Sneak Peek...If A Man Answers

Have I told you that my daughter is in the Spring Production play this year?

What? Two or three times already...

I can't help it, I'm just so proud!

Tonight after Church, Cassidy and I were able to see a small preview of tomorrow night's performance.  All I can say is you better be there when the doors open. It's fantastic... and I'm not just saying that because Gaby is in the play.

Mr. Martin was gracious enough to let me take some pictures while I was there in return for giving him a copy. I just wanted to let you see a glimpse of the performance. I didn't want to give it all away so I am only posting three pictures.



Party scene

Misery

Is she going to kiss him???

They will be performing for the next three nights at the Kay Cagle Auditorium.  The cost is $7.00 per person and the curtain opens at 7:00 pm. I hope you can come and see it but don't worry if you can't. I will be posting lots of pictures.

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If A Man Answers...

Okay, I have to brag a little bit about my daughter, Gabrielle.

Around two months ago she auditioned for her high school's spring production play called "If A Man Answers". Although her oldest sister was involved in the Drama Club when she was in high school and participated in several One-Act competitions, Gabrielle never seemed to want to try out even though she has been telling me that one day she would be an actress in Hollywood. There were always excuses why she couldn't do it so I just assumed she wasn't that interested after all. After auditions were over, she got a part in the play...the LEAD part!

She will be playing the character of Chantal Stacey who gets herself into quite a pickle in her search to find a husband. Chantal's character is in every scene of the play, Gabrielle had to learn over 500 lines. She has about 13 or 14 costume changes (most of which we had to purchase). She even has to KISS her co-star 5 or 6 times during the duration of the play.   Imagine how well that went over with her Dad!

All the kids have been practicing 4 nights a week for the last two months, sometimes until 10:00 o'clock at night but all that hard work will be worth it when they hear the laughter and applause. The play opens on Thursday night with encore performances on Friday and Satruday night.

Our local newspaper ran an article to promote it and Gaby ended up on the FRONT page! One of her friends came by during rehearsals last week and took some pictures for the paper but she's not extremely happy with the picture he chose to have printed. LOL! This is the article from the Sunday paper.

This morning, Gaby and three of the other students portraying her mother, father and husband, along with the Drama director, Mr. Martin were invited to our local radio station for interviews about the play. Of course I went along although they couldn't understand why I was there taking pictures of her on the radio. Obviously, their parents don't scrapbook!!! Lol!

 

I also took a video with my phone and hoped to be able to post that also but when I replayed it later, to my horror, there was NO sound. I couldn't understand why and kept trying to turn up the volume but with no luck. Finally, I checked the video settings and it was set to record with no sound. Now I'm sure there must be times when you might want to videotape something without any noise but why would it be set as a default? Hmmm...I wonder if Cassidy has been playing with my phone?

Oh, well.

Thursday night is opening night and I plan to be there (with camera in tow and perhaps my video camera also) to cheer her on. I have every intention of being there all three nights.

Who knows...she may be the next Angelina Jolie..but hopefully without all the crazy tattoos.

March Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

This month we are featuring March's SOM, Potential, a set of 8 stamps.

There are over 50 Consultants participating in this month's hop, so grab a large glass of Sweet Tea and start browsing the exceptional talent of these ladies.

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Debra Van Patten http://memoriesoftheheartbydeb.blogspot.com/
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Angela Tutton http://www.tuttonstreasures.blogspot.com/
Jill Lucas http://scrapwench.blogspot.com/
Dawn Heuft http://stamptildawn.blogspot.com/
Judy Burger http://www.makingtimeformemories.blogspot.com/
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Carla Ironside http://carlacreates.blogspot.com/
Lalia Harris http://craftylalia.blogspot.com/
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Vicki Price http://priceofpaper.blogspot.com/
Allisa Chilton http://rockymtnpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
Jean Mc Nulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com/
Kim Schnoor http://www.creativehands-hearts.blogspot.com/
Carol Horton http://carol-scrappininparadise.blogspot.com/
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Spring Is in the Air: Project Inspiration Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book

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