The Stoop continues story series with music
decided was the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," a song she used to sing to him and his brother when they were younger.
Luckily after months of surgery, rehab and hospital stays, his mother miraculously survived the aneurysm. Despite being alive, she still admitted one afternoon that she wished she would've died instead of putting her sons and friends through all the stress. Not being able to find the words to say how proud he was of her, he instead sang the words his mother sang so many times when he was a child: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." Steve's story was about the bond of kinship, between a mother and son and inevitably between best friends.
Was the next performer Snoop Doggy Dogg? No, but close. It was another Snoop, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, an actress from the fourth season on the very popular HBO television show The Wire.
But on Monday night Felicia was not acting. She was living her truth, one of streets, penitentiaries and foster homes, of drugs and violence. Admitting to the audience that, "From my birth, I've been crying," she told of being born a crack baby, about being teased her whole life for being cross-eyed, about dreaming about her mother's voice and about wondering what her father looked like.
It was a story that needed nothing more than her words - no dramatic facial expressions or body language. She bridged the gap of difference that evening under the stage's spotlight, shining truth onto everyone else listening.
Her book Grace After Midnight, co-written by David Ritz, further details her life, allowing her to hopefully inspire change in a child or adult who may be going through what she went through. She repeated: "I've cried from birth till now, I'm tired of crying."
After intermission, three individuals from the audience were invited up for an encore: A 30-something woman consumed by the fervor of the musical Hairspray's song, a middle-aged man inspired by Whitney Houston's "I Want to Dance with Somebody," and a woman who in first grade (even though she misunderstood the meaning of the words) had found comfort in Carly Simon's "You're So Vain."
Luckily after months of surgery, rehab and hospital stays, his mother miraculously survived the aneurysm. Despite being alive, she still admitted one afternoon that she wished she would've died instead of putting her sons and friends through all the stress. Not being able to find the words to say how proud he was of her, he instead sang the words his mother sang so many times when he was a child: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." Steve's story was about the bond of kinship, between a mother and son and inevitably between best friends.
Was the next performer Snoop Doggy Dogg? No, but close. It was another Snoop, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, an actress from the fourth season on the very popular HBO television show The Wire.
But on Monday night Felicia was not acting. She was living her truth, one of streets, penitentiaries and foster homes, of drugs and violence. Admitting to the audience that, "From my birth, I've been crying," she told of being born a crack baby, about being teased her whole life for being cross-eyed, about dreaming about her mother's voice and about wondering what her father looked like.
It was a story that needed nothing more than her words - no dramatic facial expressions or body language. She bridged the gap of difference that evening under the stage's spotlight, shining truth onto everyone else listening.
Her book Grace After Midnight, co-written by David Ritz, further details her life, allowing her to hopefully inspire change in a child or adult who may be going through what she went through. She repeated: "I've cried from birth till now, I'm tired of crying."
After intermission, three individuals from the audience were invited up for an encore: A 30-something woman consumed by the fervor of the musical Hairspray's song, a middle-aged man inspired by Whitney Houston's "I Want to Dance with Somebody," and a woman who in first grade (even though she misunderstood the meaning of the words) had found comfort in Carly Simon's "You're So Vain."
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