thanks to his education at a waldorf school, odin is quite familiar with storytelling and theatre. he regularly comes home with tales of playing this character or that character in a play and has had quite a few opportunities to see older grades put on productions. but today we took him and five friends to see his first “real” theatre, a musical production of The Secret Garden put on by university of wisconsin-richland theatre.

i guess we should have read the synopsis of the musical version of the book ( which he’s read and thoroughly enjoyed ) because we were all a bit surprised by its emphasis on the adult characters . despite it’s billing as “fun for all ages” it really was more appropriate for the 13 and older crowd. that said, i was amazed to see the kids sit through the 2.5 hour production without too much trouble and with lots and lots of questions about lighting and how they moved the sets from one scene to another.

and our evil plan is already working. odin went to bed asking when he can see more plays 🙂