“I chose 1977 to specifically
set the past because musically it
was such a wonderful mixture of
popular mixture,” said Rea. “You
had the disco stuff going on, but
you had R&B, hard rock and clas-
sic rock, and country. There was
just a wonderful mix of popular
music at that time. So, the show
itself is not about the roller rink,
it’s more about the worlds that
collided at the roller rink. We
don’t live at the roller rink, we
meet the family and the friends
of Jacqueline as we course
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through the action. And it har-
kens back to that nostalgic pe-
riod of time.”
The play was inspired by a mo-
ment in time that has always
stuck with Rea. She was 13 years
old and the student body class
treasurer with a skating party
planned for the student body.
Even though she has grown up
going to the skating rink every
Saturday for years, she did not
want to go to the party. Rea had
a bad feeling that something
was going to go wrong. The
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