The Full Monty Play Analysis

“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.

For many people music is way to express themselves or distance themselves from their problems. Overall music means different things to different people and this is how I see music. I recently saw Legally Blonde the Musical in the Mary Jane Teall Theatre at Century II on Sunday October 12th at 2:30 p.m. It was performed by the Music Theatre for Young People which are teenagers (13-18 years old). Even people from the Bishop Carroll Chorus were acting in the musical. Only the main characters of the play had personal microphones and they were hooked on their ear and extended close to the mouth.

March of 2017 brought snow, rain showers, and a great musical to Hillsdale College’s campus. This semester, the Hillsdale College theatre department performed a magnificent rendition of the classic 1950’s play, Kiss Me Kate. Thanks to my core class’s requirements, I was blessed with the golden opportunity to see a marvelous musical that brought me much joy.

On February 26th 2016, I went out with my friend to saw this event. It was the first time of my life to be in such production. I was not a fan of theaters. I thought they are boring. Now, my mind has changed because the play was amazing. So, on the next day,

I read the play Marvin’s Room by Scott McPherson. I chose this play from three plays Burnett offered because the cover was blue and blue is my favorite color. The play is essentially the story of a woman named Bessie who finds out that she has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. Through this tragedy her family which was separated comes together again. The theme of this play is that family will always be family. Many people in this play have issues. Hank is in a mental asylum, Marvin is bedridden and dying, and Ruth has back problems. Despite their problems all of these people still care about each other because they are family after all.

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

An underdog can be interpreted under different point of views. Theoretically, it’s a person who is seen inferior to the others, but that has the mind and the spirit of a true champion.

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film, brought to life again by the amazing actors of the Ponderosa Stage Productions. The play adaptation of the Breakfast Club focuses on five completely different students, stuck in detention, who overtime realize that they have much more in common than they first thought. What I liked most about the Breakfast Club was how dynamic each of the actors were, and how they perfectly captured the essence of the character they were portraying. I also loved the set of the detention room, and how it really felt like a real school. My only complaint about the play was the many occasions where the actors would yell to express their feelings, and set the mood for the scene. I feel as if they didn’t need to yell as loud, because

Curtains Curtains was written by Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone, Directed by Sarah Tye, and it was produced by Sarah Tye and Keith Noland, at Thomas A. Stuart Secondary School. Curtains is a “play within a play” it's about a show, but the cast members keep getting killed so everyone must stay inside until the detective figures out who the murderer is. My overall opinion of the show is that it was hard to follow, it was hard to determine who was who and what was going on. THe music made it hard to hear what the cast was saying a lot of the time, but they tried their best to push through it.

On Friday night, I attended one of the showings of A Memory A Monologue A Rant and A Prayer. I didn’t exactly know what to expect but I was excited nonetheless to watch this play. After hearing all the actors tell the stories from the original authors, I chose the story “First Kiss” by Mollie Doyle. I chose this story because upon first hearing this I was completely disgusted that someone could do this to a child and seem remorseless. I grew up in a household where my mother had a family owned Daycare business. This wasn’t your under the table Daycare business either. Every month, we would receive a visit from the state to make sure that everything was up to par and that the children and the staff were being taken care of. I have always grown up around a lot of children and hearing this story set something off in me. We would regularly take care of inner city underprivileged

On February 12th, Legally Blonde the musical opened in the Fallon Theatre with high expectations. At the doors, people patiently waited in the line for the theatre to open. When the doors opened, people scurried to find their seats. I could tell they were all excited; I, too, was very excited about the musical. I’ve seen Legally Blonde the film countless of times, so I was interested to see the musical interpretation of the film. However, as an American theatre expert, I wanted the musical to be more than an entertaining show. I wanted to leave the Fallon Theatre with a sense that I was introduced to another perspective, so I can do something positive in the world. Also, I had hopes that Legally Blonde the musical would highlight topics on feminism and empowerment, attributes the film somewhat lacked. Broadway

The Little Shop of Horrors play was a great experience. The set was seemed professional and could fall for a Broadway set. The props, such as the plant, was very intriguing to watch. Also, the storyline was interesting. The turn of events kept the audience’s attention and gave an overall lesson in life.

In light of the recent allegations against Australian actor, Craig McLachlan, this is perhaps an apt time for Malanda Theatre Company to be premiering their production of Venus in Fur at Cairns’ Rhondo Theatre. The play is a cleverly constructed, salacious two-hander by David Ives that initially appears to be about a dominatrix taking over a theatre audition. But in Ives’ dark comedy where 21st-century sexual politics meet 19th-century sadism and masochism, the balance of power between the sexes is scrutinised.

The Doctor in Spite of Himself is a play that I had previously studied in France like many of Molière’s plays. I thought that it was ironic for me to go see the play for the first time in theatre in the United States. I was really looking forward to hear how the actors would pronounce the characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a