Something Wicked This Way Comes

Updated!!  Scott lent me some of his better pictures (not washed out) from the performance.  

Here are a few of Scott's pics.

Evil Matthew with his minions and the evil machine

Plotting something E-VIL!

Matthew as Evil having a change of heart.

Matthew and Anna were in a school play and their final performances were this past weekend.  They have been practicing since school started.  The play is called The Challenge and is a musical written by our theater arts teacher.  It's basically about school kids making good choices in their day to day school life.  Matthew got one of the lead parts, the big villain of the play.  His character's name is "Evil" and because he (Evil) was picked on as a kid he spends all his time trying to get the school kids to make bad choices.  He had a group of six minions that helped him.  Anna was one of the minions.  Here is a really washed out pic of Matthew (middle) and Anna (far right).  Here are Evil and his minions plotting some mischief.

Because of the lighting I didn't get great pics during the performance.

Matthew did great.  He also had a solo song in which he told his evil back story.

Here he is singing.  He did a great job on the song.  He sounded nice and clear!

Anna was also great.  She had a lot of the funny lines for the minions and always got laughs.

Several parents asked if she was the cute minion with the funny lines.  She did so good!

You'll be happy to know that in the end Evil reforms and learns it feels really good to help people instead of cause contention.  He changes his ways and he his minions use their powers for good.  Here is Matthew taking his curtain call!

After the show I got a better pic of the minions with their Evil leader.

All these kids are 5th graders except Anna - mostly in Matthew's class.

Great job minions!!

After the show!

Matthew had a lot of lines that were to be delivered with great sarcasm.

He's a natural at that.  He was always exasperated with his incompetent minions.

FOOLS!!

Here are the kids with their wonderful theater arts teacher.  

We are so lucky to have a theater program at our school!