Cinderella

 Earlier this week, we enjoyed the opportunity to see the play "Cinderella" at E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg. Our friend, JD, who is a long time friend of Brent's from college, teaches in the theater department and is Technical Director of the theater there. When we visited with him and Sarah back in September, they told us to put the end of February on our calendar as the the theater would be performing Cinderella.
It was an excellent production! The cast and crew and musicians did an awesome job with the whole show. Here are our 3 little princesses with my handsome Prince Charming preparing to enjoy the show!

 Here is Cinderella preparing to enter the carriage. They did an excellent job making the carriage grow actually very similarly to the movie. More on this later...

 Here is the scene where Cinderella meets the prince for the first time.

Here is the Prince finding Cinderella

Here is the wedding scene of the play.

 

 Because JD is Technical Director, he offered to take the girls backstage after the show to see how everything happened. Here they are getting ready to go backstage.

 They got a full tour. We got to walk through the whole set including across the giant dance floor that was built on a precise angle so that the actors and dancers feet could be seen during the performance. The girls got to go into "Cinderella's house" and walk "upstairs."

 More about the carriage here. This was one of the neatest things Brent and I had ever seen in a play. The carriage came from a ball the size of a large pumpkin that shed its skin and expanded as this ball. The ball  expanded up in the air and was placed on the carriage so that Cinderella can go inside. Here is JD showing us the beginning of how it would expand and then further into the expansion.

 Here are Brent and the girls with JD during our backstage tour. We missed getting to see Ms. Sarah this time but are looking forward to seeing them both again soon. For any of our Lynchburg friends or those fairly local, they still have shows Friday and Saturday evening. It is a great show and you would enjoy it a lot! The girls are still talking all about the show now. We hope to be able to attend a show again soon!