{"id":959,"date":"2010-07-10T02:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2010-07-10T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T02:54:38","slug":"opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/opening-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of you may know that we live near Walnut Grove.\u00a0 Yep, that Walnut Grove.\u00a0 Some of you may also know that my husband and daughters have been acting in Walnut Grove’s Wilder Pageant<\/a> for 6 years now.<\/p>\n

Every summer, June evenings are consumed with rehearsals for Anna, Victoria and Daryl.\u00a0 Then July comes and weekends are consumed with the performances.<\/p>\n

Tonight is opening night.\u00a0 It is just past dark, so the show just began.\u00a0 The grassy hillside near Plum Creek will be crowded with hundreds, sometimes well over a thousand people, some in reserved seats and others in folding chairs and on blankets.\u00a0 Children will laugh and chase each other on the hills until the music starts and they excitedly catch sight of a horse drawn wagon off in the distance behind the trees.<\/p>\n

Then “Older Laura” will come out and start to tell her story, about how it is that the Ingalls Family arrived in this little town.\u00a0 And for nearly two hours, families will go back in time as they watch dances, schoolroom lessons, a grasshopper plague, a raging fire, a church’s construction, a girl’s blindness, comedy, tragedy and more.<\/p>\n

The boys and I went Wednesday for dress rehearsal and got to see this year’s show.\u00a0 I always choke up at certain scenes, and some just make me smile.\u00a0 I took a billion pictures, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few images from the banks of Plum Creek…<\/p>\n

Backstage…<\/p>\n

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Almost time…<\/p>\n

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And it begins…<\/p>\n

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Break a leg, my sweeties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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