At A Hen's Pace

While we've been recovering from The Sound of Music , more dramas have loomed on the horizon! As I mentioned before, auditions for Cha...

One of the things about live theater--especially live theater with kids--is that there are always many humorous moments, on and offstage. ...

It's Production Week! This week we have three dress rehearsals, eight performances, a strike party, a daughter home from college for ...

And the good news is...the cast list was posted, and our kids all got leading parts!  Chicklet9 and Bantam12 are both double-cast as Von Tra...

I am so excited.  A new 10-week session of theater begins this week! I really missed it, while our kids were doing soccer this fall.  Even...

So in my last post , I said that it's swordfighting and adventure that make Robin Hood different from other shows. Robin Hood alway...

What fun we had doing this musical! To start with, I love the story.  When I was in elementary school, I read Howard Pyle's The Merry ...

Y'all know what has happened to me, right? I'm lost in a Sherwood Forest of... dress rehearsals... makeup... hair... prom... ...

It was a big weekend at the Henhouse.  Papa Rooster came home, after a week of absence--his second in a row.  All this traveling on his cale...

Both Papa Rooster and I are going to have lots of memories of this show!  He got more involved than he really had time for, with what soun...

At least I feel like one after the last week! After three nights of dress rehearsals, two school day shows and three public performances o...

For the last nine months, we've had an unusual break from theater, for our family.  Last spring, the show was Snow White , and only Bant...

Tuesday night was the final Showcase performance that wound up our spring session of classes for our new theater group here in Kenosha!  I w...

I keep feeling guilty that I'm not blogging more. Okay, guilty is the wrong word--I'm feeling SAD because I MISS blogging. So many...

So I forgot to pick up this thread until now, but in our upcoming production of Disney's Mulan, the Bantams both have fun roles! B10 is ...

We're Who's here, We are Whos here, Smaller than the eye can see... I'm the mayor of Who. Why, I've just been elected. And ...