During November and December, the local community theater group put on a performance of Beauty and the Beast. Tonight I took the girls to see the performance. This was our first live play performance, and Rebecca wasn't really sure she wanted to attend, but at the last minute decided to join Emily and me.
Our community theater meets in an old church building and seats about 125-150 people in the audience. The theater over all is small - intimate - allowing the audience to, in a way be apart of the performance.
The performance started at 8 pm and we got there about 7:30, giving us gobs of time to watch everyone else come into the theater. I was glad to see a lot of other small children like Emily and Rebecca in the audience. With few exceptions, all of the children were extremely well behaved. They must have all had late afternoon naps to accommodate the late night performance (we got home at 10:45).
The cast was small - 15-20 people - and I was extremely impressed with the casts overall singing abilities and the costumes. The costumes were amazing - I looked all over for pictures, and couldn't find any. The woman who played Mrs. Potts designed and made most of the costumes. Cogsworth, looked like a clock; Lumiere, looked like a candelabra; Mrs. Potts looked like a tea pot, etc.!
The girls really enjoyed the performance, staying attentive for the whole show! I was worried they would get scared - the ticket agent had warned other parents that the Beast was a little scary - a loud amplified booming voice, and a wild, wild wig/mane - another excellent costume. So we talked before the performance about how this wasn't going to be the movie we've watched at home, that we were going to be watching real people wearing costumes and pretending to be Belle and the Beast.
For the very last song of the performance, during intermission, they sold red roses (silk) that had been wired with a single white Christmas light in the middle of the flower, so they glow when turned on (2 AA batteries were the power source). An older gentleman and his wife, who sat to Emily's left, asked if they could purchase a rose for Rebecca and Emily. How do you turn down an incredibly generous offer like that? You don't - you can't - and the girls were thrilled to each have a rose to use at the end of the performance.
2 comments:
What a nice time. I guess with 2 AA those flowers will probably last for a long time.
That sounds like so much fun! And you all look so very nice. Some day when Merryn has hair, you'll have to show me how you do those little twisty things with Rebecca's.
Elspeth
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