A group of my husband’s theater kids from Les Miserableslast year are on The Sing-Off on NBC beginning Monday, September 19th.
Don’t know my husband’s name? That’s funny because a lot of people around here don’t know my name either. They prefer to refer to me as “Mr. Katz’ wife.”
As in, “Hey, arent’ you,”…wait for it…”Mr. Katz’ wife?”
During the pause, I just usually offer, “Mr. Katz’ wife? Yup, that’s me.”
For the record, his name is Jason Katz. Otherwise known as, “Samantha’s dad.”
Anyway, back to the big news.
If you are friends with me on Facebook, you know that I spent a lot of time and energy last fall helping my husband with his production of Les Mis at Wilsonville High School.
And now, WHS’s a capella singing group (composed of all but about three kids from the cast of “Les Mis”) are going to perform on “The Sing-Off.”
If you watch the show, you will see what I was raving about on Facebook all last fall—the talented kids who played Jean Val Jean, Javier, Cosette, Eponine, Marius, and more.
Pretty cool, right? These are some pretty talented kids. But they weren’t just “born that way,” they have worked hard to cultivate and develop their abilities. Their regular rehearsal time was before school started last year. How many high school students do you know who are so motivated they would get out of bed and come into school early to rehearse?
And here’s the craziest part: they are the only high school a cappella group on the show. Everyone else is either a college student or an adult. So, I don’t imagine that they will necessarily win (especially since my alma mater’s male a capella group–the Dartmouth Aires–are participating and they are always AMAZING). Nobody knows how far they made it, the show was taped and they are not allowed to tell, so we are excited to watch and cheer them on.
Hope you can watch, too. Here’s an inspiring video preview of the show:
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What would you be willing to get up early for? Could you handle the pressure of this kind of exposure? It’s easy to think you would and you could. But would you? Could you? Think about it.