All the kids up on stage in way too many high school, college or Sunday school musicals are the same kids that run (ruin ?) the rest of school life.
You know the ones .
All they of the conventionally smart mind, faces neatly symmetrical & teeth gleaming white, from a family with money, physical fit and socially attractive and exhibiting a very successful love life.
My musical will be different - it is a sort of a "Revenge of the Nerds" but on a much, much higher moral plane and based upon a true story from WWII.
(I know - I know - won't the social studies department just love that !)
It tells how a small bunch of misfits/unfits defied their all-powerful wartime government, powerful elite opinion (and their own bodies !) to bring cheap abundant life-saving penicillin to all of us - brought equally to those of us with the gleaming white teeth and to those of us doomed to be the eternal social misfits .
So just this time , let the misfits run the show.
Yes, particularly those with two left feet and those who can't even carry a bucket let alone a tune in a bucket.
Call it research or call it life-experience --- they'll be just fine up there , spazzing all over the stage, just doin' the Dance we call Life.
And compel Ms Perfect to flounce back into an audience seat to sit back and see how a tiny band of misfits from 75 years ago delivered the penicillin that allowed her dad's dad and her own mother, FG'S , make it out of childhood alive.
Because it is only thanks to those long dead misfits from us long ago, that she is even here to day , with her top SATs and her smashing BBF in tow.
Time to offer up some respect !
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