THEATER

looking for an ensemble cast where’s not really a lead character, where there’s a lot of different people who get to shine, we were looking for something modern, something that had nods to classic musicals—which this has a ton of them, and we wanted something would bring in our community as well as our school.

Matsou added that the selection has also been very welcoming to Golden High School’s growing community of gender-fluid and trans students.

“We have a really large community of students who identify as all across the gender spectrum,” she said. “We have students who are transgender and who are undergoing the different stages of that transition, and one