The performance itself “was beyond amazing,” she said.
“The music, the costumes, the dancers altogether as a whole was truly amazing,” added Ms. Bourget, who has also worked as a stage director for nine years in community theatre with young adults.
“It’s like entering a dream,” she said.
Of the orchestra, she said, “the arrangement were really impressive, I don’t know how they did it. to be honest!”
“I would recommend it to anybody to go and see it. And I wish I could bring all of my kids in school just to see it,” said Ms. Bourget, who teaches music in middle school. “It was really impressive, educational, and really artistic too.”
“The last note she did, especially, filled the entire theatre, filled it to the top, from the side, everywhere! It was impressive,” she said. “She was bringing life to everybody—that was amazing.”
“Dostoevsky has a saying that beauty will save the world. I think through beauty, every way of thinking life can be brought and can be lived together as human beings. So I thought that it was really interesting and full of hope and respectful,” she said.
“At the same time, I liked that there was a bit of a [criticism] of media and cellphones and everything like this, to enhance the connection between us, to go back to some things that were more fruitful, so I enjoyed that,” she said.
“I really enjoyed it. I do think that every spirituality—but the way that it was presented here, really touched me—can bring, really, a lot of hope, a lot of understanding, and open-mindedness. And amidst all difficulties can [remind us] to have something in common, even if we express it in different ways,” she said.“I’m going to tell [my friends] as soon as I get home; we have to buy other tickets now because it’s a must—we have to see it,” she said.
