ZCHS Musical Theater to Expand Its Season
Zionsville Community High School (ZCHS) just presented its first annual Spring Musical: “Edges.” “Edges” is a song-cycle about four burgeoning adults asking classic coming-of-age questions. This charming, witty and honest examination of adulthood explores what happens when we are teetering on the edges of our lives. The songs cover such universal issues as love, commitment, identity and meaning. Characters deal with confronting emotions, escaping expectations and deciphering complicated relationships. Its most famous song, “Be My Friend,” has come to be known as the “Facebook song.” Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Brick Street Photos
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ans of the award-winning Pasek and Paul, the duo behind “The Greatest Showman,” “La La Land” and “Dear Evan Hansen,” and even bigger fans of the ZCHS Performing Arts Department experienced the department’s first-ever
spring musical, “Edges,” featuring two performances. And in typical ZCHS fashion, the production was a stellar success, exuding a level of professionalism and talent from the cast and crew that audiences have come to expect from this department.
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A NEW FORMAT FOR ZCHS PERFORMING ARTS The award-winning Pasek and Paul composed “Edges,” a 70-minute song-cycle, as their first collaborative effort while in college. “Edges” tells the stories of coming-of-age characters attempting to discover themselves and is a timely
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