So this past week I got a chance to see some spectacular theatre...and some dreadful theatre. 1st. I saw The Taffetas! It was alright, nothing to write home about. There was this one loud bitch who couldn't seem to blend, and as we all know in 1950's music it's all about the blend! So sad. Then I went to see High School Musical starring the wonderful Renee Freeman. She was fabulous of course and I was pleased with the stamina of most of the cast to be able to sing and dance the very energetic choreography and surprisingly difficult music! The Sharpay was DIVINE! She was definitely the best. I also liked how they didn't just create carbon copies of the people on the movie, I actually felt like these were there interpretations of the characters, especially considering majority of the dialog is taken directly from the movie.

So after seeing those two good shows, I went to see my first Shakespeare show, Two Gentleman of Verona! I can't remember when last I saw a show that bad. Maybe The Boyfriend? But I think that high school production of a shitty show was better than this. I'm especially upset because there are very talented people at J.U. who would have been stellar...if given the opportunity. The fact that casting is done on a "friends" basis is absolute bullshit and the proof is in the shittastic "production" (i can't even dignify this travesty with such a term) put on by the Film Department. It really disgusts me to no end, and makes me all the more grateful I'm done with that hellacious school.

So after that travesty I saw a mostly lovely production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts featuring 2 JU faculty and 1 JU student and two random people who weren't too good. Deborah Fucking Jordan. That Bitch know she can act! I much prefer her as a performer and director than a teacher. She knows what she is doing when she directs and its evident when she performs. Oh how i missed good theatre.

Not to say that college can't produce some stellar shows (Ragtime (for the most part), Grapes of Wrath, Lysistrata) but I feel like the caliber of students who are truly driven and want to learn and grow, and I'm just going to say it, Talented, is waining more and more as the years go on. So sad.