The importance of smiling

A plug for next week’s concert has appeared in this week’s local paper. Whilst the article about the concert is quite good, the photo that accompanies it is pretty terrible. The photographer wanted to get a photo of us sitting around the piano singing. Unfortunately, whilst we are all singing, very few people are smiling and so it looks awful. As a result, the director has spent most of tonight’s rehearsal shouting “Smile!” about 10 times during each song. We’re usually fine once we’ve got an audience but it has made us all realise how important it is to smile.