Yes, I did go to the Sing-Along "Sound of Music" extravaganza. (Yes, it was an extravaganza!) And yes, I dressed up as one of my favorite things: a brown paper package tied up with string (thanks to an extra large lawn'n'leaf bag that was stashed with the recycling supplies at my sweetie's house.)
Our Gang:
Maestro and me
Me with Joan Arkham
Whiskers on kittens!
The MC was dressed as a nun. She was excellent, celebrating the joy of "in-nu-en-do!" and generally whipping the crowd into a laughing, shouting frenzy. Her sidekick was a normally dignified KenCen employee in shorts and an alpine cap, whom MC Sister kept calling the Naughty Elf.
MC Sister Mother got all the children in costume to come up onstage. (This photo came out a bit trippy.)
There were a great many Gretels and generic alpine lads. We were lucky - one of the cutest and
best-behaved "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes" was sitting in front of me.
Girl in white dress with blue satin sash
After the kids got their ovations and candies, adults in costume were also herded onstage. We
did not all get candies; however, we did get to be backstage and onstage in the Eisenhower
Theater, which was fun. There were so many brown paper packages, we formed a power bloc: we
all went onstage together and did the Mary Catherine Gallagher "Superstar!" pose from SNL. It
felt like I'd joined some kind of primitive cargo cult.
Me and the brown paper package people
Going out on stage
View of the crowd through box-heads
The finalists
Some of the costumes (alas, I have no pix of Bowing Woman or the Bishop):
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings (backstage with another elf)
Mother Superior (with convent gate)
Silver white winters that melt into spring
One of many attempts at Alpine garb
Climb Every Mountain!
One of the many do-re-mi groups (they had t-shirts made)
