The first two performances have been great! We have had good sized crowds and not many glitches. The fire alarm did go off because of the dry ice “smoke” the first night, but they got that fixed. Everyone knew it wasn’t a real fire, so everyone just stayed in their seats and ignored it. We keep playing and the soloist kept singing!  Yesterday it seemed the characters had a better understanding of the humor in their particular parts and they hammed it up just that little bit more that made the audience laugh a lot more than Friday night. They are doing amazingly well. And to top it off, I experienced their traditional treatment of the band members. We have to walk through the reception line to get out and when we get in the middle, they all cheer really loud for us. Quite deafening really!

Another performance today, then I have to concentrate on the Red Cedar choir piano duet until Thursday. I’m finally getting most of it right and up to speed.

We discovered that our new stove is 1/2 inch too big, due to the thing on the back with the knobs on extending just a little past the width of the main body. So we had to switch it out with the stove at 126, which just fits. Which means I now have a new stove at 126.