As a long-time standing Wayland High School tradition, the Senior Show took to the Little Theater stage on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. This was the last Senior Show to be performed in the Little Theater.

This year the conditions of the senior show were different because they were much more restrictive than those of years past. At the same time, the seniors of 2011 put on a great performance that always had the audience laughing at the right times.

The play began with a video clip of the seniors, and although it was cute and funny, it felt out of place. The real show kicked off with a half-dozen senior boys dancing to Single Ladies by Beyonce. After the dance, a few skits followed, including one titled The Talk.

Everyone in the audience knows what “the talk” is, but what was unexpected was the audience interaction. With parents. The actors brought two parents chosen from the audience onstage, and as the actors continued to say their lines, the parents read advice off of cue cards.

In all honesty, I was surprised that there wasn’t any cross-dressing before the intermission. From the way that the guys dressed in Single Ladies, it was already half-way there. But in the co-ed dance, I couldn’t see a single male on the stage with shorts over his knees.

The play ended with another dance, to the song Club Can’t Handle Me. One homeroom would come on and dance, and the next would do the same dance until everyone had gone. It showed that even as seniors leave Wayland High School each year, they will always have something to connect them together.

To say that there were no slow moments would be a lie, but they were necessary to maintain some form of a plot within each skit. The play had everything any production has every had. From singing to lip-syncing, innuendos, and exaggerated accents, this Senior Show really did have it all.