Descend into madness with a bunch of University Of Michigan music theater kids
YouTube If there has ever been a time to have big theater kid energy, that time is now. The optimism! The earnestness! The resilience! The high kicks! We here at The A.V. Club, many of us former (or, let’s face it, current) theater kids ourselves, are zero percent surprised that the new senior class in the University Of Michigan’s musical theater department somehow managed to make a 16-minute video comprised of topical musical parodies and intense choreography in These Troubled Times. (We are also not surprised that they used it as an opportunity to raise money to support the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation; the kids, they’re alright.)
What does surprise us is that even peak theater kid energy can’t escape the slow descent into madness that will surely come for us all—assuming it hasn’t already. And frankly, that’s a big assumption, given where we’re at with Pizza Huts and Diplo and T-Swift theme parks and staring into space and Murder, She Wrote swag and Nickelodeon and and and just here, watch the thing.