A Leaf and a Snowflake...Oh My!

For the past four years, SB has danced in a local dance production called The Snow Queen. The production is made up of a professional dance troupe and they do an audition for dancers from local dance schools to fill some minor parts on the weekends. The guidelines for auditioning are that you must be 8-18 years old and have two years of dance experience.

The Princess has been desperate to be in the show, but isn't old enough yet. But, Mark happened to be having a meeting with the director as her company is one of the resident companies at his theater. She asked if the girls were auditioning and he said the SB was, but not The Princess as she was just turning 7 two days before the audition. She thought for a moment and said that there had been 7 year old sin the show in the past, but they had never had someone so newly 7. She asked how much training The Princess had and Mark told her that she was going in to her 4th year. She then invited The Princess to come for an audition with the caution that she would probably not get a part. We talked to the Princess and basically told her that she could audition but that it would be a practice audition as she wasn't old enough yet. She was excited to go until the morning of, when she decided that she didn't want to audition. Since it was just practice! So, not wanting to force her, but wanting to make sure she gave it a go if she could, I put on the DVD from a previous year. And she decided to audition! I was pretty confident that she would not be cast as there were over 50 girls in that age group auditioning. To give some perspective, they use about 50 total kids for each weekend and that includes all of the age groups.

In order to let the kids know if they've been cast, the studio sends a postcard to let them know which part they have or a letter if they didn't get cast. And in today's mail? TWO postcards!!! The Princess was cast as a leaf! And SB has the part I've been wanting her to have since she started auditioning, that of a snowflake. The most beautiful white glittery costumes! I am so excited for both girls and just desperate to pick them up from school so I can give them the postcards!!