An amazing musical

Once upon the time, there’s a pretty peasant girl who fells in love with a rich white guy. The story has a normal storyline as all fairy tales does. It makes me feel it’s boring. However, with the performance of the great actors in Cheshire Academy Theater group, the musical lived. I have read the book in class and I found I don’t like the story with those annoying and self-righteous characters. Otherwise, it’s a fairy tale that with a realistic ending, which is what I liked about the book. I wasn’t expecting too much on the musical at school due to the boring storyline and how familiar I was with the plots of the whole story. However, I knew I was wrong when I first hear the voice of those actors. Firstly, about the main character, Ti Moune, I thought she’s the most annoying one in the book since she always insists about a love that can never belong to her. However, in the musical, the actress controlled the characteristic well and showed both her keening on Daniel and her other kindness. I didn’t really know how to express my feelings, but I would say Ti Moune in the play seemed lovelier. Also, since our group is practicing on Once on this Island as well, I learned lots of ways to show her insisting from the actress. There are also other parts that made the whole show charming. I remembered the part when both Mama Euralie and Ti Moune was said, “he is dying!” They are caring about different people in the same way. I found that was excellent to show the contrast between Ti Moune and Mama Euralie and kind of tell the audiences how much Ti Moune loved Daniel at that time. Also the journey of Ti Moune didn’t take too long that songs replaced it. The way to use storytellers made the long journey seemed more acceptable. Furthermore, another leading character also did a good job, not just for his charming singings but the emotion he put into the character. There’s another scene when Daniel started to choose his real love of his live. Andrea was elegant and charming while Ti Moune seems young and pretty. I saw his struggling with his mind about someone that he should married or someone he loved. I was wondered if Daniel loved Ti Moune or not when I read the book but I would say he did in the musical. He has shown his character in his understanding to the audience and it made me see those reasons that everything happened. Lastly, the costumes and sound effects also made the musical more attractive and really drove me into the scenes. The changing in the ending might give children a lesson that the reality is cruel somehow but it will still bring beauties in people’s lives. Even though Ti Moune died and I don’t think her spirit was worth to study, I still like the ending that the son of Daniel can fall in love with a peasant girl freely. Overall, there are lot’s of things for me to study from the amazing musical and I wish to see more great plays like this one in the future!