The Music Man Concert Essay

This year at PXHS there was a great musical called the Music Man. The musical was truly serious and hilarious. There were many phrases and jokes being said that I did not understand, but the adults did. I saw that the people who played the characters practiced hard on the dancing, singing and acting. They had to memorize many lines, especially Harold Hill and Marian Paroo. The musical took place in River City. It was a story about a librarian/piano teacher and a traveling salesman. At first, they did not really like each other, but in some way, they fell in love. The musical was very fascinating, beautiful, and humorous.
The musical itself was full of surprises. The dancing and choreography were great. There were times when the dancing was
The musicians had played songs that coordinated to the situation that was happening. For example, when there was trouble they sang “Ya Got Trouble”. They had to repeat the words “ya got trouble”. I thought that just reciting the words to the song was challenging. But before the performance had even started, the musicians play a beautiful tune. The music that they were performing was going to be in parts of the play. They played a combination of “Seventy-Six Trombones”, “Goodnight My Someone”, and many others. The music was soothing and it introduced the play extremely well. The
They used imagination, concentration, observation, sensory awareness, and movement. In the play, they used all these personal resources. Once when they used imagination was when the crew built the scene background to think they are in the town of River City. They built structures out of wood and decorated them with color and style, some brick and others with siding. A time when they used concentration was when they were dancing, they needed to make the right moves. They used observation when they were in the library. While they were reading a book, they were hearing Harold and Marion talk. All the actors utilized their personal resources very