Kids! Balloons! Root beer floats!

We had our first student matinee in Louisville yesterday and it was a blast!  The cast was really impressed with how they behaved as an audience.  No hooting or whistling or throwing things in the blackouts.  Super responsive with laughter and applause and not afraid to boo the Red Queen when she got too full of herself.  There was a wide range of ages from 4th grade up through high school, public schools and private schools from near and far.  The cast got to meet and greet the students for a little bit afterwards during the pizza and root beer float party sponsored by Yum! Brands, the underwriters of the student matinees at ATL.  One of the 4th grade classes is blogging about their experience.  Check out what they have to say here:     lcsreads.edublogs.org       In other Louisville news, the Associates (completely awesome volunteers!) of the Actors Theatre threw an amazing Labor Day picnic for the casts of Alice, Dracula and Midsummer Nights Dream and the Apprentices and Interns working on them all.  Let me tell you, Kentuckians know how to feed you up at a picnic.  Lindsey and I represented Chi-town (and Alice) as a team in the Corn Hole games and after winning our first game we were well on our way to winning the second one when it started raining.  We are having a splendid time, though of course we miss all our Chicago friends and families.