I found a (cheap!) drama class for Madison on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the next five weeks at Penfield Recreation. She started Tuesday, and she LOVES it. There are about 9 kids age 8-12, and they're doing some crazy fractured fairy tale as a play. Quite involved, 60 pages of script. Each kid is doing two roles; Madison got cast today as Splenda, the good witch (and the mother of the star of the show, Brenda, a tall 12-year-old) and the Fairy Godmother. They'll do a show on a stage in late October, with costumes and everything. The director is a calm, lovely woman named (like her last theater arts teacher) Pam, who seems to know what she's doing, and the other kids (I think 3-4 boys, 4 other girls) seem enthusiastic and nice.
Did I mention Madison loves this? She already has some of her part memorized, and given how great she's been at poem memorization lately, I think she's found one of her niches.
I wouldn't mind spending the next 10 years as a theater mom, either. The kids who get involved tend to be nice, and focused, and mature. A good group for the girls to associate with.
I think I'll take them to the dress rehearsal of Grease next Wednesday night, to which I've been invited as publisher of KOA. There have to be some perks, after all.
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