When the Curtain Falls, Keep Singing
Someone is listening, even if it is only you
You're at a Christmas play, sitting in the audience, being entertained by a ragtag group of kindergarteners, when all of the sudden, the curtain falls in the middle of the song. In addition to all of the whispers from your fellow audience members, you hear muffled confusion, mixed with nervous laughter and frustrated tears from behind the curtain. That wasn’t supposed to happen.
All of the sudden, a child steps through the curtain to the front of the stage, and continues her song, picking it up exactly where it had ended when the curtain fell. She belts out her lyrics a cappella, ignoring the small music section below her, still in shock themselves. But they follow her cue and rejoin her at the chorus, accompanying her to the end of the number.
She quickly disappears behind the curtain once she is finished. What do you do? What does the rest of the audience do?
After a pregnant pause, you all erupt into applause, slowly standing to offer an ovation to this one courageous little girl who would not let a mishap stop her from singing her song.
Meet Sage Bennet, Ph.D.* She says she doesn't remember doing his but her mom would tell that story over and over, implying its truth. What she does remember is singing…
