Back from dinner (very good) and the show. I'd never seen nor heard one word or note of this show. I have to say that I found it pretty bad - the score is so repetitious and his lyrics are so "knowing" - but I had this idea that a show with this title might actually be about kids and how they feel about being thirteen, which isn't what it's about at all. Imagine my surprise to find out it's about a boy who's about to be Bar Mitzvahed, his parents divorcing and him moving to a small town. I mean, really? Once there, he immediately wants to be with the cool kids and does something bad to the nerdy girl who likes him. So, one has to wait until the end of act two for his realization that it's okay not to be with the cool kids. I mean, that's the plot - with the standard good girl and bad girl, idiot boys, endless talk about getting tongue (that's really the plot of the show) and some language that may have been very current and hip when the show played but is less so now. The production was okay, and I always enjoy watching kids give it their all - and in the bunch there were certainly a couple of really talented kids, one girl especially that I'll probably bring to Kritzerland. A couple of the original cast were there, the director of the movie of Grease was there and one of the co-writers of the book was there.
