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 MaKiddo is an energetic, cartoonish satire on today's teens and their high-stress high schools, set to the operetta music of Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado.
Unique among musicals, MaKiddo in that it has a mostly girl cast. Five of the nine leads (and 11 of the 15 roles with solo musical lines) are girls, with lines and songs distributed broadly across the cast.
We're definitely not talking Bye Bye Birdie or Grease here. The setting is the Priti-Nu High School for Practically Perfect Kids, brainchild of old "Ebenezer MaKiddo" of the Asiatic Institute for Academic Acupuncture, a school where everyone is so high-achieving that you fall 57 places in your class ranking if you get one question wrong on a physics exam. That, at least, is what the students think—and, of course, the truth is not quite that.)
 The students who inhabit this school are exaggerations of familiar types in today's high school corridors. The girls include a student government control freak, a walking thesaurus, a sleep-deprived wreck, a boytoy manipulator, an outcast goth, and the "chick clique" arbiters of what's hot and what's not. The boys include a pompous athlete, a bogus yo-boy, a clueless naif, a master of pop culture, and a "guy gang" of hottie wannabees.
The story wraps around the students' efforts to break free of their "bubble tests" and of having to be perfectly perfect all the time. Once they learn of the nefarious scheme that they've been witlessly advancing, they find a solution guaranteed to warm the hearts of today's stressed-out students.
No high school musical is more fun—and more exquisitely right-on-point—than MaKiddo.
MaKiddo is distributed by Crimsonblue Productions, Inc., Woodstock, VA.
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