what my mom would say to me all the time and what she would say to my friends or son you know i would sing i would sing before i could talk and so i mean it it really put the purpose into you know why i really love theater and why i have the passion the drive to be able to continue this as a career and so when i was five i understand four sound of music at the player's theater of sarasota and i got the role of gretel and i was like my first big break as you know a young actor and it was it was a great role that was when she caught the bug i mean that was that was the goal moment for her because she'd never done anything  that extensive you know she'd done little bits where she could get up and sing a song and then it would be over but this involved that entire preparation period where we were in rehearsals for six weeks three weeks and she still had to get up and go to school every day and i was around a lot of different people and i met some new people and got involved in the theatre world so that's where it really all started like she was really it was incredible she was never tired she never complained when we got to theatre interest six yeah so you know some kids this is just what they live for it was like all of a sudden the whole world opened up for her she found her passion she was just happy all the time and couldn't wait to get to the theatre using it with amazing it was really cool and the thing about it is the wonderful thing about being on stage and being in life you enter is that reaction from the audience members and like the cop and the laughing and you know the crying you know it all just benefits to the way that i perform she she has to say my favorite part is gross crossover because that's the one little part it's quick it's part of the show but where they had her saying just a tiny little solo as she was was supposed to be in the dark just before the storm and she just loved that moment every single night she just loved being there and i love having that one i feel like i'm one on one with all of the audience members and i'm able to just commit to my role and be able to you know understand you know what they're going through and like all these definitely can contribute to how other people are feeling and i just i love just seeing those people come out with their emotions there's nothing like seeing you know your child find something that they just can't live when i was nine years old i won a competition to be on broadway for a day in new york city music hall out of i think a couple million girls  the day that she went on stage on the broadway stage and she was an incredible day she was terrified it was such a was such a rush and i was like nervous every single how do you feel also how do you feel excited and when it came right down to it she was in the shower before you went back to the stage to the theater because she had a break in the middle of the day and she was in the shower and she was singing her part and i was saying it sounds really good and she's like no mom it isn't right i know it isn't right and she was really like giving herself a hard time about it because she had to be right she said if i can't get this right i'm just going to fake it and my eyes got really big and i thought to myself oh my god she's serious but when it came right down to it she was she was  know in terms of feeling proud of her my dream was to be annie at a young age i was always like mommy i want to sing tomorrow i want to sing maybe i want to be with daddy warbucks that's what i want to do i've seen so many people do it and i was like i can't i why doesn't anybody see that i can do this i worked up to forever obviously me he chooses me as annie and the interesting thing about that we had something like eighty eight kids coming out for that and my core backs were forty eight i mean you can imagine and i needed one any and you know six oftens so i wound up casting like ten off and you know and but she's she was a stand through those are good memories those are the memories i cherish for the rest of my life and you know it's just being any was wonderful wonderful every night  a couple of things about of that is wonderful she's pitch perfect so that's wonderful for for a kid to have that she's perfect pitch and she has great skills on interpret what you as a director want to have her portray and she picked it has all the makings of making it in the business she really does a lot of kids we always say you know want to be proud of them and say you know they've got a lot of talent never knew but she has that something extra you know there's a thing called the it factor and she has factor to begin with she has perfect pitch she's pretty she's intelligent she's articulate so what else can i say she really loves being on stage as part of an ensemble i mean being any was amazing where she got the lead role that was really special but at the same time she'd already done and three or four times prior to that where she was in the and she enjoyed that just as much she really loves being part of something where they're creating art that whole feeling that she can bring joy to other people good example about as passed the show with understudies so she did have an understudy but one of the promises that we made is that every kid that was an understudy would get one show and go on and  time she is she's an amazing person and she's really you know i'm thankful every day for who she is becoming i'm just proud of her every day really when she works hard she takes things very seriously she's a really serious person for her age and she's really intense both  emotionally and intellectually and i just i wonder sometimes how i got so lucky to be home  but i have to say like seeing her even when i know how nervous she gets that gives me that sort of take your breath away like i always want to share you know what i feel is my