“We are going to have a guest today!”
The more sophisticated readers among you will recognize these words from the Gospel according To Walt Disney; words written in red from the Tuesday theme song of the immortal Mickey Mouse Club! How I longed to be a Mouseketeer, to join Jimmy and Roy in their daily struggle to control the unruly kids. To share a secret with Karen and Cubby, swoon over Annette and take a twirl around the dance floor with Bobby and settle in to watch the next riveting episode of “Spin and Marty” as the boys sneak across the river to the Circle H Ranch to visit the girls (again, Annette!); to defy the laws of physics and spontaneously put my ears in motion.
I have given up so many of my dreams; to be the Principal in a Bolshoi production of Swan Lake; to be the Fifth Beatle; to be Ricky Ricardo’s opening act at The Tropicana night club; to perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 at Carnegie Hall on the Vladimir Horowitz Steinway; to star in the Steven Spielberg remake of Gone With The Wind. My audition: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a doodle.” When I say a line, I make it my own!
**Note to Steven: Put the blip on your radar screen of greatness (aka El Floppo), West Side Story, behind you and move on. Tara awaits!.
But I will not give up on my greatest dream. I will one day proudly wear the ears of the original Mouseketeers, (forget the pretenders Justin, Christina, Brittany and Ryan).
“So wiggle your ears like good Mouseketeers, we’re going to have a guest today, ’cause Tuesday is Guest Star Day!”