still in love

Today was a day of hilarity all around.  The kids in the wolfgang are adorable, smart and well behaved.  Most of them are ten.  Little Lovable Wolf came to rehearsal with all of his lines memorized.  I would read through the wolfgang's broken up sentences once and they would be saying them back to me before I even told them what words they were saying.  We ran through all of their stuff three times, and I taught them the finale and we still had ten minutes of rehearsal left.  So we sat and chatted for a while.

The little boys are especially funny.  When we were talking about pets, one of the girls said she had a bunny but that it died when it was only six months old, to which I said: "well, bunnies have very weak hearts and can get scared to death very easily," Little Lovable Wolf adding that they often died of heart attacks.  Then one of the boys said he accidentally killed to rabbits one time when he was firing off rockets.  Apparently they misfired right across the lawn and into some bunnies.  We all got a good laugh out of that.  This same boy said that his favorite book was The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle a book that I read in sixth grade and LOVED.  I couldn't believe he had read that book!  Another kid asked me if I had read The Cay another book from my sixth grade English class.  Most of these kids haven't even gone to fifth grade!

So after a fabulous first rehearsal session, we proceeded into the second session after dinner....and ran the entire show.  We're supposed to have a music rehearsal, but too many of the characters don't sing anything but the finale, and it's just too long for them to sit around doing nothing, so Sam and I decided better to run the show, stop when we get to a song, run it with the piano, run it again on stage and continue.  We figured, we would just work through as far as we could get.  But then we were at the end of the show and had fifteen minutes left.

These kids are putting me out of work.  I can't even describe how happy I am right now.  Our shows on Saturday are going to be PHENOMENAL.  (and on video- Sam and I are hoping to be the directors of the new Red Riding Hood training DVD!)