Those Kids Aren't Coming Back

More stories from Holly's drama class. You might recall from a few posts ago the pie-in-the-face play that Holly and some of her classmates did for a group of 2nd and 3rd grade classes. There were apparently 2 days of performances of Fable Factory and from it comes what I think is a VERY funny story that Holly told me.

It would seem that there were two different productions in the same session. Thumbelina was the musical option that everyone had to try out for. It was considered the premier play, relegating anyone who didn't make the singing cut to the "reject" option of Fable Factory. My kid, having inherited the singing pipes of her parents ended up in the Fable Factory group pretty quickly.

On the first day of the production, Fable Factory went first and was a big hit. Thumbelina was up next...they started off awkward and it never fell into place. The cast had never practiced the whole thing together, and it showed. The music was playing slower than the pace they had practiced, so all of the songs were off. Many cues were missed, lines were blown; it was something of the theater train-wreck.

Even getting to intermission was tough. One of the characters was supposed to shout out, "intermission!!" but forgot, so the whole cast stood on stage looking at one another until someone shouted it from backstage. The kids got up, filed out...and then that was all.

After 10 minutes or so, it became apparent to all that the Thumbelina group was not going to be able to present the rest of their production. Someone in the Fable Factory group muttered, "those kids aren't coming back." That was all it took, the phrase caught on like wildfire and it became the explanation for anything that went wrong.

Even funnier to me was the fact that they had to show up the next day and do it all over again.

Those kids aren't coming back!