Some stills from my daughter's Off-Off Broadway show

Dorothy sent us some pictures taken by the director during last Sunday's performance.

Some background on the play, Dear Brutus.
Legend says that a magical wood appears on Midsummer Eve, and if you enter it, you may just find out who you would have been had your life taken a different turning. On one mysterious night, eight strangers go into that wood, and find out. J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, tells the story of their "might-have-beens."

Dorothy plays the "might-have-been" daughter of a failed, alcoholic painter who is stuck in a loveless marriage. He wonders if they'd had children if perhaps they might have been happier. Once in the wood he is now a happy and successful artist spending time with his daughter. He has no recollection of his actual sorrowful life. His daughter, however, is wise beyond her years and questions him incessently about their life together and what if they should they no longer have each other. As dawn approaches he is drawn back to reality but is grateful for the hour he had to spend with the daughter he always wanted.

The captions (added by the show's director) are dialog from the play.

"O matre pulchra filia pulchrior. That means, 'O Moon--more beautiful than any twopenny-halfpenny daughter.'"


"I am sorry to have kept you waiting, old moon; but you ought to know by now how time passes."


"Daddy, Daddy. I have won. Here is the place. Crack-in-my-eye-Tommy!"


"Hie, Daddy, at what age are we the nicest? Daddy, hie, hie, at what age are we the nicest?"


"Parent dear, do you remember the days when your Margaret was a slip of a girl, and sat on your knee? How foolish we were, Parent, in those distant days."


"Daddy do you remember how you taught me to balance a biscuit on my nose like a puppy? You called me Rover. And When you said 'snap' I caught the biscuit in my mouth. Daddy I can do it still! Here is the last of my supper. Say 'snap,' Daddy. Say 'snap,' please!"


"Daddy, come back; I don't want to be a might-have-been."

That's very cool! You must be a very proud dad!

....proud and supportive; good for ya , Dave, and luck to that talented daughter!

She has a delightful gift of expression, just delightful. I would think she would have to have been raised in a loving home to be able to represent herself with such apparent ease. My hat tips to you, Dave, damn fine job of parenting.

Thanks for posting Dave. You should be very proud of her.

You have every reason to be proud of her, Dave. Even off-broadway is not an easy nut to crack. More power to her!

Thanks to everyone for all the kind words. We are very proud of Dorothy. She's known since she was 9 or 10 that she wanted to be an actor. We have always supported her although early on we would, as is every parent's duty, remind her that she should have something more "sensible" to fall back on. However by the time she was in high school we backed off on that. At her final high school show another parent said to me, "Don't ever let her stop acting." I said I couldn't if I wanted to.