She Loves Me Research Paper

On March 18th, 2016 I had the pleasure of seeing University of Central Florida’s production of She Loves Me. When it comes to musicals I am usually rather picky just because I tend to zone out during long ballads, but even though She Loves Me, time wise, was not the shortest play, it flew by the fastest out of the three productions I had attended this semester. Throughout the entire musical I was completely submersed in the storyline, experiencing a compilation of different emotions as the story progressed. I went from laughing, to crying, to holding my breath wondering what was going to happen. For me, She Loves Me is a story about a society still blinded to cynicism-where real love still exists. She Loves Me is about Georg Novack (Terry

Then Joe Masteroff, Jerold Bock, and Sheldon Harnick collaborated in the making of She Loves Me which was surprisingly unsuccessful when it originally opened. Sirius XMU Broadway channel’s host, Seth Rudetsk, felt that She Loves Me could have just been one of those fluke musicals that was just too ahead of it’s time such as Chicago. However, its lack of success could have been attributed to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre which was too small to really bring in enough audience members. Fortunately, She Loves Me did end up becoming successful with it’s broadways revival in the 1990’s and is now a five-time Tony nominated

The lighting was this gorgeous purple color that really highlighted the set which was Maraczek’s Parfumerie. Since it was a Friday night, there was a huge turnout and the crowd was mostly comprised of young adults. Of course, single me, was seated next to a young couple who was on their first date. For some reason, their energy really added to the show because while I was watching Amalia and Georg prove that love can still be innocent and sweet, I was witnessing it in real life with the couple next to me. In general, the audience as a whole really added to the show. With Spunk and Reel I had to attend the matinee because I had work, and even though the audience during those shows were fully engaged, there definitely was a lack of liveliness. But during She Loves Me, the audience was so responsive with the occasional gasps during shocking moments, or the accentuated laughter during the humorous ones, there was definitely a strong difference with this audience as opposed to the ones during the matinee. As an audience we all went on a journey together, and I feel as if the emotions of the individual audience members were connected as a whole as if we were an ensemble. One part that really stood out to me, was when Maraczek tried to kill himself, and everyone just went silent. I remember there being a gasp, and then it was as if there was white noise in the room.