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ANALYSIS:
Legally
Blonde
INDEX
1. INTRODUCTION.....................................2
2. ANALYSIS...............................................2
- Acting................................................2
- Singing...............................................3
- Dancing.............................................3
- Staging..............................................4
3. CONCLUSION.........................................5
1.INTRODUCTION
The main goal of this report is to consider what a perfect
show is for us. Saying that, we wont take a specific performance
as perfect, but we will analyse a show on all the aspects that we
loved more: acting, singing, dancing and staging. For that reason
the show we propose is Legally Blonde on Broadway.
We want to clarify that our aim as performers is not to get
specifically in that musical production what would be great if
we have the chance but to be on a show with the same
professional characteristics and quality.
Legally Blonde has been our choice because its been
possible for us to watch the whole show and at the same time it
achieved all we were looking for in a production: its a complete
musical with a story that catches you from the beginning, a
delightful soundtrack and an outstanding cast.
If you want to see it is available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjkscx9Osmw
2.ANALYSIS
As we want to differentiate every aspect, because of its
uniqueness as a part of a whole, we have organised our critical
analysis in four points.
ACTING
One of the main characteristics of Legally Blonde is the
stereotyping of its characters. Elle Woods, the main part, plays
the role of the typical silly Californian blonde girl, whose only
desires are love and fashion; her best friends are wild high
school cheerleaders and her boyfriend is the standard handsome
superficial guy who ends up leaving her to go to college.
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SINGING
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can
DANCING
The kind of dancing used in Legally
Blonde is mainly jazz and a variation
of cheerleader-aerobic dance. Most of
the company dance numbers are based
on
jazz
style
including
ethnic
movements, acrobatics and gymnastic
steps.
For the combinations there is
an specific dance troupe, and
then all the cast has a
considerable level of dancing
technique to follow and do the
steps together when it's needed.
As audience we loved the choreographies because they are
amusing, daring and incredibly visual. They are well-related to
the script, so you don't feel the choreography is
there just because, but it has a reason and helps
to illustrate and follow the story.
STAGING
We have been amazed by the
changes of the set. First of all
they are very fast, in seconds
you go from one place to
another, being them completely
different. That is what makes
them so impressing.
Furthermore these changes
are that fast because of the
different levels of the stage surface, which makes different
furniture appear instantly from underground, as well as slide
from upstage.
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3.CONCLUSIONS
After all the research and work done, we realized that if
we want to get a job with such professionalism, we must
keep on working and training, as hard or even more than we
have been doing until now.
Having to analyse the show made us see it with a
different perspective. We didnt just see it as audience, but
as critics who had to be accurate at finding out which details
makes us think it is perfect or almost perfect.
By doing this, we now appreciate even more the work of
the performers, as well as the work of everyone involved in
a production; and how essential professionalism is to bring a
performance to the highest level of brightness.
Legally blonde is, for us, a referent and a top musical
because it involves having in the same stage great actors,
amazing singers and incredible dancers, many of them as
flexible as to be the three things at the same time. Thats
the essence of musical theatre, what amazes us and what
the audience look for and deserve when they pay such
expensive tickets. Theres nothing worthier than realizing
the high quality of a show when youre seeing it; and
Legally blonde totally worth it.
The script is risky and funny and with unexpected turns;
the songs are perfectly introduced in their place and follow
the storyline; the music fits ideally in all the different
moments; the choreographies are visually wonderful and
every character adds its own richness to the plot.
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