The joy of afterschool rehearsals and fast food runs?
The Saturday techs and the wild cast parties?
NBCs new seriesRiseis both fabulous and absolutely insane in its portrayal of a high school theater department.
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And hey, its fair.
Or a drama teacher blindly casts someone after one really deep conversation about their dreams!
That said:Riseis a big silly blast.
Perhaps Mr. Mazzu was once one of these children.
But thats not really a problem at all for Mr. Mazzu.
Ortakenover, more accurately.
Greasealready has a set.
There is a cast, half-costumed and even doing a little light choreography.
None of this matters in the least to Mr. Mazzu.
Things are changing this afternoon, because thats when he talked to the principal.
he says, and thats apparently the end of the argument.
His shake-things-up attitude seems to stem predominantly from a crippling case of domestic ennui.
(Sit down.)
OK, lets roll with it!
The kids dont seem to mind, anyway.
Remember, its HIS dream, and were all just tigers coming at night.
Lilette is new to the club in many ways.
(So much so, he segregates the parts on the cast list.)
There are, in fact, three leads.
Mr. Mazzu cant just choose a show and force the assets for it to manifestdid we learn NOTHING fromRebecca!
?and yet, here we are.
Eventually, the cast list fills out, and rehearsals begin in earnest montages.
Lilette and Robbie and Simon and also Barb fromStranger Thingsstart to feel their characters.
After all of this,Riseerases the past 45 minutes in 4.5 seconds.
But its just not The Same asSpring Awakening, so we cut next to: the bonfire.
