Thanks! She is doing well - 4.0 freshman in college - biology (pre-med) major, minor in music! sings in the University singers and was given a solo and they are performing in Washington at the Cathedral in a few weeks with her performing the solo ... and she is playing chamber violin as part of the music minor.
The story is actually worse- the girl was my daughter’s best friend and my daughter had been out all of junior year recovering from a bone marrow transplant at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia the summer prior to junior year, as she had suffered from a bone marrow failure disease. Praise God the transplant was 100% successful and she had recovered on schedule (year recovery if all goes well) and was expecting to be Belle. The girl basically back stabbed our daughter as she knew full well Regina was slated for the part and used that year to get in with the new directors. The director that had retired has a very talented son who was going to be the Beast and our daughter was to be Belle since 8th grade, when she was Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.
OK - done - can you imagine?? It was largely done for the girl’s college creds as she was trying to get into Yale and as you probably are aware the outside activities needed to look amazing (such as a lead) to get into the Ivies, as well as the academics, etc. Ironically the girl did not get into the Ivies (went to Hamilton and hates it) and all this was for naught. My daughter still allows her to be friends with her ! My daughter is bigger than I am yet I am happy she is - I don’t try to poison this (of course, as Christian).
Finally - this girl and her entire family are big liberals and the girl’s father is a known lobbyist in New York State’s corrupt Albany goings on. So they train them young to be little Alinsky’s! It hurts when it hits home. Liberals are awful and have no souls or consciences and are capable of anything to further their own interests. The new directors who made the blatant cast-against-type decision were both nasty liberal feminist women types as well.
I do feel better sharing this with an anonymous outsider who gets it. Thanks!
Anytime you want to talk about music or Christianity, or whatever, feel free to FReepmail me. :-)
(((HUGS)))