When we all suddenly went into stay-at-home last year, we didn’t know how long it would last, but it soon became abundantly clear that theater, and by extension school plays and other youth theater, wouldn’t be coming back for awhile. It was unclear how youth theater would survive, especially with overworked teachers trying desperately to adapt stage plays to a new distanced and digital medium.
Enter Dave Hudson and Denver Casado, who over just a few weeks threw together a ridiculous farce expressly designed for an online, distanced format. And while I only had a handful of (very long, very caffeinated) days to throw together an entire orchestration and notation, we made it happen!
Check out The Show Must Go Online, an absurd show-within-a-show about a group of theater kids who try to use the power of the internet to save their school drama program and its latest production, Brushes With Greatness: The Dental Hygiene Musical.
Embedded here are two of my favorite tunes from the show - “Quite Time”, sung here by the incomparable Samantha Joy Pearlman, and “My Face”, which is a delicious pile of campy cheese. (Mmmm, camp cheese.)