The renowned Neil Simon musical comedy, which features big dance numbers and classic Dorothy Fields-Cy Coleman songs such as “Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now” and “I'm a Brass Band,” tells the story of dance-hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine's search for true love.
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It was really interesting to read about Seton Hill’s production of Sweet Charity, as well as the nuances they are going to bring to the script. My high school is doing Sweet Charity this season, and one of my best friends is playing the title character Charity. I’ve been helping out in the rehearsal process when I can for them, and will be taking over their build/load in when I return for spring break. It’s really interesting to be working on a production at the high school level, and then read about it being done on the college level. I found it funny that 22 was considered a large cast for Seton Hill, because at a college level 22 is huge. But at the high school level, our cast of 25 was relatively small. It’s those kind of differences that you don’t realize until you look back on your time in high school. Overall, I hope Seton Hill’s production goes well, and I can’t wait to work on my own Sweet Charity.
While I hope Seton Hill's production is fantastic, and I wish the performers all the best, this article itself is not particularly revelatory. Its awe struck tone and treatment of the facts behind this production, such a the long production timeline and the focus needed by students to play certain parts, make things that are quite common in an educational theatre production sound rare and abnormal and laud-worthy. Effort and dedication always deserves praise, but not to the extent or from the angle the writer of this article is coming from. Perhaps the author is not acquainted with educational drama programs. With regard to that, I often forget how staggering and absurd the timelines and schedules that govern day-to-day production life within Purnell can look too new and "outside" people. I am glad this article shed light on the process, I just think the emphasis given to how "incredible" certain preparatory aspects of this show were is skewed, and a little misguided.
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