Rising this morning, I smile...until I try to push myself out of bed and hear a cacophony of objections from countless body parts not willing to be pulled out of their time of rest. My arm gives out, my abs don't even respond, and my legs collapse as I put them on the floor. It's 6am and we have six hours of training ahead of us at the studio, followed by weight training and perhaps some more choreography practice at our residences. Even so, I find myself chuckling, smiling at the apparent impossibility of the coming day, knowing that this feeling has been overcome each and every day so far. We are in Tampa, Florida and it's day 9 of four weeks of rehearsals. Thanks to a team of coaches and cast members, we have made
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