Micah Makes the Ballet West Nutcracker!

All of this dancing started many years ago when Micah, as a 1st grader, went on a field trip to a professional ballet performance of the Nutcracker downtown. From there he was fascinated with dancing and hoped that someday he could be in their Christmas performance of The Nutcracker as well.

We told Micah if he worked really hard in dance that someday we would take him to audition to be in the professional Nutcracker.

He was 9 years old, and that was about the age where they would let kids audition to be a part of the ballet.

We took Micah downtown to audition. He got a number and waited his turn to be evaluated.

It was a long time to wait. There were hundreds and hundreds of girls auditioning, but not so many boys. We did count about 30 or so boys.

It was awful to see how they did it. They would send groups of girls in and then hours later someone would come out and announce that they were going to let some girls out to see their parents, but these were the ones who did not make it in. So you would see all these girls come out crying and it was just so sad.

That would be the 1st cut, and then there would be another cut and another and you would see group after group of girls bawling and sad. Oh, awful!

So it was a little nerve racking to see this and be waiting for the boys' turn.

Their turn came and we waited anxiously for someone to come out and announce something. A lady came out and explained that they were going to release the boys first who did not make it. We watched on edge as boy after boy came out of the doors. 1,2,3,4,5,6 boys out, no Micah yet. 7......8......9......not Micah......and they didn't all come right out. It's like a few here, a few there, and you didn't know if they were done coming out or not.

Finally, I think they were done coming. There was no Micah. That was it. Did that mean he made it?

The lady came out again and said the rest of boys who would come out next had made it into the Nutcracker! He had done it!

Micah came out with a congratulatory letter and instructions of what to do next!

We were so excited for Micah to be able to live his dream!