The thing I think the jazz kids (and myself) were looking forward to the most was their performance at Cosmic Ray's in Magic Kingdom. Allow me to set up the venue for you. There is an anamatronic DJ performing for the crowd most of the day. Then, at periodic intervals, the entire stage lifts up into the ceiling, with another stage coming up out of the ground, with our jazz band on it already performing. The jazz band got to go underground and see the behind the scenes area of Disney...there is a minature city under the park, with restaraunts, malls, roads, etc. under the park for the over 60,000 workers to use. When we got to the stage, we all piled in and got set up. Becky Visser even got to operate the levers to raise and lower the stage. The restaraunt was crowded, as it was at dinnertime. Once our band was announced, the crowd went crazy, and our band kids in the audience really helped give the jazz band an adrenaline boost with their screaming. The band played a nearly flawless set, and the soloists all sounded incredible. When we finished and were lowered into the ground, the faces on the kids said it all. A quote from Michelle Ditchfield..."Let's go up and do it again!!!" It was a highlight of the kids musical lives, and a pleasure to be a part of.
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