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Rehearsals began in early 2006, junior year for me.

It was late nights learning my lines for the show, going over dance steps and stage blocking again and again, trying to stay positive, and trying to help the cast stay positive too, especially my friend Brittany.

She was playing Atta Pearl, the Good Witch of the North, and I won't lie, she was struggling.

My favorite line is great gugag-mugga-sugar.

Can you please?

And I know you hated saying it.

When I tell you, I hate it so bad, because I hate to fumble over my words, period.

So to say something like that,

I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to mess this up.

Brittany was my home girl and I really needed her at school and throughout this entire process.

But she barely wanted to be in the show. I'm going to be honest. A lot of the rehearsals,

I was not there. So half the time at rehearsal, I would be like, where the fuck is at a Pearl? But can you just give us the context for that line again? And don't get me the line. I don't know.

Oh my God. So Dorothy arrives in the land of Oz.

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