Arts & Entertainment

Shrewsbury Sisters To Dance for Brother with Diabetes

A 5-year-old boy's sisters will perform to raise funds for juvenile diabetes research.

Two Shrewsbury girls, Abby Moehlman (age 11) and Bridget (age 9), are applying their dancing and singing talents to help their little brother, Danny this summer.

Danny is five, and was diagnosed with Type 1 juvenile diabetes almost two years ago. His sisters are performing in the Arch City Theater Troupe's 9th Annual Musical Revue to raise money for the JDRF  (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).

Their mother, Karen Moehlman, said she took all three to the performance last year, and Danny kept saying through the performance, “Look Mom, they’re doing all that for me!”

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Abby and Bridget wanted to be in the show this year. They auditioned and were cast.

Both girls have been dancing, mostly ballet, since they were three years old. Abby danced with the Joffrey Ballet when they were in St. Louis doing the Nut Cracker at the Fox. 

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Moehlman said Danny is so happy that his sisters are doing it for him this year.

She said he’s handling it all really well. “It’s a lot of shots, a lot of finger pokes to test blood sugar, and a lot of keeping track of him,” Moehlman said.

The show is Aug. 9 and 10 at the Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center at Missouri Baptist University, One College Park Drive.

This year’s revue - The Bright Side of Life – will feature songs from such classic Broadway musicals as Hairspray, King and I, Memphis, Little Shop of Horrors, Sound of Music and Children of Eden. 

The show is free, and donations are welcomed and encouraged.


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