Chapter 14Cole
The sad fact is that, had I been casting a show, I would have most wanted the people who weren’t using this showcase as an audition. All of the dancers were competent and a few were gifted, but both acts’ closing numbers were the standouts. A swift internet search on my phone after the curtain fell informed me that the tango guy was an architectural draftsman, and the couple who performed a stunning acro-jazzy contemporary routine at the end of Act Two both worked full time at a law firm.
That is, basically, insane.
Except I knew quite a few people who’d gotten quote-unquote Real Jobs after five or ten years trying and mostly failing to make a livable living as dancers, who had never stopped dancing, and who could still really turn it out under the right conditions. “That
