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soooo...back from NYC this weekend.
And I'm definitely still swooning over NYU. My parents and I went to their event for the top bunch of accepted students today and it was definitely a huge help. If it weren't for the whole theatre thing I'd probably be ready to set my deposit down now. The "theatre thing" being the fact that I can't double major or minor in theatre (with my major being math), and the fact that all their good extra-curricular theatre groups are exclusive to tisch students (that's their theatre college)...which personally I think is crap. They do have one theatre group for the College of Arts and Sciences that I applied to, but from what I heard of it (which is very little) it doesn't sound like it even does musicals or anything interesting. So that's just something I have to figure out, but otherwise I love NYU right now. Plus they gave me lots of free stuff (haha)
So yesterday I went to see Pirate Queen. I actually was pleasently suprised. So basically it was about this woman leader/captain of the Irish clan O'Malley, her name being Grace O'Malley. (This was a true story, btw...however colored it might have been). And it was basically about Ireland's conflict with England and Grace's conflict with Elizabeth I (who I thought made an exquisite dynamic antagonist-turned-protagonist). The music and lyrics were written by the same team (Boublil and Schönberg) who wrote Miss Saigon and Les Mis. Personally, my opinion of Boublil and Schönberg is that, just as with Sondheim, with most of their music you don't get the full pleasure in the first listen, but rather in the fifth and on. So consequently, much of the music was very passionate and gorgeous (I even got goosebumps of multiple occasions), but unfortunately I feel like I didn't fully appreciate it. Thus, I am very anxious for the possibility of a recording of Pirate Queen. So anyways, the music had an irish flare to it as well as the dancing (a former riverdance choreographer choreographed it...and sorry for the lack of a thesaurus in that note, lol), which made for some beautiful scenes. The dancing was spectacular I thought. The talent was great as well. Stephanie J Block who played Grace was fantastic, truly worthy of the lead. The rest of the cast was very talented as well, each notable in their own way. The play was long, but so were Miss Saigon and Les Mis, and I don't think that hindered its overall presentation. My only criticism is that plot-wise it started out a little slow. Staying with the plot, it definitely wasn't as epic as Miss Saigon or Les Mis, but I think the plot was better than a lot of garbage I've seen on bway.
I honestly would like to delve into more detail of the Pirate Queen, but I am extremely tired...tty'all later
And I'm definitely still swooning over NYU. My parents and I went to their event for the top bunch of accepted students today and it was definitely a huge help. If it weren't for the whole theatre thing I'd probably be ready to set my deposit down now. The "theatre thing" being the fact that I can't double major or minor in theatre (with my major being math), and the fact that all their good extra-curricular theatre groups are exclusive to tisch students (that's their theatre college)...which personally I think is crap. They do have one theatre group for the College of Arts and Sciences that I applied to, but from what I heard of it (which is very little) it doesn't sound like it even does musicals or anything interesting. So that's just something I have to figure out, but otherwise I love NYU right now. Plus they gave me lots of free stuff (haha)
So yesterday I went to see Pirate Queen. I actually was pleasently suprised. So basically it was about this woman leader/captain of the Irish clan O'Malley, her name being Grace O'Malley. (This was a true story, btw...however colored it might have been). And it was basically about Ireland's conflict with England and Grace's conflict with Elizabeth I (who I thought made an exquisite dynamic antagonist-turned-protagonist). The music and lyrics were written by the same team (Boublil and Schönberg) who wrote Miss Saigon and Les Mis. Personally, my opinion of Boublil and Schönberg is that, just as with Sondheim, with most of their music you don't get the full pleasure in the first listen, but rather in the fifth and on. So consequently, much of the music was very passionate and gorgeous (I even got goosebumps of multiple occasions), but unfortunately I feel like I didn't fully appreciate it. Thus, I am very anxious for the possibility of a recording of Pirate Queen. So anyways, the music had an irish flare to it as well as the dancing (a former riverdance choreographer choreographed it...and sorry for the lack of a thesaurus in that note, lol), which made for some beautiful scenes. The dancing was spectacular I thought. The talent was great as well. Stephanie J Block who played Grace was fantastic, truly worthy of the lead. The rest of the cast was very talented as well, each notable in their own way. The play was long, but so were Miss Saigon and Les Mis, and I don't think that hindered its overall presentation. My only criticism is that plot-wise it started out a little slow. Staying with the plot, it definitely wasn't as epic as Miss Saigon or Les Mis, but I think the plot was better than a lot of garbage I've seen on bway.
I honestly would like to delve into more detail of the Pirate Queen, but I am extremely tired...tty'all later