The ‘Unity for Action’ student club, based at the University of Ottawa, is currently in the midst of preparing its annual musical, through which the students aim to gather funds to support the LGBT Youth Line, a charity that offers counselling, advice, and an outreach hotline for young LGBT individuals.
Every year, the student club chooses a social justice topic, which they tackle within their musical’s story. The 7th edition of Unity for Action’s musical is going to revolve around materialism, which according to the press release “allows the group to be funnier than they could have been (in previous musicals) with more personal topics like domestic abuse.”
The musical, entitled “A Year In The Life” will tell the story about a rich and popular, yet miserable and ungrateful woman swaps her live with a regular girl, who desires fame and fortune. In time however, the regular girl discovers that fame and money doesn’t always equal happiness and at the same time the celebrity learns the importance of being kind and appreciative of everything that’s coming her way.
Since the students do not write their own songs, they opted for taking popular songs that fit the subject of the play and decided to use them to help narrate the musical’s story. Among the songs featured in this musical, music fans will be able to spot for instance Gwen Stefani’s ‘Rich Girl’ or Simple Plan’s ‘Welcome To My Life’.
“A Year In The Life” will be premiering on March 10th and three performances in total will be delivered at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Find out more about this musical on its Facebook event page.
