Crush! Crush! Crush!

287 Washington Terrace,Middletown CT 06459

08 May, 2023

Description

Hi there, Le coup de foudre. Butterflies in your chest. 今晚的月色很美. Loma abajo y sin freno. You have a crush — hai una cotta, la media naranja, 심쿵. It’s secret and sacred, strong and sweet; it’s bubbly and gay, blue and gray. It’s a car accident, a crackling fire, and a new Wesleyan musical premiering on May 8, 2023. We invite you to be part of Crush! Crush! Crush!, a Theater Department senior playwriting capstone written by Scarlett Long ’23. The first public sharing of the musical will be a staged reading co-directed by April Schwartz ’24 and Sida Chu ’26, with music direction by Ben Sulzinsky ’23. Synopsis: Scarlett thinks crushes should be more than just eloping with the daughter of your family’s enemy after one balcony make-out, or hooking up with a French girl you met on the train before leaving Europe the next morning. That’s why she’s writing a musical about crushes for her senior thesis — definitely not because she herself has a little crush on someone. As she interviews everyone around her for inspiration, she realizes how messy and confusing crushes can be and starts to question if the very concept of “crush” is worth writing about at all. Crush! Crush! Crush! runs 90 minutes with no intermission in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall. Get Directions