Bringing Down the House for real

Sometimes schools primarily choose a play because they like the playwright. Sometimes it's because they like the playwright. And sometimes it's simply because it works with the cast they have.

Well, St. Lawrence Seminary High School in Mt. Calvary, Wisconsin may have had the best reason of all for choosing Bringing Down the House, my comedy about a struggling theater company that's forced to rush things when they find out the theater they rented is going to be demolished the very next day.

As it turns out, the school had recently demolished a building of their own, and they thought it would be fun to perform a play that marked their "year of demolition."

I mean, you don't have to tear down any buildings to do this play. But if you want to, that's fine with me.