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Senioritis: A Rock MUSICAL

Senioritis: A Rock Musical written by Pete Ficht (Wild Bells) and Joe Janes (Second City, Macbeth By The Sea).

Logline 
The Coen Bros. meet John Hughes (with Hedwig’s band providing the rock), in this true-crime comedy about good kids gone very bad in 1990s Portland.

Synopsis Set in the Pacific Northwest of the late 1990s, SENIORITIS: A ROCK MUSICAL is a comic take on the actual true story (really!) of a group of good kids from a good school doing some very bad things. Jack and Lawrence are the kings of an affluent school, but on the side they are engaged in a string of alarming armed robberies. Police are flummoxed until Lawrence shoots himself in the boy bits and gets arrested. Jack gets away, but after prom the next night with his girlfriend Jenny, he goes on the lam, traveling to New Mexico, old Mexico, and finally surrendering in Las Vegas, after appearing on “America's Most Wanted”. Meanwhile at home, Jenny (Jack's girlfriend) and his friends deal with the repercussions, and the unanswerable question, why did they do it? Is it as simple as, "you don't have to be sorry when you're based on a true story”?

Music 
Links are provided so you can listen along to our acoustic demos, featuring friends from the local music scene like Ezra Holbrook, Redray Frazier, Little Sue, Steve Wilkinson, Ned Folkerth, David Ricardo and Stan Hall, Lucynda Beth Thompson, and members of Wild Bells: Ellen Louise Osborn, Rachel Coddington, and Pete Ficht.

READ the synopsis and lyrics while listening to the demos.

DOWNLOAD the full script, the synopsis, and the lyrics.

LISTEN to the demos below. Like literally right there, look. They're also on Soundcloud, don't you know.

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