My Dad loved acting in local amateur theater productions. His first 3 were musicals, but he started noticing he never got singing parts, and switched to just plays. :) Comedies were his forte, but he did make one bad-ass redneck in To Kill a Mockingbird once.

As a kid, I always helped him learn his lines – great fun for me, and very helpful for him. It was really cool seeing him become somebody else onstage, and also to see how the audience loved him. I was so proud of him!

Though my Mom has dozens of pictures of Dad in his plays, I only have a couple – and this one is of the cast of my 2nd favorite of his plays – Arsenic and Old Lace (my favorite was The Nerd). Bad pic, but I love the memories it conjures.