E5N1 is currently in rehearsal for his school’s upcoming production of Mean Girls the Musical. This means almost nightly rehearsals, sometimes for singing practice, sometimes to learn choreography and occasionally to practice the odd line he has. So, sometime during dinner on Friday night, the conversation turned to difficult content in this and other musicals that has to be edited to make it acceptable for a high school performance.
At which point, Exile #1 and I thought of Grease! We have talked before about how much of it went over our heads as little kids. Exile #1 remembers seeing it at the movies with his big sisters. I remember wearing out the soundtrack album we had on vinyl. Turns out neither Exile #3 or E5N1 had seen it, so what else could we do but put it on? It’s still a lot of fun, we laughed all the way through, and Exile #1 and I saw new things, watching it with some experience of American high school culture. But it’s still funny how much we didn’t notice!
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