AIDA by Autumn
AIDA was the first musical I have ever been able to see live. The performance was really amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and experiencing this musical. After watching AIDA it was completely different from the study guide, my first impressions were not good, and I found it to be extremely powerful.
After reading the study guide I thought the play was going to be just another classic love story that would be really boring. I thought it would be like all other love stories and that there would be no point in seeing it. The musical, though, was completely different than what I expected it to be from the study guide. I found out that ,yes, it was another classic love story, but it was far from boring. It kept me interested and drawn into it the whole time. There was always something going on and there was never actually a boring part. In fact I didn’t want the play to end when it did; I wanted to see more. Also, after reading the study guide I thought it was going to be old fashioned because it didn’t take place in modern Egypt, it took place in the past. I thought I would see all the people dressed up like they did in the past, and that all the music would be dull and set up for the past. This thought was completely untrue. The musical was set up in the past, but yet looked like modern times. The performers were wearing clothes that are in style now. They even had weaponry that was modern, like guns. I think that this helped me to relate to the story at a deeper level. I could see the play taking place in my time, it wasn’t just a story from the past. The music was also not dull; it was extremely powerful and upbeat. It to was also from modern times. They had all different types of music form pop to a type of rock, this is definitely not taken from the past. This to helped to draw me more into the story. What I took from the study guide about the play was completely different from the play itself.
Since this was my first time seeing a musical play I didn’t exactly know what to expect. But I did know that when the play first started I didn’t really like it. I thought it was going to be really weird and that I wouldn’t like it at all. I’m not sure what it was but the acting just seemed off, and I did not like some of the actors and actresses. For instance I didn’t like Marja Harmon, Aida, in the beginning of the play; she seemed like a bad actress to me. But, in the end she ended up becoming my favorite character. Another who I did not like in the beginning of the play was Leah Allers, Amneris. She also seemed like a bad actress. As the plat went on, though, I came to realize that the way she was, was just her character. I think I just more understood her character and why she was acting the way she was. So her acting changed from bad to her personality, and she too became one of my favorite characters. I left with completely different impressions from the ones I had at the beginning of the play. I left with a lot more respect for the actors and actresses then I started with. Also, with a lot more respect for those who have to perform live and not pre- recorded, like I usually watch, it seems so much harder and demanding.
Being a huge T.V. watcher and never having experienced something like this before; it really moved me. I found the play and all the singing to be extremely powerful and emotional, something I had never heard or seen on T.V. before. I found it really amazing how much emotion and power the performers portrayed in their performances. I felt like I could feel there pain or feel their happiness. It was like they were drawing me in to be a part of their world, to experience what they experience. It made me feel like I was there and not just watching some play. They never let me down with the ability of their singing. One performer whom I really admired was Marja Harmon, who played Aida. She seemed to have the most emotion and power behind her singing. I had never seen anything like her singing before. I even commented her about it after the play, when we talked to the performers. The emotion and power portrayed in this play really moved me, and persuaded me to see more musicals.
I found the play to be really amazing. I actually wish I could see it again. For my first experience in the performing arts, it definitely did not scare me away. I look forward to seeing more performing arts. Although, my first impressions of AIDA were bad, and the study guide set me up for something I thought would be completely different, it ended up being an extremely powerful and extraordinary musical.
After reading the study guide I thought the play was going to be just another classic love story that would be really boring. I thought it would be like all other love stories and that there would be no point in seeing it. The musical, though, was completely different than what I expected it to be from the study guide. I found out that ,yes, it was another classic love story, but it was far from boring. It kept me interested and drawn into it the whole time. There was always something going on and there was never actually a boring part. In fact I didn’t want the play to end when it did; I wanted to see more. Also, after reading the study guide I thought it was going to be old fashioned because it didn’t take place in modern Egypt, it took place in the past. I thought I would see all the people dressed up like they did in the past, and that all the music would be dull and set up for the past. This thought was completely untrue. The musical was set up in the past, but yet looked like modern times. The performers were wearing clothes that are in style now. They even had weaponry that was modern, like guns. I think that this helped me to relate to the story at a deeper level. I could see the play taking place in my time, it wasn’t just a story from the past. The music was also not dull; it was extremely powerful and upbeat. It to was also from modern times. They had all different types of music form pop to a type of rock, this is definitely not taken from the past. This to helped to draw me more into the story. What I took from the study guide about the play was completely different from the play itself.
Since this was my first time seeing a musical play I didn’t exactly know what to expect. But I did know that when the play first started I didn’t really like it. I thought it was going to be really weird and that I wouldn’t like it at all. I’m not sure what it was but the acting just seemed off, and I did not like some of the actors and actresses. For instance I didn’t like Marja Harmon, Aida, in the beginning of the play; she seemed like a bad actress to me. But, in the end she ended up becoming my favorite character. Another who I did not like in the beginning of the play was Leah Allers, Amneris. She also seemed like a bad actress. As the plat went on, though, I came to realize that the way she was, was just her character. I think I just more understood her character and why she was acting the way she was. So her acting changed from bad to her personality, and she too became one of my favorite characters. I left with completely different impressions from the ones I had at the beginning of the play. I left with a lot more respect for the actors and actresses then I started with. Also, with a lot more respect for those who have to perform live and not pre- recorded, like I usually watch, it seems so much harder and demanding.
Being a huge T.V. watcher and never having experienced something like this before; it really moved me. I found the play and all the singing to be extremely powerful and emotional, something I had never heard or seen on T.V. before. I found it really amazing how much emotion and power the performers portrayed in their performances. I felt like I could feel there pain or feel their happiness. It was like they were drawing me in to be a part of their world, to experience what they experience. It made me feel like I was there and not just watching some play. They never let me down with the ability of their singing. One performer whom I really admired was Marja Harmon, who played Aida. She seemed to have the most emotion and power behind her singing. I had never seen anything like her singing before. I even commented her about it after the play, when we talked to the performers. The emotion and power portrayed in this play really moved me, and persuaded me to see more musicals.
I found the play to be really amazing. I actually wish I could see it again. For my first experience in the performing arts, it definitely did not scare me away. I look forward to seeing more performing arts. Although, my first impressions of AIDA were bad, and the study guide set me up for something I thought would be completely different, it ended up being an extremely powerful and extraordinary musical.
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