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The Little Mermaid Professor: Trickovic
Anthony DeFilippis 4/28/08
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The Little Mermaid

The Broadway play which I went to see was located at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th street. This is considered the heart of the theater district in New York City. The play which I saw was The Little Mermaid presented by Disney. As an 18 year old male, I was not very fond of seeing a Disney play but, my girlfriend wanted to see the show so, I had to come tag along. In the rest of this paper I will give a review of how my day went: Getting to the play, the theater, the play itself, the surroundings, the people, the audience’s response, and other aspects of the show.

The show started at 8pm, so I decided it would be good to leave my neighborhood at about 6pm to account for the traffic and finding parking in Manhattan, as you can see I drove. We ended up leaving queens at about 6:30pm and getting to the location of the play at about 7:15pm. We made very good timing and there was very little traffic. The worst part of getting to the play was finding parking; we had to circle around the block about 10 times before we finally found someone pulling out of a spot. By this time it was about 7:45pm, we were 2 blocks
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There costumes seemed to be very nice but, I feel that Flounder’s costume could have been improved. The costumes of all the characters made it easy to distinguish who was who and they all had very good singing voices. My girlfriend also sings and she mentioned that they had very good voices. The orchestra played the theme music well and sounded spectacular. One thing which I disliked was that the orchestra was playing underneath the stage and it was very hard to see them. I feel they did not give enough recognition to the orchestra who play a very big role in the

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