A Musical with Spectacle
Review of Into the Woods at the 5th Avenue Theatre
Written by Owen Tran during an Arts Criticism workshop at Glacier Middle School
Into the Woods is a Musical about drama, love, and loss.
It's about a group of people: The baker, The baker's wife, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the beanstalk and more facing different challenges along the way.
Losing people you care about but making new friends as they go on.
Cherishing the memories they made with their loved ones and making new memories as they go on their adventure.
Sticking with each other as they go on, always caring for one another.
You should go see Into the Woods” Because the Plot (mythos) is dramatic and action-packed
An example is when the baker and his wife go on an adventure to find 4 special items but they only have a short period of time so they journey into the woods to find the items.
This evidence suggest that the plot is dramatic and action-packed because the baker and his wife have to journey for the items in a short period of time,
Another example of this is that in Act ll, the protagonist the giant crushes the baker's house and destroys the witches garden so they all band together to throw a rock into the giant's face which kills it.
In addition the characters are also incredible, which you will read about in the next paragraph.
You should go see Into the Woods Because is a musical with spectacle (opsis) and is full of characters (ethos). Its jam packed with amazing characters from all over.
An example of this is when the witch's house was revealed on stage and behind the house lights shining with all different colors.
The evidence suggests that the spectacle is shown throughout the entire show more when the witch's house was shown on stage with the color changing lights in the background.
A second example of this is when the characters meet each other in the forest trading and talking to each other and getting to know each other.
The evidence suggests that the story is full of characters and were shown throughout the entirety of the play.
Lastly you can go see theme melody and diction all in the next paragraph.
You should go see Into the Woods because it’s a good musical with lots of melodies with a strong theme and lots of diction.
For example, when the baker and the baker's wife were out looking for the 5 items they were in a forest, in a witches house, in their home etc.…
Another example of this is when the song “into the woods” was sung out loud the audiences said, “the song into the woods was very catchy”.
And last off the play had a lot of drama and them using all kinds of diction from all over the place arguing or expressing themselves through singing.
You should go watch Into the Woods because it has a good melody, theme, spectacle, diction, plot, and character.
The play was 1 of the best plays I’ve ever seen and if I ever got the chance I would watch 10 out of 10.
In conclusion you should go watch Into the Woods.
Lead Photo: Sarah "SG" Garcia, Cayman Ilika, Eric Ankrim, Porscha Shaw, Yusuf Seevers, Anne Allgood, and Nik Hagen. Photo Credit: Mark Kitaoka
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This review was written as part of an Arts Criticism workshop at Glacier Middle School in Jessica Fishman's 6th Grade Language Arts classes, taught by Press Corps teaching artists Jordi Montes and Jay Chavez.
