Never Blame the Umpire by Fehler Gene

Author:Fehler, Gene [Fehler, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Christian Young Reader, Young Adult Fiction
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2010-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

ginny’s news

Mama and Dad both went to work today, so I’m at Ginny’s when the phone rings. The second she’s done talking she starts squealing and jumping up and down.

“I got it! I got the part!”

I know without her saying any more just what she’s talking about. She’s been in enough plays you’d think she wouldn’t be this excited. But I guess if I kept getting game-winning base hits I’d probably be just as excited as I was the first time. Not that I ever expect to get another game-winning hit.

“The lead?” I say. “Did you actually get…”

“I did! I did! I get to play Annie!”

Annie is a musical about a girl who grows up in an orphanage run by a mean woman. She’s about ten or eleven when she gets picked to spend the Christmas holidays at the mansion of Daddy Warbucks, who I guess was the richest man in the United States. The play takes place a long time ago, like the 1930s or ‘40s. It’s a whole new world for Annie because she’s never had anything. Not only that, she’s treated like a princess when she’s at Daddy Warbucks’ mansion, while the woman who runs the orphanage treated all the girls like slaves. It’s a really neat play. I know Ginny will be great as Annie.

She auditioned at the Children’s Theater for the part a few days after we started at Valley Lakes School. She got a callback last week to come and read for the part again. She said she knows of at least a dozen girls who got callbacks. She said a lot of the others who didn’t get picked to play Annie will probably get to play some of the other orphans.

Annie has curly red hair and gets to sing a lot of solos. Ginny doesn’t have red hair. I guess she’ll have to wear a wig. The hair’s not important, though. What’s important is that she’s a great actress and she can sing. I get goosebumps when she belts out songs like “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life.” I could listen to her all day.

She started practicing for the audition a few weeks ago. I’ve watched the movie with her five or six times, and I know she’s watched it by herself a bunch. She’s been practicing Annie’s songs, too. If you ask me, I think she sounds just as good as the girl who plays Annie in the movie.

I’m really happy for her, but I’m sad, too. Rehearsals start next week. She said they’ll be rehearsing three or four nights a week most of the summer to get ready for the September performances. That means I won’t see her nearly as much. And there’s no chance now of her playing baseball this summer. First of all, she won’t have time. Secondly, she’d have a hard time singing with a puffed-up lip if she got hit in the face with a baseball again.

But it’ll be so much fun seeing her up on stage.

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