About the Project
The comedic play follows 14-year-olds April and Dylan as they attend a theater camp in 2010 – the summer before high school. They each have big dreams. For Dylan, it’s to finally become a big famous actor. For April, it’s to finally kiss a boy and maybe fall in love and maybe eventually get married. But when they both fall for the same 14-year-old hunk (aka a boy with the famous Bieber cut and purple skinny jeans), April decides to turn to the fastest means of getting a boy like him to love a girl like her: witchcraft. She casts a love spell which consequently backfires — or so they think — when the camp’s crushes intermingle, secrets are exposed, friendships fray, and “Hey There Delilah” is soul-crushing. It’s a theater camp full of horny teens, after all. In the end, April and Dylan reach the understanding that their friendship provides the love that they’ve been searching for.
“H.A.G.S. The Musical” is a love letter to the early 2000s where I <3 Boobies bracelets were the height of fashion and Ke$ha was the new IT Girl. The show is full of cultural references and performances of long-forgotten songs that will have audience members of any age remembering the adolescent naivety of first loves.
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Production Team
