Well, in a lot of cases, the parents DID help... or at least, I know George's father helped him with the scenery and the props and such. But yes, that kind of production is something we didn't do till middle school... matter of fact, because production was one of my electives, when I was in Grade 8, we were putting on an end of the year show for the entire school, it was a REALLY big production, all kinds of different musical numbers, different costumes, and such... the production class served as stage crew, and we put in some looooong hours during rehearsals that week... in fact, IIRC, school ended at 3:00, we all stayed after school for rehearsals up till like maybe 6:00 or 7:00. I actually got in trouble one evening during rehearsal, because we had down time, and I REALLY needed to use the bathroom, and when I did, the teachers involved got mad at me because they felt I was goofing off and couldn't handle being on the stage crew. But the show did well, and we all did a good job, and I was a zombie by the end of that week. Stage managing is hard work yo.