"Cyrano" a hit

The story is classic; a man falls in love with a beautiful woman. After a series of trials the woman comes to realize that she returns his affections.  This play, however, has a twist.
The man, Cyrano de Bergerac, has an incredibly protruding nose that shocks all of those around him and gives him an argumentative dispostition, even though he has a quick mind full of poetic language.
After learning that the woman he loves, Roxanne, is infatuated with the handsome yet dull Christian, Cyrano decides that the two of them would make the perfect romantic hero for Roxanne.
Christian wins her with his looks, while Cyrano woos her with his words, creating an interesting conflict.
The curtains were swept aside at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday May 15, signaling the beginning of the ESOL drama play. It lasted approximately an hour and a half, after the cast had gone through two rehearsals earlier that same day.
During the first rehearsal, it seemed as though laughter was heard more often than the actual lines, and in an effort to keep the actors on task, Director Anastasia Franjie was forced to half-jokingly threaten them with being speared on the end of a fake sword.
However, this method of “encouragement” pulled through, as the night passed with hardly a pause in the dialogue.  
“It went much better than I expected,” exclaimed ESOL teacher Leslie Chekin, “as the cast had never actually gone through the whole play at once”.
In fact, the ESOL drama group had never gotten a full rehearsal in, as they were consistently interrupted by Choir, Sports, and even vacations.
Eduardo Mesa, the actor who played Christian, took his script with him to Florida in order to learn his lines on time.
The costumes in the play were elaborate, as each character was fully attired in clothes from the 17th century and wigs to match. However, the most detailed and comical costume belonged to Cyrano himself, played by senior Yong Wonnoh.
Make-up Technicians applied a plastic nose, about six inches long, to Wonnoh’s face with numerous layers of glue before the show, making it, “hard to breathe and itchy”.
The play ends tragically; years after Christian dies in a war against Spain and Cyrano finds it impossible to relinquish his infatuation, Roxanne finally realizes that the man she loves and his soul are in fact two different people. However, only moments after her epiphany, Cyrano dies from a head-wound while lying in her arms.