Rock Solid is a youth center located in downtown Winona, with the goal to get kids off the street and give them something to do. The building is full of free arcade games, game stations, couches, inflateables, and a small skate park. The youth center is religion based and overall is a great idea/concept. But truthfully the building is just a place for bad kids to be around worse kids with no supervision. So even though i am not usually asociated with the place, during the summer they put on a musical which for the past five years i've been apart in. These shows are a major fundraiser for a usually non profit organization. In past years Rock Solid has put on such shows as:
Alice In Wonderland - Mad Hatter
Sound Of Music - Kurt In The Von Trapp Family
Oliver! - Charley Bates
and many more...
Not the biggest production of my drama year but it is something to keep me busy during July and the begining of August. There was two days of auditions, either saturday or sunday. Of both days there was a total of two guys including me. It is really sad to see the declining involvement of guys in theatre. So we had to rehold auditions that next week. Once the cast list was posted I couldn't wait for practices to begin. The measley four weeks that we had just rushed by! All four nights of the show went really well, nothing major went wrong. Saturday night we had a really stiff crowd but what can you do!
Right now I am glad its over but just like every other show... in a few days time I will want to go do teh show just one more time. Sunday is the cast party and I am excited to have a little reuinion.
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