The Ward Variety Show: VARIETY is the Key Word

So, I thought that the Single's Ward had some variety in their ward talent shows (such as re-enacting the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland), but our family ward takes the cake for having such a wide variety of acts.

We had a couple who played the nose flutes, even harmonizing to "I've Got You Babe" (I was pretty impressed by that, and even more so that the husband convinced the wife to do it- there's real love right there!).

The missionaries from our ward had a short skit about humor from the scriptures, such as "What do Alma The Younger and John The Baptist have in common? The same middle name", and the scripture about "flying rolls", and a few others I can't remember. I actually need to get their set list from them because I was telling my mom about it and she thought it would be fun to do in her ward for sharing time.

A man brought out this Chinese metal pot from the Ming dynasty that when filled with water, you can make sounds by vigorously rubbing the handles which also causes the water to boil. It actually was pretty neat- the kids especially crowded around it forever making it harder for the adults to see- but I never would have expected to see that.

We had 2 different rock bands, and one of the kids from our Sunday School class was in both of them. One was made up of his junior high friends, the other was with some of the dads from the ward. The junior high band completely captured my heart by playing a great rendition of "Back in Black". This was our high school theme song- they played it at every football game, basketball game, pep rally, assembly- ahh the memories. I told my student about that and he said that he wants to go to our high school :-) Too bad his parents live here in Los Altos. The thing that I was most impressed with was that they even had a FOG machine! This is a serious ward variety show to have gotten a fog machine.

There were two videos made by the Young Men and Young Women. The Young Women lip-synced to "Bye, Bye, Bye" and did an excellent job at another classic of ours from high school. The guys had a "Lord of the Rings" spoof with their CTR ring, along with a super long fight scene. And a Dodge Ball spoof as well.

There was even a "high brow" hoedown where individuals had on these fake eyebrows to be "high brow" and then did the limbo- we were impressed by how many people volunteered to do this on the spot not knowing what they were going to go.

And then there were the more traditional acts that I have generally seen at a variety show. Several piano solos, a ballet pointe solo, and few small dance numbers, and some singing. These two little girls did an amazing job singing "Loathing" from Wicked. They both were like 10 and under and just seemed fearless up there.

With so much variety and talent, how could William and I compete with that? And talent as well? Instead, we did my favorite talent which is to appreciate art :-)