Chapter 19“Ryan, welcome. How are you feeling?”
“I’m excited.” Ryan’s panicking on the inside but he’s thrilled to be here, standing on a Broadway stage, regardless. Considering his intention to disappear into the shadows of fame, he’d rejected the position offered to him, and somehow ended up being invited to shadow the choreographer, a mid-thirties black woman named Maria.
“Today we’ll be doing a run through, getting to know each other and then outlining our rehearsal schedule. We’ll get more into the serious rehearsals after Christmas,” Maria says as she strides barefoot to the wings. “What you can do is keep an eye on the members of the group that stand out, to have the solos or be in front during performances.”
There must be over a hundred people sitting in the auditorium looking a
