Sydney DiBiase
Sydney DiBiase plays the part of Val Clark in A Chorus Line for Fort Myers Theatre. Val is featured in a number of scenes in the musical, but is front and center in the song “Dance 10; Looks 3,” in which she describes being passed over at auditions even though she danced circles around the other girls. Then one day, she got a glimpse of the casting director’s dance card, which rated her dancing abilities a 10, but her looks just a 3. So she had her boobs and nose done, and “tightened the derriere,” and 
ever since her life has turned into an endless medley of “Gee, it had to be you!” Why? “Tits and ass! Where the cupboard once was bare, now you knock and someone’s there.” Syd rocks the number, which mocks the entertainment industry’s bias in favor of pretty girls with perfectly proportioned bodies. Oh, Val (predictably) is one of the eight auditioners chosen to be in the chorus line at the 
end of the play.
The talented singer-dancer-actor has been performing in musicals since the age of 6. She previously starred as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz at Canterbury High and in the role of Sandy Dumbrowski in Grease for Fort Myers Theatre. Other credits include Sharpay in High School Musical for 
Florida Repertory Theatre and Reenie Flood in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs at Canterbury.
The Canterbury grad heads to Gainesville in the Fall, where she plans to embark on a pre-med career track at the University of Florida, majoring in chemistry. But she will continue to pursue musical theater in college “in her spare time.”
March 6, 2022; revised June 17, 2022.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.