Amanda Palmer to Star in High School Musical

Pitchfork reports that Lexington High School is putting on a new play based on Neutral Milk Hotel's seminal (reeeally seminal) 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Lexington native and Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer will star in the play, slated to run from May 7 to 9. As the album was inspired in part by Anne Frank's diary, the play will be "about music and the Holocaust" according to Palmer, who also told Pitchfork, "My high school theater director, Steven Bogart, is one of my biggest artistic mentors and I've been trying to get back there since I left... I'm not sure what kind of life [the play will] have after the spring. We might try to take it elsewhere." Holland, perhaps? Or back in time? Some sources question whether the NMH album is appropriate material for high schoolers, but we're pretty sure these kids deal with the two-faced all the time, so why not the two-headed? Palmer is currently rehearsing at LHS and may follow up the play with a concept album about her hometown. No word on whether the play will include a version of "April 1st."