My daughter was minoring in Theater Arts in college. Building sets, doing the sound and lighting, she is very good at the technical things. One Friday we decided to drive the 400 miles to surprise her with her birthday gift, an expensive camera she had been hinting very hard for. WE called on the way up and found her schedule, she said that evening she was working a play. We still didn't tell her the surprise, we figured we'd catch her after the play to give her the camera.
Traffic was bad, we arrived a little late, but we went over to the theater, the play had just started and two no-show tickets were available. We'd never heard of the play, but figured it was likely some avant-garde thing that student gravitate toward.
We watched to first act, I kept looking around trying to spot my daughter on the lights, but 2nd act started, all the students were mostly nude, they were doing a song while wandering around the stage, I'm thinking, "I'm glad my daughter is just working backstage", when my wife squeezes my arm and says "oh shit". I look up to the stage where she is looking and there is Amanda, our daughter, nude, singing. Ok, I'm stunned, I tell my wife "I'm going in the lobby". I left.
I heard the music stop, my wife came out and found me, it was intermission. Am I being a prude, do I have to stay, we decided my wife would text me when the 3rd act started, she went back to her seat. She texted me in a few that Amanda was not on stage and everyone was dressed, so I went back in and watched the rest of the play. There was only a little nudity by the female leads. We stayed in our seats until we saw Amanda rolling up wire, we got almost to her and she saw up, jumped down and was excited to see us, we told her we had just arrived. She said she had a few things to do, but would meet us at this cafe was usually ate at.
We all sat down, gave her hew present, she was very excited to get it. Asked us again when we arrived, my wife and I aren't good liars, one look at us and she said "you saw me on stage didn't you?" We told her the truth, she was not embarrassed or apologetic, she admonished me for leaving. She said they needed voices for the chorus, she has always had a nice voice, so she volunteered knowing it would require nudity. She said she enjoyed it and it didn't bother her at all and it should not bother us.
It wasn't the last time we saw her naked on stage, she started trying out for roles and landed a few. Although I was relieved when she didn't take theater the next year. She got her uninhibited side from her mother for sure.
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