‘Rise’ signs off after a performance that audiences, on TV and off, will remember.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have some news.
What will we remember?
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At Stanton or elsewhere, she will find another theater family to call home.
(Thanks, Reese Witherspoon.)
The school superintendent, of inflated importance and overstated conservatism, actually LIKED the show!
And he STILL cut the program!
Risewas about art, the kind of art that leaves 999 people totally unmoved and one person completely obliterated.
Thats all art, isnt it?
And suddenly, theyre a 15-person cast.
Theyre a 50-person crew.
Risewas about censorship, sure.
It was about progressive people dealing with age-old dilemmas, sometimes problematically, always earnestly.
Its not half-bad, you know, this little theater show of ours.
Maybe it just needs a bit more rehearsal.
