Compose Yourself!

Will's class play was a musical production called "Compose Yourself." A group of children learn about classical music and the composers in a dream when statues of the composers come to life. The statues teach the children about the music they wrote and the children teach the composers about more modern music. Will really wanted to play a composer rather than a student and was excited to be assigned the part of Felix Mendelssohn.

The kids did such a great job! Will and some of his other classmates learned to play songs on the piano written by the composers they were playing. Will played a bit of the Wedding March. Ariana did a very nice Fur Elise. There were no takers for the Moonlight Sonata but Teddy did sing his lines for that. His mother was totally surprised for he had not told her anything about singing a solo.
That last photo there at the bottom is where the composers have become statues again, and the children have awoken from their dream and are on their way to class to turn in their reports. The statues make faces at the kids but resume their normal positions when the kids turn around. You can see that Will carries this bit on until the bitter end. No one else is continuing to make faces behind the kids backs except for Will. I think he really enjoyed being on stage and making people laugh.