Taking lemons and making lemonade!

They say that you have to expect the unexpected at the Fringe. And today, we seized an unexpected moment to make a fantastic Fringe memory! About five-minutes into our almost sold-out show, the lights suddenly surged and the power blew out in the theatre and all the way down the block. In our plucky A Mused Collective fashion, we asked the theatre management if we could just perform the show outside in the garden. Darren, the owner of the venue, responded with a smile, “We wouldn’t expect anything less from your group!”

The entire audience stayed with us as we performed Fragment in the muddy grass as the sun intermittently poked through the clouds to shine on our impromptu garden show. I speak for all of the Muses when I say that this was one of my favorite and most memorable performance experiences ever! The performers and the audience took a potentially terrible situation and made something wonderful out of it. We took lemons and made some magical performance lemonade! One audience member gushed to Abby: “you filled me to the brim, even my soul.” My soul is full too! Thank you to Greenside, to Darren, Tara, Twitch, Tina and the entire management team to the Muses and to our fantastic audience today at the Fringe.     
       -Shelly