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Talent Show
This is sort of a grumbly vent.
My daughter's school has a yearly talent show-- actually, 2 since so many students (about 1/2 the school) participate in some way or another. In Kindergarten last year, most of my daughter's class sang and acted out a song together. They were very cute :-). This year, it doesn't look like there will be a class act. My daughter wants to do an act with some of her friends, which is great. My daughter has a talent appropriate for the talent show, which is gymnastics. She is quite good for a 6 year old-- not Olympic track by any means, but good. She and a couple of friends have decided that while one of them plays "Mary had a Little Lamb" on the piano, my daughter and the other girl will sing. Singing is not one of my daughter's strengths. They will be cute. Getting up on stage will be a good experience for her, whatever she is doing. There is no way she'd get up there by herself. The kids are supposed to be working this out themselves, and they are actually doing that. I'm proud of her (and them) for that, and for being willing to put themselves out there. Nothing is final yet. I'm trying to restrain myself from making too many suggestions. I'm being supportive of whatever she decides to do. But darn it, I'm disappointed that she's passing up this chance to really shine. Liz |
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In article , Elizabeth King says...
This is sort of a grumbly vent. My daughter's school has a yearly talent show-- actually, 2 since so many students (about 1/2 the school) participate in some way or another. In Kindergarten last year, most of my daughter's class sang and acted out a song together. They were very cute :-). This year, it doesn't look like there will be a class act. My daughter wants to do an act with some of her friends, which is great. My daughter has a talent appropriate for the talent show, which is gymnastics. She is quite good for a 6 year old-- not Olympic track by any means, but good. She and a couple of friends have decided that while one of them plays "Mary had a Little Lamb" on the piano, my daughter and the other girl will sing. Singing is not one of my daughter's strengths. They will be cute. Getting up on stage will be a good experience for her, whatever she is doing. There is no way she'd get up there by herself. The kids are supposed to be working this out themselves, and they are actually doing that. I'm proud of her (and them) for that, and for being willing to put themselves out there. Nothing is final yet. I'm trying to restrain myself from making too many suggestions. I'm being supportive of whatever she decides to do. But darn it, I'm disappointed that she's passing up this chance to really shine. Well, turn things on end and consider it that way. What if your daughter *did* do the gymnastics in this little presentation with her friends? What would *they* be doing? It would be kind of awkward, especially for kids that age, to come up with some way to integrate it with their talents. And, from what you say, she would likely outshine *them*. I think that to show off her talents, she'll probably need to do that solo, sometime in the future. In the meantime, this experience, as you acknowlegde, will help her to get up on stage and get used to that experience. And she's had a good experience with team planning. And hardly anyone that age sings that great anyway ;-) Cheers, Banty |
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Don't worry, with a first grader you have many, many talent
shows ahead of you. My kids' elementary school has a similar talent show. My kids (and by extension, I) have been involved in eight of these extravaganzas, and over the years have figured out a few salient points on how to make an entertaining act. (Which means someone other than the parents of the children involved enjoy the act. We assume, as parents, you will love anything your child does on the stage...) We have enought gymnasts to field an entire act where the stage is matted and gymnasts do their thing. Our gymnasts range from those who take lessons once a week to those who have won National Titles. Unfortunately, stages with mats are not balance beams or even as bouncy as the floor where floor exercises are done in a gym. Moves done on the floor are often not visible to most the audience. Girls who fly in gyms don't bounce as high on stage, and don't have near the take-off room. And some theatres or talent show producer moms really try and tone down any aerial moves as they aren't comfortable with the venue. In general the gym scenes don't showcase the gymnasts the way you would expect. If you were hoping your daughter would shine you may be disappointed. On the bright side, your daughter's singing act does have many of the features that make an act shine. At that age, cute has more going for it than you would believe. Multiple kids singing (or dancing, or tumbling) is always more interesting than solo performance. Having two different talents in one act (singing and piano playing) versus just singing, or just piano playing, also draws the crowd in. And performing with friends is fun! I know it's frustrating when you know your child is ultra talented in one area and can't show it off. One of my daughter's friends was an extremely good equestrian. Well, no way to bring a horse on that stage, and it pained her to no end to see her singing, dancing friends get to show off their hard work while she didn't. But that's show business. |
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Somehow I just can't get past the fact that you sound like one of those
stage moms. It's her moment to shine however *she* wants to. There will be other times, I'm sure. Theresa |
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Singing is not one of my daughter's strengths. They will be cute.
Getting up on stage will be a good experience for her, whatever she is I'm being supportive of whatever she decides to do. But darn it, I'm disappointed that she's passing up this chance to really shine. I know how you feel - my daughter is really good at jumping rope. But last year (she was in 3rd grade) when the variety show came up, she chose to do it with two of her friends, doing a little dance number that they put together themselves. They were really cute and they had a blast planning and doing it together. This year, though (the 4th & 5th graders do theirs in the spring), I think she wants to do the jumprope thing by herself. Maybe your daughter just needs to get a little older and more confident. Just gotta brag about my 7 year old son, though. The 2nd and 3rd grade variety show was last month. He really wanted to be in it, but didn't know what to do. So he decided to tell jokes. I really expected that he would get up there and stand like a deer in the headlights, mumble something unintelligible and then leave. Instead he RAN to the mike, shouted "Hello, ladies & gentlemen! Are you ready for some JOKES?" and then proceeded to shout out 3 or 4 jokes that got really big laughs, then took a bow and ran back to his seat. He was adorable! Not that I'm biased or anything. ;-) Laura |
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