We've had a big leading up to the Children's Theater production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I went to see their production of Romeo & Juliet, which was spectacular for a youth performance but not so 10-year-old appropriate, then I gave my ticket to Little Shop of Horrors to my 21-year-old son because I couldn't make it. My roommate and her ex husband were in a play this summer, their son was in Dracula, their daughter was the one playing Juliet... and still my poor 10-year-old had not gotten to go to a performance.
Since I work nights, I allow him to put on a CD before bed -- usually these are youth classics from Naxos Audiobooks, but we have Jim Weiss' Sherlock Holmes for Children and most recently, Rabbit Ears Holiday Stories Volume 1, which includes Graham Greene reading Squanto and the First Thanksgiving and Glenn Close reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He hasn't wanted to listen to Sleepy Hollow at night because it turns out not to be the best bedtime story, but we made sure he listened to it a couple of times before going to the show just because youth theater isn't always best known for annunciation and big booming theater voices. I stand by that decision, and the show was understood even where it was less audible -- and enjoyed.
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