The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

Brothers Grimm

For a picture overview: look at the album. To know what happened in the play: read on.

For those of you who have never heard of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon before- here's a brief synopsis.

There are two narrators who present the stories, although they often find themselves involved in the stories. Rapunzel is a rebellious teenager whose mother made deals with the devil, and enchantress and Rumplestiltskin. Rapunzel is locked the tower by the enchantress, meets her prince, is banished to the desert, finds her prince, and runs away with him.

Rapunzel's mother used to be known as Gretel. Classic tale- kids eat house, witch tries to eat kids, kids kill witch. simple.

The witch from H&G used to be a fishergirl who caught a talking fish who granted her two wishes: to never go hungry again and to have magical power- thus- a witch in a candy house.

The Talking Fish used to be friends with the Frog Prince. The frog prince becomes human again when, you guessed it, he's kissed by a princess (after much coaxing).

The grandson of the Frog Prince and Princess was a dwarf- who worked in the mines. One day, he and his friend found snow white under the spell. However, this snow white is an emancipated princess and kills the wicked witch and takes her prince.

Snow white has a daughter who is kidnapped by a needy old grandmother. This daughter becomes Lil Red. Sharing and Rainbows is the moral of this story.

And the final scene: Cinderella. Except we're out of actors. Oh well, Matt will just have to play everyone in the show. Cinderella cooks and cleans, and birds bring her a dress and she walks to the ball. After the shoe is lost, the step sisters end up cutting of heels and toes to fit in the shoe-but the prince figures it out. So, Cinderella gets her prince.

And the finale- in 3 minute the entire plot is told again in reverse order.

I had a great time working with these kids. As you can tell from the pictures, everything looked great. Not only did everything look great- but the kids did a super job. I'm so incredibly proud to have worked with them. Do I ever want to direct a show again, that's up in the air. But I sure am glad I did this one!

Insanity

Life lately has been insane. Luckily, it calmed down a bit after the Eger field trip and NHS induction ceremony passed. Yes, the NHS ceremony was last Monday and it went well. No complaints here. Well, one- only one boy was inducted- where are all the high achieving, servant leaders in these 10th and 11th grade classes?!

Following these adventures, I've been insanely overwhelmed by the ominous cloud of the high school play. Of course, it's been more fun than I could have imagined- but also much more stressful. Saturday we put in 9 hours working on set. When I left, I felt as though a lot had been accomplished. Included in the pictures below are those of our working set; it isn't completed yet but it is nearing the final stages. For that I am pleased.

The other couple pictures are from the toga-wearing 9th graders. They 'performed' (I use the word lightly) the greek tragedy - Antigone. They just read from scripts and dressed up, but I think they had a pretty good time. It sure was more interesting than sitting in chairs all class long.

So, I'm looking ahead to the craziest week of my life. Our show opens Thursday night. There's a lot to do before then. Keep my actors and my sanity in your prayers. As ridiculous and crazy as this show is, I still believe God can be honored by our effort and senses of humor. I push forward hoping that the final production will bring smiles to a few peoples' faces and a laugh or two out loud for the actors to thrive on.

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