Cricket, Dixie Bell (Stephanie Wheat), and Eulalee (Emily Davis) all dolled up and ready to sing! Someone asked last night how we got our start….it started after I saw a group of ladies from a Pentacostal church sing some of these songs and I asked the writer if I could use them for a church camp event. She gave me permission and a tape of the songs. I tried for six months to find someone to harmonize with me and put it together. with no success. Then one weekend Emily Davis and I were working on a refreshment team together at an Emmaus Walk and I casually shared my dream with her, to honor our friend, Mary Purdue with a women’s comedy group. Emily jumped on it and took the reins and we were off and running. We shared in the writing of scripts. She pulled Lisa Busch into the project and we rehearsed a couple of times a month for about six months, then “auditioned” for the pastors on the board at Blue Lake. They granted us their blessing, (with some reservations). That was 2002 Since then Stephanie and her sister MIchelle as well as another friend of Emily;s, Laurel, have entered the mix. I dropped out during my years of seminary and now Emily is the “booking agent” and organizes the group for any particular performance. I’m a third string sub now and just fill in when no one else is available! It is fun, though, to step out of what people expect of me and be someone who is altogether another persona! That’s what makes people laugh as much as anything, how OUT of character it is for me!
