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Title
Falmouth Playhouse Marilyn Rowland
Description
Writing by Marilyn Rowland, inspired by a historic postcard
Creator
Marilyn Rowland
Source
Wish You Were Here: Postcards from the Past
Date
2023
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Language
English
Type
Creative writing
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April 9, 1986
They named me Tallulah because of how Tallulah Bankhead
christened the theater with a champagne bottle the night I was born.
My parents were caught up in their vision of my following in her exalted footsteps.
But my overpowering shyness and the sheer number and brightness of the stars
who appeared at the Falmouth Playhouse every summer intimidated me,
silencing whatever dreams I may have entertained.
In my senior year in high school, I finally attended a show with my date.
By that time, I was Tully, denying my theatrical “destiny.”
He drove up in a battered VW bus. I was mortified.
They hadn’t yet become the definitive symbol of the alternative culture.
He showed me to my seat and disappeared backstage, so proud of his job as a stagehand.
A nightmare. We never had another date, and it took me another 20 years
to venture on stage myself, finally enveloped in the magic.
Tully (There is still only one Tallulah)
Marilyn Rowland
They named me Tallulah because of how Tallulah Bankhead
christened the theater with a champagne bottle the night I was born.
My parents were caught up in their vision of my following in her exalted footsteps.
But my overpowering shyness and the sheer number and brightness of the stars
who appeared at the Falmouth Playhouse every summer intimidated me,
silencing whatever dreams I may have entertained.
In my senior year in high school, I finally attended a show with my date.
By that time, I was Tully, denying my theatrical “destiny.”
He drove up in a battered VW bus. I was mortified.
They hadn’t yet become the definitive symbol of the alternative culture.
He showed me to my seat and disappeared backstage, so proud of his job as a stagehand.
A nightmare. We never had another date, and it took me another 20 years
to venture on stage myself, finally enveloped in the magic.
Tully (There is still only one Tallulah)
Marilyn Rowland
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| This Item | dcterms:references | Item: Falmouth Playhouse, Cape Cod, Mass. |
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