Last weekend, Faithful Reader and I went to his niece’s first dance recital. We had been warned that this was no piddly production, but I was nonetheless shocked by the size of it. There were about 50 separate performances spread out over a period of more than three hours. Each child appeared in several routines and wore a different costume for each dance.
THE GOOD:
Some of the dances were fun and well performed. Faithful Reader’s niece was adorable, and though she only appeared in group routines, she stole the show in her own special way.
THE BAD:
Scheduled at 5:00, the show made a normal dinnertime impossible. No food or beverages were offered during intermission. They could have made a fortune offering traditional bake-sale items, candy, chips—anything!—at a steep markup, and those of us with rumbling tummies would have been quite happy to be overcharged.
THE UGLY:
Us, perhaps. We left just after the last performance to include our little star. Some people might think it was rude to leave before the end of the show, but I was starving and felt that we had already given due respect, and plenty of applause, to the other kids. We weren’t the only ones to leave at that time, either, so if it was in fact bad behavior, at least we can point to other family members and say, “But they did it, too!”