Analysis Of The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee

Benjamin Shoemaker 6 May 8, 2018 Genre: Informative essay You’ve just participated in one of the most difficult and pressuring academic competitions in the country, The National Spelling Bee. No matter what place you got in you are now cemented in for a life of joy and further academic achievements, right? Not necessarily. For example, one competitor in the 1999 National Spelling Bee, Ashley White, became a mother at 18 and was already pregnant when the documentary Spellbound came out in 2002. She worked as a salesclerk while trying to take care of her 10 month old daughter.

They run the audience through American history from the America’s independent to present day through song, dance, and a slide show. Teaching most America’s history is the narrator. There’s no clear setting as a large amount of the play there were a singer(s)/performers under a spotlight or the actors are ding a dance number. The performers were amazing singers.

Sadly when I arrived at the theater I was not even sure I would be able to focus on the show, for my mother who was meant to see this production with me yet was unable to. Due to unforeseeable circumstances that neither one of us could for see and so with all of this hanging over head I was really hoping to get a laugh from this play, which it did. This was not the first time that I had come to see a play at Boise Little Theater, but definitely this was the first time that I had done it on my own. Which was a tad

I attended the Maverick Theatre Company’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a play about a middle school spelling bee held in one of America’s many Putnam Counties. As the bee goes on, each contestant has to come to terms with themselves, the world around them, and growing up.

On February 18, 2017, I attended a play production at the Bean Brown Theatre located at Shelton State Community College. The name of the production was The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty. As a spectator of the play, with no foreknown knowledge of its content, I enjoyed the play. It had many comedic components.

The play was very well done and was not dull even though it was catered to a large audience. The musical numbers are very entertaining, and the spectacle, both visual and emotional, is well accomplished. I would recommend this to most children and adults, due to the Christmas themes and general lightheartedness of the play.

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,

Our Town was done very differently than the other plays I have read and I thought it was interesting. I liked that the stage manager broke the fourth wall multiple times and spoke to the audience, creating more interaction with them and keeping people entertained and drawn in. They also placed actors in the audience for a scene. I think this is a

The play that I have attended was named “ Fences” directed by Valorie Grear at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California. This play was interesting because it was a background on the Black American history of Troy Mavon. Not only that, but what it mainly focused on sons and fathers dreams can end up being what they did not want. The whole cast did incredible acting, some of the actors were Kiara Beasley, Jean Hyppolite, Victoria Hubbard, Cliff Ingram, Kevin Linell, Stan McDowell and Lester Purry as Troy Maxson. The story of Troy Maxson is interesting because he started out as a garbage man and then he became famous for hitting a home-run in the Negro Baseball League. The whole set up on the stage was well used with all the props that made the audience feel that It was very realistic. Then how the actors used up the stage space that me them get really into character. Not only that, but the costumes very simple for each character. With all of that, the whole play really came together.

The opening performance of The Addams Family, which was the upper school musical of the year, was that night. The Addams Family was probably the most complex show that we members of stage crew had ever tackled? The show included 10 different eight-foot flats, a full-sized dining room table and chairs, three rolling platforms, and even a fully-operational torture device. Mr. Kupersmith, the play’s energetic technical director, hung the lights, designed the props, and was supposed to help us move set pieces on stage during the show. Now we had to do the musical without him because he had strep throat! I was a freshman at

In the 3rd century B.C. a philosopher Aristotle formed what he called the “Six Elements of Drama,” which are thought/theme/ideas, action/plot, characters, language, music, and spectacle. Little did he know that two millennia later, we would use these guidelines in order to evaluate or develop an exquisite play. Twelve Angry Jurors followed these guidelines to pull in their audience and cause them to be attached to characters or intrigued by the plot in such a way only a play of high excellence could. This play was performed in Merrol Hyde Magnet School. Twelve Angry Jurors demonstrates the excellence in the thought/theme/ideas, action/plot, characters, language, music, spectacle also known as the “Six Elements of Drama”

I will be honest with you I had a lot of trouble enjoying the play, like I said the dialect gave me trouble, plus my seats were not that great. I did however like the movie quite a bit, but I realize I am a product of a different generation as well. I have been brought up around TV and movies rather than plays

As I have seen some performances prior to this one, my expectations are kind of not that high. As the play was prepared and performed by a team of theater students, I just expected there will be basic elements a play should have. I also did expect some extraordinary performances from the main actors because I got that every time I attended the plays on campus. LMU actors and actresses / theater-majors tended to surprise me every single time I attended their plays. I know they will eventually act for a living but the fact that they could memorize pages of script, successfully get into character and act all at the same time still baffled me very much.

has been recognized as a new kind of musical play that denied its Broadway audiences many of their most treasured traditions, says David Ewen in American Musical Theatre. There was no opening chorus line, no chorus until midway through the first act, in fact. There was rather a serious ballet and other serious overtones, including a killing in act two. The story, which was so simple, seemed to engage the audience in more than mere evening diversion. (248) These changes, far from disappointing to viewers, were upheld by a success that had never been seen in the history of musical theatre.

This production ticks every box; from staging to acting, the play is refined down to absolute fluidity. Immersing themselves in the roles completely, the actors in the Old Vic production embody Miller’s characters in ways unparalleled by other performances. Seeing the actors wholly capture the raw emotions of their complex characters brings the play to life, and with their efforts, the audience feels so deeply along with them.