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No. 14 Vol. 8
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April 25, 2018
Kinnelon Performer Creates One Woman Show About Love
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By Cheryl Conway o the audience she is on a quest for love, but to herself, this Kinnelon woman is really on a journey to face her fears and anxiety of performing. Cindy Strom has written her own musical, “A Quest For Love,” with some local performances planned for live audiences. She was scheduled to perform at the
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Franklin Lakes Library on April 15, as well as some upcoming shows at assisted living facilities in Denville in May and June. Her next performance is set for June 27, at 1 p.m., at The New Vitality, at the new Atlantic Health Pavilion in Pompton Plains. “A Quest For Love,” is a one hour monologue in which Strom has written the script and sings songs to tell the story of one woman’s search for love. “The songs I pick tell the story,” says Strom, adding that she picked 10 known songs to help advance the plot, while the script is her own, “very true to life and realistic and possible.” She hopes her audience walks away with the message that with love, “It’s all about listening to her heart; to recognize that love is a powerful thing.” As a facilitator of programs at some local libraries, Strom came up with the idea for her monologue. As a meditation instructor, Strom has been teaching guided meditation at Butler, Kinnelon and Denville libraries. In June 2017, “it just came to me,” she says about her idea to write the show. “I had seen someone else perform a one woman show; figured I could thread it together and write a show. I could see how the play would run; I could see the plot; I could see the characters. It was a creative moment and inspiration that just came to
Cindy Strom performs at Kinnelon Library.
me. I was so excited.” She approached the program director at Kinnelon Library who encouraged her to follow through with her idea. After capturing her idea on paper, and writing the script, Strom added in the monologue and music. From creation to performance, Strom took about five months before she was ready. “There was a certain cadence, certain mode I wanted to create,” she explains. Then came practicing, the rehearsal process of memorizing lines and singing continued on page 2
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