Fay Jacobs performs ‘Aging Gracelessly’ for final time
After a decade of performing her show “Aging Gracelessly” up and down the East Coast, Rehoboth Beach’s Fay Jacobs said farewell to a sold-out crowd Oct. 25 at The Pines in Rehoboth Beach.
“There’s a feeling of relief that it’s over, but it’s also sad,” said Jacobs. “I’m happy to put it to bed.”
Jacobs said she decided to end the show because the travel was getting tiring and it’s a lot of work. There was a lot of schlepping stuff around, she said, laughing.
Much of Jacobs’ show focused on her experience coming out in the 1980s and the fight for equal rights in the LGBTQ community. She said it’s still not easy, but it’s important that today’s youngsters realize there’s been a lot of work to get where things are today.
“So many people don’t know these stories,” said Jacobs, recalling a time she performed on a cruise ship. “After the show, a group came up to me and said, ‘We had no idea.’”
Experiences weren’t always easy, but Jacobs said she took them and applied a saying that her dad often said to her – “Nothing is so bad if it’s worth the story you can tell.”
Looking to the future, Jacobs said she’s in the early stages of writing her memoir. It will be in her style, but it won’t all be jokes either, she said.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
