<p>We heard from Syracuse yesterday…acceptance yeah! But I had been checking prior and heard no activity. Yesterday seemed to be the most activity so I kind of think there is more next Friday just from what I have been reading. There is a thread Syracuse RD 2018 that I had been checking. You might check that out. Hang in there!!! </p>
<p>And just like that it is over - got home a little while ago after watching our daughter’s final HS musical performance (Urinetown). I was holding it together until curtain call (I’m a guy - we don’t cry!). Once we found her outside the theatre she was in an almost full cry and she isn’t a crier. As much as I want to know where she is going to go to college and have that part finalized, I want the senior year to go as slowly as possible - only 2 months left! What a conflict of emotions…</p>
<p>I heard ya @raellis123. I feel the same way as much as we want this decision over we dont want senior year to be over. At our S last musical I did well until someone came up to him and told him how much he moved his daughter and she had to come see him in his last high school musical and I lost it the tears were flowing. Hang in there.</p>
<p>I almost dreading opening night of my D’s last show (Maria in Sound of Music) on April 2nd because closing night isn’t far behind. She’s my only child so I only “get” to go through this once. Lol. It’ll be a very different house come sept. </p>
<p>I’m right with you. S is Benjy Stone in My Favorite Year and that’s the name of the closing song, I’m going to be a mess.</p>
<p>@Eastchestermom - how did audition today go? I hope great!
And along the lines of last musical - my D’s musical closed last night. They did “Crazy for You,” and I started to cry during “I Got Rhythm.” The line “Who can ask for anything more?” just struck me. My D got two rejections yesterday and I knew I had to tell her today which would be awful. But really… she is healthy, beautiful, smart as a whip, talented and has two acceptances to schools she likes.
Who can ask for anything more?</p>
<p>My D is Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street, opening on April 4… My entire family goes all out for these shows; we can be found slinging hot dogs at the concession, etc. Am not looking forward to the last show and the big letdown… Am tearing up right now thinking about it. It’s especially bittersweet because D didn’t get into any BFA programs. She was accepted at AMDA MT, but that’s it. She deserved more. I’m just saying.</p>
<p>1900 applicants and they take 5 girls… Just one example from one school, @EastchesterMom…these statistics are staggering and have nothing, nothing to do with our girls’ talents and abilities. Learning very quickly that validation does not come from getting into a BFA program. Your daughter and mine are going to flourish no matter where they are planted. <3</p>
<p>Audition went well today. D doesn’t know it, but her dad and I listened to her audition … she rocked it! But a lot of the other auditions went well, too, and nothing came of it. Two rejections today, from UCLA and UC Irvine. A mixed bag today.</p>
<p>My son just finished “Tevye” for his spring show. I cried every damn time they did the train leaving scene. he later confessed in an interview that he was using the fact that he is leaving for (Siberia) soon, to pull on for the emotion in the scene. Little turkey! </p>
<p>Two years ago I asked my friend whose D was the star senior that year how he felt at his D’s last show. He smiled and said, “It’s not her last show, we just have to travel a little farther to see them from now on.” Your kids have a lot more shows in them, don’t forget! </p>
<p>But Octaviar, that train depot scene makes me cry just thinking about it!</p>
<p>Aw, you guys are giving me vicarious grief. My son was the King of Siam in “The King and I” as his final high-school show, so I had to watch him DIE. At the last show, a younger kid was in the audience audibly weeping (there was a lot of sniffling all around) and then wailed to her mother “Why does he have to diiiiiiieeeee???” Actually that made me laugh and broke the spell! 
But I remember that bittersweet feeling. Believe me–the first college show makes it ALL feel better! </p>
<p>@EastchesterMom so glad it went well. positive thoughts your way.</p>
<p>On the train depot scene, “Far From the Home I Love” was one of my D’s audition songs. She’ll also be singing it at our state International Thespian Society conference this coming weekend. Of course being an ITS meeting we’ve been told we can’t really go see it. :(</p>
<p>S was Jean Valjean in our last HS musical, Les Mis… Husband & I both cried the whole show. The house will be quiet around here come next fall. There was always a piano being played or concerts sung from the shower…</p>
<p>Son’s last HS performance was Saturday night. Tony in West Side Story. I teared up in the obvious places, but so proud of how far he has come. It will be soooooo quiet…</p>
<p>We are on the other side of sending off our youngest to college. I am not going to say it is easy or we don’t miss her terribly, but we are doing fine. For one thing, it seems she is often home on break. The school year is so short, and there are so may breaks! And she calls almost every day. Sometimes for just 5 minutes while she is walking from one class to another, but those 5 minutes are always a highlight of my day and I still know much of what is going on in her life. Sometimes we Facetime or Skype. And I get to see Facebook and Instagram photos of her, doing fun things with friends. Find something rewarding to do to replace the time you spent on updating that college spreadsheet. In addition to the part-time job I already had, I have started taking yoga lessons, volunteer, and even signed up to be in a play myself (something I haven’t done since high school). For me, it is not as bad as I worried it would be. </p>
<p>Well…we saw our S’s last high school musical yesterday (Albert - Bye Bye Birdie); admittedly, I started crying at his last song “Rosie” (it was so sweet and tender) and continued on through the finale, curtain call, and hugs and kisses afterwards. One nice Mom passed out travel size packs of tissues before the show…did not realize I would need them SOOOO much! But yes, I agree, this will not be the last time I get to watch him perform, just the last at his amazing high school, without it, he would not be getting ready to embark on his new adventure.</p>
<p>@shaun0203 thank you for sharing that. I have thought about what I will do with my time now that I am not driving him to voice lessons and dance and everything else he does. We do have a daughter a year younger but not into the musical theater the way he is so it will not be the same at all come fall. </p>
<p>S won’t be in final MT showcase his senior year - due to lack of timely communication on the part of H.S. Program staff. I am saddened that he will be unable to participate, since he committed to being in ballet spring production on same date (I contacted H.S. Program in January - BEFORE committing to ballet). I am SO ready to be done with H. S. (Performing Arts, no less) that doesn’t understand how critical the scheduling is for these hard-working kids. That said, I can’t believe how fast this year is going. Last night, S said to me and H, “no offense. I love you guys, but I’m ready to move out”. Hard to take, but I guess that means we did our job right. Sniff, sniff.</p>