Amy

So that was the first time I met Cato and his partner.

Yes, that is absolutely true.

At that point, I think that it was a two-year-old daughter, like a toddler age, that they shared together.

And so they share a child together.

It was framed pretty early on in

whatever conversations I had with Kato, that they were not together, really.

They're not romantic and that they're just raising a child together.

I recall that he had charisma, very smart and seems like someone you should listen to.

I remember he had dark rimmed glasses that were really cool, kind of hipster glasses before hipsters became a thing.

He just seemed like a friendly, funny guy who commanded the space.

The musical that was chosen for that year was a musical called Chess.

That is probably not a super popular musical, but people do know it and it has great music.

like One Night in Bangkok.

That's my favorite song that's from that because it's like so inappropriate for high schools to be singing on the stage.

I had done some musicals, but really I was into music.

Like I was not a theater kid.

I was a music kid.

So I did all the band and orchestra and choir lessons, all that.

I would say I'm not a great actor by any means, but I had

A good enough voice that afforded me the opportunity to land one of the main roles in the musical.