A Year with Frog and Toad

Months and months ago, my sweet mom got tickets for Dylan, me, my sister (Nat), and my nephew (Jake) to a play called A Year with Frog and Toad. It's based on a children's book by the same name:

Mom bought Nat and I each the book to start reading to Dylan and Jake, to get them prepared. Nat read the book to Jake a couple of times, but Dylan wouldn't read it, no matter what I tried. I think he was turned off by the pictures - not as flashy as he would like, probably.

The play was performed in the Colonial Theatre in Idaho Falls - it's been around since 1919! They used to have vaudeville-type plays there. It was renovated and reopened in 1999. Here's a picture of the interior:

We took pictures of each other before the play started. Nat and Jake:

Dylan and me:

And mom and her grandkids:

The play was really cute. My favorite character is Snail. Toad never gets any mail, and it makes him sad. So Frog writes Toad a letter and gives it to Snail to deliver to Toad. It takes Snail a whole year to get there. He was a really cute character:

The play was cute. Nat and I were laughing about the way the characters spoke - Nat calls it the "Broadway Voice." It reminds me of how Gaston, in Beauty and the Beast, talks. It's like he's still singing, kind of. And all verbrato-ey. The actors were all fabulous singers, and the set was really cute.

Jake was enthralled. He paid attention to the whole play. Dylan, unfortunately, got bored quickly. He wasn't necessarily interested in the play itself, but he would ask things like, "Mom, how did they get fog on the stage?" and "Where is that light coming from?" I had to keep yanking him down in his seat, because he kept standing up. The play ends where it begins, and when the characters sang the same song as they did before, Dylan says loudly, "Mom, do we have to watch this whole thing again?!?!? I guess he didn't inherit his mom's taste for theatre.

I had a great time. Thanks, Mom! Without you, our lives would be dull indeed. Thanks for being our Sugar Mama! :)