Last night, I was standing backstage in the Ballibay theater, watching the lights shine on the animated faces of the 16 performers -- my wonderful cast -- as they walked onto the stage to begin a script-in-hand production of "where the sidewalk...begins" (a compilation of Shel Silverstein poetry and stories). Before the show began, we fought the battle of ripped costumes, lost hairbrushes, missing scripts, and (totally justifiable) stage fright. However, 25 minutes later, as the beaming children took their bows, I found myself backstage, tears streaming down my face. I've done a lot of wonderful things
in my life so far: visited foreign countries, gotten into the college of my choice with a full scholarship, and learned how to play musical instruments, but in my opinion there is no one thing that has ever brought me more pride than watching children perform at Camp Ballibay.
When the youngest member of my cast (6 years old!) ran off stage and said, "I'm so proud of myself! I did it!" the tears really started flowing. Readers, you have amazing children who do amazing things on and off the stage. Words cannot describe what a pleasure they are to work with. The cast of "where the sidewalk...begins," the first campers to appear on the stage of the Ballibay Theater this summer, wowed us all last night!
More soon!
Elizabeth C.
Camp Blogger
2 comments:
Congrats Hope and Delanie. We are proud of you!
Daneva, Michaela & Logan
That looks like Drew Barrymore in the background of the first photo!
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