Emily Huizenga gets her makeup done before the Tuesday night performance of “Miss Independent” at Gordon Wilson Hall. he musical is written and directed by WKU Honors College seniors Kelly McGee and Shalyn Grow, and is serving as their capstone project. Grow was inspired to write the musical after she went to her first beauty pageant. “I went to my first beauty pageant a few years ago and thought ‘wow, somebody has to write about this’,” said Grow.