{"id":6037,"date":"2006-09-07T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/high-drama.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:00:11","slug":"high-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/high-drama.html","title":{"rendered":"High Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Whew. What a week.<\/p>\n

My daughter, a freshman in high school, is all hepped up on drama. She’s been in a few local youth theater productions (monkey in Jungle Book, Oompa-Loompa in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. All the great roles) and was Rosie, the female lead in the 8th grade production of Bye-Bye Birdie, <\/em>if you can imagine such a thing.<\/p>\n

So…she tried out for the fall musical, her first step into high school. Auditions were last Tuesday and Wednesday. She got called back for Thursday -a good sign. And then Friday, when the cast list was posted, she was told to come back on Tuesday, with two other girls, for one more call back for a couple more parts. <\/p>\n

Which she did, after which the drama teacher said, "Oh, you’ll get a part. It’s just a matter of which one."<\/p>\n

So yesterday was the big day – and she came back from school, initially with some good news about something, but then her face fell. <\/p>\n

"I didn’t get a part. I’m not even in the ensemble."<\/p>\n

Are you sure?<\/p>\n

"I checked three times. And the teacher wasn’t there today. But my name wasn’t on it."<\/p>\n

Crushed. Yes, there are worse tragedies, and this doesn’t even count as such a thing. But still – I basically left her alone last night, let her talk when she wanted, and let her work on her homework, stewing, for most of it.<\/p>\n

I really found it hard to believe that the teacher would tell her outright, "You’re in"  – and then not put her in. I was fairly convinced it was a mistake, but didn’t want to get her hopes up.<\/p>\n

And..it was<\/em> a mistake. She’s in the ensemble, as it turns out (the play is Into the Woods)<\/em> – she found out when she went to volunteer for the crew (overcoming her initial – I’m done with this – I’m not doing ANYTHING), <\/em>and the teacher said, "Er…you’re in the ensemble." Yes … a mistake.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Great relief around these parts. Because drama is one thing. High drama is something else completely.<\/p>\n

You know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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