A Departure from the Script by Schwab Rochelle Hollander

Author:Schwab, Rochelle Hollander [Schwab, Rochelle Hollander]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 0964365014
Publisher: Orlando Place Press
Published: 2002-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The Broadway production of Plaza Suite cast the same actress, Maureen Stapleton, as the female half of each of the three unhappy couples portrayed in the three one-act plays that make up the show. BAT, not being Broadway, likes to broaden opportunities for amateur actors. I would appear only in act three. I’d been cast as a frantic mother-of-the-bride who tries to cajole a daughter with cold feet out of the suite’s bathroom and downstairs to get married, while my stage husband attempts to blast her out with tirades and tricks.

It crossed my mind as I started home from rehearsal the night after our gourmet dinner, that it was ironic that I should be playing a woman so eager to be mother-of-the-bride when in real life it was a role I’d taken on with reluctance.

Which reminded me of Debby. I’d left Dan with the impression I was having nothing to do with Jenny’s plans, while at that very moment Debby the Ditz could be calling our house and asking Dan to relay the message that she’d be arriving the next day to visit wedding caterers with me. It was past ten in the evening, late to call; luckily it was an hour earlier in Chicago. At the next red light, I pulled my phone out of my purse and punched in her number.

“Debby?” I said when she answered. “It’s Sheila. Jenny’s mother. I hope I’m not calling too late.” There really was no way for her to respond but to assure me the hour was fine.

“I was out for the evening — a rehearsal for a play I’m in — and thought you might have been trying to reach me. In fact, I’m still out, calling from my car, but I just thought I’d better call you back before it got even later.” I sounded as scatterbrained as her, but if she’d talked to Dan I wanted to know it now.

“What a coincidence. I just now got my plane reservations, and I was wondering if it was too late to call you.” I breathed a sigh of relief. She was still going on about how she didn’t mean it was too late for her, but it was an hour later in Washington, wasn’t it, though she supposed all us theater people were such night owls.

I cut in on her. “Well, we do have a lot of late rehearsals.” I hadn’t worked out how to phrase what came next, so I just babbled on as if the two of us were two Chatty Cathy dolls. “Debby, before I forget — no, really the reason I called you was.... Well, to be honest, I’ve got to work on Dan to bring him around. You know how men can be.” I waited for her lilting laugh to assure me that she did indeed know how men could be. “So as far as helping the girls plan their wedding, let’s leave our hubbies out of it a while. In fact, it might be

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