After the Benefit Concert is over, we will plunge right in to our May musical. There are all kinds of things that come along with us putting on a show. We organize parent volunteers for our costume crew, props crew, sets crew, and fundraising crew. We have Sunday rehearsals between the hours of 1-5.
I’m in Asheville, North Carolina, spending some alone time while my husband and kids hang out with relatives in Tennessee. It’s a rare day when I have time like this now that I am a Mom of twins, and as a teacher and an artist, I crave time alone to let ideas percolate and to dig in to my creativity.
Betina Hershey Russo is the director of the Garden Players Musical Theater Program for Kids. As a singer and guitarist, she performs with her husband, Nick Russo throughout the area and throughout the world. She appeared as a principal dancer in Disney’s Enchanted and in the Julia Roberts film, Mona Lisa Smile and has toured …
January is an exciting month for us. We spend three weeks learning new music in preparation for our Benefit Concert. Each year we learn a different style of music. Last year we learned jazz from the 1920s and brought in Tamar Korn to sing with us. This year we are learning some classical rounds, which is wonderful for group and harmony work, and we are learning some music inspired by my 2 year old twins.
