Tell about being in a school play or program.
It was called “The Man in the Bowler Hat” and it was in my senior year. It was a play that we did for Drama and we were in a regional competition performimg it at Uintah High School in Vernal, Utah. The basic plot of the play is having a man in a bowler hat sitting at the right of the stage on a director’s stool. All he does is sit there until the very last scene when he yells something to the effect “that’s pretty good let’s go from the top one more time.” So you are probably thinking that I was the man in the bowler hat but I wasn’t. I had a part that required that I be tied up by the bad guy and had to try and wiggle around to avoid him while tied to the stool. It was even toward the last of the play just prior to that line by the man in the bowler hat. Well I had tied myself to the stool so I could get out but as we were doing the play on stage for the competition during that part I wiggled a little too well and fell over backwards onto the floor with my hands still tied to the stool behind me. It must have looked pretty good because as I remember we won the competition and that of course could have been the only reason for our success. It actually hurt pretty bad but I couldn’t let on during the play and the rest of the cast really did a great job making it still fit into the script but I won’t forget the fall, ever.
