Something Rotten ! Play Analysis

My favorite musical we have watched in here is a tie between Newsies and Les Mis, but this about Newsies. Newsies is a phenomenal Broadway production. Fun fact it was released as The News Boys in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega.

“The Producers” is one of the most famous musicals in Broadway. Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan adapted the musical from the 1968 film of the same name. The musical is about two producers that oversell interest in a Broadway flop in order to become wealthy. The musical consist in play with in the musical. The producers, Max and Leo, choose the worst play ever written and the worst director. However, the play turns out to be successful and Max goes to jail and Leo escapes with the money to Rio. The two more important external event in the play are the event when Leo decides to help Max and the moment when the play becomes a success.

The play’s music and lyrics were by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. In addition to that the storyline is based on a Novel by Amanda Browns and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion Picture.

This is a must watch Broadway show that makes your fine, terrible, or even boring day, an absolute blast. The Play That Goes Wrong has finally made its way to America and right at the heart of New York City near Times Square at the Lyceum Theatre. Therefore, the experience is a win-win situation for the audience. The Lyceum Theatre’s architecture is astonishing as it is filled with ornaments, I also realized the letter ‘L’ around the theater, but the most interesting fact is that it is a landmark. It has a proscenium stage while the audience is in the orchestra, balcony, or the mezzanine seats, like where I sat, and there is barely any space if you are a tall person. My seat was near the far end of mezzanine, I couldn’t see a part of the left side of the stage, so I found myself bending sideways to see what was going on, but I saw nothing. I found the side stage lights and a side balcony blocking my view and yet I had a great time.

“Naked Lunch” is a play written by Michael Hollinger that talks about a couple that has been drifting apart. Vernon tried to change his relationship with Lucy, and invite her to eat steak with him. As the play starts, Vernon sees that Lucy isn't eating; rather playing with the food. Vernon confronts her and she admits that she became a vegetarian after they have broken up. But, it was something she had been thinking about and wanted to do, even when she was in the relationship with Vernon. Throughout the play, Vernon thinks he was the reason why she became a vegetarian and tries to get Lucy to eat the meat. He starts making her feel like a joke for trying to fulfill the life she wants to live. Towards the end of the play, when

The book, The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt is about a 7th grader named Holling Hoodhood who has to stay in Mrs Baker’s room on Wednesdays. His Catholic and Jewish classmates leave school early for religious reasons. Holling has a rocky start thinking that Mrs. Baker hates him, but eventually she becomes a great mentor and adviser to Holling. Characters or humans can change and develop over time.

For the live theatre critique project I watched the Dearly Departed play. I watched this show at the Klein Oak High School auditorium and I watched it on November 9, 2015 at 7:00 P.M. Dearly Departed was about a guy name Bud who dies as known as Andrew Brown in the play his family plans a funeral for him, but everything goes wrong. Junior and Ray-Bud get into a fight and start punching each other they both were bad and were separated they both later sat down together drank beer and solved out the situation and they both apologized to each other. Everyone in The Dearly Departed play were really frustrated because Bud dies and Junior and Ray-Bud get into a fight Junior

Michael Choate, the conductor, led beautiful renditions of classical Disney scores. Choate also teach at the local Cookeville High School, bringing the love for music within the public school system. The music took place in a pit that was placed in front of the stage, which was the perfect place to make the audience feel involved with the play.

As pressure intensifies for the boys to produce their father, they enlist Manny's uncle — an off-, off-, off-Broadway actor — to play Papi. Manny's uncle manages to fool Mr. Gibbs, a Little League official who also works for the Administration of Child Services. This ruse buys the boys some time. But without the birth certificate, Michael is forbidden to play ball.

The musical adaptation of the Disney classic The Lion King, directed by Julie Taymor, is a creative myriad of modern and traditional music, successfully merging the plot and soundtrack of the original film with a stunning cast of powerful vocals and ingenious actors to delight and entertain.

Shrek the musical produced by The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This play was about ogre named shrek who was kicked out of his age of 7 and finds it very hard to make friends and meet new people because everyone thinks he is a scary ogre. When really he is is just lonely because no one will talk to him which makes him very grumpy so he isolates himself. The play also has to do with phiona a princess locked in a castle at the age of 7 because of her big secret which she is she is a ogre by night. Then, Lord Farquaad banishes all fairytale creatures to shrek's swamp shrek gets very mad and asks Lord Farquaad if there is anything he can do to get his swamp back and lord Farquaad says he can rescue fiona from her fire breathing dragon guarded castle.

The play that I’m writing on was a musical version of a play called Heathers. Heathers original playwrights are Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. This version of the play was directed by Stephen Gunderhiem. It was in the Johnson Studio Theater. The plot is Veronica is apart the popular clique at her high school, made up of Heather Duke, Heather McNamara and led by Heather Chandler.

The cast included Fort Lewis College students Holden Grace, Johanna Laverty, Jonathan Patton, and Austin Minard in the lead roles with two special guest actors from the Durango, CO community, Hattie Miller and Gordon Thomas. The Director, Dennis Elkins of Pirates of Penzance took the classic 1879 play and brought his observation of craft and technique to express his creativity and amuse an audience of all ages. Pirates of Penzance,an elegant comedy was full of laughter and amuse full songs. The play told a story of one of the main actors, Frederic, an orphan boy who was mistakenly trainen to a group of pirates. As soon as Fredric began his unaccompanied expedition, he meets the beautiful melodious Mabel, and they immediately fall deep in love. But, trouble soon follows. The genre of Pirates of

I enjoyed the small theatre because I felt like I was a part of the story. The location is very easy to find because it is very close to Times Square. The Perfect Crime viewing was on the 4th floor and it was not hard to find your way upstairs. The theatre had a bar with drinks and candy, lounge chairs, and photographs on the wall. During the lay, the room gets pitch black only lightening up the stage. The sound effects are very loud especially because I was so close to the stage. It wasn’t an uncomfortable surrounding and I was entertained.

On October 19th, 2017, I had the honor to attend the Indiana State University production of A Piece of My Heart. This play could be considered a historical documentary and was full of drama, thrill, and action. A Piece of My Heart was originally written by Shirley Lauro, a very popular play writer with many other well-known plays. The play was based around 6 extremely strong and opinionated women who were sent to the Vietnam War to either help or entertain the American Men. Consisting of 5 army nurses, one country singer, and multiple different army men the production was able to provide a full understanding of how life was in Vietnam during the war. This play was performed by Indiana State University students.