Elf Jr.

 C was in his very first musical this weekend. Elf Jr. (Thus the theme of gingerbread.) They had a performance on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and it was very exciting. 

As theatre majors, we really encouraged him to audition for an actual role even though he just wanted to be in the chorus. 

But we know our guy and how great at projecting and memorization he is. So we helped him practice a song for the auditions and he got the role of Charlie the Elf. (The elf supervisor who Buddy talks to about only making 85 Etch-A-Sketches.) 

Other than not cheating downstage enough, the kid hit it out of the park. 

There were 48 kids in the cast, 14 of them were kids from our school/parish. (There were also 14 kids who had never been on stage before, C included.) C has a lot of quirks that make life more difficult for him. He really struggles socially and finds making conversation difficult with people he isn't very comfortable with. Because of this I think he really shocked people who knew him with how well he did. So so many people came up to us to sing his praises. 

We are so happy he had this opportunity to be in a show. It was SO good for him to have his own thing. And we are very proud of him too!