Broadway and in Cabaret

Style Review

"So what am I doing now?" Declan asked his agent in between meet and greets and rehearsals.

"An interview for a radio show here. They asked listeners to give an idea for an interview as a contest and picked a winner. Whoever this is will be doing a style review and look at your looks from concerts and other events and just talking about them. I think they said she was a fashion student."

"Oh great, so I'm going to be getting roasted by a fashion student." Declan sat back on the grey couch in the green room and sipped a bottle of water.

"Hopefully not, dear. You can always leave if you don't like it."

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A very nervous and very excited Callie walked into the massive concert venue scared. She was directed through a series of doors she usually couldn't go through and clung onto her laptop in her hands. The gentleman in a navy uniform guided her to a black door reading Green Room. He opened the door for her and she walked into the room. There was one camera in the room, pointed at the couch. A small coffee table was in front. She saw three people to her left; a man standing behind a camera, a woman with a binder, and a man with a shirt reading the radio station she won the contest from. And then there was Declan McKenna, sitting on the couch casually with a bottle of water. He stood up.

"Hello. I'm Declan." He stuck out his hand to shake hers. 

"Hi. I'm Callie Ambrose. It's great to meet you." Callie turned her body towards the people standing in the corner. She greeted all of them with handshakes and the cameraman began to set her up with a microphone. Declan stared at her. He wasn't sure what he was expecting. A tall blonde with jeans and a scarf or someone who looked like they went to the thrift store but actually spent $700 on a t-shirt and jeans, with a red and black flannel tied around her waist. That might've been what he was expecting. But instead, he stared at a short girl with long black hair, wearing a flowery sundress that went to her knees. It had sparkles on the top and bottom and thick straps. She looked she was wearing a 2020 version of something out of the 1950s. And she looked beautiful. 

Callie sat down on the other end of the small couch. As the men in the corner whispered to each other, Declan leaned over and asked, "Where did you get your dress?"

"Oh. I made it." Callie said proudly.

"Really? It's quite lovely."

Callie blushed and whispered, "thank you." The men in the corner coached her on what to say and shortly after called action, something a backstage theatre kid is not super used to. 

"I'm here with Declan McKenna on the day of his Toronto show. We are going to be going through some of his past outfits on stage and in interview and just talking about it. So, Declan, the first one I wanted to start with was..." she clicked a few things on her laptop and opened an image. "This one."