The Big Audition

Maya has been talking about wanting to be in a show for  a couple of years now. Finally, now that she is 6, she is old enough to be involved in a summer theatre program. We signed her up for FMCT's (Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre) summer production of Aristocats. Part of the process is an audition, singing for about a minute. The kids who sign up for the program will be in the production, so their audition is mostly for practice and to let the directors see the kids.

We didn't tell Maya about the program until the end of April largely because we knew she would be very excited and want it to begin immediately. We told her that she would have to sing a song and she said she knew immediately what she wanted to sing. Abba's "Lay All Your Love on Me". We spent some time helping her learn a verse, although she knew most of it already, and talked with her about how the audition process works.

We took her over to Concordia to have some time on the stage to help her feel more confident. We have a beautiful video of her working it. She is pretty darn fabulous!