Hey Kids, Let’s Put on a Show
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Twenty or so years ago, Michael Baldwin produced many shows with singing, dancing and dialog he wrote himself to entertain his parents, their friends and anyone else in the Salisbury neighborhood who liked to see kids practicing stardom.
He played any stage he could get. “I used to stand on a piano bench in my parents’ living room, holding a mock microphone,” he told me.
And he recalls every word of the donkey’s song from the Christmas pageant at St. Mary’s Church when he was 5.