Peter and the Wolf

so last night we performed Peter and the Wolf. it was so much fun!! we were all kinda a bit nervous, cause a lot of what we were actually doing was structured improv. meaning we were on stage, going 'okay, i know i have to be over there by this point in the music, but how i'm gonna get there is another question all together, and is to be decided as i go.' so granted we were all freaking out that we were going to mess up in the middle of it. that and we'd only had one rehearsal with the orchestra, and that was slightly different to what we had been practicing with, some parts were longer others were shorter, all in all, very much winging it throughout the whole thing. we got through it though, which was incredible, we all had so much fun, and one of our cast deserved a medal!! Paola, who was our blue bird, sprained her ankle (we think, it may be actually broken... we hope not!) during her first solo, not even 2 minutes into the 20 minute production. she was going to just drop out and not dance on it, but then she realised that it would ruin the whole thing, cause the bluebird id like the second biggest role in the piece, so she danced the entire piece on a hurt ankle. she was such a trooper and half the cast didn't realise she had hurt her ankle till when we were backstage helping her walk. Paola was incredible, and she pretty much did everything she would have normally done too, all her jumps and leaps that would have been killing her all through out the dance.

apart from that, everything went really smoothly, there were a lot, and i mean a lot of kids there and they got into the story so well! i was told after wards that when the duck (me) got eaten by the wolf, you could hear this collective gasp from all the children in the audience, and many of them looked really sad. we had them laughing so much too, it was hard to be on stage and not crack up at the kids cracking up- that and we were also watching what was happening on stage, which was incredibly funny!

and then something happened that made me just go 'awwwww!', it was after the show, we'd taken all the set back and most things had been packed up. there was still a couple of people around, we were at the food table getting something to eat. i was getting some lemonade, and i hear, somewhere from my right, 'duckie!' it was so cute!!! but all in all it was an awesome show, we had tons of fun and we are so proud of everyone!!!

till next time
Katie
xo