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A musical of, by, and for high school students.

 is a high school musical, a comedy about the stresses of senior year. It's a satire on teachers, parents, college admissions, celebrities, and the money culture. Written by a creative team of nine students from Virginia and Maryland, it will be performed in August 2007 at the Kennedy Center and made into a feature-length film.

 tells the story of the senior class at Erma Schmoe High School, which unwittingly becomes the object of an experiment testing the famous laziness so common in the final year of high school. When the seniors bomb their first-quarter grades and tests, they get rejected by the elite "Holly League" colleges. They (and their hovering parents) fear that their lives are hopelessly ruined. Things go madly awry when the seniors get wise to the experiment and decide to get even by having the worst case of "senioritis" in history. The seniors put on a "high school mythical" about senioritis and become global sensations. Whether that will be enough to rescue their future is tough to say... 

The score includes 18 original songs, on topics ranging from grade inflation ("C's and D's are Very Good for You") to college rejection letters ("However"), to hovering parents ("High School Parent Blues"), to the temptations of ambition ("Rich and Famous"). 

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 is produced by the Cappies, and will soon be available for performances by high schools, community theaters, and others. It is a large-cast show, with 32 character roles (17F / 15M), and can include an ensemble of any size. Several roles can be switched in gender.

The Cappies have another student-written musical, Edit:Undo, about teenage life in the digital age, which is now available for performance rights. 

 

Related Senioritis Links

 
Arts Council of Fairfax County

 The Senioritis film is
funded in part by the
Arts Council of Fairfax
County, supported by
Fairfax County.