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Friday night marked the opening of a production of “The Music Man” which Alex is a part of. She started this ride back in January with auditions and there has been some ups and downs (not unusual) along the way.

Despite not feeling well (illness are abound among the cast, including strep, a stomach virus among others), she did a fantastic job. While I had not planned on letting her stay home from school on Friday (like some others planned to do), she did end up staying home. She was running a low grade fever and had a horribly sore throat. Considering the level of exposure to strep, I did take her to get screened and fortunately it was negative. The current thought is that she got run down with all the rehearsals and school and staying up WAY too late WAY too often not getting quite enough rest combined with allergies ramping up (tis the season–well, one of them). By Saturday afternoon she was feeling much better which is good since there were two shows on Saturday!

Ray had been recruited to help out with the stage crew so he had been at rehearsal on Thursday to get all orientated. He worked the Saturday matinee show as well as today’s matinee. I hung out for the Saturday evening show as “green room monitor,” but really all I did was return a few hair pieces to their owners (after they fell out on the floor) and mend a few gloves.

Poor Phoebe isn’t really involved in this show. Don’t feel too badly for her however. She is in Cinderella and they are well under way for shows in June. Besides, she spent the Saturday matinee time at a pool party for a friend and today’s matinee time shopping (which she loves! unless its the grocery type)!

Ray, Phoebe and I attended the show on opening night. It was fantastic and the cast and crew really did a great job! The have one more weekend of shows then it will come to an end, which will made everyone (even now just thinking about it) very sad. I wish I had more photos (or, really, any) to share, but it was difficult to see any seeing as how the production’s photographer was one of the leads in the show.