Upper School > Central Study > Original Musical

For more than twenty years, the PDS original musical has been a collaborative enterprise. Based each year on a work of Shakespeare and satirizing modern life, the musical blends political and literary references with pop culture as we know it. This year's offering, Such Sweet Sorrow (with a nod to Romeo and Juliet), premiered on Thursday, May 1and ran on Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3 in the James Earl Jones Theater. The play was written in a central study course by students and performed by 7th through twelfth graders, with 19 of the 33 members of the Class of 2008 participating! Below is a sampling of the play's highlights.