“Okay, I will be in my room for the rest of the movie, come get me when––”
“Sit down, Gwen!” Eleanor tugged against Gwen’s sleeve.
“Do we really need to watch, though?”
“You picked it!” Dania shouted.
“I selected in ignorance!” Gwen cried out. ” I didn’t realize it was this bad!”
The cover art made Eleanor uneasy. Something about that neon yellow background, with Adderly’s beady eyes at the center. Not to mention the forced perspective of his feet – he looked as though he were about to slip off the roof.
But the album cover, she knew, was not what she had purchased from the garage sale. What she had intended to buy was a gift for Gwen. The record was an unexpected but appropriate discovery, matching Gwen’s passion for theatre and her hipsterish fascination with vinyl. A quick search confirmed that the record was indeed the combination the cover implied: an album of jazz covers of songs from Fiddler On The Roof, performed by the famed Cannonball Adderly Sextet.
The house lights rose – as much as they could in the already illuminated space – just as Eleanor was already standing. The patter of rain against the concrete step could be heard through the open door, though she noted that it had been stronger during the performance than now.
“We should bolt,” Eleanor said to Dania and Gwen, still seated. Gwen might not have even heard, her gaze fixed intently on the author’s note.
“Hey,” Eleanor repeated, tapping Gwen’s shoulder.
“What?”
The Hanslick Girls 