Trying to make up for lost time

This past weekend was Freedom Theatre's production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The kids did a tremendous job, as usual.

I am personally still recovering from volunteering so much during the Tech Weeks, another VHSL competition, and then the four days of shows. 

All the Head Techs after the show

From February 15 through 27, I was at school for hours pretty much every day. I was also doing a million errands – picking up show t-shirts, picking up Playbills, picking up dinners for 100+ kids, going to Walmart/Target and Costco/BJ's day after day buying snacks and concessions. I helped serve meals and supervised the backstage area. I price-shopped for the best prices for roses we could sell individually at the shows. I helped set up the lobby for concessions and Break-a-Leg-a-Gram sales. I also prepared 1,500 "Break-a-Leg-a-Grams" in a new format. I have no idea how many hours I gave, but it was a lot! 

And it was SO terrific to be part of it all! I had the opportunity to see the kids "in action" and get to know some of them a little better. And since I was there helping clean up after the final show, I even got to watch the "follies" where the Head Techs basically perform the play at triple speed, using as many actual lines from the script as they can, but mostly paraphrasing and zipping through it. I don't think Amy really approved of my being there, but oh well! They had a great time and I felt very lucky to see it.

I hate it so much that because of the pandemic we all missed a year and a half of school time where Amy could have been doing in-person theatre and I could have been volunteering. But I won't lament lost time, I will just do all I can to make the most of the next year+ before Amy graduates!