<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">You remember BST? TPOG?? #MeToo???<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>You might remember the many <i>'Best of Broadway'</i> and <i>Apprentice Theatre </i>shows that I choreographed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You know how Lauren Weisberger wrote the totally fictional book "The Devil Wears Prada" after working at Vogue? <br></div><div><br></div><div>A new essay from my upcoming memoir, "BACKSTAGE PREDATORS: AN APPRENTICE'S THEATRE TALE," is now available to read for free!</div><div>---------------</div><div>---------------<br></div><div><b>My First Gentleman Admirer<br>- OR - <br>The 40-Year-Old Actor and the 16-Year-Old Crew Member</b><br></div><div>---------------</div><div>---------------<br></div><div>Read it HERE <a href="https://www.clevelandcurtaincurmudgeon.com/projects/backstage-project/" target="_blank">https://www.clevelandcurtaincurmudgeon.com/projects/backstage-project/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Substack: Cleveland Curtain Curmudgeon<br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here's an excerpt... <i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><i>For mature readers only. 18+</i></i></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><i><br></i></i></span></font></div><i>"The summer I was sixteen, I worked backstage on a production with
carnivorous plants, puppets, a girl group, and a professional sadist
with a medical license. Polly was the stage manager. I only mention the
others because you, the reader, might view them as either spellbound,
enablers, in-the-dark, or conspirators... you’d be correct. Ask
yourself this, today: If a teenage boy under eighteen told you the men
in the play wanted to take him out drinking, dancing, and partaking in
debauchery, what would you say? Would you tell his parents? The Police?</i><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><br>Eighteen years until #MeToo."</i></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><b><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">MORE TO COME!</span></font></b></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"></span><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><a href="https://www.clevelandcurtaincurmudgeon.com/" target="_blank">TheClevelandCurtainCurmudgeon.com</a></b><br></div><div><b><i>"You only get so many pirouettes in life, so make each turn count."</i></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div></div></div></div>
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