elfs | Since when does she act? Doesn't she always?

Kouryou-chan prepares to cold-read a script for a local theater group.

Monday night, I took Kouryou-chan up to a small theater in Seattle so she could do a cold-reading of a kid-friendly script called Curses, Foiled Again, which looks to be a very silly story. Kouryou-chan was looking to play the only girl in the script; she plays a tomboy in a male-dominated clubhouse in the 1930s and their quest to raise six dollars for reasons I won't go into (don't want to spoil the plot). One of the plot points involves Weezie (that's the girl Kouryou-chan wants to play) having to dress "like a girl."

She totally ran the other cold-readers over like an airport dumptruck. The other kids, who were about her age, couldn't emote their lines or even read them. Kouryou-chan sounded appropriately indignant when reading the line "Why do I have to wear a dress?", gestured appropriately when asked to mime from backstage shouting "She ran away!", rolled her eyes while listening to the explanation that she couldn't play a villain in the play-within-a-play because the script called for a "bad guy," and generally kicked ass. She even from time to time turned to others and whispered, "That's your line," or "It's your turn."

She got the part. It's a good resume' builder, even if all she ever does is municipal theater. That and her voicework look good on her resume, much better than simple modeling. I always thought she had the voice for radio.

Now, though, comes the hard part: seven weekends of rehearsal, followed by three nights of performances. I hope she's up for it.