by Shaleea Gaillard
This February, on Valentine’s Day, I went to see a musical called “Dani Girl.” The Greensboro College Theater Department produced it. Before I go into my thoughts on the show itself, I would like to congratulate everyone who was in it and who helped make it as great as it was.
Dani Girl is a musical written by Christopher Dimond and produced by Michael Kooman. It is about a nine-year-old girl named Dani who is battling leukemia. She has a fantastic imagination, and through her imagination, she fights to get her hair back. To do that, she needs to answer one question: “Why is cancer?”
The show lasted 90 minutes and had four actors in total. Brianna Jones played Dani, Will Hoard played Marty, Azannah Surratt played the mother, Ralph, Cancer, God, and the father was played by Demari Jackson.
Watching the show, the actors knew the characters. They had you laughing, crying, and soaked into the show. I don’t have anything to bring down the production they put on; my only negative thoughts about the show are that I didn’t feel like they were playing kids in some parts of the show. I don’t know if that was how it was written, but for me, some parts seemed too much like the “kids” were adults more so than other parts in the show. Other than that, the acting, the music, and the singing were all amazing and the actors worked hard, and it showed.
The musical’s ending was unfortunate and had me in tears. However, it is amazing that they were able to produce such a tear-jerking performance, and I would highly recommend anyone watch a production put on by the theater department at Greensboro College.
GREENSBORO COLLEGE ART COLUMN 