Under the Sea, but above expectations
By Madilyn Amundson
Published on April 9, 2018
As far as I know, everyone has high expectations for the musicals here at AHS. I know I do. I have been to many other AHS productions, but The Little Mermaid is by far my favorite. As a lifelong fan of the original motion picture of The Little Mermaid, I didn't really expect not to like it.
Ariel (Hannah Bliss), being the little mermaid, or the star of the musical, desperately wants to be apart of the human world. So desperately, in fact, that she trades her most prized possession, her voice, for a set of legs to the villain of the story, Ursula (Sara Cummings). She has three days to get Prince Eric (David Curtiss) to kiss her, or she will be banned to the depths of Ursala’s lair for the rest of her mermaid life.
Jaren Johnson, a chorus member, said, “Overall, I feel like it was pretty well done. Putting into the perspective that it is students, not professionals putting on the musical.”
I totally agree with Jaren. If it were professionals, I feel that we would have much higher expectations. But the most important opinion might be from Mrs. Blake. I also asked her a question that I think is very important in any production. How was the audience?
“Very good, very receptive,” Mrs. Blake said. “Standing ovation for every performance. The children afterwards were in awe at the characters. It was definitely a neat experience.”
The crowd that I was apart of was all of the above, laughing when things were funny and quiet when things got serious. And there was definitely a standing ovation at the end to honor the hard work that went into this production.
Published on April 9, 2018
As far as I know, everyone has high expectations for the musicals here at AHS. I know I do. I have been to many other AHS productions, but The Little Mermaid is by far my favorite. As a lifelong fan of the original motion picture of The Little Mermaid, I didn't really expect not to like it.
Ariel (Hannah Bliss), being the little mermaid, or the star of the musical, desperately wants to be apart of the human world. So desperately, in fact, that she trades her most prized possession, her voice, for a set of legs to the villain of the story, Ursula (Sara Cummings). She has three days to get Prince Eric (David Curtiss) to kiss her, or she will be banned to the depths of Ursala’s lair for the rest of her mermaid life.
Jaren Johnson, a chorus member, said, “Overall, I feel like it was pretty well done. Putting into the perspective that it is students, not professionals putting on the musical.”
I totally agree with Jaren. If it were professionals, I feel that we would have much higher expectations. But the most important opinion might be from Mrs. Blake. I also asked her a question that I think is very important in any production. How was the audience?
“Very good, very receptive,” Mrs. Blake said. “Standing ovation for every performance. The children afterwards were in awe at the characters. It was definitely a neat experience.”
The crowd that I was apart of was all of the above, laughing when things were funny and quiet when things got serious. And there was definitely a standing ovation at the end to honor the hard work that went into this production.