first outburst. (I had been warned about his tantrums.) He yelled from the back of the
auditorium: “Just because you never kissed a girl, do you think you can disrupt a
rehearsal with your silly giggling." And he went on in that vein. Oh boy, what had I
gotten into by accepting this role! Should I back out. I didn’t, I’m glad to say. From
then on, rehearsals went fairly smoothly, except for a few incidents involving other
actors. No doubt Barney was entitled to make demands to ensure that this, his one
hundredth production, was a success.
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