Entering CollegeLife is like a huge theatrical performance, with everyone playing the lead role, ready to determine their destiny. For each event in your life, you can think of a stimulus, a cause. Yet there are so many events, so many years, days, hours, seconds in life. What is the moment that, knowingly or unknowingly, changed your life to lead you to be exactly that, you? For many, it is impossible to pinpoint this moment. Yet for others, this moment, this place and this situation are implanted in their minds like a snapshot in time. Imagine, if you will, a chubby young boy of ten. Never before had he been exposed to life outside of his fifth grade class and his immediate family. Shy and timid, he decided that he had listened to his mother's continued lamentations for the last time. That weekend, he would do as she told him and “just go” to audition for the community production of the musical Oliver. He arrived on time, the hustle and bustle of signing being very new to him. There was no way he was going to get on stage and sing for this skinny man with clear acrylic braces visible on his teeth who was sitting at the piano. Still, he had made a deal with his mother that he would wait and watch, leaving whenever he wanted. Twenty minutes later, he was watching his mother from a different angle: just a speck in a sea of ​​other mothers sitting in the living room. audience. As he stood among this group of ten young people, his meager vocabulary could not describe the fear in his body. Little did he know what mark on his life the next moments would make as he sang his heart out to the thin man. How could he have known that this “man” would be his musical director for the next six years. Together, they would hone the natural talent buried within his vocal cords and greatly boost his confidence. That fear he had once experienced on that stage would never return. He was nervous, but he was afraid he wouldn't be when he auditioned for The King and I a few months later. After landing a starring role, he set his sights on Waterbury's Seven Angels Theater and their production of Bright Lights, yet another success. To everyone who knew him, it seemed natural that he would continue. So why didn't he do it? Why, for three long years in a row, did he bury his talent as a singer and actor?