Spring Break
The Stoop continues story series with music
Issue date: 11/8/07
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The Stoop Storytelling's November 5 show at Centerstage in Mt. Vernon, My Theme Song: Tales about the Ditties that Define Us, invited its seven performers to offer stories about the soundtracks of their lives. They advertised: "From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney … Everyone has a story. What's Yours?"
It was a community event, and friends and families came from everywhere from Canton to Roland Park to hear these people's stories, of loss, success, love and disappointment.
One of the hosts and co-producers of The Stoop, Jessica Henkin, warmed up the audience with her story. She confided about her years of "struggle, pain and depression, because of alcoholism, divorce, drug addiction and growing up in one of the most elitist environments in Maryland, possibly the U.S."
There was a truth and sadness to her words, but also a lightness, since she now stands as a testament of a woman who has overcome her previous disposition and found happiness.
As she told the audience about how she met her husband on a blind date and about her two children, having "popped out those suckers," the crowd celebrated her life by laughing and "ahhing." While the Elmo song, which Jessica considers her theme song, played, she sang along, "Come on, get happy," exactly what she has done over the past decade.
The next performer, Steve Haddad, described by The Stoop as being an activist, baseball fanatic and budding Buddhist, used the event of his beloved cat dying when he was young as a way to relate and understand how to deal with the events surrounding his mother's brain aneurysm five years ago.
While Steve's mother underwent surgery, he told the audience about how he planned for her funeral, only having his cat's funeral as an example of what to do. He knew that burying his mother in the backyard and using a shoebox as a coffin wouldn't slide.
However, just as his mother and her friends sang Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken," he figured she would've definitely wanted her theme song sang at her funeral - which he
It was a community event, and friends and families came from everywhere from Canton to Roland Park to hear these people's stories, of loss, success, love and disappointment.
One of the hosts and co-producers of The Stoop, Jessica Henkin, warmed up the audience with her story. She confided about her years of "struggle, pain and depression, because of alcoholism, divorce, drug addiction and growing up in one of the most elitist environments in Maryland, possibly the U.S."
There was a truth and sadness to her words, but also a lightness, since she now stands as a testament of a woman who has overcome her previous disposition and found happiness.
As she told the audience about how she met her husband on a blind date and about her two children, having "popped out those suckers," the crowd celebrated her life by laughing and "ahhing." While the Elmo song, which Jessica considers her theme song, played, she sang along, "Come on, get happy," exactly what she has done over the past decade.
The next performer, Steve Haddad, described by The Stoop as being an activist, baseball fanatic and budding Buddhist, used the event of his beloved cat dying when he was young as a way to relate and understand how to deal with the events surrounding his mother's brain aneurysm five years ago.
While Steve's mother underwent surgery, he told the audience about how he planned for her funeral, only having his cat's funeral as an example of what to do. He knew that burying his mother in the backyard and using a shoebox as a coffin wouldn't slide.
However, just as his mother and her friends sang Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken," he figured she would've definitely wanted her theme song sang at her funeral - which he
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