6th and 7th Grade Drama Performance

Drama class is one of my son's electives this year at school.  They performed "Happily Never After" and "Mother Goose Has Flown The Coop" Thursday and Friday.  Thursday night they had a small audience.  The plays were good.  They performed the play for the school yesterday morning. My son said the students were a livelier crowd then we were last night.  LOL!  Thursday night's performance they were still perfecting their performance.  There was a little bigger audience on Friday.  The plays were much better.  They found their performance groove last night. Both plays had some funny lines in them.  It is just a matter of perfecting how one delivers their lines in a funny way.  They all did a great job.  A fun performance.   After the performance they all went to Round Table Pizza for their cast party.  There were 3 boys in Drama.  I don't know why there is usually more girls in drama then boys?

Cinderella

Yesterday we went to see SF Ballet's production of Cinderella.  A brand new show for this ballet which had its US premier on Friday.  We took BART to Civic Center and walked the 2 blocks to the War Memorial Opera House.  It was a pleasant walk past City Hall, the Main Library which is huge.  It was a nice but windy day. We met my three sisters-in-law, mother-in-law and niece-in-law.  We have never been to the Opera House before.  It is gorgeous inside.

We have never seen a professional ballet before and didn't quite know what to expect.  We had never seen this version of Cinderella before.  This is not the Disney version.  It is based on the Brothers Grimm and Perrault Fairy Tales.  The staging was complex and delightful.  Sometimes there was so much going on that watching one part of the scene I know I missed other things.  For instance, the dances of the Spirits around the tree when Cinderella was being transformed.  The scene started small with strange mysterious characters and built to a climax of Cinderella dressed for the ball with a flowing train flying in the wind atop of a carriage represented by the fates who accompany her through out the piece.  I told you it wasn't Disney.

This was a spectacular version the set designs, transitions between scenes, costumes and effects were astonishing.  The dancing was not just graceful and beautiful but a part of the story.  There was also some comic moments in the dancing and the story which was a surprise and added to the story line.  The music composed by Sergei Prokofiev was beautiful and dark  and performed wonderfully by the Orchestra.
When we left after the show we walked down the street with the crowd that had been at the ballet an odd mix of casual and formal sneakers and dressing shoes.  By then the wind had picked up if we had Cinderella dresses we would have been spectacular, too.  Rode BART home and stopped for dinner at Arby's.

Seeing Double Double Rainbow

I looked out the window this afternoon and saw the sky was a golden yellow color so my son, hubby and I went outside and there was a full double rainbow.  The colors were so bright and it lasted a long time.  It was such an awesome site especially on the eve of Easter. All of our neighbors were outside oohing and aahing over the rainbow. It started to rain again and the rainbow slowly faded away.

Yacht Ran Aground onto Beach

Monday morning we had a bit of excitement.  An 82 foot stolen yacht ran aground in the surf early this morning.  It was low tide so the boat was stuck in 4 feet of water. There were 3 people aboard the yacht and  they told police that they didn't need any help.  The police and the coast guard surrounded the boat on land and sea.  They had several jet skis circling around the boat.  The coast guard dispatched someone to give the crew a radio. They ordered them off the boat but they wouldn't go.  There were lots of the reporters, camera crews and people standing along the shore watching this all unfold.  After seeing his boat on TV the owner report it stolen. Finally after several hours the police finally got the crew to disembark where they were taken into custody.

The salvage crew spent the night waiting for the tide to come in so they could tow the boat out to sea.  Finally around 12:30am the tide came in and the tugboat was able to tow the boat to the boat docks.  It took the tugboat 4 hours to tow the boat.  There was some damage to the boat and the inside of the boat was trashed. The crew had a party in there with beer and pizza.  Obviously they didn't know how anything about sailing.

CYO Basketball

My son and his team mates had a good basketball game today.  It was very exciting and heart stopping game.  Our team led 2-0 in the first quarter then they tied it up. It was tied for a while then they pulled ahead of us.  In the last quarter we can back strong and won the game 23-14.  It was close for the longest time. My son made 6 baskets. They all played a good game.  We are now 5-1.  This team was evenly matched with our boys. We are playing a double header with them so we get to play them again tomorrow.