adorable musical, cenerentola!

It wasn't Rossini's Cinderella, nor was it Disney's version...

but what a sweet, adorable concoction, in another collaboration with youth!

I just wish I had thought to pack my eyeglasses.

Eleven students at Garrison School for the Arts contributed text, including a prologue and song lyrics, to Michael Ching's one-act opera, "A Royal Feast".

Their words were displayed on two large screens while they read them aloud, or sang during the performed work-in-progress this afternoon with the SVF-9, again at Asbury Memorial Church.

At least I wore the right mask!

I had gotten dolled up for the Savannah VOICE Festival event this time, wearing my flowing, dark green, dress, and doing my hair a little differently, mostly down.

Hey, it is a matinee on a Saturday, right?

(smile!)

So, as I'm leaving the house, I remember that I didn't yet pack a mask, and those are mandated to be worn in Savannah by the mayor, as our COVID numbers are up to January levels.

Which to wear?

I'd been talking to Christina earlier and this one that she gave me practically leapt into my hand.

Honestly, it did!

And Sally and Jack, with him in his spidery tux, struck just the right note for a night at the opera!

(Got that little joke? You're welcome!)

 

Why particularly spiders?

Well, the middle-schoolers wanted critters in this show.

The animated one had talking animals, and, as that was the one they knew and loved, this addition, set post-Royal Ball, needed to have them, too!

And so it does!

Mice, of course, three of them, all billed as "wise" mice!

Two hilarious seagulls, singing of eating hotdog buns, but not the hotdogs!

But, most important of all, were the two spiders, each singing of the beautiful web she had woven today and verifying they didn't "hate" their males, they "ate" them!

Hahahaha! Hahaha!

Totally adorable!

(smile!)

 

Here's the thing I like best, though.

This tale explained how it was that Cinderella could understand the animals: she had been bitten by the chimney spiders and their venom gave her the power to literally talk to the animals in two-way conversations.

That just has to be something those kids dreamt up!

Totally adorable!!!

(smile!)

 

Right place, right time for me!

Now, to change clothes and see if I can get the back yard mowed.

The next few days are bringing rain, rain, rain, and the grass is almost tall again.

Wish me luck!

(smile!)