Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Soren the Thespian
Anyone who knows Soren knows he has been a bit of a ham since the day he was born. He loves to entertain. He loves to make people laugh. And he loves to be dramatic. This is why we were not surprised when he said that he wanted to take acting lessons offered at our local theater. Before signing him up for acting lessons, that are a rather large time and financial commitment, we told him he could do a day of Drama Camp during February vacation to test the waters.
When we dropped him off this morning we were a little nervous as he was a bit shy and clearly the youngest one there. We were pleasantly surprised when we went to the end of the day viewing of a production. While the kids worked on various acting skills throughout the day, they spent the last 1.5 hours writing and rehearsing their version of Hansel and Gretel. I honestly anticipated that Soren would either be overly silly or more shy than we are used to. Whatever I expected, it was not the level of seriousness that Soren put into it! He was silly when he was suppose to be silly. But he played nervous, scared, excited, etc at appropriate times! And I was even more surprised to see that he was one of the stars of the show!
I caught a couple of shots and videos of his acting debut!
Soren the actor5 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor1 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor5 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor4 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor3 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor2 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Not only was he super cute, but he LOVED it! He begged us to allow him to do camp all week and sign up for acting lessons. Move over Jack Black, we may have a new comedian in the house!
When we dropped him off this morning we were a little nervous as he was a bit shy and clearly the youngest one there. We were pleasantly surprised when we went to the end of the day viewing of a production. While the kids worked on various acting skills throughout the day, they spent the last 1.5 hours writing and rehearsing their version of Hansel and Gretel. I honestly anticipated that Soren would either be overly silly or more shy than we are used to. Whatever I expected, it was not the level of seriousness that Soren put into it! He was silly when he was suppose to be silly. But he played nervous, scared, excited, etc at appropriate times! And I was even more surprised to see that he was one of the stars of the show!
I caught a couple of shots and videos of his acting debut!
Soren the actor5 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor1 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor5 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor4 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor3 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Soren the actor2 from Amanda Sidell on Vimeo.
Not only was he super cute, but he LOVED it! He begged us to allow him to do camp all week and sign up for acting lessons. Move over Jack Black, we may have a new comedian in the house!
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Maybe it worked
Maybe our propaganda campaign is starting to work as this is Soren and Timmy at their last lesson
Go Hampden!
This is what the kids cheered while watching the Hampden Broncos swim team. As a part of our ongoing propaganda campaign to convince the kids to join the swim team, we brought them to their first swim meet. And we adults, got a small taste of what our parents did for more than a decade.
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