Activity #3 Singing Time

After listening to the complete soundtrack to "Big Fish", my favourite songs overall were "Fight the Dragons" and "Time Stops". "Time Stops" was very cliché and perhaps even cheesy, but that is actually the reason why I like it the most. This song is sung by Edward and Sandra and it gives the audience a bit of a backstory for these characters and is very important as it leads up to their marriage. It is very cheesy, but I like that it takes the saying that says time stops when you see the person you truly love, and portrays it in the literal sense.  When I listen to this song, I envision an obvious circus setting with some hay bales, barrels, and a cannon on the sides of the stage. Amos would be standing center stage right with the Alabama Lambs standing in a triangular or straight line formation just to the left of him. Edward and some other circus performers standing center and down stage left. When Edward begins the song, everyone except himself and Sandra literally freeze as time stops.
My least favourite song had to be "Red White and True" because I found it confusing at first, and then even a bit annoying. It is sung when Edward is telling a bedtime story to his boyscouts, and it is sung by Sandra and some chorus girls. To make this song more entertaining and engaging for the audience, we could change the lighting onstage to red when Edward battles "Red Fang the Poison Assasin", and just make sure that the costumes and facial expressions really emphasize whats going on in the story.
Both of these songs fit well to the play however, because they help build Edward's character- like almost all the songs in the production do, and they are important to the overall storyline.