Believe In Yourself!
Posted by Leo Bowers | Filed under Karma Productions, Uncategorized
I’ve been doing this sort of thing since I was 11 years old in the 6th grade! My very 1st encounter with entertaining was prompted by my 6th grade teacher Mrs. Dean at Highland Elementary School in Columbus Ohio in 1966 which by the way was a very good year!
Mrs. Dean was teaching her last class at Highland and wanted to go out remembered. She was a very memorable sort of lady who hailed from the hippie culture and left a major mark wherever she went. At least that’s the way I thought about her! Aside from being the prettiest woman teaching there she was also the most interesting and impressionable among the lot.
I was kind of a troubled youth and somewhat socially displaced in the 60’s. I was extremely light complexioned enough to be mistaken for a Caucasian kid but not quite white! I danced, sang and walked BLACK because I was in fact raised in an era that suggested if you had Black blood you were in fact a (nigger) for lack of better wording and that’s how you were treated by the whites of my particular sub-culture at that time.
Then too I was always a step under the black kids of the day because when James Brown came out with “I’m Black and I’m Proud” I was somewhat left by the wayside! I didn’t have the kind of hair that would do a good Afro style, but I did learn in later years how to tease up a good one, but that’s another story!
Mrs. Dean asked me to put together a show for her departing and asked that it be great and something to be remembered. She had heard me with some of the other kids singing and doing our Temptations” routine out on the playground and felt we had some real potential. I took on this responsibility whole heartedly and in 60 days I had everything from opening to closing curtains down pat!
We did a show with live musicians and some pantomime to 45’s and wowed the whole of Highland Avenue School. Mrs. Dean got her big send off and I got hooked on showbiz and have been involved one way or another ever since!
Now here I am at age 54 still plugging away at the thing I love so much and my sole motivation in this internet production is to share it with you.
Sincerely,
Leo Bowers
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