The Bagel: A High School Theater Saga
Okay so this is a story from when I was in high school. In early 2020, I was on the props team in my school’s theater department, and we were preparing for a production of Chicago. There’s a line in that show that goes “What if in fact you’re just a bagel,” and someone came up with the bright idea to use a real bagel in that scene, taken from the school breakfast line. Now, this would not have posed an issue, except for the fact that it was March of 2020. The show ran for one night before lockdown started.
A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, we all returned to school, and the techies finally started the process of cleaning up backstage. On the props cart, we discovered the bagel, right where we’d left it, hard as a rock, without a spot of mold on it. Unsure what else to do, and perhaps intent upon fucking with future techies, we tucked the bagel away in a black metal box and hid it at the bottom of the props closet.
I moved on and graduated, but I’m out of college and back in my hometown now. This year, on the sixth anniversary of the covid lockdown, if you can believe it, I wrote a letter to the tech team for the spring musical regarding the Bagel Incident. I must know its fate, if possible. I intend peak theater kid bullshit.
I currently await an email response from the techies. Will reblog with any updates.
