The hills are alive...

Kate and Sydney just finished their most recent theatrical event..."The Sound of Music." I have a confession to make. I have NEVER watched "The Sound of Music" with my daughters. I'm not talking on stage I mean NEVER, EVER, EVER, at ANYPLACE or ANYTIME. Mostly this lapse in Theatrical education is out of respect for John. He has always been 110% supportive of Kate and now Sydney being in shows. He'll tolerate months on end of soundtracks and DVDs but just NOT "The Sound of Music". WELLLLLL, that's all over with now...we even watched it TV the other night, (John was not home!) staying up until 11pm to see the amazing Julie Andrews sing her heart out. We didn't have a lot of practices since the girls were in supporting rolls, Kate as a novice and leader of a line of goat children....Sydney as one of the goats in Kate's line. Miss Jone' was the Mother Abbess and our favorite Miss Ashley as Liesl below. I didn't take tons of photos...Paige is not conducive to taking photos in a very dark theatre! Which I wish I had because the actors were really good, worked very hard, and made me cry. Yeah don't really know what's up with that. Apparently I was tired from daily rehearsals for two weeks. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Just for the record...
Fun Fact #1 - The Maumee Center for Performing Arts is AMAZING. The stage is ginormous...we actually had a backstage not a back corner. The dance studio, dressing room, and makeup rooms all super nice, it was a clean, safe and efficient workspace. The theatre seats 800, has a super nice tech crew/director area up above the seating, a comfortable, large lobby, a real box office and concession stand. (Theatre Kidz rents the theatre for the week of the show only.)
Fun Fact #2 - All of our music was LIVE...an all student pit from Toledo School for the Arts and the co-music director was a TSA graduate returning from BGSU to lead the gang. During intermission people would go up to the wall around the sunken pit and peer in at the poor unsuspecting musicians. Every adult looked a little shell shocked when they saw that there were real live "students" playing for the entire show.
Fun Fact #3 - Kate's been having a dream about the hills actually coming ALIVE! Leave it to Kate to make me laugh.