A La Mancha Moment

[howeird]

The penultimate scene in Man of La Mancha has Aldonza saying to Sancho "Don Quixote is not dead. Believe, Sancho, believe." I'm sitting in my chair in the far upstage right corner, being The Governor and trying to keep from laughing out loud. It's supposed to be a 3-Kleenex moment, but what always pops into my mind is a similar scene from Peter Pan where Peter tells the audience that if only they truly believe in Tinkerbell, she will recover from eating the poison cake. "If you believe, clap your hands". In this case, Tinkerbell is 6'7.5" tall...

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[smallship1.livejournal.com]

*draws self up to full height of not quite that much* What, you don't think big people need to be believed in as well? :)