I enjoy being onstage but have performed only minor parts in school plays and some poetry and speech recitations. Twelve years ago, while in college, I performed in a black-box evening. I did a condensed version of Lily Tomlin's "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." The audience was in complete darkness and quiet. Then, at one point, the entire audience erupted in laughter. It seemed as if I stopped and took it all in. ... I remember how their full, united laughter filled me with such great joy and surprise, as if I had been handed a tremendous gift!
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