Songs For The New Word Analysis

Friday evening September 9th, I attended the Musical “Songs for the New Word" at the Trinity Street Theater in Austin Texas. The musical used songs to describe differing events in one's life leading up to that one moment in one's life when you hit the wall and have to make a choice to press on, or to run away like coward (http://www.mtishows.com/songs-for-a-new-world). The actors would sing of trials, tribulations and poor choices then use the repetition of the uplifting song of hope, a "New Word". This showed me that no matter what someone is going through, there is always a chance to start a “New World”. Although every element is essential to the telling of the story, the most important to the telling of this story were sound, performance …show more content…
The tone, volume and tempo of each song performed were used to depict emotions such as sadness, negativity, excitement and happiness. The slow beat of the song" Stars and the Moon" along with the combined with the singer’s tone gave me a feeling of sadness before words were even sung. On the other hand, the upbeat tempo combines with the quicker beat of the "New World" gave me instantaneous feeling of happiness. This could also be seen in the audience members. There were smiles and audience members moving with the beat of the uplifting songs where when the songs of hopelessness were performed the audience was still. The use of only a piano the song "Stars and Moon" played very slowly set the somber mood effectively. On the contrary, the use of many instruments played at a much quicker tempo gave a feeling of happiness and …show more content…
The facial expressions and movements of the each helped tell the story. The deep and strong caressing of the singer’s arms in the song “Surabaya-Santa” helped show that the overall tone of the song was bitterness towards her husband. Whether Santa was with reindeer or the elves, Mrs. Clause showed her anger while singing the song by using snarling facial expressions and fast, thrashing movements while talking about her husband. The actors also used facial expressions and movements in another way as well. In the song “I’d Give It All for You” both the girl and boy actors used facial expressions that showed that their emotions are being altered. Both of them know how difficult relationships can be but they show that they are worth it to them. When they started to sing about the struggles of the relationship each of the actors had blank stares off into the distance, which made me think they are longing for something more. On the contrary when the couple came together in the end, the tight hug that they shared with ear to ear smiles showed that the relationship is actually worth