Young Men's Club - 5/13/08

I am counting down the days until I move on to my acting gig. But until then, there's a lot of work to do. The good news with the boys is that their work is pretty much done. There will be no new material that they'll have to learn. It's simply a matter of rehearsing what they already know. Which should have been simple. In fact, I made an announcement to them at the beginning of the club. I said that we would run the pieces for both the Spring and the Father/Son shows three times. After that, there would be free time to do whatever they wanted. Play games, go outside, whatever. All they had to do was get it together for about a half an hour. Well it didn't work out that way. They were so easily distracted. But the good news for me was that it didn't really matter. I knew that we were going to do what I wanted. It didn't matter if it took an hour. I repeatedly reminded them that they were cutting into their own play time. The unfortunate aspect of this policy is that the kids that do behave must pay the penalty of the three kids that don't know how to act. But they did get their comeuppance. When there was time to play, the rebellious kids had the distinct pleasure of sitting out.