“I went in as an immediate replacement for the National Tour of 42nd Street. When I got to the tour, I learned the show with the dance captains in four days. My put-in was on the fifth day. While I was learning the show that week, I got a really bad flesh-eating disease on my left foot—not very convenient for tap dancing. I had to get surgery the morning of my put-in. I didn’t even tell the doctorwhat I did for a living, but they said that I should go home because I’d be out for a month and a half. So I went home. A week later, I went to a doctor’s appointment, and the doctor said that I could go back the next week because It was healing so fast. That following week, I joined the cast in LA and did the rest of the first leg of the tour.
It was the best and the worst two weeks of my life—I booked my first big job out of college, and then I was out. But I feel like that’s what the business is about—a lot of ups and downs. It kind of sums up what we do—it’s really hard some days but then your life can change overnight, and it makes all the hard work worth it.”