Here Comes The Magic

Variety show rehearsals are starting to pick up this week. We've only got about ten days left until opening night, so it's about time we start to get serious about putting the show together. Part of me is very, very scared that nothing will come together. I think I've got a couple days before I'm allowed to worry about that, though.

My dear Jumper and I ran through our piece today. Father Steinbecker has all these grandiose plans for background whistling and dancing and ukuleles and so we took today to start constructing his "vision". This was our first rehearsal in the auditorium since Charlotte's Web ended, so singing together and hearing our voices echo off the walls and floor was very refreshing. I have so very many memories of that space. Jumper told me later that it gave him shivers.

At first I was very concerned that a variety show would not be Duchesne Theater. That there would be a different group of people involved and none of our traditions would mean anything. But standing on that stage with my Spirit Unicorn took all those doubts out of my mind.

We made real Theater Magic today. And that, my friends, is all I could ever ask for.