After a show recommendation from senior Zach Miller, performing arts teacher Dan Schmidt is directing “First Date,” the first Repertory Theatre musical to hit Southwest’s stage. The show appears Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, and the students are rehearsing during their class period for six weeks before its debut. “First Date” is “about a blind date with two people in New York and what happens inside their heads,” according to Schmidt. Not only is it the school’s first Rep musical, Southwest is the first high school to ever perform “First Date.”

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Senior Austin Ragusin performs a song in the musical, “In Love With You,” alongside sophomore Gianna Epps. “This is a very well written show and all of the music is like the stuff you hear on the radio,” Ragusin said. “The audience is definitely in for a rock concert of a story when they come see it.”