Verity High: Canceled! is a musical that has been almost three years in the making and it's coming to stage at the Atlanta Fringe Festival from May 30 - June 8, 2025. We are raising funds to create a fantastic production. Beyond Fringe, we are ready to record a demo with professional singers to entice a theater to produce this incredible, original work.
What is it all about?
In Verity High: Canceled!, a high school talent show spirals into a hilarious and heartfelt clash between a group of overbearing parents and their spirited, self-aware kids. Determined to “save” their children’s arts program from being cut, parents like Angela, who is fiercely invested in her son Harlan’s future, and Sutton, a former Broadway diva more concerned with reviving her own career than supporting her daughter Alexa, hijack the stage, clinging to their own ideas of success. But as they take over the talent show, these parents stumble against their kids’ vastly different views on identity, gender, and freedom. Through sharp satire and emotional turning points, the students fight to reclaim their space, and the parents begin to realize that true support means letting go and allowing their children to make their own way. This musical is a celebration of the courage it takes on both sides to bridge the generational divide and embrace new definitions of success and identity.
Will it end cancel culture? Bridge the generational divide? Solve the mystery of why Broadway snacks cost more than a mortgage payment? Maybe. But what it will do is make you laugh, gasp, think, and maybe even see things from a new perspective. And that’s how real change starts. With a new kernel of thought.
We’re not out here pretending this musical is going to cure world hunger or make the internet a kinder place (if only), but it does tackle something real: the messiness of being human in the current social environment. If that sparks a conversation, a shift in thinking, or even just a newfound appreciation for ridiculous talent show performances, then we’ve done our job.