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When Jess, my sister, suggested watching a group of adults returning to their old school for a one night-performance of their high-school show, it was music to our ears. The show takes the loose form of a documentary and is entertaining, emotional and somewhat dramatic so of course my family asked for an encore after we’d watched the first one – and then another encore after that! Annie Get Your Gun The first episode we watched of the series, which is co-produced by Kristen Bell, was a reprise of an Annie Get Your Gun performance, 21 years after the original show in 1998. The series introduces you to the performers and their lives as well as showing you clips from the original musicals. In this episode: two of the adults, Al and Ameigh, had dated in high school and Ameigh had actually changed the spelling of her name because of Al. Insanely, she didn’t revert back to her old name after they broke up, never moving on from her high-school love and therefore provides great entertai...