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Cultural Event Analysis: Heathers: The Musical
Cultural Event Analysis: Heathers: The Musical
The Center for the Living Arts is a small building in the downtown district in Rock Island. The district was dead except for the small line outside of a locked door. The 1989 movie Heathers had a cult following, people today have the same passion for Heathers: The Musical. I had first heard of the musical from people online raving about how good it was and how catchy the songs are. After I had sat though Davenport West’s spring play Seussical, I needed something to get the bad taste out of my mouth. This play defiantly helped with that.
The audience was mostly young adults, from high school age to mid-early twenties, with the actors’ parents and grandparents (they were holding flowers and hugging
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