<p>Hi BHG…to answer your question about my D (though it is totally off topic here but I don’t want to ignore you, but don’t want to continue to derail the topic past this)…</p>
<p>No, my daughter did not audition for American Idol or Grease. I don’t believe any CCer’s are involved. My D doesn’t want to audition for anything that would take her out of school as that is her current focus…college/training and she also doesn’t want to even be tempted if any sort of auditions resulted in any casting, etc. So, she’ll just be doing shows where she is now. She’ll graduate at 20 and that is plenty of time to go for opportunities and she’ll have her training behind her. Anyway, she is not the Sandy type. She is more the Rizzo type! She was in Grease in our state two years ago as Frenchy (an adult production). As far as Idol, she does have the right voice for that, to be honest. I have no clue if she’d ever want to try for it, though wouldn’t right now due to school. A year ago, we were on a cruise and they had an American Idol type competition for a week that became immensely popular on the ship. It was for adults (there was also a youth one) and my D was 17 but didn’t want to do the youth one and went for the adult one (I don’t think they originally realized her age).Every night, there would be cuts and a show fashioned like on TV. It got so popular that the finals were held in the main theater where the entire ship’s passengers came to see it. My D ended up winning it. It was a lot of fun because our extended family was all there and the contestants spanned a wide age range (though were all adults). The judges were saying, “you should be on the REAL American Idol.” I don’t watch that show, nor the Grease one. My D is in musical theater but she also can and does sing rock/pop/jazz vocals. As far as the Grease thing, there are so many talented young adults in her BFA program as well as the many other top BFA programs who would be good for that and very well likely even more so than some of the contestants but I don’t know of any of them who tried out, likely being in school and all. The BFA programs are really not the kind of college programs that you can leave and return too easily. I’m glad my D is putting her schooling and training first at this time. She is still in shows and performing, but just not in the kinds that take one out of school. Hope all is well in your family. Now back to the regularly scheduled thread.</p>