A group of high school students in Utah created a musical based on a YA novel, and it's garnered attention and support from the author. marissa_meyer
,” and the dozen or so students from Holladay’s Olympus High School are busy workshopping scenes, belting lines and hitting octaves.And they’re doing it all without adult supervision.
The students — along with Wilson, the original team includes Ellie England, Heidi Thomas, Ivy Robbins and Eleanor Boam — started work on the project in 2019, and kept workshopping the script over video calls during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel is written entirely in Cath’s point of view, so the young playwrights decided to add and change things to make it more holistic, like adding scenes from other characters’ viewpoints. Wilson explains they added scenes to make audiences understand that these characters aren’t “terrible people” and they have a “motive.” Overall, they stuck pretty close to the original.
The crew also includes technical director Caleb Robinson and stage manager Jax Jessop, who are working out lighting design, stage props and scenery. Said Thomas, the musical’s other co-director, “it’s kind of the circumstances you’re placed in because it goes with the whole ‘evil isn’t born, it’s made.’ Everyone has the chance to have good life experiences or bad and it’s just about how you handle them.”
Ava Hendrickson, who plays the character of Mary Anne in the production, said that “high school students, they’re not listened to, they’re not given credit, and I think for her, it’s the same. She’s grown up in this world where she has something she’s expected to be. There’s this mold that everybody wants her to fit in.”“We’ve had so much fun like coming up with it ourselves, going through our own ideas,” Hendrickson said.
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