All five students said the lockdown led to their meeting and for months, over Zoom, they wrote, composed and created a musical that students everywhere can relate to.
“After more than a full school year of distance learning and hybrid learning and a lot of time spent on the computer, all of these wonderful students came to me and our drama director carol and said, 'We wrote a musical!' And we kind of didn’t believe them at first,” said Chris Filice, choir director at Livermore High School.
But shortly after, Filice received a massive Google Drive folder with 22 songs, demos and a really long script. Flice said he loved it.The students later selected the cast and produced the winter musical at Livermore High School. “I had people come up to me after they’ve seen it and say that 'this show gave them the closure they didn’t know they needed,'” Zika said.
Since then, the praise for the group and their musical has only grown with other schools now asking to perform it. The students said they now plan to record the soundtrack.It's dream come true for these students, aspiring to a COVID-free future, where they can become actors, screen writers and composers.