Little Mermaid Jr: Maira's Grade Six Musical

The music teacher at Maira and Hudson's elementary school is a huge musical theatre enthusiast and puts a crazy amount of work into putting on a top quality musical with the grade six classes every spring. Maira has been looking forward to her turn to be in the musical since Kindergarten and this May, her turn finally came. And not only that but she got cast as Ariel in The Little Mermaid! She spent months practicing her lines and her songs. And I also spent months helping make costumes for the play. It was really fun to help put the show together and to get to know a great group of kids and watch their enthusiasm and dedication to the show. It was an amazing experience.

I sewed the costumes for Scuttle, Flounder, Sebastian, King Triton, Ariel, and the six mersisters. I also helped with sewing the seagull costumes, the ocean pieces, and the eel sidekicks, Flotsam and Jetsam. The only main character I didn't do was Ursula although I did help with her makeup backstage. Here are some shots of some of the costume work:

I sewed King Triton's costume but Shae volunteered to make his crown:

After the first dress rehearsal, I had all the kids whose costumes I sewed pose for me on stage (I somehow missed King Triton in this photo though):

With all the fittings I did, and all the time backstage during performances, I got to know this group of kids really well. I sure love them!