The Little Mermaid

Our girls are involved in a local youth theater company and this summer, they tried out for and joined the production of The Little Mermaid.  Here is the cast decked out in their costumes and rehearsing in a gym.

Karina played the role of the little seahorse named Leeward that heralds the entrance of Triton the undersea king.

Here she is (on the right) during rehearsals and pretending to blow on a bugle.

And here she is during a performance.

In another scene, Karina talks to King Triton.

Eliana played a school of fish and in this shot, the school is surrounding Sebastian the crab.

Here she is during the show.  She had lots of fun!

And got to know some of the other "fish" pretty well.

Here is the entire cast in their colorful costumes!

Before each show, there is someone that comes out--the curtain warmer--to introduce the show to the audience, and tell them stuff like "Please silence your cell phones..."  This time around, Eliana got picked to do that and she did a great job!

Eliana also played a maid in the show.  These are all the maids that work in Prince Eric's palace and help take care of Ariel.

The theater company has a tradition that after the show, some of the actors go out late at night to "fork" the houses of other actors.  It's mostly the teenagers that do this.

When our house got forked, Lucky, with his keen hearing, immediately knew that there were strange people on our front lawn and started barking like crazy.  He's a good guard puppy!

They left behind lots of plates and plastic forks.

They write encouraging message on the plates and sometimes funny things too.

Uncle Charles, Aunt Sara, and cousin Millie came to watch a show.

For one show, Elvin went out with the boys to grab some BBQ tacos from a food truck before the show.  They were super yummy.  This was during the heat wave, so we also got some drinks.  Elvin ordered horchata and the boys had freshly squeezed lemonade.

And we really enjoyed the show.  It was very well done.

The obligatory picture after the show...

And Elvin's parents drove up all the way from California to watch the show as well.   Good job girls!