June 8, 2009
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recital mayhem
This weekend, I helped out at a two-day dance recital-a-thon. The place where I used to do gymnastics (all my sibs and even my dad have taken classes there and my mom used to teach) has four shows in June over the course of two days and I wanted to go.
We have kids from the age of 4 to 57 and need to get their hair braided, makeup on and shoes ready; then they go upstairs to watch the show, come down when it’s their turn to dance, they dance (tra la la la la la la) and go back upstairs until the end of the show when their parents pick them up. The show is around three hours with all the kids that have to dance.
Anyway, for all that to go on, we had minimal crises. One girl forgot her headpiece to go with her outfit. One got so nervous she had an accident in her tutu. We have had barfers in the past.
The very last show is Show D, which was moving incredibly smoothly and had us scheduled to end the show after about two and a half hours – yahtzee! That is, until the fire alarm went off.
I’m up in the balcony with four other late-teenage/early twentysomething girls and twenty-five rows of kids while the lights are up, the alarm is going EEER. EER. EER. EER. Kids are crying and saying they want their mommies, I looked over at the girl with the headset who could get directions from downstairs and she mouthed I HAVE NO IDEA and one of the girls dancing to Fabulous had the face crumple parents know all too well – things are fine, then the face crumples and then she’ll cry for ten minutes. We can’t have that.
We all split up and picked out the kids that looked the most upset. We picked up a couple and held them – some of them just wanted us to cover their ears for them – and my favorite Fabulouses settled down enough to go brr-brr-MAAA! and keep themselves busy.
We heard a couple theories as to why the alarm went off. I heard that the school did a test of the emergency alarm system on Sundays, which is true, but apparently it was turned off. I heard a very questionable rumor that a dad who wanted to get the hell out of the show pulled it to end it early…and I speculated that it was my mom’s revenge. It turns out that a mommy had left the auditorium with a baby and the delightful tot pulled it (helena: THAT BABY IS A CRIMINAL! SEND IT TO JAIL).
The show was over at 9:20. I went out with my friends to Steak and Shake and promptly crashed afterward.
What did you do this weekend?
Comments (15)
I thought this said Rectal Mayhem….I was thinking hemmorrhoids!
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That sounds like one exciting weekend.
I just took my family to the movie “Up” and swimming.
I’ve been to one of those recitals! Everyone in the audience knew it was a kid running wild who pulled the alarm, but the teachers and backstage help didn’t, so they shut down the show and took all the dancers outside until somebody told them it was safe to come back. The renegade kid kept pulling the alarm throughout the show – it was a long afternoon.
Hey, it seemed to turn out okay in the end!
Successfully aided in getting skin cancer. I am a lobster. But I had fun so that’s all that matters right? Hm.
Cool weekend.
As for me, I went to this restaurant/bar in LA called Wurstkuche. I had a rattlesnake & rabbit sausage and it was fantastic. I helped my dad install new windows in our living room. I also watched the Laker game.
I hung out with my boyfriend
Sounds like you had quite the weekend!
I…got drunk up in the North Bay and then watched a lot of X-Files.
Sounds like you had a fun weekend.. i just finished blogging about mine
My friend’s D-Day b-day party at his SWEET house in Pine Brook.
Ha, sounds like “fun.”
I ran a 5k and went to the zoo.
I went to a dance recital Sat. night. My great-grand-daughter was in it. I think the dance studio had either 3 or 4 performances. Ours only lasted 2 hours, thankfully, and no one pulled the fire alarm.
wow….some party….lol…just kidding. Well now we know that the tot will grow up as a troubled kid and pull fire alarms at school….lol. Just kidding. I’m glad at least everything went ok after the whole deal.
Haha, I used to do recitals all the time. They were my favorite part of dancing.[: