Spring play
Kai Kya Min Jun JiYeon are lost 42's
We had our first theater group of the spring 1 beautiful and slightly warm Saturday morning. We were gong to put on a cartoon mashup where they were celebrating some one specials birthday. We each received a script to read through that weekend. We were told this would be our biggest production yet as we would be presenting it as a travailing theater company to celebrate our theaters 20th anniversary. We were told auditions would be Monday afternoon. I loved the part of strawberry shortcake Susie liked doc Mcstuffins Sam liked tweety bird from loony tunes JiYeon liked Zoe from sesame street Kate wanted to be lotsa heart elephant Kimi wanted to be Velma from scooby doo. Ali wanted to be share bear from care bears. Kya liked angle cake from strawberry shortcake and Lil wanted to be Daphne from scooby doo .
Tommy wanted to be Buddy from dinosaur train Zack wanted to be curious George Dill wanted to be Lloyd in space . Jake wanted to be snoopy Kai wanted to be Charlie brown Min Jun wanted to be Ruble from Paw patrol. Phil wanted to be sonic the hedge hog Alex wanted to be Oscar the grouch and Chucky wanted the part of big bird . We spent the next 2 days preparing for auditions we were each asked to learn a whole page of lines and a full song. We went to the audition and there were a ton of kids there we stood in groups of 3 and said our lines.
We were told that the parts would be listed the following Monday we divided in to three groups to go home Zack Kate Susie Sam Jake and I went with Susie's mommy Tommy Dill Phil Lil Chucky and Kimi went with Phil and Lil's mommy Ali Alex Min Jun JiYeon Kai and Kya went with Alex's grandma . We spent the week waiting to find out what parts we would get on Tuesday we went to the indoor play place as it was raining we spent Wednesday at the paint your own pottery place. Thursday and Friday were spent at Susie's great aunt T's helping her with a large cookie order. Saturday and Sunday were spent working on a huge crazy quilt project we were making for an auction.
We arrived at the theater early Monday morning and waited for the results to be posted. When it was our turn we found out we had gotten our parts and we would start rehearsals the following after noon. We would rehearse every day from 10 to 6 with an hour lunch and 2 30 minute breaks. We would have 2 hours each voice acting and dance. We headed to Susie's where we had soup and sandwiches for lunch. We then went to her Great aunt T's for a sleepover we were being taken to rehearsal by great aunt T and Picked up By my Mommy. We started rehearsal by doing our read through we then had dance rehearsal this was the most complicated routine we'd ever done.
We then had voice lessons we each had a full song we were singing solo not just a few lines there were also lots of duets and group numbers. We each went into our groups and began working we also started memorizing our lines. That evening we went to Tommy's for the night and watched movies. We went to rehearsal the next morning and started the toughest dance we had ever learned and worked on duets and dance solos. We worked through scene 1 act one and started working on scene 2 we then went to voice lessons. And had a cast meeting and then headed to my house for dinner and resting we were exhausted.
We were extremely busy on Wednesday as we were fitted for our costumes I wore a red dress With a white and green apron and a matching hat and red wig Susie wore a pair of white leggings a pink skirt a purple and white striped shirt purple shoes and a purple head band and pink stethoscope. Sam wore a shimmery yellow leotard orange leggings and would use yellow face paint JiYeon would wear a fuzzy orange leotard pink tutu orange make up and beaded bracelet. Kate would wear a pink body suit with a white tummy that had a pink weight picture on it she would wear a pink trunk and make up Ali would wear a lavender body suit with a white tummy with two suckers printed on it and lavender make up.
Kya would wear a blond wig Lavender and white shirt lavender shoes blue overalls and a huge purple hat Kimi would wear an orange turtle neck raspberry pink skirt belt and shoes orange socks and a brown short wig Lil would wear a long orange wig Lavender dress green scarf and lavender tights and shoes. Tommy would wear an orange body suit with green detailing and a big orange tale he would have orange face paint Chucky would wear a Yellow feather covered body suit along with pink and orange pants. And yellow face paint. Kai would wear a yellow shirt with a black zigzag line brown shorts and shoes. Jake would wear a white body suit with black patches and a hood with black ears.
Zack would wear A brown body suit with tan feet and hands along with his face paint Min Jun would wear a light brown and white body suit make up and yellow vest and back pack. Phil would wear a blue body suit socks and red and white shoes along with blue face paint and hair spray. Alex had a furry green body suit and green make up and hair spray the can was a piece he wore over the body suit Dill would wear Min green make up an antenna head piece an orange and white shirt over a mint green body suit blue shorts and orange shoes. We spent the entire weekend resting at my house this play was lots and lots of fun but very hard work.
