5:00 am Fri July 27, 2012  Cathy Rigby: Finding The Magic In
'Peter Pan'  When two-time Olympian Cathy Rigby retired from
gymnastics at the age of 19, she started to pursue other career
possibilities, including theatre.   In a recent interview
backstage at Starlight, Rigby, now 59, told KCUR’s Laura Spencer
that the skills are quite different, but the discipline in
gymnastics and acting is the same.  Interview Highlights  Acting
vs. Gymnastics:  "Gymnastics is about perfection. It's about
doing things by rote every single time. And acting, while I
started training that way to get everything exactly correct and
perfect, it was just the opposite."  "It (acting) was yes, have
your technique, understand what you’re doing onstage, understand
how to make a character work, and then you need to just let it
go and allow it to happen. You can’t white knuckle it. And that
was probably the most difficult thing to get over. To just be
alive on stage. And not be in your head so much. "  On watching
the Olympics:  "I worked