The Princesses in the Court of the Queen of Hearts For weeks Seth has been helping with the 5th and 6th grade production of "Alice in Wonderland" as a student director. He has had the opportunity to practice lines with students, work with groups of students on their individual scenes, set up and run sound and lighting cues, apply stage make-up, and do a myriad of other little tasks to help the director. He was also asked to play the guitar for the ending dance. He's had a great time being on the other side of this dramatic production.
Over the last few weeks before the show opened, rehearsals got longer and longer, and so the girls and I often took some food over to Seth to carry him through until the rehearsal ended. The girls loved to sit in the theater and watch the rehearsal, and sometimes would choose that over going to one of Caleb's basketball games (okay, they ALWAYS chose the theater over basketball!), so I would leave them there to hang out while I watched basketball.
One one of these days, Seth was sitting with the faculty director at the soundboard in the back of the theater. She knows our family and LOVES Seth, and also happens to have a Chinese daughter. When we came in that day, she saw Gwen and asked her if she would like to be in the play. Gwen couldn't believe her good fortune! It was especially amazing to her because she knew that her school friend Callie had a part in the play, too.
So this is how we've spent the last couple of evenings, with one more show to go tonight. Gwen's part is quite simple- no lines. :-) All she has to do is sit at the side of the stage with the other Princesses in the Court of the Queen of Hearts watching the Queen's croquet game. But for a girl who has often wished she could "be on the stage," it is a very big deal!
Waiting in the green room with the other members of the cast... here Gwen and her friend Callie play cards with the Duchess and Alice.
Just a little stage make-up... pretty fancy!
Onstage at last...
Dancing with the whole cast onstage with the rest of the cast at the end of the show!
9 comments:
Gwen, you looked so pretty! How fun! Lissy wants to do it too!
Gweeny - you look like you are having sooo much fun!!!
Congrats !!!
Ohhhh I love it!
What fun, Gwen! You look so pretty!
How fun for her!
Hmmm, that Alice doesn't quite look like the Alice I picture in my mind.
Beth
Oh! That's so fun! :)
You're right, Beth, this Alice had a decidedly Asian look! The fun thing was that they actually had four different girls play Alice, who took turns by scene. Three of the four girls were blondes who would have been just right for the traditional Alice look. One was Asian. The three blonde Alices all wore long black wigs to match the Asian Alice. Got to love it! Incidentally, all the court characters (king, queen, duchess) also wore Asian style clothes like Alice's character.
This "spicy girl" is doing well to sit still so long on stage. Cute!
Jan W.
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