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Fat Suit

5/11/2015

 
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We all know that life is full of ironies. But this one takes the (low cal, no carb) cake.

Just as my latest diet began to show dramatic results--nearly 30# on a no-carb (easy), no alcohol (hard,hard,hard) regime--I started preparing for a staged reading of my one-act play, MURDER ON THE MAIN LINE, about an elderly, bed-bound woman who discovers she is going to be murdered. 

The director, the great Jerry Schwartz, and I wanted to make it as close to an actual production as Equity rules would allow. (Actors Equity requires readings to be book-in-hand and have no elaborate costumes or props.) 

The wonderful (and admirably slender) Kathleen Huber is playing the lead and I figured we'd stuff a bunch of pillows under her night dress and bed covers and call it a day.

But then we bought the fat suit. 

Since I'm producing the reading, I get custody of the fat suit. And since a second staged reading is anticipated in Philadelphia next year, I will keep everything.

So I plan to hang the fat suit proudly--not in my walk-in closet off the bedroom--but in my coat closet near the apartment door. 

After all, some people have skeletons in their closets.  I'll have a cautionary tale--a fat suit.


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