Seven year olds in heaven…
…that was the scene tonight at Keller Auditorium, where the oh-so-dressy young girls in the crowd, faces alight in anticipation, put the rest of the Nutcracker Ballet audience to shame. (Flip flops and sweatpants? Ye gods…)
My own seven year old daughter, similarly dressed to the nines, was in raptures all throughout the evening, although she’s not quite got the whole ‘ballet decorum’ part down yet (if you were there and saw the young girl in red velvet pumping her fists and cheering loudly at the end as if she’d just witnessed a great hockey brawl on the ice? Yep, that was my kid…)
And who was that bon vivant up on stage as the ‘late guest?’ Why, none other than Mayor Tom Potter, who threw in a few dance steps of his own.
From what I could tell, plenty of mothers and daughters (or extended families) were there as part of their holiday ritual. And from my daughter’s reaction, we’ll be making it an annual routine as well.
what was the event?
Whoops – forgot one minor detail, have edited to correct same. The Nutcracker Ballet…