The Wolfman Cometh

GMS administrators said it couldn't be done.  Staff members, sensibly enough, asked why we would want to do it in the first place.  Mr. Erskine and Mrs. Palmer assured us that our reputations as actors would take a hard hit, and that much of the student body would be outraged by this abominable, doomed exercise in self indulgence- and that is surely true.
      But Matt Rogers thinks this is the Broadway Knights' finest hour.
     "It's what we were put on this earth for," he said, on condition of anonymity.  "To cause terror and confusion at Georgetown Middle School.  To alienate our teachers and peers who were beginning to feel comfortable with the Broadway Knights Theatre Academy.  To try something that- as far as I can tell- has never been done: A full five minutes of film shot on the GMS stage, to hip-hop-jazz fusion, featuring, well, me!"
     The film to which Rogers refers is The Blue Note, the Broadway Knights' first.  It is, to Matt's mind, "far and away the most beautifully crafted, technically accomplished short ever made by any middle school....anywhere....ever."
     "It was a lot of work," he said, sliding his hipster Ray-Ban's onto his always-tousled hair, darting his eyes around in search of the paparazzi.  "Most middle schools are, you know, ordinarily a shoot and scoot, digital outfit.  Generally speaking, they don't have lights, cameras, sound, or people to run them.  And they certainly don't have, well, you know....me!"
     Miss Allison Erskine, the goddess of theater games, doesn't agree.
     "What they don't have is, well, someone like me," she said, reaching into her handbag and extracting a stack of 8 X 10 glossies.  "I'm the one who made the Wolfman, a nickname acquired by Rogers after he was asked to crawl around on the stage during a theater game, acting like an animal.  If it hadn't been for me, he'd 've never rolled his shoulders and leered.  There'd be no him.  Just sayin'."
     "I'm a little disappointed that Matt thinks the movie's all about him," said Tiffany Raeuber, the film's femme fatale.  "Take Joanie and me and Alyson out of the movie and he'd be making wolf eyes at himself."
     "We're very excited about the film's release," said a source close to Mr. Michael Williams, the school's principal.  "Given the difficult economic times we find ourselves in, the potential revenue boost from this project could mean donuts and coffee in the faculty lounge."
     The long-awaited public release of The Blue Note has been scheduled for the first week of September, pending the final editing by Gettysburg College.  Pre-release copies of the movie and a press packet have been sent to film critics at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.
     Security has been increased at Georgetown Middle School in anticipation of the film's release.  Several special limousines, disguised as school buses, will be used to safely get Matt and his Broadway Knight co-stars to and from school.