The big event on Wednesday was the musical called Scrooge, based on the book by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol.
We didn’t do much that day before the musical, Sonja did scrapbooking and photo-blogging, and David, Andy, and Leilani went for long walk to the mailbox (and a small waterfall).
We did dress up for the big night out:
The musical was put on by a small company of actors, all volunteers, at the Georgetown Palace Theater, in a town north of Austin.
Leilani was very scared in the beginning when the ghost of Marley visits Ebenezer Scrooge–and it was very scary. But she could hide under Sonja’s shawl, and then the other ghosts weren’t so scary. Parenting tip: it is not possible to make a scared child talk quieter, they will always be loud. In the end, she loved the whole show.
Non-flash photography was allowed, so I took some pictures of the show for Leilani to remember. The set was very well done, the music was a live performance, and the acting was great. They even had children throughout the show.
Here, Scrooge is seeing all the people who will be happy when he dies–except he doesn’t realize why they’re happy. If you look closely, you can see the ghost of Christmas future up on the balcony.
In the end, Scrooge is a changed man who become generous and loving. Here he’s dressed in a Santa suit and giving presents to everyone.
After the show, the actors come out in costume to talk with the audience.
After leaving the theater, we walked around the main square of Georgetown, a thriving little town full of shops, and not all of them antique shops. They still had their Christmas lights on:
A book bench outside a bookstore:
That same night, when we got home, Leilani somehow managed to avoid going to bed right away so she could draw a picture. She drew a picture of Scrooge, in his pyjamas, just when he becomes good, with money in his hand to give to people. I think this was Leilani’s way of dealing with the big, complicated story, because she captured the climax of the plot. I also like how her picture included the stage lights, to show that she also understood it was a play with acting, not real and scary:
The next day, she gave the picture to Grandma and Grandpa to thank them for taking her to the show:
