DEAR EVAN HANSEN, My First Musical Production
From the Curriculum of the Bachelor of Arts in
Communication in the 1st Year 2nd Sem, the Intro to
Communication (Comm 100-14) is one of the list of the subjects. This subject
was all about the Media of how it started and what the media is all about.
Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers,
magazines, TV Radio and internet.
By
discussing the types of the media, from the College Department of Bachelor of
Arts in Communication they had been started the Musical Plays to be performed
on stage of communication students in this subject a long years ago. This shows
that every students in the College of Communication can also be a good
performer on the stage not only in the class.
As
we had been enrolled in this subject, last July 2017, we had given the piece
that we need to perform. The musical entitled “Dear Evan Hansen”.
Dear
Evan Hansen is a stage musical with the music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and
Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. The musical opened on Broadway at
the Music Box Theatre in December 2016, after its world premiere at the Arena
Stage in Washington, DC, in Juky 2015 and an Off-Broadway production in March
to May 2016.
The
titular character, Evan Hansen, is a high school senior with severe society
anxiety, which inhibits his ability to connect with other people and make
friends. After the deatg of one of his classmates, he fabricates a luie that
inadvertently brings him closer to the classmate’s family, while also allowing
him to gain his own sense of purpose.
Since
we are only 15 students in this subject, we appointed our classmates from each
character that are needed in the piece. I have been chosen as the leading lady
of the Lead and the other are the supporting actors and the others were working
on the backstage as a staff. We have started the rehearsal from the 3rd
week of July. It all started that everyone of us was working by helping how to
get the character profile of each character. As the days passed by, the
directors had to start the blocking and the character profiling.
In the same ways, there are changes that had
happened in the production. Because of the different reasons of the actors, in
the middle of the month of studying the piece, the directors decided to import
actors from the 4th Year and one from other department. And I also
gave my role to the imports because I cannot make the role because I don’t have
the power to sing musicals. So we had another adjustments in our productions by
re-arranging the different roles of each actors through having a preview with
the Head Proffessor and Mentor of the musical plays in our college department
named Proffessor Elson Montalba. We had a great start of the rehearsals because
we had also chosen the good actors.
In
every productions, there are always circumstances that will be happened before we
go to the success of the hardworks. We cannot avoid it. Just like what has
happened to our production. Our head director was his first time to lead as a
director in the musical plays. Since he volunteered this position, we let him lead
the opportunity to share his knowledge and abilities to help the production to
be the Head Director. As the days goes by in our rehearsal days, we had a problem
about this matter because one thing also that the actors can’t communicate with
the Head Director because of how the Director handle the group. I know what is
happening those days and I don’t have the power that time to lead them but as
much as I can help the director, I helped him what I can. Since our assistant
director was having a difficult situation because of her illness, we, the
production staffs also helped him to guide and lead the actors. Then our
assistant director, assigned me to be the Associate Director since she knew
that I am also a part of the Theater Organization of our University. So for
that I also lead them in the rehearsals and workshops. I trained them in the
acting workshops, which I shared my learnings of acting in my theatre group. It
would really help actors on how they will burst out their emotions, on how they
will use the proper emotions while throwing their lines. To act normally and to
be truthful.
We have experienced the difficulties
on how to manage our time, how we will surpass the struggle because we have
also different tasks and responsibilities in other subjects and outside the
world of academics. We might have been in the point of gaving up and breaking
down but we always put in our mind that we are all in One Group that will work
as One. Having a good heart to help each one of us.
But
by the help of other people, the other students, in this production who helped
to mount this production was a very appreciated because if they weren’t there
to help us we cannot achieve what the success we have received after all the
hardships we’ve done. The Proffessors, Mentors and other Directors from
different productions, we are all very thankful for trusting us to performed
this piece. We started from scratch but we have a good and successful shows
after all. Also the Imports of this production who are always down-to-earthThis
is all because with the help of the Almight God. He never let us down even if
we try to gave up this production. We are all thankful for the wonderful
experience of performing on stage this musical production.
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