Summer Showtune Stars: Camp [Layla/Emma]

While Speed was galavanting across the Italian countryside, Emma and Layla were in the Dallas Summer Musicals day camp. It was three weeks long at the local Y, culminating in two performances at Fair Park. Friend/neighbor Emma B. was in the camp with them.

Emma practices her singing

The cast

Emma, Layla, and Emma B.

Enough with rehearsals–the performances were great. Started out with “Finale” from Aladdin. Layla was the Sultan, and both she and Emma had speaking parts (they thought the tiny microphones were cool).

The Sultan with Emma to her left (your right)

Then a “Bigger Isn’t Better” from Barnum with a costume that surprised me.

Emma being introduced as one of the trapeze artists

Layla as the Bearded Lady--I so wish I had a better picture

After a long break with other groups doing numbers, the girls were back for “Anything You Can Do”–kind of Emma’s personal motto–from Annie Get Your Gun.

Emma do-si-dos?

To my disgust (but to the girls great delight, “We Rock” from Camp Rock. Layla wore her Nick Jonas shoes and “Mrs. Nic Jonas” t-shirt in tribute. If only she’d been wearing them to dinner a few weeks before.

I guess I should be proud

The big finale, “Circle of Life” from The Lion King, included the entire cast.

People of the animal masks unite

So the girls loved the whole thing, and I was pretty impressed by how well the whole thing was run. This is definitely penciled in for next summer.

The entire cast, I assume