(Skylar) Friday night: Attending the Boys and Girls Club theater performance

Last night we went to a performance by the Boys and Girls Club of Puerto Rico that we had visited the day before. It was a mixture of vignettes from various Broadway productions. The first set of scenes they did were from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. They showed the key scenes from the story, for example the hunchback being taken as a baby, and his life with the gypsies. The performance then transitioned from the Hunchback to Aladdin where the genie talked to Aladdin and ang and danced around. After the scene finished, the actors performed a scene from the Lion King. During the scene the performers sang the Hakunamatata song and raised a curtain that had a band behind it. The song was led by the percussion instruments (mainly drums). After they finished the song they used lights and a cardboard cut out to mimic the sunrise in the Lion King. They went into a scene with the baboon who went into th opening song from the lion king. Once they had finished th song they shifted into In The Heights and did a song and dance that led into the finale. Although most of us did not understand what they were saying (it was all done in Spanish), we knew the stories and therefore were able to understand what was going on. The costumes that were used were amazing, as well as the music which was very percussive and energetic. Overall it was an amazing experience to see kids our age and younger perfoming such an amazing production and seeming to have so much fun, excitement and pride in their performance. It was also great to see some of the same kids that we saw and played with the day beforehand performing for us. The Boys and Girls club actors only practiced for 20 days before last night's performance, which was extremely impressive given the quality of the performance, costumes, and music.