October 17, I went on a trip to watch a fantastic music show of Disney's in Hartford. It was one of the greatest performance I've ever seen.
The Newsies introduces a story took place in the 19's New York. With the launching of spotlight, the story began with a conversation between the main character - Jack Kelly and his friend. There were a few distinct details that attracted my eyeballs immediately. The staging was really interesting: Actors stood on a huge staircase, with a projecting background on their back. I finally realized that the musical was pretty different from the opera I saw before, I used to watch some of the Italian Operas with my father, because there's a theatre near my house. Those types of Opera are usually quite traditional, with only few of even zero background images.
The identity of Jack Kelly became clearer to me later. When he and a bunch of other young men with the similar clothing style showed up in a stall-like place, there were thick stacks of newspaper on the ground. Yes, they were the newspaper delivers, I said to myself. Although it must be a tough job for them, because the newspaper seller didn't look really kind and he wasn't indeed; the newsies looked really optimistic. They joked and danced around instead of complaining about this low-paying job. That actually gave me really positive impressions for them.
Next, a city councilor came into audience's sight. He next announces his decision on rising the Newspaper cost. At that moment, the conflict of the whole play appeared. With this conflict, the rest of the play was basically talking about how Jack Kelly, and his fellows started a protest and finally solved the problem.
Music, was absolutely the biggest part of the performance, that's why it was called the"musical". There was a professional band playing background music under the stage, it was somehow hilarious to me because I'd never imagined they would performed under the actors. The music moods always go with the atmosphere of what's going on at the stage. When there was a sad scene, the music sounded depressed; when a happy scene took place, the music became light and fast. Music had a substantial impact on the atmosphere, it highly strengthened those emotions that were expressed by the actors. In additional, the dancing parts were always accompanied by the music, the combination of them makes perfect stage effect. There were a few times that I even close my eyes to enjoy the music, without watching the play, it was just beautiful. Speaking of dancing, the moves were ridiculously difficult, I was so impressed by them. The theme of those dances never deviated the life of Newsies, their most distinctive personalities were showned in the dance: passionate and optimistic. The spirit of the play was placed deep inside music and dance.
One of my favorite setting in the play was the love story between Jack Kelly and C(K)atherine. It was inspirational; the two young lovers worked together and finally went through all the toughness and fell in love. Nothing can be better than that! I loved seeing them together because they both had such great qualities; Jack Kelly had strong leadership and was always being positive, Catherine was helpful and warm-hearted. They were just two lovely couples.
After all, I love the musical so much, and I would love to watch again.
Picture souce:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsies_(musical)
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