Thoroughly Modern Millie
I watched Thoroughly Modern Millie on March 6th, 2015, at the Kravis Center, put on by the students of Dreyfoos. The sole reason why I picked this musical is due to the fact that one of my friends goes to the school and recommended me to watch the play in order to write this assignment. I was originally planning to critique Suncoast’s theatre students but their spring play does not start until April 2nd, which is beyond the deadline of this assignment. The overall experience of the play was fantastic and I would’ve love to watch the performance twice because everything just fell into place, the costumes, the set design, the producer’s choice of the cast, and so much more elements all just combined into a great play. …show more content…
Before I delve into details about the musical, I’ll begin with what I observed before the play started. The musical was performed on a proscenium stage. A proscenium stage is the arrangement of the audience facing one direction, as in a movie theatre, and the action is seen onstage through a frame of some kind according to the textbook. Thankfully I sat in the middle section of the audience on an aisle because then I was able to see all the actions and characters on stage and I was not angled at an extreme angle. But other members of the audience weren’t as lucky as me because there were people in the front row at the far ends and their view on the play was extremely angled and at times would see the actors back turned towards them especially in scenes where two characters were talking to each other. There weren’t much visual effects or machines involved in the play so there wasn’t a need to conceal anything and I felt that the musical needed more of an intimate stage. I would’ve opted for a thrust stage. I felt bad that members of the audience didn’t have the same type of view of others and weren’t able to capture the true essence of the musical. A thrust stage would have been most effective because the characters would have more space to do their choreography and have more space to walk around and give almost every audience member a chance to see what it is that they’re doing, may it be dancing, or talking to another character. Thrust stages are usually used for concerts and in this case, a musical is like a concert because there are times of singing and dancing and movements throughout the whole stage and it would have gotten the audience more focused and excited for the different scene numbers. Also despite the usage of a microphone, a thrust stage would allow the actors to project their voice
I watched Thoroughly Modern Millie on March 6th, 2015, at the Kravis Center, put on by the students of Dreyfoos. The sole reason why I picked this musical is due to the fact that one of my friends goes to the school and recommended me to watch the play in order to write this assignment. I was originally planning to critique Suncoast’s theatre students but their spring play does not start until April 2nd, which is beyond the deadline of this assignment. The overall experience of the play was fantastic and I would’ve love to watch the performance twice because everything just fell into place, the costumes, the set design, the producer’s choice of the cast, and so much more elements all just combined into a great play. …show more content…
Before I delve into details about the musical, I’ll begin with what I observed before the play started. The musical was performed on a proscenium stage. A proscenium stage is the arrangement of the audience facing one direction, as in a movie theatre, and the action is seen onstage through a frame of some kind according to the textbook. Thankfully I sat in the middle section of the audience on an aisle because then I was able to see all the actions and characters on stage and I was not angled at an extreme angle. But other members of the audience weren’t as lucky as me because there were people in the front row at the far ends and their view on the play was extremely angled and at times would see the actors back turned towards them especially in scenes where two characters were talking to each other. There weren’t much visual effects or machines involved in the play so there wasn’t a need to conceal anything and I felt that the musical needed more of an intimate stage. I would’ve opted for a thrust stage. I felt bad that members of the audience didn’t have the same type of view of others and weren’t able to capture the true essence of the musical. A thrust stage would have been most effective because the characters would have more space to do their choreography and have more space to walk around and give almost every audience member a chance to see what it is that they’re doing, may it be dancing, or talking to another character. Thrust stages are usually used for concerts and in this case, a musical is like a concert because there are times of singing and dancing and movements throughout the whole stage and it would have gotten the audience more focused and excited for the different scene numbers. Also despite the usage of a microphone, a thrust stage would allow the actors to project their voice