Last night Wakana and I went to the Phoenix Center at Father Duenas Memorial School to see Beauty and the Beast. It was phenomenal. Ostensibly it was a high school musical but there was a number of college kids in it and some very capable adults working on the set and choreography. There was a live orchestra with a conductor who, at one point in his career, played Carnegie Hall in NYC.

The hit of the show were the kids. FD is a boys school so they need to import girls for the female parts. The two girls who played Belle were both former students of mine. The Belle from last night was one of my favorites. She is a stunningly beautiful young woman with a magical voice. I couldn't be prouder of her if I was her father.