Meridian High School's "The King & I"

One of my favorite musicals when I was growing up was "The King & I"

This month my niece Danielle is in her high school production of this musical. They asked me to come and photograph the dress rehearsal for them so they could have pictures for the yearbook and archival purposes. It was great to get back into doing some stage photography even with all the challenges. Constantly changing lights, movement, the extreme stage makeup, not being able to move people around, etc (etc, etc) are just some of the challenges. But it was great. Here are a few of the pictures I took for them.

Here is where Miss Anna shows the wife's she is not shaped funny. Just her dress is shaped that way.

This is a picture of my niece as the head wife (can not remember the name) helping with school lessons.

The picture below is when the King asks Miss Anna to take a letter to President Lincoln but test the rule of "Nobody's head should be higher then King's head"

Finally, from the famous "Shall We Dance Scene"

I was able to get some shots from this scene that didn't have such a blur but I liked the blur because at this point they were spinning and dancing really fast.

They did a great job. It is a long play (3 hours) and it wore me out to be moving around for 3 hours all over the theater to get the shots but it was nice to be able to move around at the same time while watching the play. I am finding it hard to sit for long periods of time in theater seats. Just an hour and a half the other night at a movie was hard on me so this was the perfect way for me to go support my niece.

The King and I is going on tonight at Meridian High School as well as Thursday March 11, Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th. All performances start at 7:00 pm. I do not know the cost of tickets (sorry).