Miss middle school? Sure you do. After all, braces and school bus rides are some of our most fond memories. Anyways, Skidmore student Jeremy Cone ’09 is producing a new musical tribute to your favorite middle school memories and all of those prepubescent crushes in a musical called “Down the Middle.” We’re thinking “Degrassi” meets “Mean Girls” with a dab of “Lion King” for some of that musical influence, however with a lot less “Hakuna Matata” and a lot more worries.

When: Friday @ 8pm & Saturday @ 2pm and 8pm

Where: Dance Theatre (somewhere near the gym)

Somehow, the crack research team over here at Unofficial has gotten their hands on a description of the musical by “Down the Middle” star Zubin Mobedshahi…

“Down the Middle is an original comedy musical by senior Jeremy Cone. The show follows the sixth graders of Layton Middle School and their struggles with relationships and identity. Cone shines a bright light through the facade we all once dawned as we blindly clung to popular cliques and narrow sighted ideals. As two clueless new students enter the school and threaten to shake up the social order, pre-teen beauty-queen magazine aficionado and social empress Lauren Lanell does everything in her power to “keep things the way they should be.” This conflict between social identity and individual autonomy, while quite fitting for middle schoolers and adolescent development, also forces one to take stock in his or her own worldview. I was shaken to see how aspects of my own life held more than inert vestiges of the socially ignorant child that preceded who I am today. Cone has married humor with introspection in a brilliant way. You’ll laugh, gasp, sing, and cheer… and hopefully leave the theatre with a little more knowledge about yourself, the choices you make, and your love for the people around you.”