Opening Night!

Tonight was the BIG night -- the World Premiere of "Witches the Musical!"

I was sure glad we had been able to sit in on the dress rehearsal yesterday, it's such a complex play that I saw many things tonight that I had completely missed yesterday.

These are the three little Puritan girls in the play. Our granddaughter Claire is on the right. The girl on the left plays her sister and the one in the middle is the beggar, Sarah's child.

I had not yet seen any of the plays Claire has been in this past year and I was greatly impressed about the awesome job she is doing!

After getting home late last night from the dress rehearsal, we all slept in this morning. Too tired to worry about cooking, we all went over to a Shari's for brunch. Daughter Mary Mae and I dropped everyone else off at the house for some rest while we went to a local florist shop. I found an ivy plant and a little witch holder as a gift for Claire while her mother put together a spray of flowers for her (performance tradition, you know!).

We made it back to the house with only about an hour to spare before Claire and Varick (who works with the sound crew) and Scott (who is working behind the scenes changing the sets) had to leave for the theater. MM left a few minutes later. Forry and I lazed around a bit before we headed to the theater as well. They were serving glasses of champagne to the attendees, who had to enter via the red carpet at the entrance.

Quite a night -- and quite a change from our usual routine...!