When my mom dragged me to go see the musical The Color Purple I was not a happy camper. I don’t want to see any musical especially not about a story I have never even heard of before. Let me tell you, I was wrong about that. I could not connect personally with this story but I did have a deep feeling of emotions while viewing this play. It was a great story about how powerful love is. The main protagonist Celie was forced to marry a farmer that was very mean and this makes her separated from the ones that she loves. You see a shift in Celie and by the end of the play you see her really become her own person. That was what made me feel so deeply about this play because you see the struggles that she was having but you see her rise above it and overcome adversity. This was the first play I have ever seen so I do not know if I can compare it to anything else but I was amazed by the voices on these actors. The singing was incredible as well as the acting. Honestly, I feel the reason that it made me feel the way I did was because she had someone have such a positive influence and change their perspective on life. Her new friends Shug and Sofia have show her that there is more to life and she needs to be positive because there is more to life than being treated poorly.
It was very different than the Athenian plays were the up and coming young leaders sat in the front. Since the plays are very expensive it seemed that older people were sitting in the front rows since they had the money. My mother and me were standing the whole play. Although my legs got tired it was definitely worth it. I was not sitting in the front but we did get a great discount for standing.
This play reminded me a lot of the proverbs we learned about in the beginning of the semester. It is teaching us about life and how powerful love is. It can over power all the bad things that you have in your life. Sometimes a new perspective on life is all we need to get past and rise up against the adversity in our lives. It teaches us a lesson that we can use and incorporate in our everyday lives. It goes way past an extra credit; it is about what we can learn from these experiences. I am very happy that I went to go see this heart-warming play because it makes me want to go see another very soon. It is safe to say that my first Broadway experience was a successful one.
I also got to see how women and people of color were mistreated. This took place in 1600’s Georgia when slaves were present. She was mistreated because she was a woman and she was black. In class we talked a lot about gender discrimination and it was the main conflict of this play. She was treated as an inferior due to the color of her skin and her sex.
