The Collection

The Secret Show

We have been waiting for this night for a long time. This performances has been the most anticipated performance all year, and my family got front row. I sat in my seat bouncing my backpack that I took with me everywhere on my knee, waiting for the show to start. At last the curtains rose and showed a woman in a red flapper outfit, her skin pale white, and her hair black as night.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! The moment you have been waiting for! The Secret Show!" She said this with excitement then fell through the bottom of the stage.

The show started and acrobats flew across the stage in bright outfits, twisting and turning in the air over fiery nets. Below them, elephants balanced on balls while moving in circles around each other. Triplet knife throwers threw knives at a pretty woman spinning on a circular spinning board. The performers did amazing spectacles then all disappeared off the stage. The lady in the flapper outfit came on the stage.

"Next is the music act! Never seen before!"

She disappeared behind a curtain and a group of people holding a weird assortment of instruments walked out. A guy and girl brought out an instrument that looked like a xylophone except made of bones the size both of my arms combined. Another brought out a rectangle with strings that got thicker as they went to the right. The last person to come out was a young girl, about 7 years old, having help carrying out an instrument that had what looked like little flutes along the top of it. Each flute was different and the whole instrument was about 10 feet long. The little girl carried a blowdryer and stood behind her instrument. The conductor came out in a fancy deep green suit with a tail coat. He stood behind a fancy music stand and raised his hands in the air. The theatre was completely silent, waiting, then he moved his hands down fastly and the weird instruments began playing.

The music was filled with sounds that I'd never heard before. The music was weird but sound really good at the same time. It blew my mind how loud those three instruments could be, filling the whole theatre. The music was really catchy and I found myself tapping my foot to the beat of the music. The musicians only took up half the stage. On the other half dancers filled the stage wearing bright green flowing outfits. They took turns tossing each other in the air, spinning, leaping, and catching. The musicians and dancers stopped at the same time and the curtain fell.

A new lady walked out on the stage wearing a formal suit. She waited for the clapping to die down before she start talking.

"Thank you all for coming to our show! It was a pleasure to entertain you tonight! For those in the front row, if you will please exit to the left for VIP treatment, everyone else please exit to the right! Thank you all again for coming to our show! Goodnight!"

The spotlights turned off and covered her in a veil of darkness. I had thought sitting in the front row was the VIP treatment but I wasn't going to complain. I put my backpack on. We exited to the left and were brought outside to bus. The bus driver was the first lady we saw on the stage except now she was dressed in a bus driver uniform and she had long straight hair.

"Hello again! Our last performance is on this bus! If you have time to come then climb aboard!"

I looked at my mom and dad pleadingly, silently begging them to let us go.

"Ok why not, we don't have anything else planned for the night let's go," my dad said.

"Thanks dad! I owe you one!" I said as I climbed on the bus followed by my parents.

We sat near the front. A chubby dark skinned lady sat behind us wearing a fancy dress and lots of expensive jewelry. In the seat next to us, and short light skinned lady and her husband sat down. The bus driver closed the door and pulled away. As she pulled away from the building, everything started to blur together until I couldn't see anything out the window. I blinked to see if my eyes had just unfocused, but when I reopened my eyes, everything was all still blurry.