You remember BST? TPOG?? #MeToo??? You might remember the many *'Best of Broadway'* and *Apprentice Theatre *shows that I choreographed. You know how Lauren Weisberger wrote the totally fictional book "The Devil Wears Prada" after working at Vogue? A new essay from my upcoming memoir, "BACKSTAGE PREDATORS: AN APPRENTICE'S THEATRE TALE," is now available to read for free! --------------- --------------- *My First Gentleman Admirer- OR - The 40-Year-Old Actor and the 16-Year-Old Crew Member* --------------- --------------- Read it HERE https://www.clevelandcurtaincurmudgeon.com/projects/backstage-project/ Substack: Cleveland Curtain Curmudgeon Here's an excerpt... *For mature readers only. 18+* *"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?* *Eighteen years until #MeToo."* *MORE TO COME!* *TheClevelandCurtainCurmudgeon.com <https://www.clevelandcurtaincurmudgeon.com/>* *"You only get so many pirouettes in life, so make each turn count."*