Beauty and the Beast (University of Ghana edition)

Plays/musicals here are usually a theatre student's final project. Each senior in the School of Performing Arts has to choose a show and put it on as their final project. So, there is at least one show every weekend, sometimes 2. I was considering being in Beauty & the Beast at the beginning, but the practices were at 6am and often twice a day and that was just too much for me. Anyway, the show was so amazing. I mean, the mics didn't usually work and the musical accompaniment (NOT an orchestra) was often too loud and there were technical things wrong like that. But the acting was good and the audience was so funny. Also the costumes were ridiculous – in a good way. There's this crazy thing here, where no one publicly shows affection, so when Belle and the beast kiss at the end after he's transformed, the audience lost their minds. Like, they were screaming and jumping out of their seats and waving their arms. And throughout the whole show, audience members were making comments to the players on stage. One guy behind me kept saying "Oh he's a romantic beast!" It was so funny. I think that if I didn't know the plot/all the words, I would have been frustrated because with the poor microphones and audience yelling and the accents, I would have missed so much. It was just so funny to see how everyone reacted to the show. The audience LOVED IT. They cheered so much at the end.