Last night was opening night for our very first CYT show in East Portland! The kids were excited and our audience was blown away. The artistic team was as proud of our cast as we could be. There were 337 tickets sold - almost a hundred of them at the door!
We have a state of the art theater, but a not so great green room space to get ready in. It is the scene shop which is right off of the stage. It's cold and not so aesthetically pleasing... but it works! Next weekend we will have a better room when the college theater kids aren't using the dressing rooms. (They have a show in the black box theater this weekend so they got to use the dressing rooms for this weekend.)
The first circle up before a show happened in the cafeteria. We got to do the power squeeze, sing I Love You Lord, give some notes, and celebrate the moment we have all been working so hard for. Tyler, my assistant director, told the kids all to really cherish these moments. Everyone always talks about the first show in a new area. The bonds these kids are building now are going to last a lifetime. It feels so historic!
Here is a shot of our first audience!
And our very first curtain call! They did so good! And they were flying high all the way to the cast party at La Carretta, a local Mexican restaurant. And they deserved to feel proud. The show was very good, the audience loved them!
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