IS THER LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL?
”Is There Life After High School?” wants to bring back its audience’s teen-age salad days, and in at least one way it succeeds. This musical, which had its much-delayed opening at the Barrymore last night, is an almost perfect simulation of high-school detention hall.The set, designed by John Lee Beatty, is a realistic two-level warren of classrooms and corridors – complete with gloomy institutional color scheme, desks and lockers. One stares at it for two hours with little distraction – not even a fire drill. True, a few members of the audience depart early – a no-no in the detention halls of my experience – but perhaps those lucky souls had brought notes from home.”Is There Life After High School?” could have been far livelier than this. It was ”suggested” by a delightful 1976 book of the same title, in which a journalist named Ralph Keyes made the persuasive case that high school is the most traumatic rite of passage in American life. Mr. Keyes interviewed countless alumni, of
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- IS THER LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL?
