Marya Hart Music

We had our first performance of the Fidgety revival Wednesday at the Nay Ah Shing school on the Mille Lacs Reservation north of Onamia. We’re running two casts now–the Grimm cast (mostly original members) and the Perrault cast (all newbies)–and because we want to squeeze in a few more rehearsals with new cast members we are using Grimm for the first two performances.  But as it turned out, we had to swap in a few Perrault members anyway…so for this performance we had only three original cast members of eight: Jared, Drew and Sam.

The new actors-Marianna, Seraphine, Mary Grace, Grace and Deja–did very well. Already an ensemble is developing. They support each other and work together beautifully. Some first-show jitters, but that is to be expected.  It was fun to see new  interpretations of characters, and I found myself smiling as I played. Now that the show is up, they will really start to play with it.

Our audience was quite young; most looked like preschoolers. They loved the physical comedy.  And they adored Deja, our youngest actor who plays Li’l Hood. Yeah, Deja is pretty adorable. At the end of the show the audience stood up and shouted “Migwitch!”

Friday we take the Grimm cast to Mankato, a two hour drive on a cold, cold Minnesota day. It’s great to get out of the city and to drive through the snowy countryside.  The actors amuse each other during the drive by calling back and forth between cars on their cell phones. Kids!