will try to have the truth about everything up tomorrow, i can hardly keep my eyes open anymore..please enjoy this in the meantime…
Chapter 4
Summer, June 2000
Francine Silver put down the diary and breathed a sigh of relief. She had remembered right, Johnny had been the choreographer. She had remembered her mother telling her that he had become a big Broadway star. And this wasn’t the first show that he had worked on either.
He had gotten his big break when he had joined the cast of an off-Broadway production as one of the dancers in the chorus line. The choreographer wanted something original. He had been at Kellerman’s the night of the show and saw what Johnny could do. Besides, he was the best dancer in the entire chorus line. He had spoken to the director who was familiar with Johnny’s work and had talked to his agent. He came highly recommended and Johnny became an assistant choreographer, at first helping out with the dances, changing them slightly and adding improving on the steps.
The added material helped to turn the show around and it became Broadway’s biggest hit. A year later, Johnny was then offered the job as choreographer at this show, “Dancing Feet, which had sold out performances every single night. Johnny Castle became an overnight sensation.
Francine smiled and shook her head. She loved Johnny almost as much as her mother did. He was a warm, loving person and willing to help anyone. It was from inspiration that she began to take ballet lessons, eventually, becoming a ballet teacher.
She had gotten the idea for the tribute about a year ago when she overheard her parents talking about that night at Kellerman’s. Their anniversary was coming up and she wanted to give them something special, a surprise that they would never forget. She wanted to use Kellerman’s as the place for the reunion, but she had heard that it closed down almost twenty-one years ago, now. She had heard that the place had been bought, renovated and had just reopened last year, but she was not sure. She had contacted a real estate agent that she knew and found that Kellerman’s had indeed reopened and she booked it right away
She trained her best students for the show and rehearsed them until she dropped.
And then she found this diary.
Now she could hardly wait until she got up there. There was so much she had to check up on and refine. She closed the diary and was about to put it back when she noticed something sticking out of it. She opened it to the page and began to read.