Most of the time, high school senior plays are something that you go in, plop down your money for the ticket and then settle into an uncomfortable seat for at least 2 hours of boringness.
Most of the time. Not this time.
This time I was invited to see all of my Clifton babies, dual-enrollment students from Waynes County High School, perform their senior play. From the moment the play started, I was laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face.
Just Another High School Play was definitely not just another high school play. Instead it was a conglomeration of all the traditional plays that you see-
Our Town, Romeo and Juliet,
(fill in the blank with whatever your senior play was) twisted and turned into a completely different form of entertainment.
I knew that something was going to be up when Zach comes flying out from backstage just before the play starts and moves me from the center of the row where I was sitting to a seat on the aisle. He almost got smacked because he said the reason for this is that all the old people had to sit in the aisle seats. Don't make me stab you in the eye with my purple pen!
What made this play so great was the fact that even though I know they had to have spent hours and hours preparing for this, learning their lines, making the costumes and sets, it seemed like it was completely improv.
There are several things that I learned while watching this play:
1. The little girl on the floor in the aisle didn't understand the concept that coughing and flatulence don't necessarily have to go together.
2. Zach and Eric didn't even have to act. They just had to be themselves and it was hilarious.
3. Eric has a thing for polyester, tuna makes him bloated and he waxes his pits.
4. Mercedes can stab a man with a smile on her face.
5. I so do not want to know what happened with Joel and Sexy Nurse after the play.
6. Kathleen can draw!
7. Lauren is a much better actor than me. I would have fallen off the ladder.
8. Taner was so rocking the makeup. He really needs to be modeling.
9. Justin, there is no way I could ever forget you. Especially now that you have given me a lap dance at your senior play!
You all were great. I would watch it a million times and LMAO everytime. Great job, my Clifton babies. See you at graduation.