plays went well. I almost got through the evening performance without even referring to my script. I was very proud of my daughter and how she and her cast mates got better with each performance.
I sent the tiniest bouquet of petite pink roses back via the assistant director. The rose bush that I'm raiding for these little gems is quite tall and the barely blooming ones are way at the top. I was straining mightily to from the top of a ladder to snip roses that were blooming or about to. It occurred to me that if I slipped at all, I'd fall and probably break-a-leg, which would make another great Theatre story, but probably not be worth the pain and inconveniences.
It warmed my heart to watch Miranda in the lobby after the final curtain. I watched her as she greeted her fans and took their compliments gracefully. It was nice to see her get a big hug from Dr. Hank Klopping, CSDF's long-time superintendent. Charles Farr, the principal of the vocational school, who's two daughters Brittany and Valerie played the key roles in the "Randi's Story" part of the show (which Miranda narrates about her eating disorder experience), said he thought it was really healthy for Miranda to talk about her experience.
At the cast party in the school's Elementary School Activity Center, Ethan Bernstein (producer and dean of students) and Heidi Burns (director and elementary school teacher) talked about the show and how they had to pull the plug on a "monkey girl" play because some in the Deaf community thought it would be offensive and decide that the show must go on by creating a new one from scratch.
Miranda's mother, my ex-wife, stood next to me for awhile and confessed how upsetting she found it to watch "Randi's Story." I admitted I was not as moved, but I had been warned by Heidi. I assumed that Miranda had told Brenda about it, but she hadn't. It's true that Brenda was more involved with Miranda, staying over night at the hospital almost every night when she is in hospital for 9 days with a bunch of hearing staff. It was a horrible time that scared us all. I remember Miranda saying "I just want my life back" and I said, "Just eat!" It was so frustrating because the solution seemed so simple...but obviously, nothing with anorexia and eating disorders is that simple.
But my princess is better now and I hopefully will be able to control the negative demon in her head, but she has her whole life ahead of her and as one of her biggest fans, I can't wait to see what she does in the next stage.
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