The end of 2003:  After working backstage in "Mornings at Seven" and "Godspell", I got the leading role, Lenny in "Rumors".  The smiling lady in the picture to the left is Stevie Holcomb who played Claire, my wife.  Stevie is still a close friend and she still refers to me as her "fictitious husband."  It's a good thing her real husband has a sense of humor. It was such a relief to finally be cast in a non-musical.  I love to sing, but when all you ever done is musicals, you get a bit tired.  Musicals are extremely hard to do. Performing in "Rumors" taught me how to act in non-musical plays. It  was a great just to concentrate on acting without music and choreography.  Though I had to learn 118 pages of dialogue which included a 3 and a half page monologue. Jayne Brill, the director, probably thought I would never break the "musical stance".  To this day I can still here her calling from the house during rehearsals,  "This is not a musical, Sidney!" --Sidney Vaught (2006)