Dear DeeDee:
I would like my 3 children to do Cats on Ice.
I have some questions (of course! Don't all parents?) First, let me tell you about my kids.
My daughter Rebekah may be performing in Alice in Wonderland your audition day and it may be a matinee (mosty likely) and can't make the 11:30--1 PM audition on May 7. Is it possible for you to audition her at a different time? Actually, my other 2 may have to audition at a different time if this Alice in Wonderland musical conflicts since I don't know if our family could be 2 places at once since we only have one car.
Rebekah is skating at Pre-pre level and is taking her pre-pre moves and pre-pre FS this Sunday, April 24. She just turned 9 and sings and dances too and has been in 2 musicals so far in the chorus and had small parts too and she did the lead roles in couple of "school plays" at Attitudes Performing Arts Academy and was also in the Nutcracker. She is my talented one! She is working on her preliminary dances too, but they are not at test level yet, but she is amazing at memorizing dance steps, etc.
Next, Annabelle is 5 and will be 6 on July 23. She loves to dance and sing and skates not quite at the level you need (she's kind of at Basic 5/6), but probably would be fine in a non-skating part for her age level. She was also in the Nutcracker this year. She just loves to dance!
Joel, 11, is ice dancing and working on his pre-pre tests. He is my difficult one. If boys are in this, he'll do it. He was in the Nutcracker this year and did a fantastic job playing one of the bad children. He would do best at a skating part I think. He's skating at about a FS 3 level to give you an idea and has memorized tons of ice dances, so I think he could do this. He was in the chorus in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and enjoyed himself and liked learning to sing and dance.
Anyway, let me know if they can audition on a different day than May 7. We still homeschool, so my time is sort of flexible.
Here's a website on us, so you can see what the kids look like:
http://jumpspin.com/dec04/I just want my kids to take part in what you are doing since I'm looking for something different for them to get acting, dance, singing, and drama experience, and to fit skating in seems like a dream!
Sorry to ramble on!
JO ANN Schneider Farris
