April 27, 2008
Saturday: Kids' recital and our space adjustment.
Went to CCP early yesterday afternoon to watch the recital of the Children's Theater classes. Of course, I wanted to see the end result of the hard work that Tad had put out for these adorable kids, hahaha. I went with him to the conference room before the show as he rehearsed the kids one more time. Sitting in one corner of the room, I just watched in amusement as Tad went to each kid one by one after the rehearsal for one final pep talk.
They had a birthday party theme, and two boys (the more hyper one turned out the be the son of Howie Severino) led the rest into a "Bring Me" game. Then Kamaal, the birthday boy, started acting like such a brat so his guests started teaching him lessons with the means of local Pinoy fables. There were these two cute Korean girls in the cast, and one of them that sported a pristine white party dress kept waving to her parents every time she saw them, sometimes flashing the stereotypical Korean V-sign for a photo op. A rendition of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown's "Happiness" was the perfect finale, as each of the kids stepped forward to share what happiness was for them.
Grace, Louie, Ellen and I were supposed to go to the costume morgue with Ate Bheng by then, but because Ate Bheng stayed to watch the other class' recital, we stayed as well. Marj and Chynna divided their class into two performances, each about searching for the "perfect family." Hahaha, their costumes were stuff borrowed from previous productions, including ZsaZsa Zaturnnah and Pinocchio. As their finale, they did a dance number using the song "We're All In This Together" from High School Musical.
Stage adjustment in Batute last night. Rawr, I'm still frustrated about my performance. It was still too mediocre, and as they kept saying, I was still locked into my previous reading. I'm still trying to dig up what I had found once, but my effort to replicate it was next to nil. Hope this new attack I'm attempting to do for Tuesday will work. Other than that, as I watched the rest of the performance, things are finally shaping up.
They had a birthday party theme, and two boys (the more hyper one turned out the be the son of Howie Severino) led the rest into a "Bring Me" game. Then Kamaal, the birthday boy, started acting like such a brat so his guests started teaching him lessons with the means of local Pinoy fables. There were these two cute Korean girls in the cast, and one of them that sported a pristine white party dress kept waving to her parents every time she saw them, sometimes flashing the stereotypical Korean V-sign for a photo op. A rendition of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown's "Happiness" was the perfect finale, as each of the kids stepped forward to share what happiness was for them.
Grace, Louie, Ellen and I were supposed to go to the costume morgue with Ate Bheng by then, but because Ate Bheng stayed to watch the other class' recital, we stayed as well. Marj and Chynna divided their class into two performances, each about searching for the "perfect family." Hahaha, their costumes were stuff borrowed from previous productions, including ZsaZsa Zaturnnah and Pinocchio. As their finale, they did a dance number using the song "We're All In This Together" from High School Musical.
Stage adjustment in Batute last night. Rawr, I'm still frustrated about my performance. It was still too mediocre, and as they kept saying, I was still locked into my previous reading. I'm still trying to dig up what I had found once, but my effort to replicate it was next to nil. Hope this new attack I'm attempting to do for Tuesday will work. Other than that, as I watched the rest of the performance, things are finally shaping up.
Posted by tymeless on April 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM | 1 director's note(s)