| Lilly Blake wanted to be an opera singer; she chose marriage and a family instead. Now she teaches voice at the high school, tendsto her family, and wears her opera costumes tobed at night. Her daughter Christie is about to begin herfreshman year at a college in the Midwest. Lilly sbest friend Carole, whose daughter is also enteringcollege, is accompanying Lilly and the two girlsto the campus for freshman orientation. Carolehas arranged while there to have an affair witha tennis coach. Someone else will show up at orientation withplans of his own: Howard, Christie s boyfriend.(Howard is a little strange.) When Lilly s husbandFrank finds out that Howard s there, he ll go intoaction himself-gready to Christie s embarrassmentand Lilly s chagrin. This singing teacher has a lot on her mind justnow, particularly her elderly parents. Her father hasbeen doing some peculiar things--her motherthinks he is seeing another woman, howeverimprobable that might seem to Lilly. But the leading lady of The Singing Teacher hasmuch too keen a sense of the ridiculous to let anyof it get her down. And she is too busy, too good atcoping. She may stand in her living room late atnight and imagine herself singing an operatic aria andtaking a bow, but she knows where reality beginsand leaves off. She keeps her head on straight, evenwhen all the supposedly normal people around herstart acting crazy. There s plenty of craziness to go around in TheSinging Teacher--the kind of everyday craziness |
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