Some funny things about rehearsal yesterday. We'll start with the youngest member of the wolfgang. She is six and she's actually from the suburb we were in last week, but her grandparents live out here. Her mom knew they were going to be visiting them this week, so she didn't audition for us last week. Let's just say, she should have. She is WAY too young to be in the wolfgang, but she's doing a fabulous job.
She's cute and expressive. And SMART. They put something in the baby formula they give the kids back where we were. All of those kids are just hilariously intelligent. Yesterday at lunch she decided to come sit with Sam and me rather than running around with all the other kids. She was explaining to me how they had taken the plane from Denver to L.A. to Beijing to wherever it was that they got her baby sister from. She said that while she was there she saw the leaning tower of China, which is just like the leaning tower of Pisa, except it has a different roof and lots of Chinese things. I asked her if she knew where where Pisa was, and she very confidently said yes. "Where?" I asked. "Italy," she replied, as if I was silly to think she wouldn't know. "I studied my countries," she announced. I asked "Aren't you going into first grade?" So here I am thinking they are now teaching kindergardeners (note: I just tried to spell that German style, with a 't') world architecture, but she said she studied the countries on her own. Like I said, smart kid.
And then there's the troublesome peewee. I am telling these stories second hand, but according to Sam, this one little year-old threw a diva fit and committed an act of sexual harassment all in one day. He is the first raccoon, who steals Red Riding Hood's picnic basket. Sam interrupted my wolfgang rehearsal yesterday to tell me that whenever he ran in and stole the basket, he would pinch Red's butt right before he ran away. Well Red told Sam about it and she had a talk with him, during which he apparently looked at Red and gave her a devious look that said "I know exactly what I'm doing." The scary part is that we talked to his Mom about it and she didn't seem phased.
The thing is, this kid is smart and a really good leader. Apparently he was THE ONLY ONE who would move and exactly to where he was told to move when Sam told ALL of the raccoons to do so. After being the only one to move five or six times he finally said, "Oh, I can't do this anymore! I am the only one who is right and doing a good job!" Though Sam was feeling that way herself, she did, in proper political fashion say, "No, everyone is doing the best they can. But let's do it again!"
We're putting up the set today. It's gonna be interesting. The room is small. It won't be once we open up the wall between where we're putting the stage and where the audience is sitting. But we can't do that until Saturday.
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