Suessical the Musical

#372 reason I love my girl's school:  The opportunity to be in a musical directed by a teacher with such vision. 

This year Olivia decided she wanted to be in the audience and Maya DEFINTILY wanted to be on stage (front and center to be exact.)

Maya wanted to play the part of the baby kangaroo.  She auditioned and got her wish.  Here she is with the Sour Kangaroo (the mama).  You are probably thinking she doesn't look much like a kangaroo.  The director's vision was to have the characters dress in 1920's style clothing and have the fabrics match their characters.  The large sash is representing the kangaroo pouch.  Let me say, much easier to make dresses than a whole kangaroo costume. 

The Who's in the play wore all yellow.  If you see a yellow dress, those are the ones I worked on (with LOTS of help.) 

 

 

 Can you find the Cat in the Hat?

 The Wickersham Brother's!

 The star of the show (to me.)

 All the jungle people.  If you look closely you can see the leopard print fabric, turtle fabric, lion fabric, etc.  I LOVED all those costumes.  But my favorites were the bird costumes.  And would you believe, I didn't get ONE picture of them.  UGH!

 Oh, the two girls in between the Kangaroo's were birds.  Poor quality of picture though.

 MAYA!

 Mrs. Schwartz, the director, after the show with the Cat in the Hat.

 One proud papa.

 This girl is so fun.

Can you tell she loved every minute of this? 

 Maya and Mrs. Schwartz

The following are videos that I took from my seat.  They are for Grumps and Abuela who were unable to attend.  We wish they could have come but we completely understand.  Hope you will enjoy these little snippets.  Some of the audio isn't the greatest.  The equipment they used wasn't the best and some sweet high school students were so kind to run the equipment.  After watching them during rehearsals, I have a greater appreciation for what a BIG job that is. 

Oh The Things You Can Think

 

 

Forgot to mention that 2 weeks before the performance, the boy who playd Horton was diagnosed with cancer and couldn't be in the play.  So sad but a great opportunity for this cast to come together and support him.  They donated a lot of the money to him.  The boy who took over the part had to learn Horton's part in less than 2 weeks.  A big job and I think he did a great job.

 

This video Maya isn't in but it has Mazy (one of the birds).  Her dress was all home made.  Some people have skills, don't they?  Great job for all those ladies who spent all those hours sewing.

AMAZING!