Oh yes, thanks, Sheila.
Mike and also Guest, The idea that started this year's show was one of the mothers talking about "Butterfly Ball". I found that but she'd confused the title, in her mind, with "The Ugly Bugs Ball". I'll probably modify both songs and use them. That way we have the option of pretty and beautiful -- as butterflies and beetles (a fair number of Christmas beetles of course)-- or strange and wonderful.
Thank you Alison. I like the caterpillar/butterfly one.
We have --or we will have -- a new baby in the cast. Good chance for a metamorphosis during the show -- from caterpillar to butterfly.
I might have one of the older boys read the first paragraph of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. That'll have them wondering. Then I'll lighten things up with little girls butterflying around the stage.
Every year I wonder if I'll get away with absurdist touches. So far so good.
Cheers, Joy