#briggle

Dear Gary, I hope I’m able to give you this card after seeing ‘Pirates of Penzance’ because I’d feel remiss if I didn’t get a chance thank you! I wasn’t able to get a hold of you before my spring semester began, but, due in no small part to your letter of recommendation, I got accepted to Marymount Manhattan college and will be returning for my second semester there later this month. I’m lucky enough to feel unequivocally at home both at Marymount and in NYC, and have learned lots, both about Theatre and myself since last we talked. This upcoming semester I’ll be doing costume design for the MainStage show and taking a multitude of Theatre classes (as well as classes on Gender and Sexuality Studies, which I’m minoring in). I just wanted to be sure to update you since your kindness, support, and guidance has helped me profoundly and made me who I am, and I’m tremendously thankful! I’m grateful also for the opportunity to see you perform again, especially this show, which, because of the opportunity you gave me 3 years ago, has a special place in my heart! I hope things are going well for you (and Wendy), and, for the record, I still owe you a meal at Perkins sometime (if it doesn’t work before I’m back in NYC, I’ll be back in Minnesota from December 22nd until the end of January). You’re a marvelous soul and I’m incredibly thankful to have you in my life! 

Last Friday Briggle told me One of the best things about me Is my ability to be introspective And it’s interesting Since I never gave it much thought But now I agree with him And he distinctly mentioned my mode He knows what my poetry means to me He says he reads them But if he kept up with them He’d realize how loose my stitches are And he seems to think I’m more together than I am Yet it is my poetry that keeps me Whatever amount of wholeness I’m able to achieve And I’ll quote Hedwig Because I always quote Hedwig “This is the best way that I’ve found To be the best you’ve ever seen"

It isn’t about happiness it’s about that small still voice that tells you what to do it’s instinct and persistence and I know you have the spirit for it it’s about feeling fulfilled and learning and growing becoming independent and owning your choices us artists know that and you’ll likely have to push aside the love disguised as roadblocks because although that is love since they want your safety they also want you unscathed and if you work towards that you’ll never earn or learn anything and you’ll have to be okay with uncertainty as long as you follow your soul you’ll find a way somehow be too busy and do everything and make the changes you choose because it’s all about becoming the best only you can be because it’s about humanity and knowing your own soul you know yours yet know you still have lots to learn never apologize for still learning it’s the introspection that grows you not the ones around you who make you feel insecure since you are strong and smart and I want my voice to stay in your mind when I tell you I have absolute confidence in you you’ll achieve your own definition of success

I have a theory that Briggle wrote ‘Singing in the Wilderness’ since I can’t find any proof of his existence and Briggle handed me fragments of the script in what seemed to be his own typing and it seems like good fanfic Mary Garden and Billy Sunday famous celebrities and iconoclastic strong souls debate huge issues such as evil, madness and redemption only to, in the next breath, talk of getting ice cream sodas so it seems like a massive history crush OTP with little intonations of smart seeming references all the while Salome and her characterization dances madly with her veils inside a castle of sadness I doubt my theory is correct but I cannot find any other answer to the play’s existence so I sadly have to abandon it unless someone (possibly Briggle) owns up to their well-written fanfic

Harry Potter- Do you know the author? JK, so do I! (I made a punny)