"One Thing" for Thurs. Dec. 12

Tonight was the big show. I might get in trouble with the fire marshall for posting these pictures, but it was a packed house tonight at Diefenbaker.

First with just the parents before the children came in:

The first ones (who shall remain nameless in this space) showed up approximately an hour before the show was to begin...

And then the students (mostly in their pyjamas)...

It was the third and final show (after having done an afternoon dress rehearsal yesterday and a successful afternoon performance today). There are many people who played a part in making this happen, but thanks to the leadership, choreography and hard work from all of our teachers and support teachers, all the pieces came together perfectly for the big event; the show went off without any hitches. Ms. Park, Ms. Wood and Ms. Matheson should be given a lot of credit for all of their long hours behind the scene. Ms. Radford had the potentially tricky job of ticket distribution, but from all accounts, that also went quite smoothly. Thanks to the parents for their positive contributions and for so many for walking to the show tonight!

But mostly, I think the students deserve a lot of credit for learning lines, songs and actions to songs (quite a few even learned all the actions to the songs that they weren't even singing!) You can tell that many of them had a great time doing this show and it was a fantastic 51 minutes!

Now if I can only get those songs to stop running through my head...