These kids work like crazy to put these productions on...rehearsals are all after school and weekends. The musical itself was chosen on the end of last school year, by the dedicated directors and staff. Then all the paperwork for buying the Rights to perform, and the scripts, musical score, and renting the sets and costumes is begun. Auditions were done near the beginning of this school year. It's a big project...there are about 90 parts in this musical!
Just imagine putting all these Suess characters together...what a riot...and the Cat in the Hat
is the one who is running the show!!
Amanda didn't sing this year,
she was in the Fish and Water Ballet.
Why were there fish and water??
Because a bathtub overflowed on stage and
filled it up like an aquarium!!
It's Suess!!
Due to very strict copywrite laws, I couldn't film the actual musical, but I got some great pictures of Amanda, who played in the Underwater Ballet...there were 3 performances, and her make-up a little different for each day...
First full dress rehearsal...
All make-up and hairstyles were done
by other cast members.
Not by her mom...ha-ha!!
That's quite a hairstyle! It took about a billion bobby pins.
After Opening day Performance,
look at those sequens and glitter!
Here's how the whole outfit looks...wow does it shine!
Here's the look for the 2nd performance...
Final performance, a Saturday matinee.
Everyone's getting pretty tired by this time!
And grandma was there to cheer her on!
And here's her best buddy, Matthew,
who played JoJo, the son of the mayor of Who. He's a singer,
you can see the microphone near his mouth.
They agreed that Amanda would bring him one fine rose,
and he would bring her six.
At curtain call of the final performance,
I managed to get a photo of the underwater dancers,
pick out Amanda!!
Alot of work brings together another great performance and fun, fun time!!
And what's on for next year?? No news until the end of this school year!!
