Thoroughly Modern Millie is an upbeat musical about a girl with big hopes and dreams in 1920s New

Family friendly, heart tugging, hilarious, energy filled, Matilda the Musical does it all in this unbelievable performance and is a must see for everyone. The humor is perfect for all ages and will have everyone laughing, but at the same time still has little remarks that go over the kid's head. Matilda the Musical is currently playing in the beautiful Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End and the set and special of effects of the Matilda are a little unnecessary at times, but still impressive nonetheless. This show will have you laughing and talking about the performance for days to come!

In conclusion, this wonderful portrayal of a Disney film seeks to teach us about our own lives and who we are using wonderful techniques of puppetry and coordination. It is no surprise that they have won many awards and acclaims all over the world as they show us their wonderful sets and colors which include animals ranging from eighteen feet to 5 inches. Julie Taymor's wonderful philosophy of dual meanings really makes this a great family musical.

Thereafter, she meets and falls in love with Tea Cake. He is significantly younger than her; however, he is the first man to listen to her and treat her as an equal. For example, the day she met Tea Cake, he shocked her when he taught her to play checkers. The fact that someone thought it was natural for her to play pleased Janie. They both enjoyed caring for and helping each other feel relaxed and satisfied. Therefore, Janie, once again, leaves to start a new life despite warning from her friend, Phoebe, and the risk that Tea Cake could be using her for her money. Happily, she adjusts to a new life working alongside Tea Cake in the Everglades. Later, a hurricane tears through the Everglades, forcing them to leave. While they flee, Tea Cake rescues Janie from a wild dog and is only a scratch is left on his cheek. Until he becomes horribly ill, they think nothing of it. The doctor tells Janie she can’t sleep with him and she must stay away when he has ‘fits’. Due to this, Tea Cake believes she has grown tired of caring for him. The disease affects his behavior and in his crazed state he points a gun at Janie. He forces her to shoot him. While she weeps, Janie holds his head and thanks him for the opportunity to love him. Later that day, she is tried for his murder and acquitted. Afterwards, she cannot bear to live in the Everglades without Tea Cake; so, she moves back to

Then Frankie goes to a bar and an army man tries to kiss Frankie but she won't let him. Although the book, talks about how Frankie decides to go with Janis and Jarvis and she ends up buying a dress but Bernice thinks that it does not look good on her.

Joe was sweet at first, then his true feelings about women come out and Janie looses her love she thought she had for him. He soon dies after their separation. Janie then falls in love with a man named Tea Cake. He is the man with whom she has a wonderful, loving, happy marriage.

This seems to be the point in her life where she takes a complete role reversal. She is no longer the careless teenager like we read about in the beginning, but a compassionate and strong-willed person. “Caregiver Mattie” - she finally learned to care about people in a big way. This is shown through her actions of learning to share and put others before her self. She has now appointed herself as the unofficial guardian of the orphan nell, and also begins working with Eliza and the Free African Society to nurse the citizens of Philadelphia back to health.

She meets another man named Jody visiting the town where she stayed at. After two weeks with the Jody, she falls in love with him because of the promises that he told Janie and said things needed to hear. After hearing it she quickly leaves Logan thing that running away with Jody then will she accomplish her dream. She is sadly mistaken by Jody’s words and looks. She realizes that Jody is very controlling and with this trait, it would be hard for Janie to complete an aspiration of being free to say and do what she wanted. He was almost as bad as Logan was and she suffered this for twenty years until Jody was on his deathbed where she finally speaks her mind after feeling like her words have been trapped inside her all along. After Jody dies she meets her a man named Tea Cake who had what Janie needed to accomplish her dreams. Marrying Tea CAke she finds that he really is the one but he sadly passes away. Janie still accomplished her dream even though the man that made it happen.

Although their relationship goes through many hills and valleys, their love for each other is still strong after a couple of years of marriage. Janie is finally starting to feel comfortable, like this relationship is going to last for a good, long while. Then immediately after that, everything goes to hell in a handbasket. A hurricane ravages the town that Tea Cake and Janie reside in, and forces them to run off. By a near-miracle, Janie, Tea Cake, and all of the friends they made throughout the last couple of years have survived.

Janie begins to explain her story to her best friend, Phoeby Watson. She tells of how she never met her parents; therefore, he grandmother (Nanny) raised her. It is revealed that Nanny was a slave and because of this, it is her intention to marry of Janie as soon as possible. Janie’s first marriage, set up by Nanny, is to an older gentleman named Logan Killicks. Throughout their marriage, Janie was never able to achieve happiness and later found herself running off with a charming young

This time he continued to be neglected by his mother, Cecilia, who later, has an affair with Richard and abandoned her own three children live in a better life. According to Jimmy, Cecilia dyes her hair to blonde and lie about her cultural heritage to get an approval from Richard’s family, “Little did I know that my mother had eloped to San Francisco with Richard, fleeing into a white world as “Sheila”, where she could deny her past, hide her identity, and lie about her cultural heritage”(17).  In addition, she does want any connection between her and her children, “Richard turned to Mom and explained that, since his parents were old- fashioned, it would be best if she said she was Anglo and that she was just babysitting us for a girlfriend” (15). Jimmy already lost his father, but now he was about to lose his mother to another man. Unfortunately, the loss of these two relationships later leads Jimmy and brother being sent to an orphanage after the death of his grandpa. Eventually, he was sent to a detention center. During his time in a detention center, Jimmy is personality became shattered.  At the detention center he exposed to individuals who were neglected by their parents and states, “Even as blood ran through the wounded kid’s fingers and down his arm, his eyes announced that it didn’t hurt, it was nothing, he had no feelings” (21). Those kids in the detention center in a

Jimmy is both betrayed and a betrayer, but is ultimately not able to forgive himself or Abbad, so he cannot move on and consequently turns to

Ms. Carmichael originally categorized her relationship with Mr. Gates as friends, but upon further questioning admitted she has been romantically involved with Jack for about a year. She recently found out that Mr. Gates has been sleeping with Ms. Bouvier, yet described her relationship with Bobbette as amiable. She claims she upset by the disclosure of their relationship and continues to be romantically involved with Jack.

While they swam through the rain to seek a safer area, a mad dog with rabies attempts to bite Janie, and Tea Cake saves her just in time but he gets bit on the cheek in the process. Janie is devastated and encourages him to see a doctor, but he refuses. Weeks later, the effects of the bite begin to show by causing Tea Cake to get very sick. The doctor tells Janie that Tea Cake will become treacherous and he will eventually perish from the rabies. However, Janie refuses to leave his side because of the love she has for him. Unfortunately, Janie soon has to shoot Tea Cake in order to defend herself from him threatening her with a gun. She is devastated that she had to perform this action, because she wanted him to live so much but yet she had to be the one to kill him. After Tea Cake’s funeral, Janie decides it will be best if she departs from the Everglades because of the lingering memory of Tea Cake which remained there. She returns back home with all of the belongings she has left and the whole town begins to gossip and judge her. However, she walks unashamed in her overalls and returns to her old house. Janie knows that she has now lived a fulfilled and happy life that consisted of true love. This portrays Janie’s changes and progressions as a character because she is now independent, but yet she is satisfied from the infatuation she shared with Tea

The romantic sub plot becomes more apparent as Becca and Stan travel to Oswego to find out more about Gemma’s past. They share an intimate picnic and she is relieves when his friend Samantha turns out to be a married woman.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd