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JLO

Before Jennifer Lopez’s fans laid claim to this three-letter combo, it was the acronym for the unique youth theater group I participated in from 1970 to 1975, playing a role either backstage or later onstage in over twenty musicals, comedies, dramas and children’s theater. During the years I was a member of “Junior Light Opera”, it was a group of some seventy youth, ages five to twenty and just two facilitating adults – my speech and stagecraft teacher Michael and a school orchestra teacher named Sue. Continue reading →