'So. What do you all think?' Helena Lorenz asked the group of people she had collected. Helena Lorenz was a daughter of Apollo, claimed just one week ago. She was fourteen years old, and very ambitious. She had gotten a lot of musical talent from her dad, and at a young age she had became fascinated with musicals. As soon as she realized nobody had ever put on a musical in camp, she had made it her personal life-goal to change that. Now she was sitting in the Apollo cabin, with a white board behind her and the Entirety of the Apollo and the Dionysus cabin in front of her, and also a few Aphrodite, Athena and Hephaestus children - for costumes, decor and special effects. Helena knocked on the whiteboard with her pen. The demigods looked at each other. Will Solace nodded, and the rest followed. 'Helena?' Sheila asked. Helena nodded in her direction, only to realize that that wasn't going to work. 'Yes, Sheila?' Helena asked. 'Don't we need more actors? We are with thirteen people willing to act, fourteen if I can learn the movements and placements of props out of my head.' Helena chewed on her pen. 'We can hang a piece of paper on the doors of our cabins. Than people can register, and maybe we can get enough actors that way. 'Maybe we can try,' Sheila replied. 'Yes, we can. And we are going to do that tomorrow.' 'Isn't that a bit soon?' 'I've got the script worked out. My mother is an actual actress, and she worked with this script. Well, it is a simplified version of her script, but it is professionally made.' Everyone nodded to each other. This was going to be fun.
They did try, and it worked. Of the two hundred forty six campers, one hundred eighty four put their names on the lists. 'We couldn't fit all of you into the Apollo cabin, or in the Dionysus cabin for that matter, so we collected all of you on this field.' Helena announced. 'We need thirty actors, a choir, dancers and a backstage crew. We will have auditions for roles, choirs and dancers tomorrow and if you want to be in the background crew, please go with Haley and Pollux. Campers formed lines to register for the different types of people on stage, and the auditions went perfectly.
'Now, we have a actors, dancers and singers. I am surprised so many people want to help us put on a play which we ripped from a Disney film. As I believe the most of you understand, we will sing the songs from said film. It is expected that the choir will practise this song. You all will be lead by Will Solace and Suzy Karens, who will tell you when you need to sing. The dancers will be lead by Hunter and Kayla, and the actors are helped by Sheila and me. So, go and practise! We have exactly ten weeks to learn the entire thing, and then all of camp Jupiter and the people of our own camp who didn't help put up the musical will see it! Plus some citizens of New Rome! Chiron has told everybody!' Helena explained. The campers got up and walked over to their leaders, slightly panical.
'How is everything going?' Helena asked Will. He smiled in her direction. 'It's going great! I have to admit, sometimes we get some help from Haley and Pollux. Did you know they can sing? They help us.' Helena nodded. 'Good. I am going to look how the dancers are doing.' She walked away. Most things were also okay with them, even though two demigods had sprained their ankles while trying to do a particulair move. Helena laughed, and walked back to the actors. Most actors knew all their lines. Helena and Sheila both played in the musical. Sheila had learned all of the positions of the props and the decors out of her head, and all actors had to stand in the same place every time - otherwise Sheila wouldn't know what she was doing. She didn't have a major role, so it hadn't been that hard.
When Helena looked backstage, she saw that the Aphrodite children who weren't actors were all sewing costumes. The backstage crew had started four weeks earlier than the onstage performers. The Athena cabin was steadily painting the decors, and the Hephaestus children constantly came up with better and more spectacular special effects. Helena danced past the decors, almost bumping against Pollux on her way. 'Helena! Things are going pretty good here. We're almost finished with the decors and the costumes, and then we can start working on putting everything on stage in the right time. Most costumes only have to go through their last fitting, and then the Aphrodite cabin can focus on the make-up and hair departement.' Helena clapped in her hands. 'It's great!' She danced out of the backstage room (which was located in Bunker 9). That evening, she offered some of her food to all of the gods who had children helping with the performance - and some extra bits for Apollo and Dionysus, the gods who made up the concept of musical.
The final performance was tomorrow, and today was the general repetition. Helena bit her lip. People started singing out of nowhere, sometimes a dancer would jump onto the stage without reason. People didn't put their lines completely right, and sometimes forgot lines. The girl who played Nala forgot to stand in the right place while Sheila was on stage, which made Sheila walk into her. Special effects exploded every now and then. Helena sighed and laughed it all of. She had yet to witness a general repetition that didn't have errors. Yet, she had trouble sleeping that night. Tomorrow was going to be her debut in making a musical.
Because of that, she was shaking when she saw how many people showed up. Chiron was standing a bit in the background, next to two men, who stood in the shadows, trying not to get recognized. Helena almost fainted when she recognized the same gods she had been offering the most to for the past two weeks. She quickly stopped peeking behind the curtain. She took a deep breath, walked backstage, and the musical started. A smile grew on her face when it all seemed to go great in the first twenty minutes.
It stayed great, but you don't think that until the performance is over. Otherwise you can bet your soul that something will go wrong. After the show, a lot of people came up to Helena to say how good it had been. Helena blushed when a beautiful woman hugged her tightly. 'I am proud of you, sweetheart,' Helena's mother told her. She smiled, but her smile faded when Apollo and Dionysus were suddenly standing in front of her. Apollo breathed in deeply... and then hugged her. 'That was great! Clearly you are my child! I mean, only a child of me or Dio over there could pull of such a thing, and Dio is too loyal to have many demigod children.' 'I... am... your... daughter…, yeah...' Helena squeezed out, even though she was getting squashed by her fathers hug. Apollo put her down. 'You did a good job, even though you are a better singer than a better actress. Which, you know, understandable,' Dionysus remarked. 'Thank you, Mr. D,' Helena replied. 'Next time you can do Disney's Hercules!' Apollo said, or sang. 'That film was trash, Apollo.' 'It wasn't, Dio. Come on! It was funny!' 'Not even!' Helena backed away, and walked back to her crew, leaving the two gods bickering about Disney films.