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LIFE
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Heathers: delicious, dark, fun Musical opens Theatre USA Season
Vice President nominee for the Green Party of the United States Ajamu Baraka speaks to supporters at the Toulminville Branch Library. Photo by Jaccob Hearn.
Veronica (Emily Ericson) and J.D (Jeremiah Sims) react to relentless news coverage of the “suicide” of one of the Heathers, in the Theatre USA’s production of ‘Heather’s: The Musical.’ Photo by Jaccob Hearn.
By Jaccob Hearn | Editor-in-Chief
By Jaccob Hearn | Editor-in-Chief
Were any of us truly popular in high school? What did it take to reach such heights to be admired by your peers? Heathers takes a look at this typical high school drama and cranks it up a notch while also going to some very dark places. The first show of the season by Theatre USA, it is a rowdy and guilty pleasure musical that opened Friday and is based on the 1988 Winona Ryder movie. “Set in a high school in Sherwood Ohio in 1989, Heathers follows the story of Veronica Sawyer,” senior Josh Alter, supporting actor said. “She befriends the Heathers who are the most popular and influential students in the school. At the
Third Party candiate visits Mobile, talks politics, education
beginning of the show she believes the Heathers have no problems, by the end of the show she comes to understand their problems are as real as hers are.” Also included is a budding love affair with a new bad boy, Jason “J.D.” Dean, completing the recipe for a wild, musical ride. Heathers presents a gleeful grotesqueness when you present dark and horrifying situations with bubbly music and comedy. According to Alter, the production spent around 120 hours preparing for the two-hour experience. Their hard work is easily recognized
by audience laughter, and onstage performances. The actors pulled off a brilliant retelling of the movie it shares its name with. Tatom said the show contains adult language and situations, and some violence, and is not appropriate for children under the age of 16. The production will run Sept. 29-30 and Oct. 1 with a curtain time of 7:30 p.m. Alter encourages students to come see the show, promising a good time and lots of laughs. He also hopes eeing the show will interest more students in drama and musical theatre.
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The Vice President Nominee of the Green Party of America’s visited supporters from Mobile to discuss their plans for the rest of the election cycle the Toulminville Branch Library, Thursday. Ajamu Baraka, third-party candidate and Jill Stein’s running mate, discussed the hardships of third party politics as well as issues with higher education during his visit. “We have a two-party monopoly and have constructed processes which make it almost impossible for third parties to operate on a national level and even a local level,” Baraka said. “The choice of democracy in this country is just the
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