Mary in the Lights

Mary, or the woman
playing Mary, was the best
soprano in the church, and when
the spotlights were trained upon
her, for her big solo number,
there were then a total

of four Marys: the soprano
and the trinity of wavy
cast-on-the-backdrop shadows,
back-up singers who moved in perfect
synchronicity with Mary,
the best soprano in the city of David.