Christmas Concert and Prizegiving Ceremony 2011

Last night was the night of our second annual... Christmas Concert and Prizegiving Ceremony 2011! Once again, the concert was held at WPIPS and we had many budding actors and actresses set to impress! We started the evening as normal before the came across a (planned) dilemma! None of the costumes were right! Some had been ruined and no one had any idea why! So instead of our "original performance" we had to watch a bit of TV (at least while we were trying to solve the dilemma). The TV programs were good though, they had a Christmas around the World theme and covered Mexico, France, England, India, Australia and Hollywood! Plus they were in 3D so that made it even better! 

Alivia wearing her 3D glasses

Kerrie looked stunning in her 3D glasses

Georgie loved her 3D glasses

And the Mexican cake!

Yohan found the "Jesus" figurine!
 

The Mexican dancing was great fun!

Then just at the end of the Mexican program, someone must have changed the channel (no idea who, but something tells me it was Brooke, because the remote was found under his chair) seeing as instead of the programmed French channel, an R-rated program turned on! Thankfully we found the remote just in time!

"The following program is classified R-rated, and contains strong violence, sexual scenes and coarse language"

In France, they chopped down and decorated a Christmas Tree (sapin de Noel)

 

And in England, the audience was treated to an interview with the Queen and Kate Middleton

For a while it all went OK, until someone (still no idea who!) unplugged the TV! Luckily, it was just the right time for a break so the audience took the chance to look around the Discovery Room whilst we fixed the TV.

In the Discovery Room during the break

Or for those who had already checked out the Discovery Room, Hugh and Santa (Jesse) gave an amusing show.

And just as we thought nothing else would happen, something went wrong with the 3D and while the 3D characters tried to interact with the audience, it didn't work and the TV screen smashed! I hope no one got too injured in the process. This latest dilemma meant no TV either to it was a good thing that we managed to get at least one part of our original performance ready. So we all sang "It's A Small World" before awarding the Prince & Princess Book Awards. This years recipients, Amelia and Hugh, really deserved the prizes. Then each staff member and student took the audience back to one of their most memorable parts of the year. A BBQ was a well deserved treat at the end!

Three beautiful Indian dancers

Singing "It's A Small World"

Hollywood Chat Session with Abby and Jo

We never found out who was fiddling around and causing all the dilemmas, but we did catch this elf sneaking past!