Annabel recently completed a theater class. She loved it, and had a great teacher. They learned acting techniques and at the end did a shortened production of The Wizard of Oz. Annabel, always the student, took this very seriously. She rehearsed her lines, until she had them memorized, highlighting the lines in her script -- her lines in yellow, and the prompting lines in orange. She wanted to be Dorothy, but was cast as the Wicked Witch of the West. She handled this disappointment maturely. The costumes and the entire show was very low key, in a classroom, not on a stage. But not for Annabel. The day of the show she decided to wear a brown tee shirt "because it's close to black." She was sooo excited, and also a little nervous on the drive over. She was fabulous. She was by far the most prepared actor. She stayed in character the entire time she was on stage and remembered all of her lines. After the show the artistic director of the entire school came up to her and asked her to be in their summer show. "Why aren't you in Jungle Book?" she asked dramatically. Annabel explained that we were going away for the summer. It's obvious that acting and singing are her thing.
Annabel is the cyclone
The demise of the Wicked Witch
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