After Thanksgiving break, we had our final rehearsal at Higher Achievement with the kids. The week before we warned them to be prepared for this final day and to get excited for the play because it was right around the corner. We had already sent home permission slips and came with the intent of finalizing who we would have on performance day. However, there were still many kids who were not positive if they could come. Two of our main characters were missing on this last day, but we had enough students there to do a run through of the whole act. Kesha brought us the tentative list of who would be there on Friday and we got a head count of 11 students and were able to mostly finalize a character list. While we began rehearsal, a worker at Higher Achievement called for the remaining students and after that we were only unsure about one or two which was great news. We would definitely have enough kids there for our Act.

The first thing we did once we got organized was have the students line up and walk on “stage” to practice saying their name and character. Then we worked on the switches between scenes within the act and began a final performance of the act as a whole. After giving their names, we had the next scene of characters stay on and read their lines. We did this for the next two scenes as well. The kids definitely needed help with the directions and struggled staying focused while in line, but hopefully the actual performance would be fine. The timing of the play came out to be around 30 minutes, which was longer than we expected. Overall, the final meeting went well but I am definitely nervous for the night of the play. They have been working on their lines but struggle with acting them out while reading them. I think they are going to love the atmosphere though on Friday and they are all really excited about dressing up and getting props!