Children's Theatre

My buddy Stix has written recently in his blog about the value of community theatre. I've been involved locally with our community theatre for a couple of years, as an actor. Tonight, I attended a performance of our local children's theatre summer program (which is not connected with the civic sumer theatre I've done work with). They did a performance of a musical version of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (with "Injun Joe" of course referred to as "Joe"). It was interesting. Out of a cast of 30, there were about 5 kinda stand-out performances. The rest weren't bad, per se, they were just, you know, kids. A lot of the kids really seemed to be having a good time on stage which is probably the main reason for doing a thing like this. In a production such as this, the process is more important than the end product, in my opinion. Still, there were a number of lights which shone pretty brightly on that stage. Some of these kids will continue with theatre through high school, and maybe college. Beyond that, who knows?