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City Theatre films singer Jill Sobule's tale of middle-school angst


Middle school is a tough gig just ask singer/songwriter Jill Sobule.
She poured her experiences into a musical called “F ck7thGrade” that was presented in its initial form in Pittsburgh at City Theatre Company’s 2018 Momentum Festival of New Plays.
Now, City Theatre will premiere a concert film of the musical, available for on-demand streaming beginning on Monday.
Sobule is best known for the 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl” not the Katy Perry hit with the same name and for “Supermodel,” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film “Clueless.”
Her website describes her songs as “at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic.” ....

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