I Live Among Stars
I know this post has nothing to do with atheism or Biblical criticism, and I apologize for that, but I just had to show you this. As many of you may know, my son was bitten by the theater bug when he was seven and has never looked back. Recently, I took a try myself and loved it, but my dear wife has never had any interest in the stage, no, no absolutely not! Well recently, auditions a mixed age musical came up, a humorous look at the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and the real story of her relationship with the Wolf. We went.
Initially, my son was reluctant to audition because it was a musical. Prodding and bribing him, I finally got him to agree to at least try. At this point, we still thought this was just a play by children without adult actors, but when we arrived the director asked if we were trying out also. This threw us into confusion. With previous commitments, I couldn’t, but my wife said she’d like to be stage manager, the person who manages the backstage activities. She’d done this before and is good at it, and as it involves no onstage time was unthreatening The director, with a cunning look in her eye, tells my bride that would be great, but the stage manager in this play has a couple of onstage lines, just a couple. She then, somehow, with great degrees of oozing charm and beguiling salesmanship managed to talk my wife into taking the part. Wow, I thought. Were I nearly so convincing, I could go places.
Well… a couple of lines turned out to be about 25… with eight different entrances and a lot of yelling. My son and I jokingly told her the part appears written with her in mind. Regardless of our prodding, she stuck with it, and my wife, quite against her will, has become an actress. Get this — she likes it. They have now performed it seven times in front of enthusiastic second graders and she plays such a meany that they have actually booed her from the stage.
I went to it for the first time today and loved it. Remarkably enough, the local news covered the event and here is their coverage. My son is the singing skunk and my wife is the yelling manager… I would now offer a quip about what that says of my home life, but I think it would be best to leave it alone.
Who needs heaven when there are such wonderful things here?
You are such a cool family!
Awww such a proud Dad and Hubby!!
Oh and KK.. You will love this piss take newspaper story…Bit of background. This couple have been refused permission to foster children due to their profound belief that Homosexual relationships are wrong.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/christian-foster-couple-forced-to-accept-god's-will-201103013585/
I have a particular fondness for the tagline on the picture.
KK–that is SO awesome!! Tell your wife and son from me that I think they were just brilliant! Sorry to not be commenting–still playing catch-up from the Floo. I laughed out loud at that photo for Feasts, Arks, and Temples–and as soon as I get two minutes together, I will read it all through. Looks hilarious!