Remembering their lines, the lyrics and steps before and after school, and even during lunch breaks, local children are dedicating much of their precious spare time to practise as they play their dream role in the famous “The Sound of Music” musical.
“It’s worth it,” Angelo Rodrigues, who is 12, told The Macau Post Daily excitedly after working on the “So Long, Farewell” number at the practice session on Saturday at the Venetian in Cotai, adding, “Because it’s once in a lifetime.”
Like most of the children when they were told they had got the part, Angelo “couldn’t sleep”, while 10-year-old Matilda May Seward Griffiths was “over the moon crazy”.
Karen Sproull, assistant director for Children, Dance Captain and “swing” for The Sound of Music (right) and children take part in a practice session at the Venetian on Saturday. Photos: Monica Leong
Macau children (top, from left) Angelo Rodrigues, Carolina Monteiro, Matilda May Seward Griffiths and Pilar Monteiro (front), who will be performing as the von Trapp children in The Sound of Music, pose during their practice session at the Venetian on Saturday.
