SEUSSICAL Pics

Today was the closing performance of Seussical at DSU, and just like last night's show, this one started late to accommodate the lineup of people extending out the door and onto the street hoping for tickets. (Meanwhile those of us who had reserved our tickets in advance and had arrived early enough to be seated before show time had to sit and wait and wait and wait . . .)

Afterward Susan snapped a few pics of the girls with their new friends in the cast. Following last night's performance, the director held a photo call (when the director has the cast pose onstage for photos from each major scene of the production), but we didn't have our camera along; so the grandmother to another child in the cast sent us a copy of her photos from last night. Here are selections from both sets of photos:

a poster outside the auditorium

the cast and crew

Here's a scene featuring the entire cast on stage with the Cat in the Hat in the center and Abigail and Suzanna amongst the Whos (in the yellow T-shirts) in Whoville to the left in this photo.

Zooming in a bit on (from left to right in this photo) the Wickersham Brothers, the Sour Kangaroo, the Cat in the Hat, assorted residents of the Jungle of Nool, Mayzie, and the Bird Girls.

Zooming in even more on Mayzie and the Bird Girls, who had nothing to do with the scenes that our daughters were in but whose costumes are fun--and the actors in the hot pink and red nylons were fun to watch!

In most of their scenes, Abigail and Suzanna played Whos in Whoville. Abigail is in the front row, the third person in from the left in this photo; and Suzanna is standing on the third step up from the bottom. (Notice the Grinch in his cave in the upper left corner of this photo.)

In the musical's plot, Whoville is on a planet so tiny that it rests easily on top of a clover. This photo is of a scene in which the life-sized characters are shaking the clover so that everybody in Whoville is struggling to stay upright!

In the musical's plot, the Whos applaud the Grinch when he annually retells the story of his long ago having tried to steal Christmas from them before finally coming to his senses. There's Abigail grinning to the right in this photo.

In the musical's plot, the mayor of Whoville and his wife send their son Jojo (who was their daughter Jojo in DSU's version) to a military academy run by General Genghis Kahn Schmitz. Playing serious young cadets are Suzanna (farthest left in this photo) and Abigail (to the right of the General).

Since Abigail got a "feature photo" in the Grinch photo, here's one of Suzanna. Notice how serious she is about military academy!

In the musical's plot, Jojo (in the yellow vest) is reunited with his (her) parents after the Cat in the Hat enlists the help of the spooky Hunches to encourage Jojo to "follow your hunch" and let it lead "you home." Suzanna is the Hunch being clutched by several big people to the left in this photo, and Abigail is the Hunch with the Cat in the Hat's arm around her. Suzanna and Abigail had a feature scene, singing with the Cat in the Hat in the first part of the scene with Jojo.

This is from the scene right after Jojo is reunited with his (her) parents. The Cat in the Hat is turning to the Hunches (Suzanna and Abigail) to high-five them and bask in the pleasure of success (getting Jojo back to his parents).

the girls with the director

the girls with the mayor of Whoville and his wife (played by a couple married in real life, too!)

the girls with the Grinch

the girls with the Cat in the Hat

For all the nights of rehearsal that Hillary attended with me or Susan (waiting for her sisters to be done), memorizing every line of every song and every movement of every scene, she could just as well have been in the play, too (but wasn't eligible to audition--only students in fourth grade or up). After the show each night, she had to go hug all the cast members, so they all knew her about as well as they did Suzanna and Abigail!

It was a great experience for us all, and I hope it leads to many more theatre productions for the girls . . . but we're glad for it to be over, too. Tonight was the first time in a long time that the girls actually got to bed on time! Now let's see how long it takes for us all to stop humming the tunes from the musical!