HMS Pinafore

Jared was in the play HMS Pinafore. It is very similar to the play Pirates of Penzance. It was the original that pirates was based off of.  It's about a captain and his sailors and his daughter Josephine, played by my awesome friend Andrea Hess, whom i talked into going out for the play.  Jared played the old creepy suitor to Josephine. It has it's twists in the end and was a very fun play for Jared to be in.

I talked him into just going to the first rehearsal to see what he thought of the play. He was hesitant to go because he wad worried about the stress level it would add. He went to see what the play was like and the director immediately gave him a lead role. He kind of grudgingly accepted it and ended up love the while experience! It was his stress reliever. He said it was nice to go and socialize with the cast but he wasn't in charge so he could just relax. He would do his part and just hang out and so it was really fun for him. Plus the cast was all so great to be around that it was easy to just laugh and let go.  I'm hoping that he'll do more plays now that he has caught the bug!!

A Christmas Carol

A few months ago I had a feeling that it would be a really good thing to let Alexis try out for the play A Christmas Carol. When she was trying out Eli decided he would like to try out to and then the director said they could use more women in the play. So I ended up trying out to and we all landed rolls. I ended up with Mrs Cratchit, Eli got Tiny Tim, and Lex got Cratchit child number 4.  It's been a long chaotic process but fun for them also. We are now in the performance mode, which is always more fun.

We have a really big cast. Our director, Ronnie Jaynes, double casted all the children, which has been hard because all the kids and all their personalities make the dynamics of acting and blocking and getting the scenes down, really really hard! I have the most kids in my scenes and so I have to be on my A game in case a line is dropped. On the other hand, we have backups every night in case someone gets sick, which happens a lot during this season! It's been good and bad, but mainly good!

Here is a whole cast picture, one of us in our costumes, and a few of Eli and I back stage waiting to go on. And one with my friend leah picanco as a missionary with me just before the show started, and one of lexie getting chummy with the ghost of christmas future. 


We also have a few pictures of us Cratchits setting the table for our 
Christmas dinner. And a few years later poor 
Tiny Tim has died and we are mourning his loss. 
I sing a lulabye for my children, What child is this, which was so scary to do but i conquered my fear and was able to do it. 
And finally,
(eli
)Tiny tim lives after all. 
Scrooge repented of his selfish ways and became like a second father!