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teacher. His act, Possessed
by Paul James (named after
his grandfather, Paul, and
father, James), supplements
his stipend from the school
district.
“To live simple, but to live
with enough, you do have to
have two types of income as a
teacher, in Texas especially,”
he told me after the show. So
Wert records, tours and writes
music with his wife and two
young sons.
But, in conservative Texas,
“moonlighting, working two
jobs as a teacher, is really
frowned upon,” he said.
His stage persona arose
from a need to keep those
worlds separate — not least
because parents may not want
to know how Mr. Wert was
spending his free time.
“A parent who has a child
diagnosed with cerebral palsy
or a traumatic brain injury
seeing their teacher getting s--
-tfaced on stage with homies
(is something) they’re not
so keen on,” he said with a
chuckle.
So he lived a separate life,
drawing regular income from
his Monday-through-Friday
job, and a little extra from
weekend shows.
Wert said he has found a
kind of balance, though, since
he started using his act to en-
courage people to volunteer in
their public schools, to reach
out “for families that might
feel isolated, or for kids that
need more avenues, and they
always need more avenues”
— that is, since he chose to
let his professional life inform
his artistic one.
After a draining day at a
demanding job, he tries to
find time to decompress by
writing music, often about his
teaching experiences — just
as Arvi Ostrom spent decades
sketching the patrons he
served at Uniontown’s Snug
Harbor Tavern and the ships
he observed from the saloon.
And just as, elsewhere on
the North Coast, bartenders
act in community theater, fire-
fighters write poetry, restaura-
teurs sculpt and receptionists
paint — living two lives, and,
sometimes, allowing the van-
tage point of one life to enrich
the other. CW
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‘Peter and Wendy’
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mercial St.).
Students wishing to audi-
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and stay for the entire two-
hour audition session.
Roles are for students en-
tering first grade through 12th
grade in the fall. Approxi-
mately 50 to 60 local students
will be cast to appear in the
show. There is no guarantee
that everyone who auditions
will be cast in the play. Cast-
ing is at the sole discretion of
the directors from Missoula
Children’s Theater.
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The first rehearsal begins
15 minutes after the audition.
Participation is free.
Auditions, rehearsals and
performances are held daily,
Monday, July 31, to Aug. 5.
The two final performanc-
es will be on Saturday, Aug. 5
at the Liberty Theatre.
For details about the
auditions, the rehearsals, and
the production, visit libertyas-
toria.org.
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