Cinderella Play

I was able to attend the Cinderella play at the Pleasant Grove Community theater on Monday night. My wife and daughter were able to come with me and I think that my daughter was the only one who enjoyed the play. I guess you can’t expect much from a community theater but this was the first time I have ever attended a community put on play so I was unsure as to what to expect. There were a few descent actors involved in the play but most of the individuals definitely were hard to watch or even listen to when they were singing such as the actor who played the step-mother. She was just horrible all over the place but I really have no room to talk because I have never attempted to be in a play. What was cool though is how they attempted to involve the audience in the play. During the part of Cinderella where they are using the slipper to find Cinderella, they would let the little girls in the audience also try on the slipper. I thought that was neat and so did the little girls that tried on the slipper. The only good actor of the play was the individual who played Cinderella. She had a great voice and knew how to involve her body movements and facial expressions to involve the audience members and pull their attention to the action of the stage. Besides the bad acting, it was a descent experience especially since my daughter really enjoyed the play. It was a rather long play however and we didn’t get out of the playhouse till about 9:30 which made it a late night for my daughter. The actual set up of the playhouse was also something different that I have ever seen personally in a theater like setting. I know we talked about it in class and I don’t recall the name associated with this type of staging but it was the type were the audience surrounds the stage on all sides. This allowed for the actors to interact with the different sides of the stage that held audience members. This also made it hard of hearing when the actors where on one side of the stage speaking directly to the audience, especially since there was no sound equipment to amplify the actors voices.