General News
6 September, 2024
End of an era: Lisa Thomas' last Horsham School of Music Showcase
Today is the day for the last Horsham School of Music Showcase.
There are no sleeps left to count - the Horsham School of Music Showcase is this Saturday night at 7.30pm!
My outfits are sorted, thank goodness, because my teenager has been in a world of pain trying to put together about seven different ensembles.
She looks a million bucks in everything of course, because she is eighteen-years-old, but being eighteen means that she is also super self-conscious.
No matter how fabulous the grown-ups think she looks in her autumn number, her black get-up or her formal suit - she has concerns about different body parts not looking the way she wants.
It has been agonising.
We hit the local shops with lots of success, but a couple of off-centre costumes for songs were hard to settle.
I've been unable to stop myself riffling through my wardrobe to offer her this top, that skirt or these shoes.
Some of my favourite pieces were new well before the turn of the century, and although my baby girl is very polite, you may indeed ask what on earth I've been thinking?
I was 36 when Tiani was born, so the chances of her being in raptures at my wardrobe items - half gleaned from the op shop in recent years - would have to be pretty slim.
I do realise that Saturday's Showcase is actually a singing concert, not a fashion parade, and we are both very proud of ourselves for rehearsing every day.
This will be Lisa Thomas's last ever presentation of her student's work, so we are feeling the pressure of doing her proud.
After years spent in the audience listening to my three daughters perform, this is the first time I get to be on stage as a performer.
Tiani is the third Grosser girl to present her Year 12 piece and I'll be slipping back into the crowd to enjoy that one.
Singing with the band will be thrilling but I'm most concerned about being so distracted by the talent around me that I completely forget to sing.
That, or just the puffing and panting of trying to sing words while remembering the choreography that goes with each song.
Honestly, thought, the biggest problem with my group of 16 ladies seems to be remembering where the heck we each stand!