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Personal Narrative: Mrs. Winthrop In The Secret Garden
I got a glimpse of the Gilford High School drama department my freshman year by doing hair for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and fell in love. I wanted so badly to be more of a part of it all, but after Christmas I ended up in Laconia for the remainder of the year. Sophomore year I came back to Gilford and was in the production of West Side Story that fall. In the spring I teched, as props manager, for Eurydice and All in the Timing. My junior year, I performed in A Chorus Line. Then that spring I teched for Epic Proportions. Now in the beginning of the third month into my senior I am about to perform in one of my last shows here at Gilford. I was cast as Mrs. Winthrop in The Secret Garden. Though we have quite a bit of the
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