PS While I was busy at the festival, mom had a good time catching up with her cousin and her friend! She had a yummy Indian lunch at her cousin's restaurant on one day and visited the Martin Luther King Memorial with her friend from Shanghai on another day!
Last weekend Mom and I went to the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta Georgia. It was incredible! After finishing our big production of Guys and Dolls jr., we condensed the show into less than 15 minutes and took it to the festival. The festival started Saturday early morning. We were placed into a pod with six other groups from all over the country, minus one that was from Australia! Each group presented their 15 minutes to two adjudicators and they gave us feedback on our performance. I thought that we did a great job! JTF offers a lot of experiences and a couple students from each group got picked to audition to be on a choreography DVD for the Jr. shows. After lunch, we went to three classes: dance, acting and singing, all with groups and people that we have never met before. That evening we had the new works show case. A few theaters were chosen beforehand to show a couple of numbers that are part of the new shows: there was Singing in the Rain jr, Elf jr and the kick-off for the Lion King Experience. Not to mention a sneak peak of the new musical James and the Giant Peach. We even had a special guest- Daren Criss (he plays Blaine in Glee) that sang some songs for us! When the showcase was over we had a dance party that lasted pretty late into the night. Sunday was more relaxed. The kids who were chosen for All-Stars (two kids from each group picked for their great performance) and the Broadway Slam (where each group enters eight students and there is a random raffle draw) had their rehearsals. They all had an hour to learn a number, and perform it later that day! There was also the first ever Tech Olympics where four kids from each group competed in back stage tasks. Parkway Playhouse got second place! There were some special guests who came, including the songwriters from Frozen, Lilla Crawford who plays Little Red in Into the Woods and Luca Padovan who is in Newsies on Broadway! A producer of Lion King came and talked to us about the making of the musical. He even brought the actor who plays Scar and his make-up and costume crew, and we got to see him get ready on stage! The animator who designed Scar came as well drew a picture of the well known Lion! We also got to see some of the group that got chosen to perform on the big stage. After dinner we all got dressed up and went to see Megan Hilty in concert! (She plays Galinda in Wicked and she was in SMASH.). The experience was fantastic! 4,500 people were there- all really into theater and acting and singing and dance. It was really a wonderful experience and I can't wait to go again next year! PS While I was busy at the festival, mom had a good time catching up with her cousin and her friend! She had a yummy Indian lunch at her cousin's restaurant on one day and visited the Martin Luther King Memorial with her friend from Shanghai on another day!
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Grammy and Poppop
1/26/2015 09:34:13 am
Wow! What a fantastic experience! Next time.....Broadway?
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gladys happer
2/18/2015 06:34:37 pm
Looks like youns had fun...
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The Happer'sHi! This is Preeti, Jim, Rigel, Luna and I (Aneka). We have recently left our home in Shanghai, China to Somewhereinthemountains, North Carolina. Preeti and Jim are both international school teachers and Rigel, Luna and I are homeschooled. Categories
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