night of 10/11/09

i join up with the superhero theater at the local community center. several of the previous cast have moved on and they are looking for replacements. rehearsal is held in a big audition hall with many balconies. ropes and pulleys festoon the walls and ceiling so that we may fly between them. we have extravagant costumes with capes and masks. i attend for some time, and then i quit. there is consternation that i am abandoning the cast. later i return to the registration, through which one passes on the way to each meeting. i am signed up for both the superhero theater and a writing workshop. i cannot attend both. i am counseled by someone that at least with the superhero theater, i will please children and then can get something out of that, possibly from their parents. the advice seems excessively selfish. i return to the theater. as i appear in the hall, i am received positively but with some hesitation. i fly over to the balcony where the cast has gathered. i do this unaided by the ropes; our super powers are now real.