On With the Show

WORLD PREMIERE: Tonight, CJ and a couple dozen peers took the stage to share the story of Ariadne's Thread, a tale about Theseus and the Minoatar.

While CJ readied himself with the cast, Christian, Annabelle and I got our best Top Chef game faces on and readied to serve over 150 spanakopita on demand. Naturally, we had to make sure all of them were hot enough, but not over baked. Therein lies the dance of feeding a crowd.
Knowing everyone was basically going to arrive at the same time for dinner, and that we only had one standard home kitchen sized '70s era oven to work with at the venue, so we had to plan ahead, bringing in extra warming trays and a portable oven. In the end, we put every single order out within 10 seconds, I'd estimate. I think I'm ready for Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen" or some such thing. :) I was honestly surprised at how well and quickly it went. Yay for that.

The photo below shows some of the banners/sets we worked on for the show, as well as CJ as the really dastardly Procrustes, the inn keeper of a place you'd never want to stay.

Tomorrow night we get to do it all over again!

MYTH MINDED: This afternoon, while I was making MORE spanakopita (the last of about 325 mini muffin sized portions), I had the kids watch an ancient myth. We found an episode of the Canadian series "Mythic Warriors Guardians of the Legend" on YouTube. The kids chose the episode "Daedalus and Icarus."
Spoiler alert: As expected, Icarus met his doom by being too brash. Other important takeaway: If you have wax wings, avoid the heat.

https://youtu.be/dCRFwFmNsGo

SONGSTERS: The kids dusted off their guitars today and and had a very-rough-at-times practice. We need to do more.

Speaking of songs, I received an email from NASA today letting me know about curriculum available for Space School Musical from Jet Propulsion Laboratory Education.

It's Web site describes it as a "hip-hopera" featuring a teenager on a trip through the solar system. The site has all the info one would need to perform the musical, or people can just watch it online. We'll have to check it out.

Here's the musical's intro number.

https://youtu.be/0fTTS3t91A4?list=PL9TFrgFq7554I574UxoLYQBaV4Akea4St