Here's How I See It--Here's How It Is

here''s how i see it

Rave reviews, an endless request for autographs, my name in lights on Broadway.

here''s how it is

The audience is half empty, I spend zero time onstage, my dad''s midlife crisis is about to ruin the playhouse...and my family.

Junebug dreams of being a leading lady someday. A serious actress, a stage actress, a real actress. And it should be easy for her to get her start -- her parents own the Blue Moon Playhouse, after all, and her dad performed on Broadway (once). But the truth is, at (almost) thirteen, she''s not even a supporting actress or a stand-in or an understudy or even a child actor has-been. In the current Blue Moon production, her role is this: thunder, props...and stagehand (gopher, actually). And lately it seems like maybe the stagehand mindset -- go unnoticed, don''t say a word -- is rubbing off on Junebug''s personality. She''s starting to feel as though her opinions never count, her worries aren''t taken seriously, that she''s becoming the ultimate stagehand: invisible. And that''s not a role she''s happy with.

From author and former playhouse insider Heather Henson comes a novel about growing up, standing out, and what it means to live your life just outside of the spotlight.