Man Of No Importance Play

1303 Words3 Pages

The play I attended is called A Man of No Importance by Terrence McNally, the music by Stephen Flaherty, the lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and directed by Amanda Wansa Morgan. The play is set in Dublin, Ireland in 1964 and follows the story of Alfie Byrne, played by Hayden Rowe, as a bus conductor and theater director. Alfie is in his 40's and is a regular, ordinary, unremarkable man. He lives with his sister Lily Byrne, played by Kimberly Van Laningham, who wishes her brother would just man up and find a woman and move away. Besides being a conducter Alfie loves to be involved in theater, especially when he directs. As he decides the fabulous play he is going to put on, he asks the priest, Father Kenny (Brady Brown), of his local church for permission …show more content…

He thought his counity would eventually forget him and be outcasted, his friends eventually came to accept him the way he was. His family and friends decided to overlook his flaws and accept that their Alfie was still in there. Alfie's dreams of directing are satisfied in the end because even though he thought everyone would leave him and thathe would eventually leave the town, but they accept him and he goes back to directing. Alfie's sister, Lilly's dreams, are not met. In fact, durring the play, when she finds out that Alfie is a homosexual, she reveals that she will never get to see Alfie walk down the aisle or attend his wedding. Even though this, Lilly, says reveals during one of her songs, Tell Me Why, that she is more mad at him that he didn't tell him because she would have loved him …show more content…

Early in the song, we don't have much character development on her, but through her song, we can see her fighting with some internal demon she has. Later, we are told what has happened to her, and through the song we can tell that it is not because she can't physically become the princess because she has stage fright, but because she feels like she is unworthy of being what a virgin princess represents; an innocent, pure creature. She feels like she is a ruined, dirty person. "The Cuddles Mary Gave," sung by Baldy (Steven Taylor), expresses just how much he really loved his wife no matter what she was. His wife was a plump woman that would have made people turn away from her yet Baldy still fell in love with her. He knew what she was and he looked passed it, not seeing it as a problem in the slightest. He jokes about how she squishes him at times and yet their love was true and pure. It was a message to Alfie that he understands what he is going through but that no matter what he is that is no excuse for love and that love can go through

Open Document