The Abingdonian 2019

28 The Abingdonian Lent 2019 Loserville As in every year, 2019 saw the Drama Department produce a senior production starring the St Helen’s girls and Abingdon boys. As it was Abingdon’s turn to produce a musical, hopes were high of something spectacular. These hopes were even higher seeing as it would be produced and directed by Mr Phillips, since he had directed Les Miserables four years earlier which to this day is spoken of extremely highly. So to put it in short, I was so excited going in to Loserville. The play itself is the story of a young nerd named Michael Dork (Jacob Henney) who invents communication between consoles (basically e-mail) in the early 70s while falling in love with Holly Mansen (Alix Addinall), all spliced with songs from the album Welcome to Loserville by Son of Dork. Essentially it has a 70s aesthetic with early 2000s pop rock and, if anyone knows what my music taste is, they would tell you now that I was loving it. I signed up as soon as I could and couldn’t wait for the auditions to be done. I got the part of Marvin, one of Michael’s friends, and the rest of the cast were brilliant in their given roles. The rehearsal stage began and we were immediately thrown into the music and the script. The full cast songs were lively and fun even if we were almost always attacked with rounds of “shush” from Dr Preece. After the songs we got on to the choreography, a personal favourite for many reasons. Choreography was done by Mrs Phillips