High School Musical(s)

 

Our family loves musicals, even more so when we happen to be involved in them. In this case, we are not in the musical, but Mary happens to be working at the school where it is being presented, so that counts as "close enough".

So we decided to go down south a-ways to spend a wonderful Saturday night with Mary and see her school and see the play and meet some of her fellow teachers and some of her students. And laugh and cry and clap and drum with the beat and sing along (because everyone knows all the songs, right?) and then drive home exhausted yet satisfied.

We were actually expecting a bit of snow that night but the roads were clear and (mostly) dry. Not that it would've mattered. I'm sure we could've rented snowmobiles.

It was a good play and all the kids were wonderful in it, even the ones that were not, because that is what high school musicals are -- just wonderful by their very nature. The drama, the intrigue, the back-stabbing, the surging emotions -- and that's just between the cast members backstage!

As a former actor, playwright, prop master, and director, I can state unequivocally that it was a raving success. It is easy to tell success by the looks on the faces of the parents out in the foyer as they are gathered around their children, their faces beaming, tears of joy still gleaming in their eyes, as they look upon those once-toddlers and realize that they are taking those first big steps into the big, scary world of near-adulthood, fully prepared to pretend their way along like all us adults do. And these kids have a leg up on the rest because they'r getting some great experience doing it!