Amy Adams

I'm sure you know the lovely young actress Amy Adams, who starred in Disney's Enchanted and Junebug (for which she earned an Oscar nomination).  She grew up in Castle Rock, Colorado and worked in Denver's Country Dinner Playhouse and Boulder's Dinner Theater before moving on to regional theater and eventually ending up in Los Angeles where she has burgeoning career in film and television.

I'd always thought she looked so familiar to me and wondered if I had met her sometime in the Denver theater scene.  Well, I just realized she and I worked together at the Ascot Theater's production of Phantom of the Opera.  I was digging through some papers today and came across an Ascot cast list sent by our beloved director David Armstrong a few years ago.  Glancing through the list of productions and actors, I saw the list for Phantom and there was her name listed as one of the ballerinas!  Suddenly I had a flashback and remembered very vividly hanging out with her backstage and in the dressing rooms.  

She was a very cute girl, sweet and funny, and a pretty good dancer.  I thought she was the prettiest of all the ballerinas, but since she was considerably younger than me, I never considered her more than one of the cute teenage ballerinas in the show.  Now she's a rising star in Hollywood who sang on the Oscars earlier this year.  She's also appeared on all the major talk shows and has hosted Saturday Night Live.  You never know, huh?

Hey Amy, if you're reading this, I sang the role of the Ticket Seller in the "Tickets At The Opera" number from the top of Act II.  Call me!!