For a small community of theater kids, the director is the one person whose approval you crave most in the world, above their parents, friends, and even above God.
Every day, she takes a logo of a musical off her piano and rips it up in front of her classroom, explaining why it didn’t make the cut this year.
The appeal of watching a high school theater director slowly reveal which show her students will stage is difficult to pinpoint.
Eldreth’s videos appear to strike a chord among current and former theater kids, who are intimately acquainted with the sensation of waiting, with bated breath, to see how their casting fates will play out next year .