As a longtime theatre lover with cerebral palsy, I've been waiting decades for characters"and actors"who look like me I saw my first Broadway show, Annie, when I was 10 years old. The experience was simultaneously exhilarating and heartbreaking. Like every other little girl my age in the audience, I wanted to be Andrea McArdle, the performer who originated the role of the plucky redheaded orphan in the original Broad…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AM on September 21, 2022