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Talent Show

Tonight was the talent show at the girls' school. Abby is doing a skit, and evidently they cut a lot of the skits out for the night show, so it was just Katrina reciting her poem.

It lasted an hour and a half, which was far better than the three hours I was expecting. Two kids were responsible for shooing the acts on and off the stage, and helping with setting up any necessary equipment.

Katrina did a nice job. Her poem was:

Something to Crow About

I somtimes think I'd rather crow
And be a rooster than to roost
And be a crow. But I dunno.

A rooster he can roost also,
Which don't seem fair when crows can't crow
Which may help some . Still I dunno.

Crow should be glad of one thing though;
Nobody thinks of eating crow,
While roosters they are good enough
For anyone unless they're tough.

There're lots of tough old roosters though,
And anyway a crow can't crow,
So mebby roosters stand more show,
It looks that way. But I dunno.

It was a little over the heads of her audience, though.

Some of the outstanding acts included Kaitlyn (who is on Abby's softball team) and friend, who did a tap dance, a girl who played her guitar and sang a song that she wrote, two girls who did individual acts, but both did traditional Indian dances, a girl who did an amazing job of playing the piano, and the prize for cute and quirky goes to the guy who had about fifteen different plastic cups, and stacked them up into pyramids and then took them down, all extremely quickly.

Acts I didn't like included almost every act that was a dance to a popular song. There were a couple of acts that had good choreography, and were okay, but most of the dance acts were not well thought out and just didn't work. The other type of act I didn't like was any singing that was done where the tape of the background music included the vocals. There was a surprising number of these!

The violin acts varied widely as far as quality went. The first two violin acts were really bad -- squeaky and tuneless. The last was a duet with a violin and a cello, and it was quite good. Piano acts ranged from really stunning to one-fingered playing.

My big shock of the evening was watching the 6th grade girls, and realizing that Abby will be there in only two years!

Posted by Rachel at May 29, 2003 09:30 PM