Susan Brumley has what I consider to be the perfect FaceBook page. She is real and honest, yet errs on the side of what’s hopeful and positive and good. She calls herself out for when she realizes she’s being cranky, works on being ever-present and mindful, and has a witty and wicked sense of humor about life and herself that brightens my world every time I see one of her posts. For that alone she would easily earn this Dazzler of the Day, but she’s also been a company manager for an entire slew of Broadway and touring shows including ‘The Book of Mormon’, ‘Evita’, ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812‘, ‘Sister Act’, ‘Hairspray’ and her current stint at the ‘Hamilton’ Phillip Tour. (She’s often the sole person I consult when plotting out any shows I’m considering attending.)
I remember Susan from grade school and middle school, where she was a grade ahead of me, and one of the smartest people in her class, if not the entire school. Such intelligence thrilled and impressed me, and when she started anchoring the student news programs that opened the day at Wilbur H. Lynch Middle School, I was even more dazzled. She was an inspiration because I thought she would charge into life being whatever she wanted to be, and it looks like that is exactly what she’s achieved.
