Chicago - Friends and Family Edition

As I do every show of Cora's, I'll share some photos of her many adoring fans, for posterity. 

Here, Jen and Jason, and Kelly, Yass and Char (who is now an actor himself at Cora's old school), with Grandma and Grandpa, before Cora came out after the opening night performance.

On Friday night, Coach Greg and Colleen, Rigo and Liana were among the crowd.

Cora has a hard time with the after-show attention and lobby craziness, so it's hard for me to get photos with everyone. For example Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty flew down and timed their trip so they could see Chicago, but I wasn't able to get a photo of them with Cora. And many other family and friends are also not shown here. Just know that Cora brought in up to 50 paid attendees...

Mel, Nick and ELLIE came to watch! Ellie did great, and was wanting to do all of Cora's dance moves the next day. She's in dance class already, so we'll be watching her on stage soon!

I made sure we got a family photo this time - we've missed that opportunity at other times when Violet didn't attend a show and we'd forgotten.

Check out my T-shirt! Jarod is taking the program bigtime - he's using a platform where you can order merch!

Saturday closing night fun - Sue, Melanie and David, Christina and Cami. Everyone was raving, and Cora was signing programs for random kids!

Cora was so pleased that some of her friends from her old school - and her old elementary school! - came out to support her. 

Anna, Shayan and Maxine, and Vaughn as well, got to chat with her new theatre costars and friends.

Playing around with Cora's wig... Cora's hair is so long, it was quite time-consuming to deal with her hair. It involved a LOT of pin curls all over her head so she didn't have obvious bumps under the wig cap. She was one of three girls wearing wigs, and luckily, one of the actor's moms IS a working industry professional with wigs! 

Cora's theatre friends from her old school came out, too! Grace and Sadie, Abbie, Cami, Brooklyn and Sam all enjoyed the show.

Here's the completed photo board. Thanks to Grandpa for taking the headshots and to Violet for helping me get the names on them and helping me splatter gold on the board to mimic the promo poster.

Playing with the new photo editing tools - I was able to erase the background. Kind of cool. 

The actual photo...

So, so proud of this girl.