Saturday, September 18, 2010
Pinocchio Performance
Every summer that we’ve lived in Germany, I’ve noticed that Missoula Children’s Theatre visits and puts on productions with kids. Unfortunately, the past four summers we’ve been gone or otherwise unavailable for the kids to participate. However, this summer, MacKenzie was here and she wanted to get involved. This summer’s production was Pinocchio, so she watched the movie the weekend before auditions and decided she wanted to be the Blue Fairy.
Missoula’s Children’s Theatre comes in and puts on a production in only six days’ time! They begin with auditions Monday morning, and conclude with the final performance Saturday afternoon. What a wonderful experience to start from scratch and have such a feeling of accomplishment in such a short amount of time. They even held a makeup workshop one day after rehearsals -- hence MacKenzie’s lion appearance here (no, they didn’t add a lion to the cast of Pinocchio!).
She was disappointed that she didn’t get the part of the Blue Fairy, but she still had quite a few lines to learn as Urchin #6. In this adaption, Mrs Geppetto told the story of the wooden puppet to the urchins, who then helped narrate. I didn’t take many photos during the performance, but did snap this during the closing number. MacKenzie is two to the right from Pinocchio.
What beautifully dirty street urchins!
No performance is complete without flowers for the star -- even if she still has “dirt” all over her face!
Missoula’s Children’s Theatre comes in and puts on a production in only six days’ time! They begin with auditions Monday morning, and conclude with the final performance Saturday afternoon. What a wonderful experience to start from scratch and have such a feeling of accomplishment in such a short amount of time. They even held a makeup workshop one day after rehearsals -- hence MacKenzie’s lion appearance here (no, they didn’t add a lion to the cast of Pinocchio!).
She was disappointed that she didn’t get the part of the Blue Fairy, but she still had quite a few lines to learn as Urchin #6. In this adaption, Mrs Geppetto told the story of the wooden puppet to the urchins, who then helped narrate. I didn’t take many photos during the performance, but did snap this during the closing number. MacKenzie is two to the right from Pinocchio.
What beautifully dirty street urchins!
No performance is complete without flowers for the star -- even if she still has “dirt” all over her face!
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