A few weeks ago I decided to work toward getting back into theater. I found an audition for Jekyll and Hyde about an hour away, and I figured it would be a good one on which to test the waters again. To my surprise, I got a callback for Lucy, the female lead originally played by Linda Eder. No way on this earth do I have a voice like hers. People who know me would peg me for Emma (the more wholesome soprano) rather than the vivacious and intensely vulnerable prostitute Lucy. But I sang…

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