Braydon Waller Essays (488 words) - English-language Films, 9 To 5

Braydon Waller Humanities Professor Hughes December 3, 2017 Nine to five the musical Nine to five the musical is a musical based around a 1980 movie of the same name that has music and lyrics by Dolly Parton in it. It's a funny and energetic play about friends and revenge. Three coworkers come up with a plan to get back at their egotistic boss but they find out there is nothing they can do about it. Personally I thought the play was funny and it was actually pretty good. It was very good about keeping with the themes of what the play had, like the daily workplace struggles and what else goes on in the workplace. It keeps the theme of friendship in work and working together to get back at the boss, also kept with the comedy theme even with some seriousness mixed in the play. The play seems to me to be very creative with how everything throughout the play works. The dialogue, scenes, set, and characters for it are very creative and interesting with how it all works together. There's violet the working mom, Doralee a country girl, Judy the new employee a nd finally the boss Franklin Hart. One of the first things Franklin does is make them get his coffee which just shows just how he is, also with all the flirting he does with them. The play is very well acted with all the actors seeming to work together in unison to understand the play better and it helped to make the play even better than it already was. The production of the play one hundred percent made it easier to understand, I had really no understanding what the play was fully about, but how it was produced definitely made it easier to watch. With just how the director, character and everyone involved in the play made that much easier to understand. The overall language of the play was good and the actors made every line clear and with great emotion. They made the play stay with the theme with how they acted, they kept with the seriousness of the workplace and the comedy of it too, and they made it all tie together. With how the actors portrayed the characters an d the scenes they helped make a better understanding about nine to five the musical for the audience. There was a broad concept on the stage and costumes to paint a better picture of the characters, theme, and concepts of the play. They definitely made it look and feel like a workplace comedy on the stage. The director and actors overall made the personalities and actions of the characters come out through their position onstage. Overall the play was very entertaining and funny to watch. I was impressed on acting, the portrayal of the characters, and the director making everything play together to make it entertaining for the entire audience.