When I first heard of the play, I was thinking “oh my goodness, here goes another one of those long “Grease” musical, open and close the curtain type plays”, but I was so completely ahead of myself. Watching this play was not like watching your typical musicals or traditional “Romeo and Juliet” type plays. This play was “weird” and that’s meant in a good way. What made it weird was because it wasn’t like the traditional plays where there are many actors playing different characters, with extravagant settings in a huge auditorium (which might have taken hours to create), and elaborate costumes but the fact that is was the complete

Due to the absence of settings and the minimal usage of props, I believe the lighting and the sound made a significant contribution and impact on the entirety of the play. Although in many standard plays and musicals, lighting and sound are used as well, but elaborate settings and props are used to capture the attention of the audience. I believe the absence of settings and the minimal usage of props was purposefully not used in “New York Values.” By doing this, it allowed the audience to concentrate and not deviate from the important message the play contained. The music being used in certain parts of play were a combination of many genres of music, such as gospel and blues oldies. The music that accompanied the play coincided with the ideas that were presented in certain scenes of the play. The music allowed the audience to get a better feel of the idea being expressed in what the actor was saying.

opposite. When arriving at Theater Lab Houston, flabbergasted was probably the word written not only on my face but on others as well. The huge auditorium with the large velvet curtains that many others and I had expected was not there. Instead there was a small, cozy, intimate shack that looked like the remnants of an old house. It was almost as if I w

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