Walking Through Walls
What tricks have you learned that will help you survive?
What do Will Rogers, John Phillip Sousa, Harry Houdini and Helen Keller have in common?
Among other things, they were the four ghosts featured in a musical we performed in campgrounds across America for 72 nights in a row, icons who came back from the dead to teach us how to walk through walls.
I am not making this up.
As a child, I performed a lot on the road, singing to audiences about how they too could do impossible things.
The ghost of Houdini had a black box with lots of holes about a quarter inch in diameter across all sides. Our musical began with a pre-show, during which the ghostly Houdini would call up two volunteers from the audience to check out the box. The volunteers picked up the box, opened and closed the lid, and verified that it was solid. Then Houdini put someone inside the box.
Sometimes that person was me.
Houdini transported the audience to a world where anything wa…
