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I just noticed an ad for the North Shore Music Theatre that advertised its upcoming season, which included a stage adaptation of Disney's raging phenomenon (doo doo dee doo doo) that is their made-for-TV teen movie High School Musical. I haven't seen the thing, but you can guess from the title that it's a show about a high school putting on a musical. And, according to several Disney-watching sites, schools have already expressed interest in getting the stage rights for their own performances. So if the rights were granted...

We'd have a high school.

Putting on a musical.

About a high school.

Putting on a musical.

Oh, sure, shows-within-shows ain't nothin new (sup, Kiss Me, Kate; how ya doin, The Producers?) but this... this is almost just too meta for me.

Unless one was to write a screenplay about a high school... putting on a musical... about a high school... putting on a musical...

(ka-BLOOIE!)

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We'd have a high school. Putting on a musical. About a high school. Putting on a musical.

This isn't really new. My 6th grade choir class put on a musical about a high school putting on a musical (and that was long before high school musical). It was some sort of cheap knock-off of Fame that even included that godawful "I Sing the Body Electric" song. And of course, Fame itself has been done by countless high schools.