This year Alex had a great semester at the new middle school, partly because he was cast in the Middle School Musical Production! Moreover, he was one of the main characters in it! The musical was the Pirates of Penzance and Alex played Frederic!
After numerous after-school practices, lots and lots of memorizing (as he had a ton of lines), hours of singing at home and in the car, finally, Alex got to perform at the school on Nov 30th. They actually had four performances--Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday matinee and Saturday night. Robert and the other two kids were able to go to two of them! I, unfortunately, missed all those performances as it was exactly when I was still in India with Lyena, my sister. To make it all better, our wonderful friends from Charlottesville came to visit for that weekend and supported Alex by going to his play.
Alex did a fantastic job--it's not just acting, it's singing too! This was probably the last time he could perform as a soprano:)
Alex has been very happy to be part of the musical, especially, since he was new to the school. This gave him an excellent opportunity to meet a lot of kids! He is a bit sad because next school year he will be changing schools again as he is assigned to the new middle school being built for 8th grade. And who knows if they will even have a musical production that first year he attends it. We'll see.
Now let's switch gear for a moment! This November-December Katya participated in her Raleigh ACT theatre class called JTF. Basically, it's a group of kids who were preparing a 15 minute musical performance to present at the Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta in January. These kids worked really-really hard to be the best they could be! The parents and friends were able to see what they had prepared two nights before the kids departed for Atlanta. And it was amazing! Short but so professionally done! Oh, and it was a very abbreviated version of James and the Giant Peach.
Katya was one of the ensemble members so she got to dance and sing A LOT. Dancing was one of the areas she needed to grow in, so it was a very good experience for her.
I am writing this just a couple of days after Katya came back from the festival in Atlanta. She had an amazing time with her theatre mates! They performed, did an incredible job, were adjudicated, were able to watch multiple other performances of professional theatre groups from all over the states, played and partied together and just had a fantastic time! She wants to do it again next year.
I am happy our kids enjoy performing, particularly musical theatre! We love watching them and see how much they grow in confidence just from getting used to being on stage. Hope there will be more performances to come and for us to enjoy!
Lyana.
After numerous after-school practices, lots and lots of memorizing (as he had a ton of lines), hours of singing at home and in the car, finally, Alex got to perform at the school on Nov 30th. They actually had four performances--Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday matinee and Saturday night. Robert and the other two kids were able to go to two of them! I, unfortunately, missed all those performances as it was exactly when I was still in India with Lyena, my sister. To make it all better, our wonderful friends from Charlottesville came to visit for that weekend and supported Alex by going to his play.
Alex did a fantastic job--it's not just acting, it's singing too! This was probably the last time he could perform as a soprano:)
Here is a snippet from their cast bio wall.
Alex has been very happy to be part of the musical, especially, since he was new to the school. This gave him an excellent opportunity to meet a lot of kids! He is a bit sad because next school year he will be changing schools again as he is assigned to the new middle school being built for 8th grade. And who knows if they will even have a musical production that first year he attends it. We'll see.
Now let's switch gear for a moment! This November-December Katya participated in her Raleigh ACT theatre class called JTF. Basically, it's a group of kids who were preparing a 15 minute musical performance to present at the Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta in January. These kids worked really-really hard to be the best they could be! The parents and friends were able to see what they had prepared two nights before the kids departed for Atlanta. And it was amazing! Short but so professionally done! Oh, and it was a very abbreviated version of James and the Giant Peach.
Katya was one of the ensemble members so she got to dance and sing A LOT. Dancing was one of the areas she needed to grow in, so it was a very good experience for her.
I am writing this just a couple of days after Katya came back from the festival in Atlanta. She had an amazing time with her theatre mates! They performed, did an incredible job, were adjudicated, were able to watch multiple other performances of professional theatre groups from all over the states, played and partied together and just had a fantastic time! She wants to do it again next year.
I am happy our kids enjoy performing, particularly musical theatre! We love watching them and see how much they grow in confidence just from getting used to being on stage. Hope there will be more performances to come and for us to enjoy!
Lyana.
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