Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Halloween Rehearsal

Rehearsal was a little strange tonight.  A student contacted me during the school day and asked if they could wear Halloween costumes instead of their show costumes during rehearsal tonight since they wouldn't be able to go trick-or-treating.  I was honestly exhausted and grouchy, so I asked Jeremy what he thought of the idea.  He said, "What could it hurt?" so the kids got to wear costumes.  It made for some odd pictures!


A Hershey bar narrator



Ryleigh came straight from cheer practice in Lexington to her scene on stage--hence her cheerleading shorts and winter coat.

Iggy the bookie was dressed in army safety gear tonight.

Our George and Martha were instead a Hershey bar (Keegan plays 2 parts) and Rosie the Riveter.

The scene at Madame's house may be the toughest scene of the show.  It's about 13 minutes long and has been moving very slowly.  


Sylvia looks so gorgeous in my junior prom dress for her Edie Buffet character.

Some of the kids found some random costume pieces around the stage this evening for some extra fun since they didn't bring Halloween costumes.  I don't even know what to call Kyle's getup!


Celebrating another run through/rehearsal

Some of them were listening to my Act 1 rehearsal notes...







The students running lights are doing an awesome job of working out some difficult timing to have a cool spotlight effect on Annah several times in the show.



Preparing the suspects for possible audience questions...



We ended rehearsal fairly early this evening, so maybe some of them got a few minutes of trick-or-treating in? 

Annah's 17th Birthday

Our darling girl turned SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD today!!!!!

Sylvia decorated her locker at school.  So sweet!

We had tech rehearsal again tonight, so there wasn't a lot of official celebrating going on.  We told her when we bought the Kia a month ago that even though we're not calling it "her car," there wouldn't be birthday presents.  I did put $30 of gas in the car for her to drive it today.  I also made her birthday panCAKEs for breakfast.  We were all so tired when we got home from rehearsal that she decided not to even open her cards.  We will celebrate this weekend when Krampa and Gram come.

How in the world this girl is 17 already I don't know.  But we love her so much and are still as constantly in awe of her as we have been since the day she was born.  We love you Annah.

Monday, October 30, 2017

Tech/Dress Rehearsal #1

Tonight we did full makeup and costumes for our first tech/dress rehearsal of the week!

Getting makeup done in the study hall started right after school.  I asked Annah, Taylor, and Alexis to be completely in charge of makeup, including making a schedule for the guys and 1st show-ers to have theirs done by one of them.

Evan is not a fan of mascara.

Jalen is running a spotlight, but wanted to get in on the theater makeup fun, apparently.

Detectives Goodman and Badham running lines in the hallway before rehearsal

Shelby and Emma backstage at the lightboard before rehearsal

Gathering to get microphones after getting in costume



And...curtain!  Bud and Mac open our show.

"Do you see what I see?!" "Yeah, Bud. Do you smell what I smell?" "Oh yeah, big time!"

Our Narrator speaks from his own special spotlight in the "balcony."

Sam and Ella re-discover the body in the trunk.

Detectives Goodman and Badham enter

Iggy and Trixie  at Genovese's South Side Tavern 

Sullen and Muledeer visit the U-Move-It office of George and Martha 

I didn't get any pictures of the Madame DuBois scene (Annah's scene) tonight.  It's hard to direct a tech rehearsal and take pictures too!

The Fabulous Kabuki Room of the Holiday Inn in lovely downtown Peoria

Freshman friends, Sylvia and Briahnna--aka Edie and Trixie, taking a break between acts

In the second act, the case unfolds and the detectives have an entire scene with just the four of them discussing details of the case--quite tricky to memorize and keep it interesting when not on the stage with any scenery either!

The whole cast!





It was a pretty successful tech/dress rehearsal!  I'm glad we have 3 more to go though.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

HeeHaw Hootenanny Hoedown

Tonight at PoC we had a HeeHaw Hootenanny Hoedown! It was a humorous good time!

Here are some of the teens.  Our friend Shelby went with us!

The sanctuary was covered with straw and cornstalks!

Minnie Pearl herself was there to git the show on the road!


These ol' guys sang about Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me, ohhohhh!!!



Cousin Red and Cousin Smiley McCoy played the Alabama Jubilee with a little twang-twang fer ya!









VIDEO: Alabama Jubilee

The Gossip Girls kept showing up spreadin' rumors...

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 There were several Where, Oh Where Are You Tonight? bits.  This one was my favorite!



VIDEO: Did you hear the one about Jeremy and Taryn fussin' and fightin' all over town?

The ol' biddies of the church were cluckin' about too!

And those Gossip Girls came 'round to spread their rumors agin!





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I loved the jokers on the side stages making terrible church jokes between each act!  Knee-slappers!



Pastor Todd told the story of Rindercella and how she slopped her dripper and lell in fove with a prandsome hince.

Mark 'splained about all the vittles at the watering hole.


Those Gossip Girls just wouldn't quit comin' back!








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And the Beacon Band belted out Nothin' But the Blood of Jesus!





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The crowd loved 'em!

Youth group photo!


Annah and Shelby

Lydia used to babysit the kids back when Caeden was a baby and she was their age. 
Now she is our Children's Pastor!


I'm sure Caeden was talking wrestling with Mick and Grant.

Sibs!


Good times as a family!


I think he look purt' handsome in them there overalls!

There was a lot of laughing, cackling, knee slapping, and horsin' around tonight, and it was a whole lotta fun with our church family!!!