So I just got back from the first night of Can I Sing For You Brother? - Stephen's capstone in performance. And for once, I'm not complaining or talking about myself. I'm talking about Stephen.
I have watched this play of his at least six times. And every time I see it, I fall more in love with it. I have never seen someone sing with such feeling in his voice. But tonight? Tonight I, who have watched him laugh and cry and sing for hours already, could not put anything into words when he was done. How is it that one person, one normal, regular person can stir such emotion in so many? You should have seen them all. Rapt until his very last word. And when I say last word, I mean it - until he had screamed "Come over here!" at Curtis, the pianist, and walked off the stage. And the applause - I won't say I thought I was going to go deaf, I'm not that cliched - but I got to wondering when it would stop; when I would be able to stop (I was clapping too, of course). Everyone was bawling, I heard. I know his aunt was, because I saw her myself. I would have been bawling, too, except I don't know what tears would do to the sound board and I don't want to find out.
I have watched this play of his at least six times. And every time I see it, I fall more in love with it. I have never seen someone sing with such feeling in his voice. But tonight? Tonight I, who have watched him laugh and cry and sing for hours already, could not put anything into words when he was done. How is it that one person, one normal, regular person can stir such emotion in so many? You should have seen them all. Rapt until his very last word. And when I say last word, I mean it - until he had screamed "Come over here!" at Curtis, the pianist, and walked off the stage. And the applause - I won't say I thought I was going to go deaf, I'm not that cliched - but I got to wondering when it would stop; when I would be able to stop (I was clapping too, of course). Everyone was bawling, I heard. I know his aunt was, because I saw her myself. I would have been bawling, too, except I don't know what tears would do to the sound board and I don't want to find out.
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