I will not be enrolling my children into this studio again because of our expierence with the end of the year recital. These recital's are expensive but very important for the children to show what they learned and be in the spotlight.  The actual recital was unorganized and 3-4 hours long (and your child is on stage for 1.5 minutes).  Lastly the rehersal lasted 4 hours and the children only practiced once for about 15 minutes.  It was alot of sitting around with complete disregard for the children and their family's time. The icing on the cake was that my daughter had to leave early from the rehersal (as did others and some did not even show up for practice) however my daughter was pulled out of the grand finale while others did not.  Pretty upsetting to pay the studio all that money, show up for every class, and rehersall and your daughter is crying because they held her back from going on stage for the finale when the girl next to her left hours early to see Justin Beiber and she was allowed to do the finale.  I guess dinner with my out of town family is not a good excuse however the Beiber is.... I understand enforcing rules but my child (and I) cannot understand why it was not equally enforced.