This was an interesting weekend. We have various friends that have been involved with El Dorado Musical Theatre. This week they opened up Beauty and the Beast and two of our friends are in it so we bought tickets to go see it. Well, then we got an email about the Discovering Musical Theater program where a child and a parent get to go to the show, go back stage afterwards with a little Q&A and then on Sunday have a workshop where they teach you about performing, singing, dancing and acting in a show. They also went over some audition tips and did sample auditions for the kids that wanted to try it. All for the price of... FREE!! 
The show was fantastic, highly recommended! The kids in the show are between 6 and 20 years old, the stage is assembled by volunteers and everything is very professional and awesome! Going backstage and seeing how things are done was fun. On Sunday we went to the costume/props storage building and spent about an (unexpected) hour in there with Q&A. Then I left Christian there and he learned what they could teach the kids of “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast in an hour. Then they went through the audition process and did a parent performance.
Here’s what it ended up looking like. The tall kid in the front right (light green shirt) and the tall girl in the front middle are both members of the casts and know the song already. Christian is in the middle in a green Hairy Otter shirt. He said he didn’t sing it, just danced it but he had a good time and wouldn’t mind trying to do a show at some point – so who knows, maybe a show will be in our future!