ECC Work Shop

Above is Clare and her cast for "The Wizard of Oz" Clare is the bad witch!

Below is my class and I doing a dance during our performance to "Hit the Road Jack"



We had been working for months on this Work Shop and so now you can to see some of the finished product.

The purpose of the Work Shop is to show the kids parents their excellent English skills by performing an English play and English songs. It was alot of work for everyone and nerves were running hing on the day. I can't remember feeling as nervous as I did for a long time.

I am the stunning actress in the bird costume. The middle kid is Mother Swallow and Jeff on the left and myself are the Baby Swallows. I also had a stint dressed as Fred Flinstone for my part as the pumpkin monster.
These are Clare's kids doing their ballet dance to the music from Swan Lake.

There was no dress rehearsal no serious stage rehearsal. Unless you call walking the kids on stage for 5 minutes serious. So these poor 5 -7 year olds were unaware of how it would feel under the lights in their costumes! Besides all that all of them did really well. Of course there were funny moments. The kid who fell over or in my case who wandered around the stage hopelessly trying to find his mark. Parents laughed while I did a silly dance in the wings trying to get him to the right place.