Hello, I'm Kelly Mantle.

Hello, I'm Kelly Mantle.

Hello, I'm Kelly Mantle.

And this is the Kelly Mantle show.

Won't you come inside the Kelly Mantle Studio? Do you know I never know where I am, but I always end up where I'm supposed to be?

Isn't that euphoric of me?

The other day, I was eating a snow cone at the zoo, standing next to a statue of a pink flamingo

with my good Judy, Coleman Domingo.

And Coleman said, look over there, and I said, where?

And he said, over there.

And I said, that could be anywhere.

And he said, in thine direction, do I point?

And then I realized, I'm not at the zoo.

I'm actually in a production of taming of the shrew.

It's Shakespeare in the park.

In the middle of March.

Spring was in the air, and there were flowers in my hair,

and I was twirling it like I just didn't care.

And then the lights went out and everything went dark.

But we continued to recite our lines and the audience lit a spark and played along like they could see.

And everyone came together to operate that mutual fantasy, and it worked.

And then when the lights came back on, everything grew so much clear.

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