Take Flight

Hey! I'm doing another blog for the week, and this one is abut my field trip to a great regional theatre located in New Jersey, the McCarter Theatre.









One day, my shop (The Performing Arts Academy) and I went to take a field trip to the McCarter Theatre. We have done this plenty of times before, but today was going to be a special one. Sure, we have seen great shows in the past in McCarter, (Twelfth Night, In the Red and Brown Water, She Stoops To Conquer, and American Buffalo just to name a few.) but this brand-new show premiere ever to be seen in America was finally making it's American debut. It was a new musical called Take Flight, and it was written by three ingenious people who won and were nominated for numerous Tony Awards. this show was surely going to be a treat. When we got over there, we were told that the show was located in the other theatre that was used for In the Red and Brown Water (the one with all the stairs). As we went to the other theatre, I couldn't help but notice that it looked different from the other show. The theatre somewhat started to remind me of a blackbox. Before the show started, We performing arts academy decided to show off our talents by singing for some of the employees and theatre comers when we went inside and took our seats. The people enjoyed our short performance, and renamed us a s "Camden County Glee". When the show finally started, we saw the Wright Brothers standing on the shore, each holding one side of a chest. I looked at the scenery, and thought "Well, that's way different from the last time I came and saw the other production here." The Wright brothers were the funniest characters in the show. One song that they were singing, they shouted "Everybody!" but we were so focused on the show, there was a strange silence, then people started to engage in laughter. During anther scene of the show, We see Amelia Airheart flying her plane, and while she was singing, we realized that she was cross-eyed! We couldn't help but laugh, we tried as hard as we could to control ourselves. When the show had ended, The whole audience had clapped and cheered, and we all went back to our bus. During the bus ride home, My friend Briana, (her blog: mrbriana.blogspot.com) decided to make a hilarious imitation of a singing cross-eyed Amelia. On a serious note, please come and watch this show! This show takes history and it makes it very fun and entertaining. Because of this fact, I would give it five stars, plus the wonderful music, and the fantasic singers and actors. Come see it!