Two Kids in the Show!

So excited! Tyler and Abbey will both take part in Blue Springs South's upcoming musical production, "Back to the 80's." Tyler will be playing lead guitar in the pit orchestra (which consists of 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 keyboard, and 2 saxophones.) Abbey will be in the chorus as a member of "the student body." The show runs February 5th through February 7th.

I have to admit, the music sounds fun, but I wasn't all that crazy about the idea of this musical...mostly just because I've never heard of it. Why not Footloose? or Fame? The kids are very excited though, and this may be the only opportunity I ever have to experience both of them in the same musical :-)

During this past week of auditions, I've been pondering the costuming for this show. When I was in high school (in the 80's) we sometimes participated in "back to the 50's" type stuff. Kids would dress in poodle skirts and wear high pony tails... I always wondered when we did that, if it really represented mainstream 50's reality or if it was more of a caricature of what was unusual about the time period. When I look at the pictures from this musical from the 80's, it doesn't really seem to me that it represents mainstream high school students of the time. There were some weird kids who dressed like that... but most of us were a little milder than what is portrayed here. Anyway... that's how I remember it.