Broadway League Softball 1978
All Grown Up
In the 1970s all three of “The Horne Sisters” lived in NYC and were in the theater. Two of us were here to be in the theater the third one got into it by accident. I moved here first to be in the theater. In 1970 I was choreographing a couple of shows in NJ. My little sister, Carol was in college in FL and I invited her to come up to be an apprentice. A couple of years after that my other sister Kathi came up to NYC after she graduated college in 197(). One day after she decided to stay, she said, “I am so tired I just want to do someone’s laundry”. I was part of the house staff at “Godspell” and knew the Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor position was open, she went over interviewed, and got the job doing the laundry. In 1973 Carol moved up here and all of the Horne Sisters were in NYC. Carol very quickly got an audition for a road company of “Godspell”. She went out on the road as the “Day by Day” clown. So, by the mid-1970s “The Horne Sisters” were all living in NYC and we were all in the theater. It was a marvelous time. Kathi lived in the same building as me and Carol got an apt seven blocks away. We mixed and mingled with all of our new friends. We all celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas together.
Our theater careers thrived in all different directions. My stage management career took off, Carol was on the road with “Godspell” and continued on as an actor until 1980 when I she joined me as the understudy/ASM for the Los Angeles Company of “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road”. After two years of doing the laundry at “Godspell” Kathi went on a European tour with Paul Taylor Dance Company as the Wardrobe Supervisor, and eventually worked for Martha Graham, Tywla Tharp, and The American Dance Machine. All of us worked on IMGAT. And Carol became the ASM for the LA Company of Greater Tuna.
Carol stayed in LA and became a Production Manager for an event company then moved up to Eugene, OR. where she is very involved in theater, Kathi moved back to Florida and is now a 6th-grade history teacher and I am still stage managing in NYC.
