Friends at the show

Several of our friends came to Saturday night's performance of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Here are the Thompsons with John and Janine.

Andrew, one of their ballet teachers, was also there. Their other ballet teacher and the accompanist came to the afternoon performance as well as some of the homeschooling families we know.

Overall they really appreciated the fact that friends came to the performances.

Finally here's equal time for Sarah as the White Stag.

Radio Follow up

The radio appearance for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is here. It's the site for the Saturday Light Brigade, a local show that runs on several public radio stations throughout Western Pennsylvania.

The audio quality is much better than in the earlier post. Nice to see they posted the photo of the host talking to John.

It was interesting how the host thought acting was a good thing to get homeschoolers around other kids. The guy was very nice, and interested to find out how much homeschooled kids did.

Like most people, once he realized that homeschooling allows the ultimate in flexibility, he was impressed.

John on-air

John was on the radio this morning. One of the public stations in town was doing a remote broadcast at the local Center for the Arts. The director of the production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe arranged for some of the cast to perform on-air (see below for video).

They all had a great time at the open house for the arts center, but they had to go back for a noon rehearsal.

This show is a family affair as all three of them are in it. John is the witch's dwarf assistant. Sarah has a dual role as the White Stag and Fenris Ulf. Janine also has a dual role as a fox and an member of the army.

More next week as the show times are all next weekend.

Skating show

After several snow cancellations and much practice, the skating show was Monday night. Here's Sarah with her friend Joey after the skate team's tribute to Michael Jackson number.

Click here because it all started back in November.

Everyone worked very hard to put on the best show possible despite a very trying month of February. As usual the costumes were creative and very well done.

But the ice was good and the crowd was warm. I think the Olympics helped maintain interest. Sarah would like to keep skating throughout the rest of the year. If she has her way we will probably be visiting the Neville Island complex regularly.