Dress rehearsal is fun, but very tiring for our chamber choir at RHS. After being in the venue for three hours after school Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday has even longer demands.
The students (and faculty/parent volunteers) rehearse for the 45 minute concert in the sanctuary at St. John's UMC from 3-5 before getting a 2 hour dinner break. Then at 7, a twice-through script final rehearsal begins. Whenever that is done, parents set up and decorate the lords' and ladies' tables for the first performance night. This year I left with Emma and Laura at 10 pm. Garland, as castle construction head, stayed with the rest of the set-up committee until midnight. It is a long week leading up to three performances on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Last night was a huge success! All their hard work paid off. I will recap the feast itself in another post, but I had to share a few more pictures from last evening.
King James, Queen Allison, Lady Chamberlain
Lady Chamberlain telling her Lord how it is
All in all, I would say this will be a great weekend!
3 comments:
Could your daughters be any more beautiful? WOW! I'm so glad Katy could be here for this! Hope it's going well!! Love ya'll!
I have a feeling this is your peak time of the year, Shari, even more so than Christmas?! What fabulous costumes! We never had something like this when I was growing up in high school!!! And to think that all 3 of your girls (including you and Garland, I see) are ring center on the activities! The Family Affair.
MJ- Thanks! I think you should leave the boys with Dad and come next year...
Ginnie- Yes, it does tend to wind down now, which is great. I feel like I haven't missed the season, and can now focus on baking, gift-giving, and a slower pace than the past two weeks. It was strange to have Katy be a guest instead of participant. Even when Laura was in 5th grade she was a mini-minstrel, so this is the first in a long time we weren't all involved!
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