This afternoon was the last performance of "Sylvia" and I'm pleased to report that it went very well. One of my granddaughters and her friend came and they thought is was great. High praise indeed from college kids. Of course I took them to supper after which may have skewed their review. What people sometimes don't know is that after the final show it is the responsibility of the cast and crew to strike the set, take down all the walls and windows, store away all the furniture and props, sort out the costumes to be laundered or dry cleaned, and generally make the stage look like the play never happened. It's actually a kind of therapy, a way to reinforce the fact that it really is over, and free labor of course. After my last play, strike took from 4:20pm when the show ended to 9:30pm. Happily, today's strike took less than a half hour. It seems that the children's theater wants to use all of the pieces of what was a fairly simplistic set, and most of us had provided our own costumes so we took our clothes home and just walked off and left everything else. And I am completely happy with that amount of closure. The End.
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