I can't help thinking, though, that once you enter the Wicked Mill you never get out of it. They'll just keep recycling you from production to production until you're willing to risk a steady paycheck and hit the audition scene again. And that's show biz, kid.
That's true, but I don't really see this as a downside right now for Parris. In the past two years, she's gone from understudy/ensemble to lead roles in two major tours. I'm sure right now she's probably thrilled to have steady employment in a headlining role as opposed to cutting her teeth standing by. Especially considering that it might lead to her playing the role on Broadway.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 9/20/11 at 03:44 PM
