Options for Performance Critiques with Permission
Below is a list of plays/musicals which have, for the most part, been adapted from original plays. You may view and write a performance critique. Realize that you must include VERY specific details so I know that you watched the entire performance.
As always, parents must make the final determination as to whether children are mature enough for specific content. All of the movies I suggest are G rated or have been reviewed for content appropriate for middle school students.
Non-Musical/Non-Shakespeare: Les Miserables in Concert - 25th To Kill a Mockingbird Anniversary (Alfie Boe, Norm Lewis, Katie The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Hall) Arsenic and Old Lace Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall The Philadelphia Story (Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Inherit the Wind Fraser) Our Town Peter Pan Live Barefoot in the Park The Wiz Live The Odd Couple The Sound of Music Live The Crucible (1967 TV movie) The Grapes of Wrath Movie Musicals (basically any of the Babe classics): The Muppet Movie (1979) Sound of Music The Secret Garden (1993) Fiddler on the Roof A Little Princess (1995) West Side Story Where the Red Fern Grows Hello Dolly! Anne of Green Gables South Pacific Little Women Annie Finding Neverland Wizard of Oz Hook My Fair Lady Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Singin' in the Rain (1971) Into the Woods Oliver! Musicals of any kind, but THESE Carousel particularly (these are filmed stage King & I versions): Hairspray Oklahoma! (the London Stage Revival with High School Musical Hugh Jackman) Cats the Musical South Pacific: In Concert from Carnegie Hall Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Rodgers & Hammerstein Cinderella (1957 TV version) Once Upon a Mattress (Carol Burnett, Tracey Ullman, Denis O'Hare) Shrek, the Musical