Onstage

From Alkestis (by Euripides), the Upper School play in October:I stood by you in bad times.
I thought you valued me.
Yet you didn’t bother explaining to me that the corpse
in your house was your wife.
You entertained me!
As if she were an outsider!
So I garlanded my head and drank to the gods
in a house that was grieving your dead.
I call this wrong.

From Elf the Musical, Jr. (by Thomas Meehan, Bob Martin, Matthew Sklar, and Chad Beguelin), the Middle School musical in November:Christmas is a lot more than just Santa Claus. Christmas is… is… eating souvlaki with your girlfriend and getting your first kiss under a big, glittery Christmas tree. It’s traveling miles and miles to be with your family and walking through the Lincoln Tunnel with cars blowing their horns and truck drivers yelling things that no person should say. It’s hoping that when you wake up on Christmas morning all the cars, and all the big grey office buildings, and all the piles of garbage will be covered in snow.