As a child, little Suzy had no one. Even in a family of 16 children, the poor child was obsolete. Her mother made fun of her. Outside of the home, at school she was called "The Blob" and even with those early life challenges, Suzy is determined to survive within an environment where she is abused daily. Her loving grandmother "Mamus" died when Suzy was 10 at 51 of cancer, leaving this poor child loveless without anyone to turn to. Later, Suzy is molested by her older brother. At age 17 Suzy enters JC Penney's sponsored Miss Pomona Valley Pageant and wins the coveted title of Miss Congeniality and a scholarship to college. However, one month later, on the eve of her 18th birthday, Suzy's mother kicks her out of the house. "This is the moment I have been waiting for," says the cruel mother. The emotional damage leveled at Suzy is of such a horrid nature, that few individuals can survive, but Suzy endures. Today, she is an award-winning author, Carol Denise Mitchell. The author famously said, "Overcoming child abuse still takes me one day at a time." In order to sustain the original elements of her story, Ms. Simms-Mitchell sets forth this special production, designed with the original esthetics of the book, that was inducted to the nation's Library of Congress Adams and Jefferson rooms. Dr. Leonard Newman said, "What Happened to Suzy is an important contribution to what children may suffer during their maturation years, I commend it to you." One reader said What Happened to Suzy should be required reading in classes throughout the United States of America.
