Poor Unfortunate Souls

This semester, I was enrolled in the best subject ever and luckily, I also was in a class with absolutely incredible people who have now become some of my closest friends. And that class is "music theatre" (which is the class where we had to put on an interpretation of Cabaret). But it's not all fun, we also had a few essays for the subject as well as the performance base, but I finished my essays for the semester and all that I have left for this subject is the final performance piece. In groups of four, we have to perform a 15 minute scene from a pre-existing musical, or a musical that you have created. What my group decided to do is our own devised scene of "DISNEY VILLAINS REHAB" with each of us playing different villains from the Disney movies (the title is pretty self-explanatory). As you can probably imagine, in my group, we are all extremely enthusiastic about this assessment- I don't think anyone has been this excited about an assessment before probably- and there is a twist at the end which is also exciting.

I'm playing the role of Ursula, which means that I'll be singing 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' from 'The Little Mermaid.' We also are including 'Cruella De Vil,' 'Mother knows best' and 'Be Prepared' into our scene. 'Poor Unfortunate Souls,' like all Disney villain songs, has quite witty lines. And Ursula, like all Disney villains in general, is such a charismatic character, making this assignment so much fun, because who doesn't love Disney? Today we rehearsed for several hours, which is the reason why I thought of it for today's song. I absolutely love this song so much. 'The Little Mermaid' is definitely one of the best Disney soundtracks, with 'Part of Your World' (which is one of my favourite Disney songs), the classic 'Under the Sea' and not forgetting the really amusing 'Kiss the Girl.'