Phew, just got done with the first two shows of the Giver!
That's right! There is an opera version of the giver! My mom is the directer, my dad is the Giver, and I turn the gray apples red!
We started in October working on this piece, and boy did we go through such HELL.... But finally things started to pay off and we got the tough music learned, the projections ready, and the orchestra all set   
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We just opened today, and our two shows went well aside from just one mishap with the projections *the memories*... They didn't work the second time. So my mom stopped the show for a few minutes, but on one seemed too upset about the unexpected break. *thank god!*
Everyone seemed to love Gabriel the most, YES WE DID USE A REAL LIVE BABY! The crowd just adored him He never cried during the shows and he loved Jayke *who's playing as Jonas*. He cuddled with him when we were doing "Jonas's near death experience".

They loved my dad *as Giver* and several of the people thought our Jonas was HOT!...... Even though they were also trying to debate whether Jayke *Jonas* was a girl or boy.... IT'S A BOY PEOPLE! AND A BOY SOPRANO AT THAT! HIS VOICE IS UNCHANGED!

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Oh yeah! And Lois Lowry was there too she came for the talk-backs.
She's making her fourth book SON about Gabriel when he's now fourteen and Jonas is now the leader of the new community, and has married Kira *who is in book 2 Gathering Blue*. Gabriel wants to find his real birth mother and his birth mother wants to find him.      
I loved the opera even with all of the stress we had to go through in order to make this thing possible.


But yeah I hope the next few performances tomorrow and the day after will go well. I'm gonna be out of school for the rest of today and tomorrow.... Wow 5 DAY WEEKEND! *holiday*

I'll see if there are some more pictures or video's of our performances if I can
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Update!

All show's are done and new pictures are out
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If you were ever curious about what the heck I look like, question no more! Here I am, behind our Jonas *on the bike* and right next to our really TALL guy, Sam, *who's playing one of our Asher's, yeah we have two Asher's and Lilly's in the shows*.... I'm at YOUR RIGHT side of him.