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[0:08] David Zellnik: Hi, I'm David Zellnik.

[0:10] Eric Svejcar: I'm Eric Svejcar. Welcome to this preview episode of our musical podcast, LOVEVILLE HIGH.

[0:15] David Zellnik: It's a romantic, sweet, sexy comic take on love and friendship.

[0:19] Eric Svejcar: On the night of the prom in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio.

[0:22] David Zellnik: I wrote the music.

[0:23] Eric Svejcar: And I wrote the words.

[0:25] David Zellnik: We're gonna tell you a bit about the project, which we've had so much fun writing and has so many amazing people in it, and we hope you subscribe to it.

[0:32] Eric Svejcar: But first, here from episode one is Tony nominee Hailey Kilgore's Jane.

[0:36] Hailey Kilgore: Getting ready for the prom, art dress, fake corsage, no stretch limo, no entourage. Not a trailer park, but close in a town that's comic close, but one night we shine.

[1:20] Hailey Kilgore: Yeah. Tonight we make it a shrine. Tonight we shine.

[1:35] David Zellnik: The cast is just incredible. There's Jay Armstrong Johnson and Troy Iwata.

[1:36] Eric Svejcar: And Gizel Jiménez and Harrison Chad.

[1:39] David Zellnik: And Ali Stroker and the list goes on. Check out the website to see their names and bios.

[1:45] Eric Svejcar: Lovevillehigh.com. A bit more about the piece. LOVEVILLE HIGH is a nine-episode series.

[1:52] David Zellnik: Each episode is a self-contained 10-minute musical, but also some characters overlap, so together it creates a portrait of one high school class.

[1:59] Eric Svejcar: Each story is about love, romantic, friendship, familial, gay, straight, cis, and genderqueer.

[2:05] David Zellnik: We wanted to tell the stories of the kinds of high school students that don't always make it into the quote unquote main story.

[2:10] Eric Svejcar: Here from episode two is Isaac Powell, currently on Broadway in Once on This Island, and Mason Alexander Park from the first national tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

[2:18] David Zellnik: Isaac is playing a kid named Cory, who's new at school. Mason is playing Gendrix, who's wearing a suit modeled on a look David Bowie wore, and they're on dates with other people, but they just met and had a moment.

[2:29] Eric Svejcar: And now they're outside in a courtyard talking about what they're looking for in love. Here's Isaac.

[2:33] Isaac Powell: Never pictured the one I'd be sharing my heart with. Didn't have some ideal nor a picture to start with. Oh they sparkle like Bowie. Blaze a path through my universe. Then we'd race to the moon and kiss. And then a race and reverse. So yeah, that was the plan. And I like you as you. But oh, if you'd kiss me, my dreams would be closer to true.

[3:26] David Zellnik: And finally, here's Ryann Redmond from episode three. She's playing a very pregnant girl named Shass, who's complaining to her date, who happens to be Gendrix.

[3:39] Ryann Redmond: I could feel 'em gawking. Why is she here? Faces like my god, see her waddle. Should she be here? Like they're all saints and virgins like the 50s had some mad resurgence. I pregnant out a promise they succeeded. I'm now I guess an object lesson to be heeded. I sat inside the stall, I cursed them one and all. I curled into a bowl and prayed I gone.

[4:15] David Zellnik: And then the baby's dad arrives. Jock slash future plumber Zeke, played by Jay Armstrong Johnson. But to hear that and find out what happens in episode three. And to see if Gendrix and Cory kiss in episode two. And if Jane ever gets to the prom in episode one, subscribe to LOVEVILLE HIGH on iTunes and Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

[4:33] Eric Svejcar: Or log on to www.lovevillehigh.com where you can download episodes and learn more about the project and buy sheet music. The first three episodes drop on January 7th, and then every other week till the prom is done.

[4:46] David Zellnik: See you at the dance.