Charlie Update
Mar. 21st, 2011 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumSo, poor Charlie was heartbroken on Friday because he didn't get a 'named' part in the Play "High School Musical" (Junior). He was cast as a 'rebel' which, as near as I can figure, is one of the groups in the cafeteria who sing Status Quo, which is actually a really cool song.
He was crying on the phone when I spoke to him that afternoon, which always breaks my own heart, and he insisted he wasn't going to do the show. Fortunately the director 'gets' Charlie' and apparently spent some time on Friday calming him down, and gave him the weekend to think it over before quitting.
I asked friend on my FB - many of whom are actors - to send Charlie encouraging messages to convince him to do the show, which they did, and I talked to him quite a bit this weekend about how it will be fun no matter what and it's a good experience, so as of this morning he said he was going to do the show.
I had to laugh, though, when I came home on Friday he was sitting on the sofa with the big bucket of Cookie Dough I had, eating it with a spoon, the very picture of abject misery.
His new friend spending the night on Friday went a long way in improving his mood, too. That was nice. His friend wants to be a comic artist when he grows up, and Charlie likes writing stories, so they've decided to team up and make a comic of their own one day. The next Neil Gaiman and Dave McLean, maybe?
He was crying on the phone when I spoke to him that afternoon, which always breaks my own heart, and he insisted he wasn't going to do the show. Fortunately the director 'gets' Charlie' and apparently spent some time on Friday calming him down, and gave him the weekend to think it over before quitting.
I asked friend on my FB - many of whom are actors - to send Charlie encouraging messages to convince him to do the show, which they did, and I talked to him quite a bit this weekend about how it will be fun no matter what and it's a good experience, so as of this morning he said he was going to do the show.
I had to laugh, though, when I came home on Friday he was sitting on the sofa with the big bucket of Cookie Dough I had, eating it with a spoon, the very picture of abject misery.
His new friend spending the night on Friday went a long way in improving his mood, too. That was nice. His friend wants to be a comic artist when he grows up, and Charlie likes writing stories, so they've decided to team up and make a comic of their own one day. The next Neil Gaiman and Dave McLean, maybe?
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on 2011-03-21 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-21 02:50 pm (UTC)Seriously...some day we'll have to meet up!
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on 2011-03-21 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-22 11:52 am (UTC)Maybe I need to follow this advice. *g*