Show and Spell--Lydia's best show yet!

Lydia logged her third theater production with the group at Blue Ridge Community College this past weekend.  She was AMAZING!!  She played Eloise, the maid of a wealthy woman named Ms. Worthington and Ms. Worthington's daughter, Desiree.  All of the characters in this play were hilarious and ridiculous so each of the young actors were encouraged to go big as there was nothing too big for any of them.  Lydia totally embraced these instructions and made Eloise absolutely hilarious!!  MANY of the parents and people in the audience, when they found out that "the maid" was my daughter, they commented on how good she was and that she "stole the show" in some cases.  We were so proud of her!!!  I wish I had been able to film her parts as they were so funny!!!

Flash photography is not allowed in the theater.  I was fortunate enough to be able to go in on their rehearsal night and take some pictures of everyone.  I shared them with all the parents.  Here are some of our great actress, Lydia!!

There are typically warm up exercises done before each rehearsal and each time they perform the play.

Her expressions were so fantastic!

One of my favs!

Not wanting to go to the mall with Desire

Curtain call

Her BRCC Theater Program friends.  Olivia and Bridget (holding dog)

Her peeps--Penny, Adella, Lydia, Emily Sponagule and Emily Washington

Show program

Parts Parts and More Parts--The Scarlett Pimpernel

Lydia is our resident actress.  She LOVES being on stage and is honing her acting skills all the time.  She even drops pieces of theater at home.  :)  She has attended several acting camps and is currently taking a drama elective in school.  She LOVES that too!!  This past year she had the opportunity to participate in two productions put on by the theater department at Blue Ridge Community College.  BRCC is the local community college and is approximately 30 minutes from where we live.  In the spring she participated in Looking Glass Land.  It was a comedy and a spin off of Alice in Wonderland.  The kids who participate range in age from 9 to 17.  She was on the younger end of the cast so she was cast in a smaller role and then was cast as extras in several scenes.  Some with speaking parts and others without.  It was so cute.  There is a post about it from back in May.  If you click on "Looking Glass Land" to the right of the blog, it will take you to that post. 


This past fall she decided she wanted to take part in the BRCC musical.  She really didn't think she wanted to do a musical as she is not too keen on singing, but her friend Olivia (who she met doing Looking Glass Land) was going to do the musical and she wanted to do that with her.  I explained that if you didn't try out for a big part, all of your singing would be group singing.  And that is just what she did.  She played Young Kate and was again cast in many group extras that only required group singing.  She made two additional awesome friends and loved every minute of it!  She is due to start a new fall semester drama this weekend.  Hoping one day she can make some money doing what she loves!!

Lydia dancing with Silas.  This was one of her extra parts.  She looks so pretty in this picture!!  It was hilarious, they never actually made eye contact while they were dancing.  So cute.

Ending pose.  The entire cast finishes and does this pose so that everyone can get a picture.  Flash photography is not permitted during the play itself.  This was Lydia's posed section.  As you can see, she is dressed like young kate.  Kate is a tom boy and Lydia needed to be in that character.  She did very well.

My girl!!

This is during warm ups before one of the shows.  I love this one!  Behind her is her good friend Bridgette and in front of her is her good friend Olivia.

This is Olivia and Lydia during rehearsals.

L to R:  Bridgette, Olivia, Lydia, Ivy

Grammy and Paw Paw came one night.  Emily was there too.  Ryan and Mike had come the night before.

Friend, Emily Sponagule came one night.  Emily now takes drama with Lydia in school.  She has been to see both of Lydia's BRCC plays and liked them so much it inspired her to try a drama class.

 

Matt is the director of the musical.  This was taken during the cast party.  He gives each one of the cast members a little certificate and thanks them for their hard work.  He was really great!!

These have been so wonderful to watch and be a part of!  We have met tons of new people and have made good friends through these productions.  Can't wait for the new one to start!!