Play review
Review of School of Rock
The play I watched is called the School of Rock written by Mike White. This is a musical about a failed rock star that is kicked out of her band and is now a substitute teacher at a prep school. She discovers that the students have a great musical talent. She forms them into a band to compete in the battle of the bands. I think the theme of this play is follow your dreams. Duey always wanted to be a rock star and failed and he was able to help his students in their talent show which kinda gave her a taste of her dreams.
I think the costume that Duey was wearing in the first scene well showed what type of person she is. She’s wearing all black and red lipstick with a rock looking shirt on. It made it clear that she was a musician (wannabe musician). The uniforms and music in the school helps show that it’s a very prestigious proper and strict prep school. Duey was highlighted as an important character in many ways. She was the first topic of conversation she had a lot of times where she was alone on stage singing and it was clearly established early in the play what she wanted and that was to be a rockstar.
What seemed to be opposite to Duey was the whole idea of her working at a prep school. Duey is a very outspoken, improper, and rock and roll type of girl, which is completely opposite with the prep school they are preppy and proper and different in every sort of way even which type of music they sing. The school was singing like opera and Duey sings rock and roll and a genre that is far from opera. I think that goes along with the intention of the author in this piece. It shows how even people that seem so opposite and act and think so differently can come together with the power of music. I think this is a theme because Duey was in a band with her friends and they kicked her out and she just wanted to play music with someone. So she started teaching the class and she thinks in the beginning that they were just a bunch of “little douchebags” but she realizes they can play music and automatically tries bring them together for them to play in battle of the bands. At the beginning the kids didn’t understand her or agree with her. The most memorable moment for me was when she was getting the kids to play the music with her how their whole attitudes started changing and they just came together to make music.
The actor that was best in my opinion was the girl who played Duey. In the beginning I thought she was just a freeloader with no inspiration because of the way she responded to things truly made me believe she didn’t care. Then when she starts ranting about music and singing it showed me that she wants to be a rockstar. She had a great singing voice and she was able to make the character by being so blatantly outspoken and just saying things that you shouldn’t say like “can I get paid up front all cash” on her first day of the job before it’s even done. Her tone of voice was very believable and it made all of the somewhat wrong things she was saying seem like she really believed it.
I enjoyed the play a lot. It was funny and entertaining to watch I enjoyed most of the music and it was just a lot more fun to watch then most plays I’ve seen.
The play I watched is called the School of Rock written by Mike White. This is a musical about a failed rock star that is kicked out of her band and is now a substitute teacher at a prep school. She discovers that the students have a great musical talent. She forms them into a band to compete in the battle of the bands. I think the theme of this play is follow your dreams. Duey always wanted to be a rock star and failed and he was able to help his students in their talent show which kinda gave her a taste of her dreams.
I think the costume that Duey was wearing in the first scene well showed what type of person she is. She’s wearing all black and red lipstick with a rock looking shirt on. It made it clear that she was a musician (wannabe musician). The uniforms and music in the school helps show that it’s a very prestigious proper and strict prep school. Duey was highlighted as an important character in many ways. She was the first topic of conversation she had a lot of times where she was alone on stage singing and it was clearly established early in the play what she wanted and that was to be a rockstar.
What seemed to be opposite to Duey was the whole idea of her working at a prep school. Duey is a very outspoken, improper, and rock and roll type of girl, which is completely opposite with the prep school they are preppy and proper and different in every sort of way even which type of music they sing. The school was singing like opera and Duey sings rock and roll and a genre that is far from opera. I think that goes along with the intention of the author in this piece. It shows how even people that seem so opposite and act and think so differently can come together with the power of music. I think this is a theme because Duey was in a band with her friends and they kicked her out and she just wanted to play music with someone. So she started teaching the class and she thinks in the beginning that they were just a bunch of “little douchebags” but she realizes they can play music and automatically tries bring them together for them to play in battle of the bands. At the beginning the kids didn’t understand her or agree with her. The most memorable moment for me was when she was getting the kids to play the music with her how their whole attitudes started changing and they just came together to make music.
The actor that was best in my opinion was the girl who played Duey. In the beginning I thought she was just a freeloader with no inspiration because of the way she responded to things truly made me believe she didn’t care. Then when she starts ranting about music and singing it showed me that she wants to be a rockstar. She had a great singing voice and she was able to make the character by being so blatantly outspoken and just saying things that you shouldn’t say like “can I get paid up front all cash” on her first day of the job before it’s even done. Her tone of voice was very believable and it made all of the somewhat wrong things she was saying seem like she really believed it.
I enjoyed the play a lot. It was funny and entertaining to watch I enjoyed most of the music and it was just a lot more fun to watch then most plays I’ve seen.
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