When I first came in contact with this wonderful play, I was at the National Thespian festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. I was taken by the playful and humorous dialogue, but more importantly, the topic. Love.
Love is the most difficult and most rewarding endevour we encounter as humans.
I came back and did a competition piece with the show while at another high school. The teachers and students in Utah felt a great connection with it as well. Almost, Maine is now the number one produced high school play in the United States. WHY?
Everyday, I hear the students here talking about the pursuit of love, and the pitfalls. I hear them talk about the joys and pains of this new adventure. I see the destrustive power of words, I see hope lost, and souls found. It's an adventure that our students are on, and this show shows us all there is humor, hope, glory, villians, and repairmen that they will meet on this adventure.
I have seen our students connect to this script on a deeper level than the musical, and for some, even the Shakespeare play this year. It's what they need to know. Love and romance are full of hope, glory, and repairmen.
I have a connection to this play as well. My wife and I were best friends for years before we decided to "see the lights." Everytime Randy and Chad figure that out, I am reminded of the risk that we took, and how it paid off, and in the most amazing way.
Please enjoy this amazingly simple, but incredibly complex story of love.
JSH- P
Andrew Lloyd Hunsaker
