Meet Me in St. Louis

For my family, it is a tradition to go to a play every year around Christmas time. Today we went to Theater Cedar Rapids and saw a production of “Meet Me in St. Louis.” Before today I had no knowledge of what this play was about, except that it was a movie first and had something to do with Christmas.

          To me, the play was very confusing. From the moment it started I was confused as to what was going on. But I was patient; trying to understand the plot. Then all of a sudden intermission was here and I was still confused. By that time, I was just bored because I had no idea what was actually happening.

          After it was over, I was talking to my mom about what she thought of it. To my surprise, she said that she liked it and thought it was very good. I explained how confused I was and didn’t really get the significance of anything that happened. She then said that she had seen the movie before and that was why should understood it. She explained how if one hadn’t seen the movie prior to seeing the play, they wouldn’t have understood it. This made me feel a little bit better. But also made me wonder how many other people didn’t enjoy it because they didn’t understand it. To me that is a huge downfall in the organization of the play.

          Although, I didn’t understand much of it, I thought that the acting and singing was very good. I am always impressed by the talent of the singers and today wasn’t any different. Most of the main characters were younger and to see that much talent those people was kind of awesome.

          I enjoy going to plays and Theater Cedar Rapids every year. There have been a couple times where I didn’t exactly enjoy the plot of the plays, but that doesn’t change the amount of talent these people have. It’s like not enjoying a movie, but still liking a certain actor or actress in the movie. You are still going to give them the credit, even though the story line didn’t catch your eye this time around.

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