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# Perfect
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/perfect/
- Published: 2026-03-13T18:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:10:49.000Z
- Description: “Perfect,” a celebration of innovative playwrights and performers, written March 13, poem 072 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. "Little Miss Perfect step-and-repeat," Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Poems, Art, Friday, High Scool, March, Mother Daughter Dynamics, Musical, Play, Theatre, Women, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

Dark windy Friday night.  
A quartet of women,  
two moms and two girls.  
Four tickets; showtime.  
  
It's the last weekend   
for the World Premiere  
of *Little Miss Perfect.*  
Lucky for us, we're here!  
  
We take in the musical  
about an anxious type-A  
high schooler in grief.  
She juggles performance  
politics, repression, scandal  
truth, love, and identity.  
  
This newly penned play  
feel immersive and resonant.  
We feel first-hand the students'  
struggles, toils, fears, obsessions.  
  
We bop along with the score.  
We howl and hoot and clap.  
We scrunch our faces in a row  
as we cringe with knowing recognition.  
  
Our cheeks grow hot, Eek!   
We're second-hand embarrassed  
when a character brings their  
authentic awkward charm   
to a scene.   
  
When a soloist belts out  
or hit the high notes or  
rolls their octaves,   
we feel it — this is powerful.  
  
My fellow mom leans over  
catches my ear and whispers:  
"Do you think that Lin-Manuel  
has seen this yet?!"  
  
Someday not far from now  
we feel confident we'll see  
this title lit up on marquees  
on Broadway and West End.   
  
Little Miss Perfect,  
she's going places.  
What a joy to have  
witnessed her first act.