"Damn, damn, damn, damn! I've grown accustomed to her face..."
She almost makes the day begin. I've grown accustomed to
the tune that she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs. Are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in. I was serenely independent and content before we met. Surely I could always be that way again. And yet I've grown accustomed to her looks, accustomed to her voice, accustomed to her face.
�Marry Freddy? What an infantile idea. What a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do. But she'll regret it. She'll regret it! It's doomed before they even take the vow.�
I can see her now, Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill in a wretched little flat above a store. I can see her now, not a penny in the till, and a bill collector beating at the door. She'll try to teach the things I taught her, and end up selling flowers instead. Begging for her bread and water while her husband has his breakfast in bed. In a year or so when she's prematurely gray, and the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk. She'll come home and, lo, he'll have upped and run away with a social-climbing heiress from New York.
�Poor Eliza! How simply frightful, how humiliating, how delightful. How poignant it'll be on that inevitable night when she hammers on my door in tears and rags, miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite. Will I take her in or hurl her to the wolves; give her kindness or the treatment she deserves; will I take her back or throw the baggage out?�
Well, I'm a most forgiving man, the sort who never could ever would take a position and staunchly never budge. A most forgiving man. But I shall never take her back if she were crawling on her knees. Let her promise to atone, let her shiver, let her moan. I'll slam the door and let the hellcat freeze.
�Marry Freddy. Ha!�
But I'm so used to hear her say, good morning every day. Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows are second nature to me now. Like breathing out and breathing in. I'm very grateful she's a woman and so easy to forget. Rather like a habit one can always break. And yet I've grown accustomed to the trace of something in the air. Accustomed to her face.
Nothing gets better than this show, showcasing Zach's best talents. He had over [fill in blank later] lines to learn as well as these difficult, but fun songs. In person, he's not really as serious as he acts onstage, but he enjoys playing people that are very different from his personality. Even though he may not seem serious when you see him joking around with his friends (Janna, Lauren and Elyce who have also been in the plays with him), he takes his musical and dramatic work very serious. You'd have to be serious to learn all that he learned in this show.
This was my favorite role seeing him play (it was 10x better than him in Oklahoma), not only that, but it seemed to be the most difficult role he's ever had. He enjoyed the opportunity and everyone seemed to enjoy him very much. On his show nights, he got the most applause of any person in the cast. I must say that it's been a great show and I'll miss every senior (including Zach) who took part in it and wish them the best of luck.