Campaign residen the P -litics - Princeton University

Campusnotebook
Agony, ecstasy of admissions
spark a musical by students
P
22
About halfway through
Admissions: The
Musical, Archie, a high school senior, is
stuck in the college-admission interview
from hell. He answers every question
wrong, his interviewer seems to
hate him — and at the end of the day,
SHOW YOUR
PRINCETON PRIDE.
We invite you to see
our entire collection for
Princeton Alumni and friends.
Visit us at 92 Nassau Street,
or shop online at
hamiltonjewelers.com
hamiltonjewelers.com
May 16, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu
he doesn’t even want to go to that college.
“I wanted to do what my parents
did, and what their dads did, and what
their dads did,” the Penn legacy tells his
interviewer. “And the worst part is, I did
everything right! All the trophies, all
Cast members perform a
number from “Admissions:
The Musical.”
Rhodium plated and enamel
detail cu� inks, $75.
Decoupagé wooden tray with
Princeton motifs, $233.
the recitals, all the grades!”
The scene is both heartbreaking and
hilarious, but it also hits on why the
Princeton undergraduates behind
Admissions are uniquely suited to writing
about the trials and tribulations of
applying to college. “This is a process
that all of us went through and all of us
agonized over,” explained senior Clayton
Raithel, who co-wrote the play
with Dan Abromowitz ’13 and Nora
Sullivan ’12. “The themes in this show
— self-definition, moving on to new
experiences, leaving your friends —
speak to us directly.”
Abromowitz, Raithel, and Sullivan
have helped to write multiple Triangle
Club shows. In January 2011, they
decided to create their own musical.
They recruited fellow Triangle Club
member J.T. Glaze ’13 as director, settled
on a concept, and began work.
Admissions is very much a collaborative
effort: It was co-produced by the
campus’s two largest student-run
theater groups, Theatre Intime and the
Princeton University Players, and more
than 40 undergraduates worked on it as
Princeton Tiger enamel box,
exclusively at Hamilton, $235.
Rhodium plated and enamel
detail moneyclip, $50.
MORGAN YOUNG ’15