[American Entertainment] Dance out of my youth

She muttered unhappily, "It's just to watch a musical, don't you need to dress like you're going to an opera?"

"My daughter is so beautiful, of course she has to dress up beautifully all day long." Juliet put down her hair tie. "Besides, this is Tom's first performance in a theater in the West End. It's not like you didn't miss how hard he worked for this stage."

Grace pouted, "He's such a showy boy!"

Juliet asked strangely: "What's wrong with you? You don't like him? Did he do something bad?"

Grace was a little awkward, "...not really."

"Then what's wrong with you?" She thought about how the two children seem to have a good relationship.Grace is smarter and more precocious, but it is not uncommon for girls to develop mentally earlier than boys.Tom is a little naive, but in the past two years, Tom Holland has really worked hard in order to be able to appear on the stage in London's West End.

The process of Tom's discovery is a bit Hollywood. In the summer when he was 10 years old, the dance classroom where he learned to dance allowed the young students to participate in a performance at the Richmond Dance Festival. A choreographer, Lynn Page, happened to be I was looking everywhere for the young actors in "Billy Elliot Out of My World", so I found Tom and asked him to audition.Tom lacked more rigorous dance training and could not perform, but Lynn Page thought he had great potential. After the audition, he told the Hollands that Tom should be sent to learn ballet and acting.

After two years of study and many auditions, Tom finally got a role in "Out of My World", but it was not the actor Billy Elliott, but Billy's friend Michael.

Tonight is Tom's West End debut.Nikki has already posted to her circle of friends and invited many people to watch Tom's debut.

It's not bad, but—I always feel that something is wrong.

Last summer, because of Grace, the Elliott family skipped another grade and went up to the 10th grade. They changed schools, so they moved to downtown London and lived in a townhouse in a certain community.

Tom is also graduating from Don Hyde this year, and will enter secondary school at Wimbledon College near Don Hyde next term.

The two parents are in contact from time to time, and the two children are closely related.

Tom has to call Grace blatantly for any major or minor matter. He just graduated, and Nikki hasn't bought him a mobile phone yet, so he can only use his landline at home to call her.Grace already had her own mobile phone, which was very convenient.

His studies are so-so. If he doesn’t know about mathematics, physics and chemistry, he can ask Grace. Sometimes she will get bored and let him go, asking him to wait for her to finish her homework before explaining it to him.

Grace was annoyed, but she was also just a girl under 14 who couldn't figure out what was bothering her.

Juliet thought for a while, "Do you think Mom and Dad like Tom better?"

"A little bit."

"Silly boy." Juliet supported her shoulders and pushed her to sit on the chair in front of the dressing table. "You are my child, how could I not like you, and prefer someone else's child? You are really too worried. Tom is a good boy, yes, my father and I like him very much, but our favorite It must be you, my darling."

"I don't like it when you keep mentioning Tom."

"Okay, mom will be more careful in the future and try to mention him as little as possible." She brushed Grace's hair: dark brown short hair, slightly longer than three years ago, but the length has not yet reached the shoulders; very smooth, She is shiny and her hair is of excellent quality; in the mirror is her small face, the baby fat on her face has faded a little over the past few years, she is a beautiful girl, but she is only a girl.

Grace smiled at her mother in the mirror, "Then we can go to the theater now."

"Okay, I'll go see if Dad has changed his clothes."

The Elliott family arrived at the Victoria Palace Theater in the West End. They could not sit with the Holland family, but the twins ran over and excitedly told Grace that the little brother is a big star!

"He's not a big star yet." Grace beat the twins brutally. "Maybe he panicked on stage and fell down. There will be no next time."

Sam said angrily: "Tom, Tom can't be so stupid!"

Henry was very worried, "Yes, what if he falls down?"

Juliet raised her forehead while listening: It is impossible to say that Grace "can't speak". Her social skills are very good and normal, but for some reason, she is very dissatisfied with Tom these days.

She whispered to David, Was Grace failing to make friends her age at school?After all, a boy is two years behind, and compared with a more precocious girl, he will feel that he is too childish.Grace probably thought Tom was too naive.

It was also the first time for David to look at his daughter's interpersonal problems from this perspective, "It's possible. When I was in middle school, I didn't like to play with boys who were younger than me. Boys like slightly older girls. "

Juliet glanced at him, "We girls don't want to take children to play." Well, it must be so!Grace's trouble was that she skipped two grades, so she didn't meet children of the same age. The classmates in the class were older than her, and they didn't want to take children to play, so she encountered social barriers.If she was a few years older, the difference between the two years would not be obvious.For example, if you go to college, the difference between two years old is so small that it can be ignored.

She didn't really hate Tom, but she couldn't think of him as a friend.But children grow up very fast, and she won't see it that way in a few years.

Juliet thought she had figured out her daughter's psychology, so she was not in a hurry.

Tom Holland is not tall for his peers. He has dark brown curly hair, a small straight nose, and a cute smile, but his teeth are not straight and he has a small pimple on his chin. .

But such a little bean-like boy has a very good expressiveness on stage.

After the performance, the Elliott family greeted the Hollanders from afar and left the theater.

Grace returned home, took off her skirt, showered and washed her hair, and when she got out of the bathroom, she saw that there were several missed calls on the phone screen, all of which were Holland's home numbers.

She called.

The bell rang only once, and Tom answered the phone.He hurriedly asked: "What do you think? Can I dance well?"

"It's good." She held the phone in one hand and wiped her hair with a towel in the other.

"I thought you'd stay and wait for me to come out."

"There are too many people in the theater, I want to go home first."

"Can you go out tomorrow? Dad will take me to the theater tomorrow afternoon. Shall we meet? I haven't seen you for a month." After the Elliott family moved out, the number of times they saw each other decreased greatly.

"I don't know if Dad has time to send me there. I'll ask him tomorrow morning."

"Okay then. If you can go out, you can call me before noon tomorrow."

"Okay." She hung up the phone.

Oh, what a child!In a hurry to get affirmation.The Hollanders must have praised him again and again, but he was still not satisfied, and he still wanted to listen to other people's compliments.

Bad boy!

She resented.

As for the cultivation of art, the Elliott family is at the level of ordinary people. They are not very good, but they are not so good that they can't see the good or the bad. Tom has an innocent temperament, which is inseparable from his family background. He studied dance very hard and attentively. Tonight's performance is undoubtedly a success. They haven't walked out of the theater yet, and they have heard the audience say, this new Michael is very good. The performance is still too immature, but he has already shown his edge, yes A material that can be made.

The casting of musicals is a long-term process, because most of the actors in "Jump Out of My World" are children, you can't let the same group of child actors perform 5 or more times on the stage every week, so the crew will choose more group of actors.Tom actually auditioned for the main character Billy Elliott, but because he had never performed in a musical, the director asked him to play Billy's little friend first so that he could get familiar with the stage.

Every time Tom goes to the audition, he will listen carefully to the audition director's comments, and he will hurriedly call and report to Grace after returning home. He will be very happy if he is affirmed, and will be frustrated if there is any deficiency. He is really an emotional person. boy.

—I don't like to tell people everything!

She felt that she was too mature, but Tom was just a child!

Grace Elliott began to participate in the training and selection of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (United Kingdom Mathematics Trust) last year, and this year began to participate in the British Intermediate Mathematics Challenge. The 500 winners participated in the week-long National Mathematics Summer School in July.

She is now at home waiting for her advanced study in July.

There is basically no homework in British secondary schools, but if you really want to study hard and make progress every day, it is very common to go to cram schools or find private tutors.The advantage of the Elliott family was that David could tutor her through high school.She is very capable of self-learning. She usually reads books and solves questions in her room by herself, and asks her father when she doesn't understand.David was never impatient with his children and never scolded his daughter for interrupting his work.He said, anyway, the program can't be completed in just one hour, so you might as well put it down for a while, and it can be regarded as a rest.

Grace is very satisfied with her parents. After all, you can see it on the TV news and newspapers. Irresponsible parents are everywhere, and children are abandoned everywhere.When two people decide to have a child, they should give them enough love, otherwise, why should they have a child?She couldn't understand those people, they were obviously very irresponsible, why did they create offspring to harm those poor children?