Theater, Dance and Performance Studies' 'Newsflash! A Mini Musical' channels graduation anxieties

Theater, Dance and Performance Studies’ ‘Newsflash! A Mini Musical’ channels graduation anxieties
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Last Updated May 7, 2021
It’s appropriate that “Newsflash! A Mini Musical” is virtually premiering in May, because its subjects — collegiate high achievers who are now desperately scrambling to succeed in the real world — will likely resonate with a portion of this year’s senior class of UC Berkeley undergraduates. Written by Eleanor Hammond and Emily Beihold, “Newsflash!” dramatizes the brutality of post-grad job hunting, using its brief runtime to move towards a more humane mentality for its three protagonists.
“Newsflash!” opens in the newsroom of the fictional New York Daily — a setting conveyed by the main characters’ virtual Zoom backgrounds, of course — on the morning of Ada (Kasia Baranek), Devon (Camilla Leonard) and Francesca’s (Arlyss Hays) interviews for the paper’s prestigious, competitive (and unpaid) internship. Devon and Francesca, Northwestern and Harvard University alums, are relying on their packed college resumes and private school pedigree to net them the job; Ada, who currently works as a waitress and wrote for the paper at her community college, is the odd woman out, lending her counterparts some much-needed perspective. 

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