How Did I Miss That?
Scanning in a bunch of programs from the last year's worth of performances and had a bit of a shock when getting to the bottom of the pile and looking at the program for 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' from last July at SLT.
Camille Schmoutz made such an impression as Mrs. Meers I've been very aware when she's appeared in other things, and I was pretty sure I recognized Liesl Cruz when seeing her recently in Fun Home (though I didn't realize from where until reading her bio in that program), but it also turns out to be the first place I saw Mikah Thomas (my favorite player from this years drama class at Bossier Parish Community College). The same for Sarah Lord whom I saw later in 'Godspell', and Yoon Lee, later in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
Truly surprising was discovering this is also when I first saw Cassidy Giddens, who did such a wonderful job as Esmeralda in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' that I don't know how I missed her connection to this earlier show.
It's not surprising, and often a joy, to see the same actors performing in multiple productions with different groups, it just confounds me to not have remembered seeing so many of these wonderful performers not even a year earlier.