once on this island

Over the past few months, outside of class, I have been working on being part of my school's winter musical, Once On This Island. The musical is actually based on the book we read in Literature and Performance class, "My Love, My Love," which made it even more interesting, as I was even more familiar with the text.  In the musical, I played a gossiper, peasant, tree, and storyteller as part of the ensemble. All the cast and crew's hard work culminated last weekend when we had three separate performances of the musical, which went quite successfully.
There were quite interesting circumstances that we had to work under that made it more challenging to perform. Most of the cast was sick, which made performing more difficult. It made it harder to sing, but we persevered and continued. One of the members of the ensemble, Erin, was so sick during the last night that she could not go on during the waltzing number, so another cast member, Weike, in her place, with very little notice. One of the crew members got sick about a week before the play and she could not be part of the show, which made Mrs. Monhan take her place. Despite the short notice, she was able to do an amazing job overall, despite some bumps on the road.
Despite these problems, overall I think that we did a very good job. No one messed up on their lines in a completely obvious way. The only slight problem was that on Saturday night, Ryan, who played Daniel, skipped a couple of lines in his song. However, he continued and did such a good job, I never even noticed and I have been listing to the song for about three months straight. Everyone was loud with their lines, which is needed when having to speak over the orchestra's playing.Everyone was also very in character, which made the acting even better
  The dancing went well and the choreography must have looked great. The whole cast had energy in everything we did, especially in our dancing.  Our energy made the show more fun for the audience to watch and more exciting. We also played off of the audience, especially the audience on Saturday. That audience was the most active, yet strangest audience I have ever seen. They laughed when Julia, who played Ti Moune, tried to kill Ryan's character.
The singing was also amazing. The whole cast was able to hit almost all their notes,  even the people who were sick. Our voices blended together very well together. It also was helped by the pit, which was fantastic.
The only significant improvement I think that should be made to any of the musical would be the  the musical numbers, "The Sad Tale of the Bauxhommes." Despite everyone doing a great job during the musical number and everything going perfectly, none of the audiences found it to be very funny, as it was intended to be. This was mostly because the writing and the lyrics are so difficult to find funny at all by themselves and the humor does not match the tone of the musical at all. This must have caused the audience to take the number as a serious one, despite the use of puppets and ridiculous dancing. The only thing that could actually counteract is would have been to cut the number entirely or to make it even more ridiculous with more dancing and puppets.
Despite all our success, the biggest one was that we all had a lot of fun performing. After the success of this musical and all the fun I had performing in it, I can not wait to start working on our comedy skits, which is the spring production. I can not wait till I get to perform and have just as much fun. Bye bye.

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