High School Musical Event

I had the honor of being hired by Sara Lee (the company that makes those delicious pies) to be the professional photographer at the Grand Prize event for their High School Musical 3 promotion.
Sara Lee's new whole wheat white bread is really good and it's a great way for kids to participate in a healthy eating lifestyle... so recently they had this great contest for a kid to win a chance to meet Corbin Bleu, one of the stars of High School Musical and have a viewing party with 100 friends! Doesn't that sound like fun??
Well, the lucky girl was from Nora Springs and she and her brother were the guests of honor at Cinema West in Mason City on April 29th.
The "red carpet" event was amazing! Alison Dix with Devotion to Detail did the arrangements for the day and everything went great!
The kids had "VIP Guest" passes to wear around their neck and had to get their names checked off the guest list at the door. Then as they walked down the red carpet into the theater... cheerleaders did Wildcats cheers to get them pumped up!
After more cheers in the movie theater... CORBIN BLEU arrived!! It was so much fun to watch the little girl's faces! They were all in love! ;)
All the kids got served a healthy lunch with a Sara Lee Whole Wheat White Bread sandwich, apple, Sun Chips, etc. Then the movie started and they were given free popcorn and pop (not so healthy!) Ha!
Corbin Bleu spent A TON of time visiting with the little girl and her brother who won the prize. He was trying to teach the boy how to spin the basketball on his finger and the little girl some new dance moves.
I even got his signature on my STAFF pass and a picture with him. I didn't know what to expect from a movie star from LA... but Corbin was really great, totally down-to-earth and very kind.
Oh, and the kids that won also got an original copy of the script from the movie... signed by all the cast members, a framed 8x10 of cast signed, and like $5,000 worth of groceries! (if I remember right)
Oh, and all the kids got these great goodie bags for coming.
It was a pretty fun day to say the least.
Enjoy looking at the pictures!
Rebecca