We survived!

Most people don't realize that theatre teacher wife is synonymous with free labor. Last weekend was Joe's first high school play, he's done a couple at a middle school but this was different. I don't know that it was more work necessarily just different. And ya know I was 34 weeks pregnant with a toddler in tow and the school is 30 min away.

He put on "See How They Run" which is a favorite of his thanks to the many years of it at Playmill. For high schoolers they did pretty good ;) I'm hopeful that the program will grow over time. One bummer was that we didn't get any parent involvement despite trying to get it which meant it was all on us. Joe built and painted the set with the kids, I did all the costuming, and all the programing etc. We also decided to try concessions this time to see if that could boost what we brought back in which meant that I did a lot of baking.

I think that the most stressful thing was having NO clue what the turn out would be as far as attendance. The teacher last year didn't really do traditional productions and we didn't even have numbers from what she did so everything was a total shot in the dark. We just ran with it hoping to get close to breaking even and knowing that we were at least doing something for improving the reputation of the program.
I also took care of ticket and concessions sales for the first night (with Michelle in tow) and got them in a grove for the next couple nights.
Overall it was a very successful first show and the compliments were genuine. Apparently there were several kids who didn't enjoy their drama experience last year and after this show they regretted quitting drama ;)