CYT Showcase

Tonight was such a great night for Kyle. For the past 10 weeks he has been taking a weekly class with the Christian Youth Theatre group in our city. (go to http://www.cyt.org/) for more info on this wonderful organization. The class he chose was COMEDY IMPROV. Kyle has LOVED being in this class and has not missed one week. At the end of each 10 week session of classes, CYT has a Showcase event where all the classes come together to perform what they have learned.

Last week Kyle came home from class with his "script" and announced that he would be the Emcee for the night. What?..WOW! We were so impressed and excited for Kyle. He practiced with his script all week and although he did not have to memorize it, he did need to know the material well enough to be able to deliver his lines in an animated way. He did such an outstanding job tonight. He is a natural on stage and did not show a bit of nervousness before or during. We were beyond proud of Kyle.

In addition to his Emcee duties he also had the opportunity to get up on stage with his class and do a comedy improv. His class has approximately 25 kids in it and they vary in age from 13-18. What a fun and talented group of kids! No wonder Kyle has been so excited to go to class each week. Kyle's comedic improv was so funny and off the cuff. He did such a wonderful job.

The BEST part of the evening however was at the end of the night when one of the CYT directors announced the ten teens that have been chosen to be part of the Comedy Improv team representing CYT for our city at the national competition at the major nearby city in our state this Summer. Kyle has been working so hard for the past 10 weeks to earn this, and he did it. Starting in 2 weeks he will be working each week with the team of 10 in preparing for the competition.

It's so great to see Kyle involved with such a wonderful organization doing something he loves. Tonight was definately a blessing in an otherwise continued difficult time for Kyle. He is really missing the socialization that comes along with being in school 5 days a week and talks about it often. In fact, if there was not only 3 months left of school I would do an intradistrict transfer to get him into the public middle school accross town. Until fall arrives and he can attend a regular 5 day a week school again (investigating public and private High Schools now), we just have to keep him as busy as possible and in as many social situations as we can. He is really excited to go to his Church Youth Retreat this weekend which will be a wonderful time of fellowship and friendship building for him.